"L" is for Leaping

Have I mentioned that the Duchess has fifteen full sized Christmas trees?

Well, she does.

Each one has a different theme.

The sister has several lovely ones herself.

She's so much like Mom...

I, on the other hand, have one.

A few years ago, I casually mentioned to the husband that I might like a second one.

He shook his head and said,

 "It's a slippery slope, Deb-or-ah, a slippery slope..."

Now, there's a reason behind this ramble. This week we've been busily crafting Whimsy's dorm room. As I was heaping up all that coordinating pink and green and zebra print, I looked at her and said,  

"Wouldn't this make a beautiful tablescape?" 

She just shook her head and said,

 "It's a slippery slope, Mom, a slippery slope."

She listens entirely too much to her father.

So in an effort to avoid the clumsy slide down that slippery slope...

I just grabbed the sister

and the Duchess

And we took a flying leap off

Tablescape Mountain instead.

Because it's fun.

There we gooooo...

OK... that's not us.

We couldn't get that high off the ground if we sat on a taser.

Our tablescape is themed after her room.

All linens are merely sewing scraps from her fabrics.

We started with a black base and used some zebra for a runner.

The recently crafted waste basket  filled with the last myrtles of summer

works as the centerpiece.

Those decoupaged coasters hold some simple stemware.

In a dorm room, it's all about the pictures and the monograms.

That was the inspiration for the placecards.

Following a little Southern Inspiration,

We threaded wall plates from Willow House

 with fabric from an accent pillow.

The dessert plates are from a set which belonged

to the Duchess's great-grandmother.

Postcards from the edge...

The requisite college candy dish...

And a message board to remember the important stuff...

I consider it a great excercise in restraint that I didn't

decoupage a pizza box for a charger.

I think I found my empty nesting hobby...

Setting the table for invisible people

Great fun!

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