A Tisket A Tasket

Some flowers in a basket.


Happy May Day everyone!

Oh, how I miss being a little girl and having  little girls this time of year.  The Great May Day Adventure was always one of our favorites. We made our little homemade baskets and gathered up flowers from the lawn. Then, we would sneak to the neighbor's houses, hang the basket on the doorknob, ring the bell, and run like crazy to hide in the bushes for the great flower discovery.  Giggling.

The best part of the Great May Day Adventure is the giggling. 

Do little children still do that?

They don't around here. 

Since our doorbells will probably not be ringing today, we set up a little May Day Adventure on the table instead. The theme of the day is baskets. 

The actual inspiration came from these little handmade ones that the Duchess got 

at a gallery for local artisans.

They were crocheted and then starched into a basket shape. 

We filled them filled with flowers

May baskets, of course, are supposed to be filled with flowers from the yard. Ours are filled with flowers from the Farm Sister. She used some Sweet William, some daylilies, and some knock out roses called Jacob's Coat. For filler, she used asparagus fern and confederate jasmine, also from the farm.

 I wish you could smell it.
Oh my goodness... 

  My only contribution was some yellow mums the husband brought me.

 That's kind of cheating, but we used them anyway. 

We kept our place setting very simple so as not to compete with the May baskets. Dinner plates and salad plates had a simple basket weave pattern on the rims.

A little pop of color came from the dessert plates in the middle.
The entire place setting is compliments of the Duchess. 

The green napkins and charger came off of my current kitchen table. The napkins came from TJMaxx this season. They are stuffed with some old yellow gingham ones because we love to stuff and fluff.

The stemware belongs to me. It has a very subtle green hue.

Flatware is compliments of the Farm Sister. 

It's a not-so-subtle green.

It thinks it's a sun catcher.

So does everything else on the table. 

Place cards use dry erase markers. 

It's actually not that easy to use a dry erase marker on such a small surface, 
by the way.

And there you have it. Our May Day table.

And then, by candlelight.

Who lights candles in the middle of a sunny afternoon?

Bloggers do.

Have a happy May Day, folks. 

Here's hoping you hear some doorbells today.
And maybe some giggling too.

I'll be sharing this with Cuisine Kathleen on Wednesday

 for her wonderful new party,  Let's Dish!

I'll also be on the Porch for  Tablescape Thursday

and with the Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday