Another Easter Sunday has come and gone. I had a wonderful day with all of my children together to celebrate Easter. We had ham, potato salad, baked beans, Slovenian sausage and sour kraut, dinner rolls, and home made pineapple upside down cake. I love cooking for my boys especially for the holidays. Of course there were plenty of leftovers so that everyone could take home enough food for another meal.
Small clay pots from Marc's (my favorite closeout store) held a foil wrapped chocolate, a small chick, and a faux daffodil in a bed of Easter Grass.
The plates are made from a clear glass plate with a quilting square decoupaged to the back (tutorial to follow at the end of this post).
Large wicker place mats (thrifted) and butter cream color Lenox charger plates (an Ebay find) start the stack.
Lenox Summer Terrace candle holders (thrifted) and cream white candles decorate the center of the table. Bunny napkin rings hold green napkins with faux flowers tucked into the folds.
The lambs were an Ebay purchase this year from Replacements at a very reasonable price.
Daffodil flatware.
A garden bunny is sitting in the middle of a bed of faux hydrangeas inside a freshly painted birdcage.
The Park Design mushroom S&P's were bought at Marc's last year.
The napkins and some of the napkin rings were thrifted (the sixth one is part of a set that Marigene sent to me). I didn't have enough of either design so I combined them.
Thrifted stemware decorated with a bee and spring flowers.
The following is a tutorial to make the decoupaged plates.
The material is a happy Ebay mistake. I had bid on and won a piece of Peter Rabbit material to use to make salad plates but as it turned out that piece was not available so the vendor offered this piece of quilting squares as a substitute for the Perter Rabbit material. The interior squares were 10 inches, just the right size for dinner plates. A thin lightweight fabric is easiest to work with.
After spreading a tarp on my work surface (AKA dining room table) I placed the material printed front up and brushed my laminating paste (Tacky glue works well too) on it's front side.
I placed a clear glass plate on a large can to raise my work surface
and brush the glue over the back of the plate covering it completely.
Place the front side of the material (carefully positioning it) onto the back side of the glued plate and cover the back of the material after it is on the plate with a coat of glue too. Use your brush to work out any wrinkles that may appear.
Trim the excess material after the glue has dried with a sharp razor knife. A coat of white paint sprayed or brushed on the back of the plate will intensify the depth of color if the material is thin (and light in color) like the material I used for the bunny plates.
Please note: Adding a coating of a clear sealant on the back will help to make the plates easier to clean.
(do not submerge in water)
and
Voila!
Have a wonderful day!
Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on!
I will be sharing at:
