A Toile Tale: carrots

The boys are on their way!!!!! Two of our three grandsons and our daughters are coming for their spring break. These guys are NOT the pastel, fluffy little bunny type, so I've set a table that is clearly celebrating Easter, but is bright and cheerful and much more of interest to these young men.

Upon arriving at the door, they'll see this new wreath.

It's grapevine, silk forsythia, burlap carrots, and burlap bows. I found it at Old Time Pottery. I think it's as fun as the table inside.

Doesn't this look like a place where there will be lots of giggles and joking around?

The very first item that I decided to use it this wonderful decoupaged tin pitcher that my BFF brought me for my (early) birthday. See the carrot on it? Well, away I went with a carrot theme. I know there are many who scoff at "theme table", but am not one of them. I get a seed planted in my brain and it takes on a life of its own. When you are the insomniac that I am, you obsess over most tables until you sometimes just get up and start pulling things together, and most times there is a common thread. You can call it a theme table, or one with a common thread!!!! Ok by me! At any rate, these great orange tulips were 3 bunches for $12 at Whole Foods this week. Perfect!

Can you just see me doing my happy dance in the aisles of Pier One when I spied these napkins? You should have been there! The napkin knots are from Old Time Pottery and were $1 each. Cha-ching. I already had these orange rimmed salad plates that I bought for a wedding shower a couple of years ago. I never could have guessed how much I have used them.

Under the salad plate, there is a white everyday dinner plate, a rattan charger, and a bright green straw placemat. The green flatware is from World Market. I sure wish I had bought service for 8 instead of just 4. Dang!

I once had 8 of these bright green stems, though, but now I only have 5. :-( These orange glasses are from the same wedding shower.

These leaf embossed bread and butter plates are from the floral wholesaler, and I have a couple of different sized platters to go with them. I felt these little twig spreaders went with the table, too.

Pier One had these tiny paper mache carrots that I used almost as confetti, and just scattered around.

These old oak and brass barley twist candlesticks seem to be on almost every table I do. They are so versatile and they still make my heart stand still. This runner is used to be a picnic sized tablecloth that I cut up for runners. It made three and I can use them several different ways.