Back-to-School Dinner

Our back-to-school theme dinner (also posted at serendipity).

Using some of our disneyware to kick-off our 2019 theme.

Ideas come from curiousity. - Walt Disney

Menu

Chicken pesto pasta

Veggie platter

Watermelon and berry salad

Macarons for dessert

Glassware, placemats, and napkins -- Tuesday Morning

Mickey diner plates -- Disney

Mickey flatware -- Disney 

Tablecloth -- local craft fair 

Linking to:

Between Naps on the Porch's 569th Tablescape Thursday

Summer Yellow & Lemons

It feels like everyone is posting fall/autumn themed posts.

Not exactly sure I feel about that --

I love AUTUMN -- in fact it is my favorite season -- but I'm still loving on summer over here.

I want to live in the season at hand.

(Even if cooler days and color-changing leaves sound delightful.)

All too soon, we will be wishing for SPRING again...and then SUMMER.

Summer yellows and lemons.

The cloth/napkins -- an Amazon purchase.

Plates -- Pier One this year.

Wooden chargers -- Pier One years ago.

Lemon glasses -- TJMaxx a few years back.

Sliced lemon. Fun little detail on the dinner plate.

The flatware is Wallace -- Napoleon Bee.

I used it for our Back-to-School dinner here.

I really love setting pretty tables.

(It is also fun to look back over my photos 

and see some of the tables I've set over the years.)

I always felt like Sunday dinners were special growing up.

I want my kiddos to someday feel that way too.

Linking to Between Naps on the Porch

Tablescape 567

Cheers to Sunday dinners around the table!

4th of July Table

Kate Spade diner dishes from a few years ago.

Blooms in red, white, and blue.

Flags in old soda bottles.

4th activities --

Balloon morning.

Fourth of July crêpe breakfast.

Made pasta salad and flag cake.

 Cookout with college kiddos at the grandparents' home.

Keith Urban/Fireworks/Patriotic program with grandparents and the littles.

Happy birthday US of A.

Thankful for our time of service in the military.

Thankful for the sacrifices of all those who served.

Thankful for those who currently serve.

Love that the 4th is all about freedom and family.

Linking to 

Between Naps on the Porch 563rd Tablescape Thursday

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day.

This is a little flashback to 2016.

Today we are having a cookout with extended family.

I'm not hosting, so no new tablescape here.

Have a lovely day celebrating loved ones, service men and women, and

creating traditions with the people you love most.

Gardening Centerpiece

This sweet little vintage seed box makes a fun centerpiece.

(Thinking of using it for a Mother's Day table.)

Spring/Easter Tables

Here are a few of our Spring/Easter tables over the last few years.

Orange and green -- 

Silver and gold with pastels --

Greens and blues --

Florals and green --

Branches and birds --

Linking to Between Naps on the Porch Tablescape Thursday 552

Loving this addition to our spring dishes.

I adore Beatrix Potter's artwork. 

Peter Rabbit

So excited to add these Peter Rabbit plates to our spring table settings!

I bought enough for our table, and then an extra to put out in the garden shed.

(Early morning light before the sun in up.)

Not dish/table related, but this is my garden shed.

(You'll hear me called it Hummingbird Cottage.)

Happy Easter weekend.

Easter Preps

A fun table from a few years ago.

Favorites for Spring!

Spring themed dishes (and Christmas themed dishes) are my favorites.

These are some that I've added to my collection over the past few years.

After holiday sales are the best, and companies usually care dinnerware 

for more than one season. That makes it nice for adding a few more pieces each year.