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An Easter Tabletop

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Last week I shared how stressed I was about the upcoming Easter holiday.  Quick looks on Pinterest and Google results lead me nowhere.  I found a few pretty pictures, but nothing was really what I was searching for.  I was leaving on Thursday for my parent’s house, on Sunday I would be decorating for their Easter breakfast a Riverdale Baptist Church.  As of Wednesday, I still did not have a plan in place.  Finally, I was struck with inspiration laying in bed late Wednesday night, a “light bulb” finally went off!

But before I share the results of my epiphany, I would like to share the beautiful tabletop that welcomed me at my parent’s home.  My mother has a great eye for decor, so my talents come naturally as I have been surrounded by pretty things for most of my life.  She has also been my right hand at several events and helps with a little inspiration here and there.

Easter Centerpiece

Easter tabletop

Easter place setting

I am so ready for spring! To me, Easter always marks the unofficial start of spring, and it’s April already!   I want to see bulbs popping up in my garden and daffodils lining my fence.  Somehow, waking up this morning to a dusting of snow is not what I had in mind… have patience.  And I might just as well keep looking at pictures of pretty spring decor!

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Easter Inspirations

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Easter is this Sunday!  Did you know that?  That’s a mere four days from now!!!  I am starting to hit panic mode as I am helping my mother’s church with their Easter breakfast and guess who’s in charge of the décor?  You guessed it.

But I am having designer’s block (you know, like writer’s block, but with décor!)  So I have done what any reasonable lady would do, and it’s off to Pinterest!

My first thought was doing something like these tissue flowers, then adding some real blooms and greens around the room with them. They seem simple enough.  It’s cost effective and I could clear out some of the mountains of tissue paper that I have stored down in my basement, it’s a win-win!  However, my flowers flopped.  It’s okay, I can admit when I failed, and I failed with these.

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{Tissue flowers are via Design Sponge, see the entire tutorial here.}

So it’s back to the décor board! It is like a jungle out there, idea after idea, the good, the bad and the ugly.  I continue to scour through waiting for some great inspiration to strike me…

Easter Collage

{Top Left: Via Ruffled Blog, Photography: Brion Hopkins / Wedding Planner: Joy de Vivre / Floral Design: Nico Designs;  Bottom Left: Via Style Me Pretty, Photography: Jessamyn Harris Photography / Floral Design: The Monkey Flower Group; Top & Bottom Right: Via Ruffled Blog, Photography: Jenna Trapasso of Red White and Green Photography / Event Styling: Ashley Hayward}

I love these ideas, so fresh and cute and they make me think warmer weather might actually be on the way! As a bonus, any design that incorporates aqua automatically has my attention!  However, these do not seem practical to replicate on large round tables, they would be lost. I have more than one table to decorate! That’s the trouble with clusters of arrangements; you have to make them big to have a big impact on a big table.

The real problem is this isn’t a styled photo shoot where we can play pretend and just photograph it from the right angle.  This, my friends, is real life.  And things here tend to be a bit trickier.

I’ll leave you today with a pretty picture of what I wish my Easter table could look like and I am off to do some shopping.  I will be sure to share the results (good or bad!) next week!

Small Easter table

{Picture via Ruffled Blog, Photography: Brion Hopkins / Wedding Planner: Joy de Vivre / Floral Design: Nico Designs}

I have a few other spring ideas that have inspired me, you can see them on my Spring Fling Pinterest board.  Have a great Wednesday!

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