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   

King O'Dell Saint Patrick's Day Tablescape

A happy Saint Patrick's Day to All!   And a great big thank you to Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen's for hosting her 7th annual Saint Patrick's Day Blog Crawl.  All year I have collected little things here and there to put together a post for this occasion and today I get to see how my thrifty finds all come together.  The centerpiece is made from a basket I found this morning at the Volunteers of America Thrift store,  a wee Irish lass and her lovely harp also from the VOA, shamrock plants from Marc's (my favorite closeout store, and yellow   primrose from The Home Depot (4 plants for $3.00) plus a few odds and ends from the stash.

The tablecloth is actually a four yard piece of material from Goodwill in a lovely hunter green plaid pattern.  The dinnerware is the King O'Dell pattern made by Taylor Smith Taylor (a fine American made product), the flatware is Daffodil made by Rogers bought at auction from Goodwill, the Lillian Vernon shamrock placemats in the center of the table being used as a runner came from the Salvation Army Thrift Store,  the Lenox candle holders came from Goodwill, Candles from Marc's,  green stemware was thrifted but I don't remember where from,  the Lenox chargers were bought on Ebay (cheap) last year.  The green trimmed burlap napkins were bought last year when Pier One closed them out.  And my favorite - the cute little Jadiete bunny rabbit salt cellars were bought at the VOA this morning when I bought the baskets.

 This little lady made her debut on my table last year.

  

                 Both the Saint Patrick figure and the Irish Angel came from Marc's a few years back.

Beautiful King O'Dell

I couldn't resist adding the little sheep to the table.

 I fell in love with this lovely lady the first time I laid eyes on her.

 What's not to love about this St. Patrick O'Santa figure.

His music box plays "When Irish Eyes are Smiling".

The shelves have been decked out with thrifty finds too.  Some are new (new to me that is) this year, some are from years gone by.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

I am linking to:

Cuisine Kathleen's Saint Patrick's Day Blog Crawl 

Susan's Tablescape Thursday