Feed the Birds

I decided to try these bird plates with the light aqua tone on the plate rack.  I left the yellow hydrangea flower accents and I like that there was a little yellow in the bird on the plate.  I believe I got these at Macy's about 5 years ago.  As you may notice once again I've left the french striped blue and white plates up there for my backdrop.  I'm having fun with them.

I'm still loving the placemats and keep them in use regularly.  

I popped these blue and white plates that I got from Terrain into this bread basket from Pier 1. I wanted to see if they'd look good with the french stripe plates.  I do believe it works!  I really wanted to stage some plain linen napkins with this but I don't have any so for now this will do.

 Tulips aren't real- Pottery Barn last year.  They have such a realistic look to them I couldn't resist.

I got this at a little gift shop a few years ago.  It came with a liner too so you can put a plant in it or flowers with water.

 I kept this little candle votive here and since it has birds on it- it tied right into my theme!

 As I mentioned in my Easter Luncheon post where I used this little lantern/conservatory post "here" I was planning to re-use it after Easter and lo-and behold this new little bird dropped in at my doorstep!  I had literally just put the plates on the plate rack and the mailman dropped the delivery box off.  I knew it was meant to be!

 I mean that literally too!  A few weeks back I was visiting the blog "Artsy Va Va" and admired these cute little wooden blocks that she had created with a multi layered painting and image transfer process.  I just loved them and wrote Virginia a note and next thing I know she's sending me one!!

This is the link to her post "here"  Thank you again Virginia- such a sweet gesture!

 I have a pair of these which came from Michael's 

My sister Jen gave me these too cute little pig salt and pepper shakers that are from Crate and Barrel for my birthday.  They just cracked me up when I saw them!

As some of you would say - how stinkin' cute are these!!

This is a link to a tablescape post where I introduced these placemats "here".  There is more info as to the brand etc., on them.

For about 10 minutes the sun shined and I was scrambling to take some pictures.  We've had a less than desirable change in the weather here.  Friday night we got about 4" of snow and still more is coming.  It's wet and clings to everything.  It's pretty so….

I decided to take advantage of the snow and stick my Demijohn style bottle with some forsythia branches out on the deck for a photo op!  I conned asked for Dan's help with placing it because he has much longer arms and could get it where I wanted.  I had him go off to the left, step in a ways and reach as far as he could to set it down. 

This is what should be blooming right now- but once again we've been reminded that we aren't in charge and will have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the beauty of spring!  When life gives you lemons- make lemonade!

I found the forsythia branches at Hobby Lobby last year.  They are the most realistic I've ever seen.  I first showed them in this post "here".

Speaking of feeding the birds- we always keep the feeders full and the birds are regular visitors.  They need extra help especially with crazy weather like we're having!  

Have a great week!

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Inspire Me Tuesday
Tuesday's At Our Home 
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Thoughts of Home on Thursday