Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Tablescape Tuesday - 3 Easter Tables!

Hi all!

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend!!!  Ours was good!  Very busy, but very good!  We had a large gathering of wonderful family and friends! 

Today I'll be sharing with you my Easter Tables!  We actually had 3 because we had 20 people eating and I wanted us all to eat together! 

I wasn't able to get a whole lot of pictures because I was so busy right up to the moment the guests arrived....I just snapped a few quick shots as people were knocking on our door...haha!!!  

I'll try to explain them for each pic if you're interested in where they came from!

Our First table was a table for our "Grown Ups".  The "Matriarchs and Patriarchs" of the families gathered!  This included my father and his girlfriend, my husbands parents, and my cousins from Maine who were in town visiting! 

For this table (and all tables except the kids table) I used a basic white tablecloth.  I then took round placemats and lined them up for the table runner.  On each placemat, I tried to place something.

In the very center was a round glass cylinder with some spring bunny tinsel from the thrift store running through it. 


On the sides of that were some pillar candle holders with some candles wrapped in Easter ribbon, and the  cutest little "Easter egg house"!   I found this at our church's thrift store for just $2.50 and it was just cute as could be!  I put some little electric votives in there...you can't really see that in this picture, but it was adorable!


The bunny inside the cloche with the green Easter Grass was a find from our church's local thrift store.  It was so cute...and just $2!  I added a few lavender flowers from the Dollar Tree in her little back pouch!

The next table was the LONG table of "Kids and Friends"   My hubby and I sat here as well as some of our friends and our second cousins.

For this table, I needed to accommodate 9 people so I made a long table by putting two Sam's Tables together...again both with white tablecloths.  Here it is...with my little ones in the background!  They were waiting at the window for our friends and family to arrive!  They were so excited!  It was so cute!


I kept this table a little more simple since is was a thinner table and was holding more people.  The color came mostly from the placemats and the colored daisies on the table, as well as the pastel chargers.

Each place setting had a pastel charger, a white dinner plate, a cute little Pier 1 bowl with a different colored pastel peep in it, and a pastel place card with their name on it.


Here's the "Little Kids' and Grandkids" table!   Vinyl Tablecloth, some turquoise plastic plates and a cute bunny on a hand-made pedestal. Tutorial coming soon! (for the pedestal, not the bunny...haha!  I got that at a thrift store!)



So much of the centerpiece stuff was purchased at our church's local thrift store as they had marked 50% off their Easter stuff!  I found so many cute things that would have been cheap at full price, but at HALF PRICE, they were even better!!! 

I wasn't able to get a picture of our dinner buffet with all the food on it, but I was able to snap this picture of our "Drinks and Desserts" station!   My dad's girlfriend is quite creative and she helped make the presentation spectacular!
 


 

I hope you enjoyed this quick tour of our Easter Tables for this Tablescape Tuesday!  Have a wonderful week! 

Hope to see you tomorrow for "WHADDA WE EATIN' Wednesday, where I'll show you a super-easy recipe for a real crowd-pleaser for Holiday dinners!!!

OH YEAH!   And don't forget to come back on Friday for the

FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA Link Party!

and link up YOUR creative projects, tables and recipes for the week!!!  

Thanks again for stopping by!  See you soon!

This post is being added to...
Tabletop Tuesdays
Wow Us Wednesday
Let's Dish
Tablescape Thursday
Open House Party
Festive Friday Fiesta





15 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I'm so glad you had a wonderful Easter celebration. Hope you're getting some rest after all your hosting and planning!

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  2. Very cute! I like the colours in your table setting :) ~Pernilla

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  3. Wow, you did good. I love your tablescapes for each table. Sounds like such a great time. Thanks tons for joining TTT. Hugs, marty

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  4. The collective efforts of you and your Dad's girlfriend really yielded something special for all of your family to enjoy! I like how you used all the different charger colors. Very colorful display on the table! Great buys on items from your church thrift store, too! SO MUCH FOOD that looks so great...and I'm sure tasted the same!!!!!

    So glad you got to enjoy the Easter weekend!

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  5. You did a fantastic job on your Easter tables...and the dessert table, too! Many memories will have been taken from these tables.
    Have a great week!

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  6. It's all so pretty! Such hard work and you did great!

    XO,
    Chriatine

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  7. Love your tables and dessert display. Wonderful. xo

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  8. You did such a great job creating all those tables, each place had touches of Easter, and the mix and match of all your accessories made for a very festive atmosphere! I know you must have had a grand time!
    Jenna

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  9. This is awesome - I know it took a great deal of effort, but how wonderful to have so many of your loved ones with you on this special holiday! You did a beautiful job of decorating the tables and the food looks delicious. I am pretty sure that the day was lively!!

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  10. Wow you did a lot of work! Everything looks marvelous! Looks like it was a perfect set up for a large gathering.

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  11. You are very ambitious, and they all look so good! Very cheerful!
    Thanks for linking to Let's Dish! I think you forgot me. :)

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  12. What pretty tables you put together! I love how colorful they all are and so fun. The peeps on each plate add such a sweet and cute touch - what a treat for all of your family!

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  13. What a splendid gathering! Everything looks beautiful. How fun you've made the family gathering with all the pretty things you've gathered for your tables. Desert looks delightful!

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  14. You did it again! Just gorgeous!! I so want you to live here to show me the trick or I'm lying so you can make my table :)

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