The Easter Blues

In case you didn't notice, I've been on recess from Blog Land for over a week. There wasn't one good reason for it, either.

There were two good reasons.

One very Practical, and the other Whimsical. 

Yessiree folks, I had not one but two daughters home for the long holiday weekend. In anticipation, I took the week before Easter to get everything practically perfect in every way.   Then I took two days after Easter to recover from the aforementioned over-achievement.

Now, originally, I had planned a pink Easter,  I'd even purchased a pastel plaid tablecloth as my inspiration piece. As I was going through my dishes, however, I found these little dessert plates.  

I bought them at TJMaxx for Easter last year, and honestly...

 I had nearly forgotten that I had them.

Don't you think they match those eggs I decoupaged 

on my eggcellent adventure?

Yeah, me too.

So I took them off my mantel and  decided to call this one The Easter Blues instead. 

We set not one but two Easter tables 

with the same place setting.

The blue plaid salad plates came from Good Will about a year ago. They are one of the few decent things I've ever found at ours. The dinner plate is Italian Countryside, 

and the charger is one that I painted for my Yellow Year theme.

Told  ya I would get a lot of use out of those yellow chargers...

For Friday night's dinner,

 I used a plain blue cotton table cloth and yellow cotton napkins.

The stemware was Aurora Blue by Denby,
from the Great Wedding Adventure of '84.

In full disclosure, we actually just used one stem.

 I added the others for  blog bling. 

Then, on Saturday night,

I changed the blue tablecloth with (my favorite) vintage yellow and white one.

Have I mentioned how much I love vintage linens?

Probably. 

The tablecloth has matching napkins. 

I layered  them with plain white linen ones for extra poof. 

Plus, we can use the plain ones and save wear and tear on the vintage ones. 

Yes, that's a decoupaged napkin ring to go with the table.

 I had purchased some ceramic rings for a dollar a bunch at a recent thrift sale, but I wasn't all that fond of their pattern. I primed and painted them and did the same technique on them that I did on the eggs.

I love them. 

Aside from the linens, everything pretty much stayed the same.  

Same old Act I by Oneida. I really need to get out of that rut, don't I? 

Same Stemware

Same flowers, but I wrapped this vase in a yellow checked napkin for a little color.

And there you have it. Our Easter Blues table
done two different ways.

The second one is my favorite.
How about you?

As of today, that table still resides in the dining room where I reset it for pictures, eggs and all. The daughters, however, have returned to college and career.  The Practical One landed in DC a few minutes ago. When we'll all be together again, I really don't know.

Which makes me a kinda like my Easter table. You know... trying to find the yellow, but still just a little bit  blue. 

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I'm Dishing with Cuisine Kathleen this evening. I want to thank Kathleen again for  the Target gift card I won at her St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl. I'll be dishing on my purchase as soon as I make it!


I'll also be on The Porch tomorrow.