French Inspired

 

How do you all get inspired?  What are your best sources?  I wanted you to talk to me today about this.

Have some coffee with me.   Where do you get your inspiration for your decorating.

I live in a really rural area with very few magazine racks and very few resources in the library.  My best ideas have come from you.  The blogs are a wonderful way to see what is going on.

I joined Courtney last week for Feathered Nest Friday at The French Country Cottage and she had a post about her inspirations and the first book she featured was The French Inspired Home by Carolyn Westbrook.  Of course I had heard of this book before on blogs, but I have looked for it for awhile and not found it, so I ordered it.   I am now so inspired, this book was beautiful.  Some images from the book below, photography by Keith Scott Morton.

  

 This was very Shabby Chic, I get this look.

 

 How beautiful is this?

 

 Wouldn't you like to blog here?

 

All the photos above from the book: The French Inspired Room by Carolyn Westbrook.

 A few parting shots from me.  Thanks for stopping by for coffee, please leave a comment sharing your favorite inspirations. This is another re-post.  I am doing some housekeeping on the blog and sharing some favorite posts this week that fit the season.

Sherry

I will link to;

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style 
Strut Your Stuff Saturday at Six Sisters Stuff 

Tweak It Tuesday at Cozy Little House

The Scoop Party at Cedar Hill Ranch  

Make It Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House
Rooted in Thyme Simple and Sweet Fridays
Tutorials, Tips and Tidbits at Stonegable 
Transformed Tuesdays at PJH Designs

Children's Easter Table

Every Easter that I can remember we have been so fortunate to have so much family gather for Easter that there is always several tables set for the meal.  I thought it would be great fun today to celebrate Easter by showing you a children's table set for the Easter meal.

I love the flirty polka dot fabric that's hue is perfect for Easter.  

There is a pint sized bouquet of flowers that looks as if a child has picked it just for the table.

What would Easter be without a bunny hopping up on the table.

Mr. Rabbit is oh so curious about what lies behind the garden fence.  It is a vintage ceramic egg not the lettuce he was hoping for.

The little bunnies on the dessert plates have the best view of all.

Dinner plates are Pfaltzgraff.

Salad plates are from TJ Maxx.

Dessert plates are from Avon.

For little hands we are using thrift store sherbets. Children can feel all grown up with the fancy glassware and you won't care if they get broken.  The innocent eyelet napkins homemade.
 

Someone brought their Easter basket to the table too excited to part with it.  Thank you for having fun at the children's Easter table. 

This is a re-post from 2010.  I always loved this table and it never had many views 3 years ago so I decided to re-post it.  I knew St. Patrick's Day, Spring, and Easter were all going to sneak up on me so re-posting is a good thing!

Sherry

I will link to;
Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style 
Strut Your Stuff Saturday at Six Sisters Stuff 

Tweak It Tuesday at Cozy Little House

The Scoop Party at Cedar Hill Ranch  

Make It Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House
Rooted in Thyme Simple and Sweet Fridays
Tutorials, Tips and Tidbits at Stonegable 
Transformed Tuesdays at PJH Designs

Bittersweet and Broomsticks

Here is a really fun way to decorate the center of your fall table.  I took a 12-inch grapevine wreath and cut it open and unwound it.  It has been wrapped with a faux English ivy and a garland of bittersweet.  I wrapped this around a broomstick in a S-shaped fashion.  

So then you just need to place some pumpkins, gourds, and pillars all around the broom for the full effect.

Here I set the table with my main ironstone pattern, Coaching Scenes by Johnson Brothers.  The goblets are by Wilton Armetale and the silver is English Gadroon by Gorham.

This is a repost from October 2010.  It is fun to go back and see what you were doing a year ago.  I had more free time last year and you can tell by how many tables I set up.  Not so much time this year but, still having fun and focusing more on photography.  
I will link this up with:
Chari at Sunday Favorites at Happy to Design
Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper

Bittersweet and broomsticks

Pumpkins on the vine.

Will anyone come to tell us

When it is haunting time.

Shabby Chic Fall Table

My house is full of boys and color but, I still adore Shabby Chic style.  I have been enjoying all of the wonderful ways that I have been seeing Shabby Chic Style transform for fall on blogs.  How do you put a little color in with all the soft white decor?  Especially during fall which seems so "not" Shabby Chic.  

Haviland & Co. Limoges, feminine beauty in a plate.

The colors of nature take this palette into fall, mixing in a natural linen tablecloth, fall flowers, and fruit. 

For this fall table I used:
Limoges accent plates
Hotel Balfour dinner plate
Sherbet pattern unknown
Goblets by Icon pattern Capri
Silver by Gorham pattern English Gadroon
Vintage placemats and napkins

I will link to:
Sunday Favorites with Chari over at Happy to Design

Glow in the Garden

Our crabapple has bloomed and it is a rare year that it feels more like May than April. With the spring transformation going on in the garden, I took full advantage of that by having a little table set up. (This is a re-post from 2010.)

The sun will set soon but it is a beautiful night. Come and sit a while and let's enjoy the view.

Romantic is the mood that is set. 

I don't care for perfection. I like even my flowers to be losing petals and a little shabby.

You can never have too many flowers....

shells...

or candles.

If you can invite some cherubs from the sea...all the better.

Our sherbet is filled with strawberries and kiwi with a dessert wine sauce. Garnished with a mint leaf and a violet.

The white porcelain dinner plates are from Walmart, the salad plates from the thrift store, and the sherbets also from the thrift store.

The goblets are Longchamp by Cristal D'Arques from Macy's.

The silver is English Gadroon by Gorham. 

Walking to the table I picked a hyacinth and a few sprigs of rosemary for the lovely smell.

The sun is about to set.

Here comes the glow.

Clear the dishes....

and enjoy.  You can view this tablescape in my movie format also.

I will join the Summer Blog Party with this.  This entry goes to:
Summer Entertaining at No Minimalist Here.