ic Test Blog: Walking On Sunshine

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Walking On Sunshine

My friend Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen is having a themed table
challenge for her Let's Dish party this week.  
Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees! 
Here is my entry: 

Like pretty much of the rest of the country, Spring is nowhere in sight
here in Colorado!
Snow, wind, cold! Yuck!
My hyacinths are a mushy mess having been frozen and thawed numerous times.
I have had enough I tell you!

So, to try and lift my mood, 
I set a sunny cheery tablescape to, hopefully, 
beckon Spring into my neck of the woods.
Kathe With An E~Walking On Sunshine Tablescape
Pardon the glaring white tablecloth. 
Believe it or not the actual sun decided to shine
just as I was taking photos LOL!
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Setting
The placemats are actually a rug from Ikea. 
Once I saw it in the store I knew I was going to cut it up
and use it for a table.  It screamed grass to me!
One rug at $9.99 gave me four placemats!
The runner is also from Ikea (do I love that place or what?!).
The dinner plate and mug are from the Dollar Tree.
The bowls were a freebie from Ms K from when I helped her move
a few months ago.
When I showed her a picture of this table, she said she may want them back.
Sorry Ms K!  They are mine now LOL!
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Setting
There are two with the wheelbarrow and tulip.
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Setting
And two with the polka dot coffee cup and daisy.
The pink napkins came from the thrift store.
If I recall correctly, I paid around $1.00 for four of them.
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Setting
The flatware has been used before and were a gift from Mr. B.
The water glasses are our everyday goblets.
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Decor
The flowers for the center of the table came from the floral clearance
section at the grocery store.
The mums were a whooping $2.99 each!  
When we get warmer weather, I will plant them in the front garden.  
I will divide them in half and get double the plants! 
By next year, they will be just as full as they are now.
I keep telling you, hit the floral department and if you don't see
any plants or flowers on clearance, ask!
Kathe With An E~Spring Decor
I even bought an extra one in yellow for the buffet.
I wrapped the pot with some of the fabric leftover from my craft room update.
I told you I'd find some use for the extra fabric I bought!
The sunshiny yellow tulips were marked down to $3.99 for the bunch.
I placed them in a Teleflora vase from Mr. B.
The pattern on the vase is called Monet.
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Setting
Seeing this table just lifts my spirits.
Kathe With An E~Spring Table Decor

Kathe With An E~Spring Tablescape
And while the grass outside is, once again, covered in snow,
I can look at this table I set, and feel like 
I am walking on sunshine, woh-oh!
Kathe With An E~Spring Tablescape
 
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