Pretty Easter Floral Table Decor...

Think about adding some fresh flowers or flowering branches into your Easter table decor...

Here are a few ways you can also add a few delicious eggs into the mix too!

Do you have a favourite?

images via BHG & HGTV

Easter Table Setting

Happy Easter...

It's Easter Sunday and we've invited over our dear friends, Greg & Amanda and their little 8 month old girl - Sophie, for an Easter Sunday Lunch. With all good intentions I had aimed to make a decorated egg stem tree - just as I had posted some few days ago - but unfortunately work has been incredibly chaotic - maybe next year!

So for a table setting had to make do and decided to keep the look autumnal and tonally cohesive, so here with some foliage - Grandiflora magnolia 'Little Gem' leaves and White flowering native heather plant that produces these blue berries (that are actually more like a rose hip in their hardness) rustically housed in a aged pedestal urn [that was actually one of the table vases from our wedding some near 5 years ago now]... beneath the urn I scattered several heavy glass votives filled with creme brulee scented tea lights & around them some gold wrapped tiny chocolate eggs sit like little jewels.

- Easter Sunday Lunch Menu -

Entree - Garlic & White Wine Prawns, served with Crusty Bread

Main - Seafood Paella with Black Mussells & Saffron Paprika Rice

Desert - Individual Rhubarb, Apple Cinnamon Custard Pies served with Forrest Berries &Vanilla Bean Ice Cream dusted with Icing Sugar.

Voila & Bonn Appetite!

Counting Down...

Counting down... Not long now to Christmas Day - with only 2 sleeps to go!

Without doubt there has been a number of parties and celebrations that we have attended over the past week in the lead up to the festive season and Christmas will be a welcomed by sitting down amongst family and friends with good food, and a few bubbles... I think that is one of the reasons I love this image it has hint of surprise and an element of anticipation - the rubbed back painted buckets filled with white heather seem to be peering out from the crisp clean lines of the lanterns. I love the use of festive colour utilised in a clean, decorative & contemporary way.

Image courtesy of Southern Living

Tablescapes - Chinoiserie

Chinoiserie - originating late 19th century Pan-Asia style
Chinoiserie - 1.a style of ornamentation current chiefly in the 18th century in Europe, characterized by intricate patterns and an extensive use of motifs identified as Chinese. 2.an object decorated in this style or an example of this style: The clock was an interesting chinoiserie. [Origin: 1880–85; <>Chinese + -erie -ery]

de Gournay's - Chinoiserie Chelsea on custom yellow background wallpaper;

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de Gournay's - Chinoiserie wall covering & tablescape

Verandah Home & Garden Living Solutions - Tablescape; Wall painted in Jervis Bay Blue, British Paints; Tall conical blue & white vase from Shanghai; Blue & white bowl with lid from Kelantung Malaysia; Bohemia Crystal Rib Vase with Cymbidium orchid; Oblong Frosted Lamp, Ikea.
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