Spring Crush ~ Behind the Scenes of our 425 Magazine Photo Shoot!
I’m totally crushing on this SPRING photo shoot for 425 Magazine! Here’s a sunny little I-phone pic to give you a sneak peek! Can’t wait to see the real deal in 425! Love the happy spring hues! Okay, this shoot is packed with everything I LOVE from bubbly mimosas with fresh squeezed citrus, beautiful spring blooms,...
Easter Tablescape & HC Home Spring Soirée
Welcome to HC Home! It’s Cindy Sullivan’s stunning NEW design store in Snohomish Washington and it’s filled with inspired displays and crave worthy pieces! MY pictures don’t really do HC Home justice! {Especially, since I got the a new I-phone and lost all the BEST images – they didn’t transfer...
Charmed Easter Place Setting Idea with Herbs & Egg Cups
Love this charming Easter idea so much and it’s such a simple way to dress up your Easter table. It’s a sweet combo of earth & glam. It’s just a vintage eggcup + gold charm + real egg + garden herbs! I have a box of lucky charms I’ve collected over the years. Might as well...
Fresh Easter Centerpiece in a MOD Container from Steel Life
Let’s dish about this fun NEW MOD dish from Steel Life! Lucky me…I WON this beauty while participating in a lively #GardenChat on Twitter put on by Bren Haas from BG Garden.com. Thank you Bren! Love the mod design & clean lines of this uber cool Steel Life piece! Love that it’s footed! More on the dish...
Earthy Easter Table with Touches of Burlap & Gold
Garden Inspired Easter Brunch ~ Garden starts, in an assortment of upcycled tins make pretty little place markers at our Easter table! Gave them a little g~l~a~m treatment with a touch of gold sequins! Plus, the tin & start combo doubles as a nice takeaway! Ya want to see more? Okay,...
How Does Your Easter Grass Grow?
Quick update! It’s day 9…and our Easter wheatgrass is already this tall! Talk about instant gratification! I rimmed our chalkboard paint coated galvanized pails with simple (temporary! ) Easter ‘vergbage’ and then added a little extra dose of sunshine. It’s all part of our fresh & natural Easter table. Can’t wait...
Easter Entrance ~ Spring Lamb & Daisy Chains
Spring Lamb An understated Easter welcome… sets the tone at our front door. A few casually arranged, inexpensive garden variety flowers in Vintage French containers, pops of green, green, grass… real English peas & petite white daisies. Our sweet, whimsical Easter lamb, who btw now has his own plaque (thanks to Janice) is dressed in an old school daisy chain...
Lavender Martini Drops and French Silver
The Color Purple ~ It started with this beautiful French find. A Parisian silver cruet, turned tiny vase…at our Easter table. So pretty, filled with a small nosegay of fragrant purple freesias. I love the posh silver against the shabby, French wooden bottle carrier. Our old style, champagne glasses seem right at home. But it doesn’t stop there. Our...
Easter Inspiration ~ Easy Kid Table Ideas
The Easter Basket As you may know, I love Easter baskets… Especially the handmade variety. They are darling, tied to the back of a chair at your Easter table. Better Homes & Gardens featured a lovely one on Pinterest. So I decided to pull together a little basket of my own. My version, is a vintage inspired children’s basket made...
Easter Baskets ~ Vintage Tin & Willow
Easter Greens While pondering how to decorate our Easter table, I found myself admiring the vibrant green young leaves of the graceful old Weeping Willow out our back door. I had a small epiphany. I wonder…. if the supple branches can handle it? Of course they can…It’s a Weeping Willow! I clipped a branch and formed it...
Easter Table ~ Egg Cups
A Good Egg I’m always looking for inspired and inexpensive ways to set the holiday table. Here’s a sweet, Easter idea…Hollowed out organic brown eggs with a twist. (This egg went into our morning homemade waffles!) Of course you could tuck in a few pretty flowers and I have… But then, I stumbled onto these petite candles, in an...
Our Easter Table ~
Come Take a Peek…. into our Dining Room this Easter. The tablescape is set, Our old , French flower crate, (Remember this?) is specially ‘planted,’ just for the occasion. Gorgeous tulips and muslin wrapped veggies & herbs… No wonder, the ‘big guy’ made an appearance! and he brought, his friends! (Thank you Janice!) A delectable,...
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