Tea For Tulips

Remember last week when I confessed to having some silver napkins rings in my possession that I had borrowed from the Farm Sister over a month ago?  Yeah, well, I did return them. I didn't feel quite so bad about being the borrower when I went out to the farm this weekend, though.

Her spring dining room table ought to be named Something Borrowed, but we've  named it Tea For Tulips instead.

 (Actually, I named it. I'm the only odd bird in the family who feels the need to name a table.)

The inspiration for the whole table came from these

tulip salad plates which belong to the Duchess.

She added a light green dinner plate to go under it... 

which she also borrowed from the Duchess.

And then placed them atop a white ceramic charger.

Yep. 

That belongs to the Duchess as well.

Here's the Dish of the Day:
You're never too old to borrow from Mom. 

Those egg cups?  

They belong to the Duchess. 

They're filled with tulip cupcake liners and candy.

She borrowed that idea from Pinterest, I think.

 They're filled with pastel M&Ms, but you can't see that in my picture.

Of course, not everything on that table is borrowed. 

 The linens all belong to her. She got those plaid napkins at TJ Maxx last year.

I'm planning to borrow them.

I bought the matching tablecloth. 

 They are layered with some pale yellow ones 

and shooshed in a napkin ring...

which, ahem, she borrowed from the Duchess.

The flatware is her own Dover by Oneida.

The casual stemware is hers as well. 

She got the green ones at Christmas Tree Shops.

All centerpiece accessories belong to her.
But those tulip votives  were borrowed from the Duchess.

And there you have it. The Farm Sister's springtime table. 

I really do think it's lovely.

So lovely, in fact, that now I'm off to see the Duchess

 to do some pilfering of my own.

'Cause I'm the baby sister...

For other baby sisters out there,
no further explanation is necessary.

*****

Dishing with Cuisine Kathleen this evening, on The Porch tomorrow,
 and Pink Saturday