Spring Bunny Tablescape

March 26,02015

Last year we celebrated Easter twice,  on Easter Sunday and again two weeks later so that my son Chris and my DIL Zhenia could be here.  We decided to combine my son Bobby's BDay, Mother's Day,  and Cinco Di Mayo all together with our belated Easter celebration.  The table was set  for spring and Easter but for whatever reason I didn't do a post on this occasion.  So I thought I would share the pictures with you today.

See the cute little chick S&P shakers?  They were a gift from my sweet DIL for Easter last year.  As usual this was an entirely thrifted table with the exception of the burlap table covering,  the green flatware which came from Marc's (my favorite closeout store) a couple of years back,  the S&P'S and a bit of miscellaneous from the stash..
 
The china is Mikasa's Imari Bouquet, a pretty floral pattern that I found at Goodwill near where I worked at that time.  The cabbage bowls are hand painted ceramics from the 1980's.

The bunnies were used two weeks earlier for the first Easter table and just reused with a crafty clay pot  centerpiece.

 

The centerpiece is stacked clay pots with a few artificial plants and burlap carrots from Pat Catan's a local craft store.  Their everyday prices are usually lower than Hobby Lobby's or JoAnn's even with the silly coupons.

 

Before I removed the burlap table covering from the table I set one more table that I wasn't particularly fond of and had decided not to post it until now.  I don't know why but it didn't look quite right to me.  Maybe the burlap didn't suit the pattern of the dishes,   I think a plain white tablecloth would have worked better. After I cropped this and that off of the pictures they look much better to me now.

 I think the plates are a Patricia Brubaker design. 

 

As usual my two BFF's were watching every move that I made - Cheetah

(doesn't he have the sweetest face?)

and the Black Prince.

Remember to thrift on ladies,  thrift on, you never know what you will find.  Case in point - Earlier this week I was at the Goodwill store near where I live.  There was a cart of items that were just priced and waiting to be put on the shelves.  As I walked up to the cart there was a lady picking up a Lladro figurine of a boy and a girl on a teeter totter in pristine condition,  it was marked $8.00.  This lady and I chattered for a good ten minutes about our Goodwill finds before she checked out right before me (she was so excited about her find) and we continued to chatter about the figurine while the cashier rang up her purchases.  When I came home I looked the Lladro figurine up on Ebay.  The ones listed there for sale there were priced from the $160.00  dollar range to upwards of $300.00......  Just sayin,  thrift on........


I will be linking to:
Susan's Tablescape Thursday   

Spring Flowers Tablescape

Blooming crocus bulbs are only available for a couple of weeks each year.  The crocuses that I am using in the centerpieces today came from our local grocery store.  For whatever reason they were marked down to one dollar a pot.  I used six pots and combined them with the violas that will get planted in the yard when the weather warms up a bit.  I kept the color pallet on the neutral side for the most part.  I had already bought the wooden planters and the leaf plates prior to Kathleen's Let's Dish Challenge for using  birds~eggs~nests for her Let's Dish on April 9th.  I had the nests and eggs in my stash from previous years.  I wanted to keep with a more muted design and was on the lookout for birds that would blend in with the rest of the design.  As luck would have it Marc's (my favorite close-out store) just happened to get some small brown birds that suited my plan perfectly.
 

The wooden planters and the small brown birds came from Marc's last month at 99 cents each. The table runners,  napkins,  large & small leaf plates,  and the rabbit ornament all came from Marc's.  The dragonfly water glasses came from Goodwill, the chargers are from Hobby Lobby (only $1.50 each at half price), the flatware was thrifted too.

The hand blown etched water glasses are for my DIL,  she loves dragonflies.  The S&P shakers are for dear DIL too.

 

I added a colorful Welcome Spring sign to the table after I had taken most of the pictures.  

The stack starts with the burlap charger from Hobby Lobby.

For the Dinner plate I am using the Park Design Enchanted Forest leaf plate the I found at Marc's.

For the salad plates I used the same Certified International Patricia Brubaker floral plate that I used in the Bunny table last week. It just suited the design so well.  The napkins look as if they were made to go with the salad plates.

The small leaf shaped B&B is from the Enchanted Forest collection too

The stack is topped with a rabbit ornament that is from Marjolein Bastin's Nature's Journey collection. Also found at Marc's.

The eggs and dragonflies are hidden around in the planters.

The rabbit candle holders are from Marc's several years ago.

Chetah (my cat) happened to stroll by just as I took this picture of the rabbit candle holder.

The bunnies have been multiplying throughout the house.  They have taken up temporary residence on the shelves in the dining room. All of the bunnies are thrifted.

 

Thrift on Ladies, thrift on...........

I will be linking to:

Alma's Seasonal Sundays

Nita's Mod Mix Monday

Kathryn's Make It Pretty Monday

Marty's Inspire Me Tuesday

Kathe's You're Gonna Love It Tuesday

Dawn's History and Home Link Party 

Susan's Tablescape Thursday