Welcome to this season’s Styled + Set Blog Tour: Easter Entertaining! This is my second time joining this wonderful tour hosted by Lory of Designthusiasm, and I could not be more thrilled! The Easter tour features 30 bloggers sharing entertaining ideas and this month is all about Easter. If you are coming here from My Soulful Home, thank you! I’m so glad you’ve stopped by. Today I’m sharing an Easter table that is both elegant and easy.
Easter is one of my favorite holidays, and definitely one of my favorite’s to do a tablescape for. The soft pale colors, the nests and eggs, and all the flowers make for such a fun season!
As I usually do, I started with my themed plates and I let those set the stage for the rest of my Easter table. This time, I’m using salad/dessert plates from Pottery Barn and boy are they cute! These are from a couple of years ago, and at the time, they were selling out like crazy! I think I went to about 4 different stores just to get what I needed! I have the plates in 4 different shades, but for this table, I decided to just use the purple. Unfortunately, they are no longer available from PB, but you can still find them on Ebay. They were that popular!
Last week I found some purple hyacinth in my local Ralph’s and once I got it into my head to use those, I was off and running. Of course, life sometimes has different things planned, haha! When I went back to get the hyacinth, they were all sold out. No worries, I just used some pretty purple tulips instead! For the centerpiece, I simply added the tulips to a Pottery Barn metal basket that I already owned, and filled it in with some moss.
I adore purple and green together, so that seemed like the perfect palette for my Easter table. After using a basic white tablecloth as the backdrop, I added my flax colored linen runner from Williams Sonoma, and layered that with another lavender runner I found at Home Goods. Pale sage green napkins rounded out the tablescape.
I also added a couple of nests that happened to be mostly green with some purple accents. I think I mentioned before that I love eggs and nests for spring, so I have quite a few!
The candlesticks are vintage and are part of an old railing of some sort. I had my husband hollow out the tops so that I could use them as candleholders! I love their chippy finish and how they add character to a table where everything else is new.
You might have seen this new-to-me vintage French zinc bucket on my spring kitchen post where I had it filled with tulips. Since I already had tulips on the table, I used white hydrangeas. Luckily, it looks good with anything I put in it! The bunnies are from Home Goods and I’ve filled them with faux eggs from Pottery Barn (similar here).
I’m loving the purples and greens together. It created exactly what I had in mind! And Easter table that was easy to put together, and both casual and chic.
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If you want to see my Easter tables from last year, you can see them here and here.
Thanks again for stopping by! I know there are a lot of Easter/Spring tours this time of year, and I so appreciate that you chose to visit here! I hope you’ll go on to Laura at Finding Home Farms– and then onto the other bloggers being featured today. Also, don’t forget that there are 30 bloggers total, so pop over to some of the fantastic posts from earlier this week!
Happy Easter!
Sheila
xo
Monday’s Posts
Designthusiasm | Maison de Pax | So Much Better With Age | Cedar Hill Farmhouse
Driven by Decor | French Country Cottage | Sunny Side Up
Tuesday’s Posts:
Shabbyfufu | Zevy Joy | Randi Garrett Design
Life on Virginia Street | ZDesign at Home | Julie Blanner
Wednesday’s Posts:
Ella Claire | Bless’er House | Design Dining and Diapers
Kelley Nan | The Wood Grain Cottage | On Sutton Place
Thursday’s Posts:
StoneGable | Decor Gold Designs | CitrineLiving
Sand and Sisal | FrenchGardenHouse
Friday’s Posts:
Eleven Gables | My Soulful Home | Maison de Cinq | Finding Home Farms
Sharing this week at BNOTP
Hi Shelia, I love purple and green together too. I have a passion for lavender and enjoy it paired with green. I wish NJ had better conditions make a full garden filled with lavender. Love your dishes, pretty.
Cindy
Thanks so much for visiting Cindy, and for your lovely comment on the tablescape!
I don’t think I realized lavender wouldn’t grow in the east – I always thought it was so hardy and must grow anywhere! I do have it in my yard and the smell is amazing!
Sheila
SO PRETTY!!
Thank you Courtney!
Happy weekend my friend:)
Sheila
xo
The place setting with the wonderful PB bunny plates, the tulips…..perfection! Beautiful, beautiful table! Happy Spring Sheila!….and thanks for all of the Napa Valley recommendations! Happy Spring and have a great weekend!
Thanks so much Shirley! These plates are definitely a favorite of mine:)
And I hope you enjoyed Napa! happy spring to you too!
Sheila
xo
Those plates are to die for! I’ll be stalking Ebay to try to get some. I love your colour choices. Most people go with pastels: pink, blue, yellow, green. The purple and green, are so different, and so elegant. Just gorgeous!
Aww thank you so much! I must admit I love green and purple together, so I’m glad you loved it too! And yes!! Stalk Ebay – they definitely come up!
Thanks so much for stopping and taking the time to comment! I so appreciate it.
Sheila
Just gorgeous ! I love those bunny plates! Such a pretty table setting.
Hugs, Jamie
Thanks so much Jamie! Me too:))
Hope you’re doing well, and happy Easter to you!
Sheila
xo
Oh, I remember seeing those Easter plates from Pottery Barn. I didn’t get them but I’ve always admired them. I love the way you decorated your table. The purple is absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you so much Jen! They are awfully cute – you don’t have to do much when you start with such a cute plate! If you are interested, they can still be found on Ebay. I think I included a link in the post!
So glad that you stopped by, and thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment!
Happy Weekend!
Sheila
I love the soft lavenders for spring! That’s a color you don’t find in the winter, so it always heralds spring.
That’s so true Sandra! Pale purples represent spring to me as well!
Thanks so much for stopping by, and for your lovely words! So appreciated!
Sheila
Those bunny plates are adorable and I love the white plates you layered them with as well. What a beautiful table with great textures!
Enjoy your weekend!
Shelley
Thanks so much Shelly! You can’t go wrong with these plates!! Thanks for always taking the time to comment – you’re so sweet:)
Happy Weekend!
Sheila
xo
Sheila, I love your table! I have those Pottery Barn plates – I bought them in an array of colors, aren’t they just the cutest? I love the basket you filled with moss and tulips. Lovely table, hope you have a nice weekend!
Yes, I absolutely adore these plates! I wanted them so badly when they came out, I was running all over town to get 4 of each color:)) Can’t wait to see you use yours as well!
Thanks so much Angelina, and happy weekend!
Sheila
xo
Absolutely gorgeous, Sheila! I love the use of lilac for spring. It is so French!! What a wonderful way to plant the tulips in moss. xox, Emily of http://www.elevengables.com
Aww thanks so much Emily! I was so loving purple this season, I don’t know why, I was just inspired:) But tulips are great in any color!
Happy Easter!
Sheila
xo
did you put soil in your pot with the tulips. Love the arrrangement.
Hi,
Thanks so much! And yes, I did. These are plants, not stems, and there is a pot with dirt which I then covered up with moss on top of that.
Hope that helps!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Sheila
xo
Sheila, what an absolutely gorgeous table! I love those plates and that’s the same way I start out a table. (Always fascinates mw when people start with the centerpiece or something else.) The palette is so pretty and how funny that you planned it with hyacinths, because the tulips look perfect! I love your centerpiece and the way the moss serves up the tulips. Just beautiful!!
Thank you so much Lory! And yes, I always plan my table around my plates:) Glad to hear your do that too!
I would’ve loved to have done this with the hyacinths, but nature didn’t let that happen I guess! I swear they were only in the store a few days so by the time I went to buy them for this table, they were long gone. I’m so glad you like it with the tulips!
Thanks again for having me. I am so happy to be “touring” with this amazing group!
Sheila
xo
So very Lovely Sheila! The purple tulips and plates are perfect together. Happy to be touring with you again!
Thank you Kelly! I loved your table as well- your white pitcher is right up my alley:)
Glad to be “touring” with you again! Happy Easter!
Sheila
xo