“Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.”
Psalms 96:6
Hello friends and welcome to Floral Friday! I am back with my talented blogging friends to share some floral therapy. Much of the country has experienced a lingering winter. Maybe this will give you hope that spring is just around the corner! Today we are sharing table centerpieces. At the end of my post you will find the links for Lidy, Mary, and Shirley. You will definitely want to visit them! Now join me at the table for Hydrangeas, Roses, and Strawberries!
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I set a table for dessert. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love dessert?
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The pastel centerpiece was kept very simple, but sweet!
Hydrangeas are one of my very favorite flowers! I placed two large blooms in the vase and tucked in nine blush Sophia roses. Now that is what I call easy!
I cherish the English vase that was given to me by a wonderful friend who also loves blue and white. It’s placed on a stack of blush plates that I recently found at Hobby Lobby.
The plates are Spode Blue Room Collection, Traditions series. The embroidered napkins were purchased on a trip to St. Thomas, V.I. in 1984. I guess they qualify as vintage, as do the silver dessert forks.
It’s strawberry season and our local farm has the juiciest and the sweetest berries.
Do you mind indulging this grandmother for just a minute? Most of you know that I keep my (almost 2 years old) precious little granddaughter three days a week. She was sitting on a stool watching as I was setting the table. When I brought out the strawberries, she got so excited and started saying “stwabewwies”! So I stopped everything and we had a morning snack of fresh strawberries. I am enjoying this sweet time of making memories with my girl!
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The same friend gifted me with the Blue Willow pitcher…she has exquisite taste!
Fresh lemonade and strawberries with sprigs of chocolate mint make for a refreshing beverage!
Dessert is a home-made fresh strawberry cake with cream cheese icing. Ella Mae was beyond excited when I placed the cake on the table. You’ll notice there’s a piece missing in the first pic…we had to test it out!
I hope you see how easy it is to prepare a simple centerpiece and to set up a small dessert table for a few friends. It doesn’t have to be elaborate. People may forget what you served them to eat, they may forget your centerpiece, but they will not forget how you made them feel!
Be sure to visit my very creative friends by clicking the links below.
Lidy at French Garden House
Mary at Home Is Where The Boat Is
Shirley At Housepitality Designs
Thanks so much for your visits and comments. Wishing you a beauty-filled weekend!
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Everything is so pretty. We get eye food , though that cake looks delicious!
Thanks so much!
Swoon Pam! Your centerpiece of blue hydrangeas and Sophia blush roses in your pretty vase is stunning but I can’t keep my eyes off your cake! I share Ella Mae’s excitement over it and those beautiful berries. 😉 Your blue and white cake pedestal, Spode Blue Room, pretty embroidered napkins and handsome Blue Willow pitcher all add up to a beautiful dessert table! Thanks so much for the beautiful and delicious inspiration this morning. I’ll be dreaming about strawberry cake with cream cheese icing the rest of the day. It’s always a pleasure to join you for Floral Friday.♥
Thank you Mary! It is a great pleasure to share Floral Friday with you!❤️
Love, love, love the table you beautifully set for friends to enjoy those wonderful sweet treats…I love that you stopped your momentum of creating to sit and enjoy some “stwabewwies” with your precious one! What lovely and thoughtful gifts from your friend that helped curate this beautiful table! The arrangement is simply elegant…a perfect example of creating a wonderful thing of beauty and having time left over to tend to the “precious things in life” I so look forward doing our Floral Fridays together with you…Happy Friday Pam … Have a great weekend and regards to Butch!
Thank you Shirley. It is my pleasure to share Floral Friday with you❤️
Well, you have made me feel like I want to be right there with you and Ella Mae enjoying strawberries and strawberry cake. What a beautiful centerpiece. I see you have learned to speak two year old language. You are so right as usual…people may forget what you served but they will not forget how you made them feel. It even comes across the airways. Thank you for a beautiful floral Friday.
Pam, as you would expect, I love ❤️ this post! As the friend who gave you the blue and white pitchers, I so appreciate your comment about my exquisite taste! I am even prouder of my taste in friends!
Thank you my sweet and long-time friend! I am the blessed one to call you my friend!
Blue Willow is my favorite and you are a blessed in many ways to have such a dear friend. I know Ella Mae was the prettiest thing at the table! My sister used to say “straw-babies” when she was little, and to this day we still say it like that. BTW, she is out of the hospital and recovering well; we know it was because there were hundreds of people all across the country who prayed for her.
Thank you dear friend! I am so glad your sister is out of the hospital and hopefully feeling better. Are you going to have another party?
I think various groups of her friends are planning many do overs! Cooking for 70 people is not something I do every day, that’s for sure!!
Now you’ve done it. I have to go in the kitchen and make a strawberry cake. Later?
Even if I say so, the strawberry cake is delicious! Happy weekend, Alice!
Pam, absolutely beautiful table. Love, love the blue and white. Your arrangement is lovely and I can taste the strawberry cake. Once again, thank you for a gorgeous post ! Have a beautiful weekend!
Thank you dear Sandra!
I love your two-toned hydrangea and how pretty it looks with the blush roses, especially in that lovely vase. But oh! Those strawberries in the bowl! Up here all you get are strawberries that taste like packing popcorn! These look yum!
Thanks so much Jeanie. I wish I could ship you some of our luscious strawberries!
Very pretty! Love the blush roses with the blue hydrangeas!
Thank you Penny!
Pam, I love Floral Friday! You all amaze me with your wonderful talent every time! The blush and blue makes such a beautiful statement. You have some very pretty blue and white pieces, and I am swooning over those sweet embroidered napkins. Enjoy your weekend, sweet friend!!!
Thanks so much, Shannon. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, sweet friend!
Making memories with your little stwawbewwie lover, how sweet is that, Pam! Your setting is beautiful, and your centerpiece a delight. You are so right, it’s all about how you make your guest feel that counts, anyone having dessert with you at this beautifully set table can’t help but feel special. xo Lidy
Thank you dear Lidy! Making memories is at the top of my list?
That is so pretty! I’ll have to remember to use roses poked in the hydrangeas. That cake looks so enticing and so beautiful with all the blue dishes. Love the stwabewwies story! We won’t see strawberries here until early June. Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you so much, Liz!
I am crazy about the way you tucked the roses into the big fat hydrangea blooms, so creative! What a lovely dessert party, have you shared your strawberry cake recipe? I’m with Ella Mae, I’d love to sample a piece! The bright red berries really pop against the blue and white pieces, just beautiful Pam!
Jenna
Thank you Jenna. I haven’t shared the recipe. You do such a good job sharing your recipes, but I find that photographing is so hard for me. You are so creative with recipe posts!
Gorgeous post. Exquisite styling and photography. I’m traveling again and I’m viewing on my little phone screen and can’t wait to see it on my laptop.
Love your flower choices and containers and dishes that you so artfully used in your vignette. That cake is beautiful. I’m glad sweet little Ella Mae got a piece. You are a sweet grandmother.
Thank you Bonnie. You have been so busy. Have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Pam…I love the Blue Willow anything…I have a set of those dishes and used them for everyday for a long time…Great idea to tuck roses in the Hydrangea blooms….I did the same thing with Lilacs in my post today. I would also love the cake recipe. God Bless!
Kari @ Me and My Captain
Thank you dear Kari! Blessings and hugs~
The centerpiece is very lovely. I love the napkins. Very petty.
Marilyn
Thank you Marilyn. Have a wonderful weekend!
Pam blue is my favorite color so I I love the blue items. Everything is beautiful as usual.
Thank You for sharing.
Marion
Thank you so much Marion. Happy Weekend ?
I have never seen roses with hydrangeas like this, I am absolutely smitten! I am certainly going to borrow this idea and I will be sure to give you credit. Stunning!
Thank you so much, Amber. Happy weekend!
What a gorgeous table. I love blue and white table settings.
What a blessing that you get to spend time with your granddaughter. You’ll never bore me with stories about Ella Mae. If we met in person I would probably have some stories about my grands. ?
Nancy thank you so much. I would love to hear stories about your grands❤️
Your new blush plates are perfect with the addition of the blush roses. I do love hydrangeas, but I love blush roses even more. I love that you are sharing Ella Mae with us and investing in her life. That’s something few grandparents take time for anymore. You are a gem! 🙂
Hi Kim, you are so sweet to comment. I certainly have missed you my friend! Sending hugs!
Fabulous flowers bouquet,so dainty and romantic!Perfect for your beautiful and exquisite table in blue and white!That dessert looks delicious…What a delightful post!Hugs!
Thank you sweet friend!
Pam, the table is just so beautiful. That beautiful bouquet is so elegant. I love the small roses tucked into the hydrangeas. It would make a beautiful wedding bouquet. Your photography is outstanding. It just shows your “eye” for beauty, and the beauty is created by you. I am always so excited to see your posts. Betty
Betty, you are so sweet! Thank you for commenting. I hadn’t thought of it, but that would make a beautiful bridal bouquet. Have a wonderful weekend!
Just beautiful. The blue settings with splashes of red strawberries…the lovely strawberry cake even one missing slice looks so yummy!
I know what you mean with those grand babies!! The memories are precious. Make them often. Time marches on!
Esther, I enjoy making memories! Thank you sweet friend❤️
Finally an internet connection that allows me to check in and see what you lovely ladies have created.I’m not disappointed! Hey, the cake looks pretty wonderful, too.
Thanks Linda!
It’s all so beckoning and inviting….I love the blue ceramic ware mixed in with “stwabewwys” (!) and hydranges. Happpy sweetness at it’s best! It’s all beautiful, classic and timeless.
Thank you so much Kristine for visiting. Have a wonderful week!
Gorgeous table Pam. I am smitten with the lovely hydrangeas and rises tucked in. The blue and white is lovely. Everyone wants a slice of your strawberry cake. Too cute the stwabewwy story, spendingime with grands is priceless.
Thank you so much, Linda. Being a grandmother is just the best!
Such a sweet blue floral centerpiece. I am a forever lover of blue and white and the blue willow pitcher is lovely. Hospitality is all about making guests feel welcome and special and this does it beautifully.
Carolyn
Thank you Carolyn. You are so right about hospitality! Blessings~
Your photography is amazing and I want to be just like you when I grow up.
ROFLROFL,!!
It’s night time here and I think I may have woken my family up laughing.
Of course, Pam is a grown up, but it’s still funny.
How sweet you are, Elizabeth! Have a wonderful week!
Dear Pam, you make it look so easy! I love this pretty table and that cake looks divine. Thank you for sharing with us this week at Celebrate Your Story and we hope you will join us again next week.
Sandra, it is my pleasure to share!
BEAUTIFUL !!
Thank you Kelly!
These are beautiful, from the color combination, the flowers and the soft pink cake makes the everything so stunning. Great post! XO
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Lovely and beautiful and delicious. Can’t get much better then that!
Thank you Nancy for spending time reading my posts while you were away!
how beautiful!
Thank you Angelina!
Just gorgeous! Featuring you today at TFT! I hope you will come back and link up with us again this week! Have a great weekend!https://followtheyellowbrickhome.com/spring-inspiration-in-bloom-at-thursday-favorite-things/
Thank you so much for the feature!