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Tablescape Tuesday: Simply In The Garden

~ Food & Entertaining, Tablescape Tuesday

“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31:30‬ ‭

Sweet friends, thank you so much for checking on me last week…I took a blogging break…the first once since I began almost three years ago.  Don’t we all need a time of rest and refreshment and to quiet the noise?  Butch and I took a short vacation and I can’t wait to share it with you next week!

You all I know I love alfesco dining…especially in our little garden! The temps have been  perfect the past few days…and coupled with a gentle breeze that kept mosquitoes at bay!   Don’t we all love that?  This week’s setting is very simple and would be a sweet Mother’s Day table.  My Mother would have loved it…and oh how I wish she was still with us so I could prepare her a special meal! Please pull up a chair and join us today!
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An ironstone pitcher filled with yellow tulips is a simple centerpiece.
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Tablescape Tuesday: Eleven Yellow Roses

~ Food & Entertaining, Tablescape Tuesday, Uncategorized

 “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭127:1‬

If you’re anything at all like me, you wait until the last minute to do things…Procrastination is my middle name!  This past weekend on Saturday evening, I still had no idea what I would do for a tablescape..I only knew I wanted to be in the garden or on the patio.  Sunday rolls around, and I knew I needed to get my act together if I was going to get a table done!  I made a quick stop by the grocery store after church and found a dozen beautiful yellow roses, which I haven’t used in a long time!  Alarms went off and I now had a plan!  I have a cheerful floral tablecloth with touches of yellow that would be the perfect match!  But the weather on Sunday evening and yesterday had other plans…no outside tablescape this week!  So this week, we find ourselves inside at the dining room table, sans the floral cloth I mentioned.  And just in case you decide to count, there are only eleven yellow roses, because that is the number of bottles that fit in the wooden box!  Now you know!

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The bottle runner from Kirkland’s is always fun to use…no need for a floral arrangement, just a stem in each bottle works well!
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Tablescaping In The Great Outdoors!

~ Food & Entertaining, Tablescape Tuesday

 “Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭4:15‬ ‭

As most of you know, in the warmer months, we find ourselves outside every chance we get!  I have been eager to take Tablescape Tuesday back to the great outdoors, and finally it happened over the weekend.  The skies were overcast, but hey, that made things a little cooler!  I love an alfresco setting because the backrop of the outdoors makes tablescaping decor very minimal!  So come outside and pull up a seat on our patio…underneath the pergola we had built last September!  I still haven’t finished what I have planned for the patio, but I’m fine with that…like I said, it’s the scenery all around that helps us enjoy it as is!

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I love pairing blue and white with different colors…apple green is a favorite!READ MORE