Good morning! How are you? We’re good here, my twins are making us laugh a lot nowadays which is something that brings more joy than I know what to do with. A deep joy that I didn’t know existed. If someone had asked me what it was that I was most looking forward to about having children I never would have thought of saying “Oh, it’ll definitely be when they make us laugh”. But right now, apart from when they nuzzle and throw their heads in to our chests, them making us laugh is my favourite thing.
One thing I enjoy about decorating for a holiday or a celebration is when I bring the outside inside. Today is a case in point.
So, I’m starting with our white wooden table.
I’ve added a runner / table setting of sorts in the shape of two hemmed pieces of fabric. This fabric was left over from the apron I made recently so nothing is going to waste.
And then as a base for the table’s centerpiece I went outside and cut a few branches of the Corkscrew Hazel tree. I removed almost all of the Catkins, a few escaped me, and then I spray painted it white. I may be giving it a third coat as it looks a little grey to me and not quite white enough but it’s hard to get in to all the nooks with branches so curly. I have made Easter Trees and centerpieces from all manner of twigs and branches so you certainly don’t have to use Corkscrew Hazel you can use whatever. However, I needed to prune the thinner branches that were growing lower down the tree as they are not needed and can remove nutrients believe it or not so again nothing is going to waste here!
Mmmm, I think it needs another coat of paint. I want it ‘white’ white!!
Once the base for the table is in place (the Hazel) I can then set about adding colour and that is the fun bit. Currently the colour is coming from pastel shaded micro eggs which are WITHOUT DOUBT the cutest, best, and my current favourite, type of Easter Egg.
The great thing about having a neutral, almost blank, centerpiece is that you can add colour and then add even more colour. I’m doing that with flowers picked from the garden and I’m desperate for someone to tell me the variety…….anyone???? I didn’t grow them. Please, it’s like an itch I can’t scratch…….TELL MEEEEEE, I want to plant some more you see.
Told you I loved the ‘microness’ of the micro egg. Do you not love them? Are they not just didi and cute and small?
Come on, guys!!! If you tell me the name of these flowers I’ll give you a micro egg.
Deal????
Oh, and you can copy all of my table ideas for the whole of the build up to Easter.
DEAL??????
I love you. I love you as much as the smell of cut grass that I smelt for the first time this morning.
And that, my friends, is a whole lotta love.
Cherry x
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Definitely Chionodoxa but someone has got there before me!!! Do I still get a micro egg?? ;o) x
Of course you do. You are lovely. cx
I have these in my garden too! So glad to know what they are as they are just gorgeous when blooming – little stars scattered about. But mine are still buried under snow! I do love their common name – Glory-of-the-snow. I did a little hand-tied bouquet of white parrot tulips, blue hyacinth and a lovely flowering branch that had lime green blossoms for my table – looked great, smelled great and reminded me that spring is coming……soon! Greetings from wintery Canada!
I am fascinated by the Corkscrew Hazel tree! It looks very story-bookish, almost magical/ mystical. I’m going to have to do an internet search on this tree.
Love the way you have integrated it with your Easter decorations!
Marilyn (in Dallas)
The table looks lovely Cherry. And I love the micro eggs! I was lucky to have been bought some recently by a lovely friend of mine. Micro things are just adorable. http://kirstin-brown.blogspot.com/2011/03/all-things-micro.html
Take care,
xxx
Beautiful table display
xx
I’m no help with flowers. I never know the names of the ones in my garden either. They are beautiful though. When you have a baby (or two) in the house, you don’t need any other form of entertainment, do you? What joy they bring!
Blessings,
Marcia
This is going to be so pretty!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Chionodoxa&FORM=BIFD
they may be these? whatever they are they are adorable
YES, that is them. Thank you so much!!!!! Cx
I have no idea, so sorry I will be of no help.
However I can’t wait to see the part 2
My guess is they’re purple flowers with green stalks. Looking forward to Part 2.
The table is looking lovely, but Cherry tell us – how do you resist eating the mini eggs???? Especially the yellow ones I spy there, my favourites!!….
S x
It looks like lilium and am pretty sure its from the lily family maybe what’s called a sunrise. Hope this helps! X
Hi Cherry,
This post is lovely and making me wish I was able to go for a spring stroll today. I think the flowers may be Chionodoxa, but not sure as they are, in my experience, usually blue…
Hope this helps! Jenny x
Loving the table setting. I need to get moving with mine. I have my twigs decorated with pastel eggs with cute ribbons but need to do the rest of the table. Mini eggs and daffodils will be making an appearance. Need to ensure my other half does not eat the “decorations”! xx
can’t think, they’re a bit like a bluebell, but not. We have some growing in the garden, but the label is long gone. So I can go and cheat!
your table will look lovely. loving the white twigs.
I made green cakes yesterday for St.Patricks Day!
look vile, but taste quite nice!
x
I haven’t the faintest idea about the flowers, sorry… names often escape me, but these ones I don’t think I have ever seen in my own or my parents gardens, so I wouldn’t have known it in the first place!
You must be having better weather than we are today… it is misty, cold, grey and wet here, so no cut grass in our neck of the woods
I haven’t been able to do much to our house so far this year and I cannot wait to get going… first things first: we need a couple of good days weather so we can take the table, chairs and dresser out into the garden to sand down and wax or paint the same shade, as none of them match at the moment and I just cannot wait for them to do so. Then I might be able to get going on making some decorations to complement them all!
Hi there Cherry,
Beautiful post as always! I think the flowers may be a variety of Ipheion- they are a member of the onion family so a good way of checking is to crush the leaves and see if they have a slight smell of onion! As for the variety, I couln’t be sure but they look a bit like “Charlotte Bishop” to me. Hope this is helpful- have a great day-I’m off to mow our grass….for the first time this year!! Yipee!!
Amanda
OR! Freesias. I need that egg can you tell?
Looking again at the flower, are they not a type of Tulip? the leaves look like Tulip leaves and of course being this early.
Lovely table idea.
I am taking a guess at the flower and it looks like a Sisyrinchiam to me.
Not sure Cherry, but they look a bit like Spring Star Flowers – Ipheion uniflorum have a look at this link,
http://www.tesselaar.net.au/eCat/20111/
what do you think?
Your table looks adorable. Love the twigs.
Have a super day,
Emma