Blue and White in the Dining Room for Spring!

Since Easter is late this year, I decided to set a beautiful, blue and white table for the dining room for Spring! I used some white tulips and some blue berry stems for an arrangement in a blue and white vase. I chose this vase as the colors are soft.

 When you come in the front door and look to the right, this is what you see.

 I had gotten these placemats about a month or so ago and fell in love.

 Then last week I saw these napkins and knew they were a match! Serendipity. 2 different stores.

 I brought out my special, bamboo flatware. I LOVE this set and should use it more often!

 I also am using my blue LED pillar candles. The tall ones on the blue and white candle holders

 and the shorter ones on the cut glass holders.

 I love the pretty, lace edge of the placemats and napkins.

 I did a simple stack of dishes: my trusty white chargers, a light blue dinner plate, a pretty blue and white plate, and the blue and white bowls.

 Blue berry candle rings

 I also changed the pillows on the chairs to my RL ones.

 I wanted to show you the pretty design on these plates.

 I added pretty blue votive holders at each place.

 The design on the holder matches well with

 the design on the plate.

 I am giving my Grandmothers wine glasses a rest and brought out these, along with a cobalt blue water glass.

 The candles are lit

 They are showing in the pictures very yellow, but do not show like this in person.

 Wow, wish you could see it in person.

 

Thanks for your visit.

XO, Pinky

 

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Fall in the Dining Room

I have kept my Fall decorations here very simple this year. But I always do something in the dining room since it is the first room you see when you enter the house. This year instead of an arrangement I did a grouping of pumpkins, gourds, leaves, acorns and berries on a tray.

 As you enter the house the dining room is on the right. Lasst year I had Fall dishes in my hutch but haven't had a chance to do that yet. I still love the wood of my table but would love to get a new hutch. Actually I would love for Joe to build me a built in piece:):) I'll keep you posted:):)

 I always group 2 candle rings. I love these brown ceramic pillar holders for Fall.

 A touch of leopard in any room makes me happy!

 On my tiny server I have a cut out pumpkin that holds a candle and my favorite faux pumpkin on a little stand.

 An acorn candle ring encircles the pumpkin.

 My leaf embroidered runner is the best backdrop.

 This dried artichoke has been around for many years:)

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~~~For the LOVE of Blue and White!!!~~~

 Hello my friends! I have not done a table in AGES so I decided that since the blue hydrangeas are turning green, I had better get with it and do a table NOW!!!! I also got a new piece TODAY, that I am IN LOVE with so decided to use it for my centerpiece! Isn't it beautiful!!?? I have wanted a piece like this for a long time and finally found one and it was ON SALE!!!!

 I love the pattern on it. It has cut outs on it so I put the hydrangeas in a glass bowl and put that in the compote. I will show you in a future post a design trick for arranging flowers.

 My place setting is a STACK of beautiful dishes. I used a white tablecloth and a blue, round placemat. Then I layered my white chargers, a blue dinner plate, a white salad plate with a pretty edge, a Johnson's Brothers blue and white salad plate and on top; a small glass bud vase with a hydrangea placed in that.

 You can see the green color coming through some of the flowers in this shot.

 Here are the details of the plate edges.

 I don't know why my BLUE hydrangeas look purple in some of these shots but I imagine it is my camera and the LACK of light in my dining room. I will have a MUCH brighter dining room in the new house:):) I am looking forward to that!

 I have had these blue and white candle holders for many years and don't remember where I got them but LOVE them alot. I placed a new berry candle ring around the candle and FLUFFED it out.

 Since summer meals are rather casual here, I decided to use my blue and white flatware instead of the Napolean Bee.

 Then I gathered 2 napkins; a blue and a white into one of my favotite napkin rings. They came from Pier One several years ago.

 The blue wine glassed AND the clear glass waters are both from Dollar Tree!!!!!

 I thought I would show you the pattern on the salad plate. Cann you see the 2 birds? They are hard to see.

 My blue and white pitcher will be used for water.

 My whte pagoda S and P are another favorite of mine.

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