Showing posts with label tablescapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tablescapes. Show all posts

Friday, July 6, 2012

Pink Geraniums for the Table



Dreamy mixed with pink cotton candy color.

That would best drescribe these sweet little geraniums.

I also like to think of them as pink clouds.




One of the sweet things is that I found a market pack

containing 6  of these little geraniums for 1.50

They were all blooming too!

On the table they went.

Instead of a center bouquet

everyone had an individual bouquet.


I used tiny Italian clay pots,

rounded out the rootball to fit in each pot

They looked like ice cream cones.

From outside under a shade tree I lifted some

moss circles,  slightly tore to center

 of each circle and each

ice cream cone plant had an instant moss dress.

So simple and so pretty! 



Dressing the plant and dressing up the table.

This shell pink looks super with off white or khaki.



I have a new appreciation for these hardy plants.

You have to love a little burlap, too!

Connecting up with Pink Saturday.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Organic Green Silverware



Today a fair wind brought
many creative ideas 
my way as I worked outside.
Why not make our own edible silverware?
Doesn't that sound fun?
It was for me.



Someone make dinner,
someone set the table,
and someone cut up the silverware.
Fun. Fun. Fun.




I love all of the little details.




This salad would make a
little woodland fairy happy, too.



I pulled weeds from the garden
and tilled part of it for the 5th time,
but who is counting?
Maybe the ideas come from the
jarring of the tiller?




Weeds or flowers or both.
They are still a pretty spray of white.
So many tiny flower petals
surround the golden sun center.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Love is Sweet...Food Illustration




Illustrating with food is a ball.

An apple ball.

Love is sweet

and tart.

Red Delicious

(so accurately named)

and Granny Smith

(which I will call Grand Smith)

is the perfect definition of true love

on this Valentine's Day.




The other feeling I wanted to portray

was that we carry our love around

with us in our heart

wherever we go.



Red and green have always been

beautiful color combinations.

I hope everyone is having a sweet

~Valentine's Day~


Remember the saying

a way to a man's heart

is through his stomach?

My husband is getting

alot of artistic, healthy food.





Saturday, February 11, 2012

Valentine Tokens of Affection




Sweet Valentine candy hearts.









How lovely to arrange a heart on each spoon.


A little extra pretty at the table.


They have a vintage Victorian look.






Drop a candied heart into your tea cup!





Our sweet teacups from Anthropologie.




Connecting with:







Saturday, January 14, 2012

Limoge French Handpainted Tea Cup









I may not live at Versailles or any great castle, but my home is sweet. Sweet because of who lives here and the little things that brighten our routine. This limoge french tea cup and saucer have a shimmer like a pearl or an abalone shell. It is a handpainted set and I wonder about the painter. Did they have a lovely garden? A big family? Love? I guess I wonder about these things because that is what I have and that is what makes my home sweet.


Connecting to these friends:








Friday, December 2, 2011

Indoor Moss Garden



I like living plants on my table. Maybe it's from bringing tender plants in for winter for years? Moss is so tiny and yet speaks of huge woodland floors and mountain rocks. Those things I can't bring inside so I bring in what represents it ... in miniature.

My little Christmas cactus needed dividing and I put one in a fruit or dessert pedestal goblet. A mound of potting soil on top (make it high like one scoop of ice cream) and the moss was cut in a circle, then cut to the center so I could wrap it around the plant like you would wrap a Christmas tree skirt around a tree.





Wouldn't these be cute on every placesetting? You can see the little fir tree needles lying in the moss. All these little details I think are charming. The dessert goblets are from a thrift shop. Cost was seventy-one cents each. I have found many uses for them.





Soft browns are pretty in the winter. The seed heads on the right are from a beautiful blue perennial aster. I want to keep them and germinate them. In mass they are a gorgeous sight blooming.





Has anyone else been out gathering like a bird and then rearranging it in your little cottage nest?

I am linking up with these friends:

Fridays Unfolded

Common Ground

Frugal Friday

The Picket Fence

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Food Art Garden Cards Kids Mushrooms




Let the mushrooms show you where your place is at the table.





Food as art? Absolutely. Useful art at the table in the form of a name card or place card. It started out innocently as I was going to make a salad. My marker was on the counter from last night numbering the Christmas calendar. I couldn't help but pick it up and draw a face on the mushroom. The trials of an artist. This is one of those times inspiration struck immediately on what to do with it.









There is a wonderful 3-d quality to the name cards. (These were simple plain tags that I had in my drawer.) She looks like a sweet bird on a branch. I added lavender, cinnamon bark, ribbon and a dab of hot glue to hold the mushroom girl to the card and also for the lavender. My hands were very fragrant when I was finished.





When I cut the mushroom in half she had a perfect mate who I then drew his face on. He's here on the right. Every American family has a dog (or almost) so here is our westie dog mushroom. This last photo is before I hot glued them on the cards. It's so fun to get kids excited about coming to the table and making it fun and presenting food in an artistic way. These are not to be eaten but mushrooms have a pretty long shelf life so you could make them earlier in the day and they will keep and look beautiful all during dinner.

I am linking up with these friends linky parties:

Feathered Nest

Farm Girl Friday

My Romantic Home

Pin Inspirational

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Cinnamon Sticks Table Decorations - Holiday




Vintage silver sparkles for the upcoming holidays. I played around today experimenting with different cinnamon stick arrangements (sweet spicy scent) and other outdoor organic finds I gathered. I am a gatherer! My cream and sugar doing double duty. The tarnished look makes them even more primitive especially against burlap, don't you think?





Cinnamon sticks are versatile! I bought a big box last year of them and their scent is not as potent, it's subtle and yummy now. Some fir tree tips (wonderful scent) were inserted into one cinnamon log/stick and they make quite a cute vase. I like this gingham ribbon better than baker's twine. (Probably because I'm out of it!) The ribbon is soft and silkier and easier on little fingers. I'm thinking of the little sweethearts that will be around our thanksgiving table.




















My idea of country farmhouse decorating is to use what you have to make some eye candy. If it's useful too that is even better. Now if it's eye candy, useful and also smells heavenly...I sit up and take note. My cookie cutters came out of their box.








































The copper colored bird pulls out the warm browns of the cinnamon. It also means our creativity is taking flight ;-)






































A bird filled with holiday greenery. There is a nest in it's heart.





















So much fun. Arranging and rearranging and even more ideas blinked in my head.





















Lavender stars in this napkin topper. Mini tree bouquets. I did add a pinch of lime green cedar. Greenery and plants make us happy especially as it dips into the 20's tonight.






















The cinnamon woods! This year I am hoping the table decorations are just as good as the food. Now to work on the menu again........
















I am connecting up with these friends.

























































































Thursday, October 27, 2011

Bad Apple Tablescapes Salad



Who was it that said there's a bad apple in every bunch?
This one just looks a little bad but tastes delicious.












It was cored so it would have room for a rose
(made from a endive crown) hat with feather and sets
on a frilly bed of lettuce. My young son was amazed
when he saw this, "Who did this?"
I guess he didn't think I could carve an apple
into a pumpkin, but he should be the one to know
we have fun with food.

Pull up to the table for some artful fun and
good healthy food!









Friday, October 14, 2011

Fall Tablescapes for Kids



Little ones and big ones alike will love coming to the table when it looks inviting and playful.


The rabbit is cut from cheese with a cookie cutter jumping over an apple cut flower.




For my vases I turned our thrift shop find (ice-cream sundae glasses) upside down and added water

and some hydrangea flowers picked moments earlier with ferns from the yard.

Little hands cannot knock these vases over very easily.




Lavender is still blooming here. I rolled a sage leaf around some lavender stems.

The kids can add these to their lemonade, if they like, or put them in their pockets.




Since Halloween is close I took tangerines and put them under cloches.

Sweet little faces made from cheese cut outs and stuck on with a dab of peanut butter.

They'll have their own orange tangerine "pumpkin" to eat grown just for them under the glass house!



These hydrangeas bloom all summer and are still blooming!

Hydrangeas have such a cottage feel. You can be frugal and still have fun.


I am linking to French Country.

Inspiration Friday

Farmhouse Friday

Friday Unfolded

Debra's Common Ground Fall Tablescapes

Farm Friend Friday