Spring Table in Florida, 2014

I was not about to join the tablescape parties this week because I am still trying to catch up on laundry but I don't get to do a lot of tablescapes here, so I decided to create one on the little counter high table in the breakfast nook.

 

I just gathered some bunnies that I have here to create my centerpiece and I saw these topiaries on the kitchen table. I found them in a consignment shop last year after we bought this house.

 The flower plates are from Joss and Main. It seems like I have acquired a lot of items from that store to furnish this house.

 The plate chargers were from the World Market.

 The abaca table runner is from the Philippines.

 I have 4 sets of flatware here so far (don't ask how many I have in MS, lol) and this is one of them which has been transported from our MS home.

 Bunny candle holder from Marshall's that I bought from the other part of FL where my other daughter and son live, before our cruise.

 Ceramic bunny napkins I brought here from our MS home.

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The Triplets, Twins Plus One

I just love these 2 photos that my daughter Tina took of my triplet granddaughters, that I had to share them on my blog. I keep saying this and you probably know by now, that they aren't really triplets but because they are so close in age, I call them so. The 2 on the left are my daughter Rochelle's twins, Halle and Rea and the girl in red is Reese, my youngest daughter Tina's youngest child.

 

 

They are just too precious and I love them so much!

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by. I just got back from a cruise with my mom, brothers and sisters, granddaughter AJ and other relatives. That is the reason I have not visited. I hope you are all doing ok and I can catch up soon, but I am not home yet.


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Kids' Spring Table

We had kids during our get together dinner and it will be tight to sit them with us around the round table so I set this small table by the kitchen nook for them. Besides, I know they will enjoy it more if they are by themselves.

 I continued on with the spring theme here.

 Lenox Butterfly Meadows napkin rings.

 Hyacinth plant with white blooms was borrowed from outside by the fountain.

 I layered yellow bee salad plates from Williams Sonoma, white Mikasa swirl dinner plates and MacKenzie Childs Marketplace plate chargers.

I placed some cups in a clotche topped with a bird's nest and eggs for my centerpiece.

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Wurzburg Residenz Palace in Germany

After Rothenburg, the tour bus took us to tour the Residenz Palace in Wurzburg, southern Germany, which was used as the residence of the Prince-Bishops until the early 18th century.

The palace is so impressive, so grand and so long.

 

It has a gorgeous Franconian Fountain in front where John and I posed for a photo.

We were not allowed to take pictures inside the building so I copied this from Wikepedia. It is the grand staircase which is part of the formal reception room. A Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo decorated the vault with a fresco, showing paintings of the four continents: Europe, America, Asia and Africa in 1750-1753. The painting on the vault and all the baroque intricate work are so stunning, this picture does not do them any justice at all.

Sorry, I could not show you any other interior pictures. As I said earlier, we were not allowed to take pictures inside, which is too bad because the interior is stunning.

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Spring Garden in the Kitchen

Last Friday night, my friends decided to have a get together dinner here again. I am excited for spring so I decided to create a spring-y table.

 My bulb pot was really showcasing a bloom of different flowers so I used it again.  This pot has come a long way, I got so much use out of it.

 I added a birdhouse that was just sitting on the window sill in the dining room, and a bird that I took from the family room coffee table.

I alternated 2 types of napkin rings, a flower and a watering can.

Napoleon bee flatware set.

 Heavy iron bunnies for name plate holders. I bought them from Pier One about 2 or 3 years ago.

 The dinnerware set is Mikasa's "Fantasy"

Bees and butterflies fly around the yard in the spring and some of them just landed here.

 Birds S & P shakers

 Sauce and small dipping plates.

This really speaks spring to me!

The gang.

Picture taking first before digging in, lol. They are getting used to it.  It looks like a lot of food but at the end, it was all gone. We all really ate so much!

A flower shaped tea set.

The cups say "I don't go to the gym, I garden" That describes me so well.

We had a wonderful dinner as usual and then we played Guesstures and had so much fun. It was hilarious!

 

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