Getting Ready for Christmas

                 Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas

I gathered together some ornaments that I am using on my little white feather tree.  As well as some of my supplies to wrap presents.  I laid them on my ottoman and thought they made a pretty vignette, thinking I would take a couple of photos.  Instead it turned into a fun photo op.

Using such soft peachy pink this year.  The shade of pink is really a Ballet pink.  The exact color of a Ballerina's Pointe Shoe.

I found the little house at my favorite Pharmacy/gift shop.  Soft colors with French script paper to cover the house.

The ornaments I have are in 2 different sizes.  A variety of pinks, golds, and white.  So soft and sweet.  

    The throw is from Nordstrom.  Called Peony pink but really is a soft peachy Ballerina pink.

I used a white wooden tray that I have used for years as an anchor for the displayed items.

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Happy Mothers Day 2016

Wishing all of you a wonderful Mother's Day celebration.   A wonderful day to celebrate your uniqueness.  Love you all.

          A little planted floral handbag for each Mother to take home.

Another little take home gift.  Each girl will take home a pair of garden gloves and an adorable pin/brooch.  Each pin is different, as you will see in other photos.

My little cloche's.  They were white and I wanted them to be a matching green, so I spray painted them.  There are so many wonderful colors of spray paint available now.

No better backdrop than Mother Nature's gift of a glorious lilac bush.  This one is a Korean lilac.  Blooms a little later than my other bushes.  The heady fragrance can be enjoyed from many yards away.  Because I live in a high altitude area with intense sun, I had to plant this on the East side for protection from the intense sun.  Most of the standard varieties French, etc., work great in any part of my yard.

I love the little sweet & sour flower candy.  Found at my favorite Pharmacy gift shop.

I used a large watering can for the centerpiece.  The spout is a large brass Peony flower.

                                 The spout of the watering can.

A dreamy picture of the tablescape.  I love the softer focus of the flowers.

                              The little take home floral handbags

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Cinderella... 2015

Cinderella.....       2015

"Be Kind & Have Courage"

We are all so excited about the new Disney Cinderella movie. We were able to get early tickets to see the movie before the actual opening.  
This tablescape is my interpretation of what I imagine when I think of this movie. How thrilling it was to see this incredibly BEAUTIFUL Masterpiece.   
I hope that I have done my Cinderella Tablescape with at least the idea of love, magic, & dreams!   

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The magic of Cinderella's slipper.  Each of the four place settings has its' own glass slipper.  Made of chocolate.  The beautiful golden Papillon (Butterfly) on the slipper just as Cinderella's was in the movie..    

This shoe was made by the lovely people at The Truffle Cottage. (Follow the highlighted text to check out their website.)

When you see the movie you sill see how the Golden Pumpkin coach was made.  Of course Magic was involved.  My ornate cloche is symbolic of the Greenhouse that held the pumpkins.

                                Pure Magic!  Do you see the glass slipper reflected in the glass?

 

 There is a beautiful portrait of Cinderella at the end of the movie.  This stunning blue votive has Cinderella's portrait engraved on  the front. 

One of the pumpkins with the magic of the "Fairy godmother" has  turned into a BEAUTIFUL Coach.  

My good friend Deanne Taylor of Pleasant Grove made this stunning coach from cake!

 I love cloche's or bell jars and collect them.  I use them mostly outside.  But this one was special to me and I thought after I saw the movie that it would be a perfect covering for the coach.

My three tiered stand holds even more items that are symbolic of the movie.  The movie's beauty was astounding.  There was flora & fauna abounding everywhere.  Beautiful butterflies, bluebirds with their blue feathers, golden votives with jeweled crowns,  beautiful flowers, the Fairy Godmother's wand. golden pumpkins, mice,   crowns, and  stunning blue chocolate glass slippers.  A bird in a gilded cage.  I think of the song< "Sing Sweet Nightingale".

The base for all the centerpiece is a mirror I have.  I just took it down from the wall and thought it would be perfect for my Cinderella theme.

My plate stack.  I didn't want the focus of this table to be on plates.  I did want them to be elegant.  There is a gold beaded placemat, with a mirrored charger and a crown embossed plate.

 I found some antique music scrolls and thought they would be perfect for the Grand Duke to make his proclamation of searching for the maiden that would fit into the left behind glass slipper.  I like the brass roller that the scroll is on.  

 Quite a lot of detail on the back of the slippers.  The Truffle Cottage does such exceptionally beautiful work!

       The napkins are tripled, using gold, white, and blue.

At the movies.  One of my adorable granddaughters', Scarlett.

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 The items used came from many sources.  In part, Tai Pan Trading.  The Truffle Cottage.  Overstock.  Ebay.  My favorite drug store.  Various boutiques.  Home Goods.  Z.C.M.I.. Martha Stewart.  Down East Home.   Z Gallerie.  Pier One.  Most items I have had for some time and I pulled them together for this tablescape.