Home and Gardening With Liz: Polish Pottery Honey Pot

July 10, 2014

Updated Plate Rack and Wall...again :-)

Just another tweak on the wall by the kitchen dining table.

When I created my "Let's Here it for the Red, White and Blue" tablescape this basket was used for my centerpiece. I finally decided on a spot for it.

A left view...

A right view...

My little wall vignette....

I tweaked the plate rack and added my dough bowl with a bunch of lavender. I wrapped raffia around it to cover the rubber band it came with. I recently saw a few posts with lavender in them which reminded me of this bunch I bought at the Farmer's Market last October and forgot about. I used my sunflower pitcher next to it because it offers a similar warm coloring like the dough bowl.

The Polish Pottery honey and jam pots are up on the 2nd shelf. I centered the metal tray and one salad plate instead of the off centered look it had before.

I moved the sugar and creamer up to the top and added two wine glasses.

It's tricky to work with those bars on the front. It hides things if their short. I've noticed that some plate racks have the plates leaned forward using that bar as the retainer.

I found these examples but the rail is much higher than mine.

I did try a plate tipped to the front like in these pictures, but it lays over too far and you can't see much of the plate. I guess mine is mainly decorative!

I'm looking for something to go on the right above the wheat, but I haven't found it yet.

So for now this is how I've got it! If you know me you know it will change...again...!!

I'm joining:

French Country Cottage

For

Feathered Nest Friday

The Dedicated House

For

Anything Blue Friday

June 17, 2014

Whimsical Breakfast Dining

Bees...Birdhouses...and Pigs?

Welcome to my whimsical summer tablescape!

Can you see the hanging centerpiece?

I suspended this little bird house from the chandelier and dressed it up with some ivy.

Can you see it better now? It's a Jim Shore piece I got at Lowes. It's a real birdhouse but it's too cute to put outside if you ask me!

To add to the whimsy I used my bee and honeycomb dessert plates that were from Williams Sonoma several years ago. The green dinner plates are by Park Design, Village Collection. I placed my painted cherry drinking glasses on the dishes for more color pop and added a some "faux" cherries since the real ones aren't ready yet.

I elevated a trivet on this little white pedestal stand to use for the condiments.

The three little pigs have joined us for dining too! I hope the wolf doesn't show up to huff and puff and blow the "bird" house down!

This little honey pot was the inspiration for my tablescape!

I recently picked up a couple of pieces of Polish Pottery and this is one of them. I fell in love with the pattern and of course the bees were too cute.

I found the placemats/chargers 1/2 off at a little boutique store on one of our weekend outings. The napkins were placed in the drinking glass to add some height and to draw your eyes up! The coffee mugs are from One King's Lane (no label) and the sugar and creamer are Mikasa's Italian Countryside. Flatware is from Neiman Marcus (not the expensive stuff!)