A Bee Bedecked Spring Tablescape

I did a bee tablescape four years ago, and then a different one three years ago, and then another different one two years ago as well. But when I saw this bee tablecloth at HomeGoods a few months ago I flashed on all the gray tablescape items that I already have and I decided to do another bee table setting. This tablecloth has a label that says The Farmhouse, Rachel Ashwell. Gray is an unusual color for a Spring tablescape but after completing 220+ tablescapes I need to branch out a bit and go beyond the norm sometimes.

These bee themed salad plates came from Wayfair online. They came in a set of four with four different designs. The plate designs were created by artist Susan Winget and the plates were made by Certified International. When I saw them I knew that they would be a perfect match for the tablecloth.

This is a Fiesta dinner plate in their newer shape Bistro and the color is called Daffodil. The Bistro shape offers a wider food surface and deeper well and it looks a bit more modern than the Fiesta Classic plates. I bought these Fiesta dinner plates online at Everything Kitchens LLC three years ago. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

This Gray stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn. I love this plate, I also have it in other colors. The pattern is called Cambria. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility.

I have had this frosted Light Gray flatware set for several years. The flatware was made by D & D Inox in Italy. I bought it at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale several years ago. This pattern is called Vietri Aladdin Brilliant (not Antique). There are similar frosted patterns available online now. I have this set in other colors too because I really like the frosted design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I bought these yellow gold cotton napkins at World Market several years ago. I found the bee napkin rings on Amazon last month. They are such a good match for the tablecloth. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

This beehive place card holder went through quite a metamorphosis. I found them online at Oriental Trading a few years ago. They were in the Easter section and they were lemon yellow. Inside was a plastic bumblebee. I bought them because I knew Hubby could paint them for me and then he attached a wooden base so that they could stand. I already had the tiny bumblebees so I added a few just for fun. I set them on a small square bronze place card holder. I can’t remember where they came from. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I can’t remember where the smokey gray glass goblet on the left came from. I have had them for several years. They were made by Greenbrier Glass. The gold Poly/Carb goblet on the right was made by Le Cadeaux and the pattern is called Fleur. We found them at a gift shop on one of our trips up the coast several years ago but they were really expensive so we only bought a few of them. I had been looking for that color for a long time and after we got home, I found them much cheaper online so I bought a few more. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

I found this white porcelain honeycomb cookie jar at Williams Sonoma online last month. I love using cookie jars as centerpieces, they are always the right size. I set it on a small white cake stand that I found at HomeGoods several years ago. The two wood bees that I placed on each side of the cookie jar came from a local gift shop. Looks like they were just made for this tablescape.

If you look very closely you can just see this tiny glass bee to the left of the centerpiece on this tablescape. I have had it for years, I don’t remember where I got it but I knew it belonged on this table. It is a favorite of mine.

I am not a real fan of bees although I know we need them and I try to plant flowers for them but I had fun pulling this table together.

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An Easter Tablescape

This is a different version of one of the first Easter tablescapes that I ever created from five years ago although I have made some changes to it since then. I found the polyester Easter tablecloth at HomeGoods five years ago. The brand was called Hip + Hop.

I love these egg shaped salad plates, especially the raised design on them. This yellow ceramic egg plate came from HomeGoods several years ago and it was made by Magenta. I have the same plate in blue, pink, and green.

This fuchsia dinner plate is plastic and it was made by Max Studios Home. I think I found them at HomeGoods several years ago. The color is a perfect match for the fuchsia flowers on the tablecloth.

I have had these turquoise blue glass charger plates for several years, I think I bought them on Amazon. They were made by Bormioli Rocco, an Italian company, and the pattern was called Inca. I have them in a few other colors as well. They are heavy glass and I really love how solid they are.

I bought this frosted blue flatware on sale online at Wayfair several ago. It was made by Cambridge and the pattern was called Barcelona Pearlized. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than I would like but I really liked the bright blue frosted color and the simple design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think these bright blue cotton napkins probably came from Pier 1 or HomeGoods several years ago. They are a good match for the blue flowers on the tablecloth.

These ceramic Easter Bunny standing napkin rings were designed by Johanna Parker. They came in a set of four and the bunny stand was four different colors. I love that cute bunny face! I found them on Ebay last year.

I found these bunny and egg place card holders at HomeGoods several years ago.

The yellow place cards came from Amazon.

I found these fuchsia and turquoise goblets at HomeGoods several years ago. They were labeled Le Stelle Cristal Italy. I like the etched design with the butterflies and flowers.

This centerpiece white bunny came from Pottery Barn several years ago. I found the wood eggs on Amazon last week and Hubby painted them for me. The bunny is sitting on a green drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn that I bought many years ago.

Getting ready for an Easter celebration!

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Lambs on an Easter Tablescape

Since I started tablescaping I have created ten different Easter tablescapes. You can see them all here, (scroll down to Easter). I have done the usual Easter themes, bunnies and Easter eggs, so now I am looking for different ideas. Three years ago I did a yellow chick theme for Easter (you can see that one here). I had been pondering other ideas since then and I decided that lambs would work. I found these cute plates and then I found this cute lamb tablecloth on sale at Spoonflower online last month. If you look closely at the tablecloth you can see four leaf clovers on it so it would work for St. Patrick’s Day too as well as Spring.

I love these vintage style ceramic salad plates with their scalloped edge. I have them for a few different holidays now. These lamb salad plates are made by Mr. Christmas and this design is called Mr. Cottontail, Follow the Magic. When I am looking for a certain plate design, once I find what I want, I google the name and buy them online wherever they are the cheapest. These lamb salad plates came from Ebay and Poshmark last month.

After I bought the salad plates I was trying to decide what color the dinner plates should be. I kept noticing the large pink bow and the other pink accents on the salad plate. I have a few different pink dinner plates but they tend toward a peach color rather than a true pink. I decided to check Amazon and these LIYH pink plastic dinner plates popped out with matching salad plates. I took a gamble that the pink color was a true pink and I bought them because I knew that I could easily return them with free shipping if they didn’t work. The actual pink color is a bit brighter pink than this photo shows. I like the color and the ruffled edge and I am happy that I finally have plates that are a true pink color.

I have a pink charger that matches the dinner plate but when I put them all together with the salad plate it was too much pink and it looked too much like a baby shower so I pulled these turquoise glass chargers and they worked. I have had these turquoise blue glass charger plates for several years, I think I bought them on Amazon. They were made by Bormioli Rocco, an Italian company, and the pattern was called Inca. I have them in a few other colors as well. They are heavy glass and I really love how solid they are.

I pulled blue, turquoise and pink flatware sets to try on this tablescape but the pink set looked the best. This pink frosted flatware set was made by Bugatti for Vietri and the pattern was called Aladdin Brilliant. I bought the set at Macys several years ago. I have several sets of frosted flatware, these are 18/10 stainless, and I really like the frosted design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think the napkins came from Pier 1 several years ago, I love the intense turquoise color. Two years ago I did a Summer Farm Animals tablescape and I bought these lamb napkin rings to use on that tablescape. I found them on Ebay and they were made by Lipco. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here.

Here is the Farm Animals table setting from two years ago with the same lamb napkin ring. Originally the lamb had a red ribbon around its neck but Hubby repainted it for me for this tablescape.

These Kate Aspen lamb place card holders came from Ebay last month. I bought the pink place cards on Amazon a few years ago.

The turquoise acrylic goblet on the left came from Pier 1 several years ago. I have this goblet design style in several colors in acrylic and in glass and I use them often. I found the pink glass goblet at World Market a couple of years ago. Tall true pink glass goblets are difficult to find so I am happy to have these. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection here.

I had been on the lookout for a lamb centerpiece for several months. I was meeting some librarian friends at a restaurant down the freeway a bit and there was a small group of gift shops and an outdoor shopping area there as well. I got there early and as I was wandering around I suddenly saw this larger lamb. It was labeled as vintage but I am not sure that it is. They are made of some kind of clay I think. I saw the smaller lambs too but I didn’t buy them, (a mistake!) because I thought I could find a couple of smaller lambs to add to the tablescape somewhere else. I was still looking with no luck when Hubby was planning a trip south to pick up something and I decided to have him stop by and buy the smaller two matching lambs as well. I was lucky that they were still there! I added pink ribbons to them that I bought on Amazon to match the salad plates.

I like the soft colors on this tablescape, they always seem to signify Spring to me.

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Fairies on a Spring Tablescape

I have been thinking about this tablescape design for a couple of years at least but I have never been able to find what I needed to create it until now. I decided to set the table without a tablecloth to suggest a wood forest. This solid wood table was made by Stickley as were the chairs and hutch. We bought the set many years ago.

These fairy salad plates were not made to hold food, they are collector plates. They are purely for decorative purposes. They would be removed from the table before the food is served. I purchased six different plate designs for this table setting. This fairy plate is called The Lavender Fairy and it was the First Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. This plate design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations. Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies drawings were first published in 1923. She was an English illustrator. There were 170 original illustrations and they have been reproduced on many different products including plates and ornaments in several different series. You can find them on the secondary market in stores and online. I found all these fairy plates online a few months ago from several different sources after googling fairy plate. I planted lavender last year and it is doing well in my garden.

This fairy plate is called The Sweet Pea Fairy and it was the Second Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. This plate design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations. When I was growing up we had sweet peas all along the side of the house that my mother planted I think. I have started planting them myself and I can’t wait until they are tall and the flowers have bloomed.

This fairy plate is called The Candytuft Fairy. It was the Third Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. I was not familiar with Candytuft until I found this plate. I am not sure if it would grow in our ocean climate. This plate design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations.

This fairy plate is called The Heliotrope Fairy. It was the Fourth Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. This plate design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations. Now that I have this plate I might try to grow heliotrope.

This fairy plate is called The Blackthorn Fairy. It was the Fifth Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. Blackthorn won’t grow in my California climate. It is found in the Northeast and Europe. This plate design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Winter series of illustrations.

This fairy plate is called The Apple Blossom Fairy. It was the Sixth Issue in the Flower Fairies Collection inspired by the works of Cicely Mary Barker. It is labeled Heinrich Germany Villeroy & Boch. This plate design based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s Alphabet Fairies series of illustrations.

This is a Fiesta dinner plate in the color Green Meadow. I love Fiesta dinner plates. They come in lots of great colors. According to online information Fiesta is a line of ceramic glazed dinnerware manufactured and marketed by the Fiesta Tableware Company of Newell, West Virginia since its introduction in 1936 with a hiatus from 1973 to 1985. Fiesta is noted for its Art Deco styling and its range of often bold, solid colors. In the years since Fiesta was first produced, there have been a total of 47 colors in the line. Today, The Fiesta Tableware Company introduces one new color each year. Over the years some colors are retired as new ones are added.

I found these sage green crochet doily place mats at Bed, Bath, and Beyond several years ago. I wish they had come in other colors too because I really like the ruffled edge and the way it sets off whatever is set on top of it.

This flatware set is Milano Ginkgo International LePrix and the color is Moss Green. Not sure where I bought it. I also have it in a few other colors. It’s 18/10 and really good quality flatware.

These sage green linen napkins came from Sur La Table a few years ago. All of the napkin rings that I used on this tablescape were made with a fairy ornament temporarily attached to a sage green ceramic napkin ring. I found all these fairy ornaments online a few months ago from several different sources after googling flower fairy. This fairy ornament was called the Heliotrope Fairy and it was part of The Original Flower Fairies Collection copyrighted in 2012. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations.

This fairy ornament was called The Strawberry Fairy and it was part of the Flower Fairies Collection, Series II copyrighted in 1999. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s Alphabet Fairies series of illustrations.

This fairy ornament was called The Poppy Fairy and it was also part of The Original Flower Fairies Collection, Series II. It was copyrighted in 2001. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Summer series of illustrations.

This fairy ornament was called the Mallow Fairy and it was part of The Original Flower Fairies Collection. It was copyrighted in 2012. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s Alphabet Fairies series of illustrations.

This fairy ornament was called the Geranium Fairy and it was part of The Original Flower Fairies Collection. It was copyrighted in 2012. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Garden series of illustrations.

This fairy ornament was called the Bluebell Fairy and it was part of The Original Flower Fairies Collection. It was copyrighted in 2012. This ornament design was based on an illustration that was a part of Cicely Mary Barker’s The Fairies of the Spring series of illustrations.

These small resin fairies that I am using as place card holders on this tablescape came from Amazon last month in a set of four. I set them on a clear square place card holder. I bought these crystal place card holders at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They were made by Oleg Cassini. They are heavy and solid and I really like the design.

I can’t remember where I found the green glass goblet on the left. The green acrylic goblet on the right came from our Pier 1 store before it closed a few years ago.

I found this fairy figure at HomeGoods a few months ago. I had her sitting in my study on a small table next to the chair that my husband sits in sometimes and he said she was giving him the eye…Lol!

Because everyone needs a little fairy dust now and then…

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