Boom, you too can be a chef with a pretty cake plate and garnish for the host or hostess with the most or mostess win.
The usual made from scratch Easter coconut cake ain’t happening this Easter 2020, but the one from the bakery at Kroger’s (delicious) will be decorated with a spring bouquet topper of knockout roses.
It is said we eat with our eyes first which translates pure and simple to the proven fact I know to be true.
Presentation is key, folks.
It seems my camera has decided it does not want to import photos to my computer for some driver-hardware-update reason only known to Windows 10, Nikon, and the evil computer gods.
There goes the photos of the blue hobnail cake stand I inherited from my grandmother’s collection and fresh rose petals I meticulously staged for this Easter dessert presentation post.
Another spring-Easter-Mother’s Day-summer entertaining (hope we can do lots of that this year) favorite is making rose petal ice cubes.
So easy to make, and it takes your beverage presentation to the next level.
Dave the Builder brought home a dozen yard eggs the other day in various colors much to my Easter egg decorating and baking delight.
The idea here is to intermingle a half dozen farm to Easter table eggs with a half dozen decorative speckled multicolored eggs in the DIY Easter basket I made last Easter.
From fresh flowers to grandmothers cake stand, simple touches and visually impressive details come together to dress up your Easter dessert presentation.
Springtime is the right time to adorn your entry door with a spring and Easter door decoration. Welcome spring, friends, and family to the Easter party with this seed packet Easter wreath.
You’ll need about a dozen seed packets. Using straight pins, secure the seed packets to a 12-inch foam wreath.
Tie a bow with ribbon in a zippy spring color and pin to wreath.
Tuck, pin, or hot glue faux floral stems to fill in and complete the look.
Elegant in presence and easy to make, these Chinoiserie Easter eggs DIY from Yvonne at Stone Gable blog instantly caught my eye.
Click here to be redirected over to Stone Gable blog for her DIY tutorial.
Moss covered DIY Easter eggs capture the natural essence of spring is sprung.
Easy is the idea here, and it doesn’t get much easier than using a hot glue gun to glue strips of moss to plastic eggs.
I love these easy-to-download free printable Easter gift tags from the talented Ann at On Sutton Place. These will enhance any Easter basket or gift, and make a wonderful addition to the Easter table as a napkin tie or place card.
Click here to be taken over to On Sutton Place for download instructions.
A dear friend has an April birthday, so I thought a grown up Easter basket with a rose theme a fun way to go with the gift presentation.
Begin with a yard or two of tulle in your color of choice. For this demonstration, I’m using a vintage pressed glass basket.
For the actual gift basket I’m leaning toward using the willow basket with flip lid as shown above and rose tulle as the filler grass.
Working with the word rose turns out to be an easy a-tisket, a-tasket,
a grown up Easter-and-birthday basket theme.
I found the porcelain powder shaker at a vintage store, and knew immediately it would make a lovely addition to the gift basket.
I’m also including rose water, a rose rollerball perfume, rose facial oil, rose and honeysuckle body lotion, rose colored nail polish, rose hip oil lip gloss, and a bottle of Chandon California Rose.
A bouquet of rose colored faux peonies and rose colored speckled eggs placed here and there complete the look.
I like a one stop-one bunny hop Easter DIY project.
These Easter easy DIY directions from Better Homes & Gardens for dying Easter eggs in the Instant Pot.
In about six minutes you can cook and dye one dozen eggs.
DIY projects bloom beautiful at this time of year. Here’s hoping you are inspired by these ideas and inspired to project with these easy Easter DIY decorations.
Happy spring, happy midweek, and as always, happy decorating.
The sounds, scents, and sights that accompany spring beautification curb appeal, as well as inquires about my Easter table decor suggestions, signals spring is sprung.
Spring officially begins this Wednesday (March 20).
Easter will be here in thirty-two days.
Gardenistas and decoristas alike realize that’s a small window of time to plant and plan.
Emails and push notifications from home décor sites alert subscribers to what’s new in store for the Easter coming together of family and friends season. If you live in an area of the world that is retail deficient, ordering from online outlets opens up the retail world to you.
Keep in mind you have to allow ample time for sourcing, selecting, ordering, and arrival.
After a particularly disappointing shipping arrival time incident, I realized the importance of getting my decorating plan finalized and my holiday decor ordering done sooner rather than later.
Remember me telling you all about the bunny rabbit Dave the Builder found in one of our flower beds?
Cottontail instinctively knew when it was time for Dave to drive in the gate. He would sit in the driveway close to Dave’s parking spot waiting for Dave to come home. After the odd couple greeted each other, Cottontail would hop to it, following Dave into the house. He would wait ever so patiently at Dave’s feet for Dave to pick him up and hold him.
I include at least one rabbit themed piece of décor in my Easter table décor suggestions in honor of Cottontail.
It’s an Easter table décor suggestions must. Our pets touch our hearts and our home decorating choices.
As far as the rest of the look goes, I select pieces able to make the decorating transition from spring to summer.
Scrolling through the home section on the TJ Maxx website resulted in two super cute, super affordable bunny pieces. The first of two ideas is to use the Figural Bunny Cookie Jar by Arlington Designs as an ice bucket.
I’ll set up a beverage station on the dining room sideboard for our Easter luncheon. To implement the idea, first I’ll place a dinner plate or charger on top of a mirror placemat to protect the finish of the sideboard from water spots.
The cookie jar will sit in the middle of the plate. A thick layer of Easter grass or paper shreds placed around the bottom and sides (if need be) of the bunny will hide the plate-charger and the mirror placemat.
Complete the look by “hiding” decorative ceramic or plastic Easter eggs in the grass or shreds.
A tried and true idea in my Easter table decor suggestions bag of tricks is to use a vintage glass basket as a dish for garnishes or as a condiment bowl.
It’s makes a lovely presentation.
It is said that iced tea is the house wine of the South. We steep, sugar, and serve the stuff year round. Bridal and baby showers, brunches, luncheons, holiday dinners, and other celebratory general fancy-schmancy occasions call for upping the iced tea recipe game.
Governor’s Mansion Summer Peach Tea Punch
Ingredients
3 family-size tea bags
2 cups loosely packed fresh mint leaves
1 (33.8-oz.) bottle peach nectar
½ (12-oz.) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
½ cup Simple Sugar Syrup (see recipe below)
1 (1-liter) bottle ginger ale, chilled
1 (1-liter) bottle club soda, chilled
Garnish: fresh peach wedges
Directions
Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a medium saucepan; add tea bags and mint leaves. Boil 1 minute; remove from heat. Cover and steep 10 minutes.
Discard tea bags and mint. Pour into a 1-gal. container; add peach nectar, lemonade concentrate, and Simple Sugar Syrup. Cover and chill 8 to 24 hours.
Pour chilled tea mixture into a punch bowl or pitcher. Stir in ginger ale and club soda just before serving. Garnish, if desired.
Simple Sugar Syrup
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
Directions
Bring sugar and water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring occasionally, 4 minutes or until sugar is dissolved and mixture is clear. Cool to room temperature (about 30 minutes).
This photo serves no purpose other than being just a pretty reminder of the in full bloom splendor of spring coming to a lawn, garden, planter, or centerpiece near you this Wednesday.
Fresh, faux, or a mixing of both, remarkably gorgeous flower arrangements need not be expensive. Some of the most impressive flower arrangements are simple in nature and elegant in statement.
Begin in your yard and garden, and build your arrangement from there.
Included in my Easter table décor suggestions repertoire is the use of at least one vintage piece.
Vintage pieces possess charming features, distinguishing colors, and delicate patterns able to gracefully stand alone or easily mix with new traditional favorites.
I don’t always have the best luck when shopping the shelves at my favorite local treasure shop, but on my last visit I spied this darling figurine behind a piece that wouldn’t normally catch my eye.
The colors, condition, and price sold the piece, and it fits in perfectly with my Easter decorating theme.
These Easter table décor suggestions invite a simple yet elegant charm factor to the spring get-together and Easter celebration.
Spring blooms, seasonal snaps, and a heavy dose of Easter tradition ushers in Easter week at Places In The Home.
What’s hoppin’ around your house this Easter week?
Red and pink beauties are beginning to bloom offsetting the brown and greenish gray color holdovers from winter’s grip.
From the I ♥ garden roses collection.
I’ll enjoy the arrangements for another day or two, and then use the petals for rose petal ice cubes.
My brother dropped by yesterday bearing gifts of gardenias.
The spring beautification process is a slowly but surely operation, but we’re getting there.
Dave the Builder’s latest pet project, the taming of the squirrel, is proving successful.
Maybe too successful.
This crazy thing perches itself on the main branch of the crepe myrtle tree right outside the kitchen window and peers through the window.
Evidently watching me washing dishes is wildly entertaining.
We are one wild and crazy crew, animals included.
I dug this photo of Dave, the Canadian snowbird and Cottontail the rabbit out of the Places In The Home archives. If you think the photo quality is horrible in black and white, you should see the color version.
Mama Places In The Home snapped this circa 2005 pic with a throwaway camera.
Annie Leibovitz she is not.
Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of the bunny backstory:
Dave and I were checking out the newly planted flower beds late one spring afternoon. I was in the color in bloom zone, laser focused on the budding design features detailing my mad lawn and garden skills.
Dave on the other hand was channeling his inner Dr. Doolittle with the just discovered addition to our flower garden menagerie.
Cottontail the baby rabbit hopped right up to Dave in are you my father fashion. We brought him inside that evening and set him up in a toilet paper box direct from the discard bin at the local Kroger.
We lined the box with newspaper and grass clippings hoping to emulate a natural surrounding, and placed a water bowl and rabbit food over to one corner.
Cottontail was in high cotton for the evening.
The next morning it was back to the outdoors where he thrived and frolicked, nested in our yard and flower garden, adapted to the daily comings and goings of our schedules, and waited in the driveway each afternoon to greet Dave.
As mysteriously as he appeared he disappeared, leaving a hole in our hearts.
We got so attached to that silly rabbit, so much so that I cried for three days when he went away.
Dave stills tears up when he talks about that silly rabbit.
My Easter Eggstravaganza centerpiece is a build upon canvas.
Deconstructing the Mardi Gras King Cake centerpiece, it dawned on me that by adding to instead of taking away from the existing tulle a shimmering color rich nest effect would be created.
What nature does not provide, the Walmart-Michaels-Hobby Lobby floral department will.
Faux flowers serve the purpose in certain decorating for the holiday situations, and when quality stems are selected the finished result can be faux fabulous.
The incredible, dyeable, edible egg.
Fresh mint.
Fresh lemon.
Fresh orange.
Fresh parsley.
Fresh carrots.
Easter!
Easter week sets spring into motion.
Another season, another wonderful reason for decorating, planting, entertaining, and gathering round dining and picnic tables of stylish tablescapes and delicious dishes with dear loved ones and great friends.
Dave and I hope your Easter week, weekend and Sunday is one of blessings, love, laughter, and making wonderful traditions and memories time spent with family and friends who are like family.
Happy Easter and a Beautiful Sunday to each of you. Dave the Builder and I wish you and your loved ones a beautiful, joyful, blessed and renewing Easter.
“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
Willow baskets lined with decorative plastic grass and finished with a fresh herb plant make an aromatic addition to an Easter tablescape and an even nicer parting gift for guests.
Sideboards need porcelain rabbit statue love too.
In varied heights and finishes, rabbit statues draw the eye and carries out the theme.
I prefer fresh flowers, but when Mother Nature or the local grocery store floral department and I are not in fresh flower sync with each other I’ve been known to go this route.
I keep a few artificial flowers on hand for decorating wrapped gifts and cupcakes.
A pastry piping Picasso I am not, and I’m not too proud to accept a helping hand in the decorating and adorning department from nature or the faux flower display at the dollar store.
Simply give the flowers a gentle wash and dry, cut down the stems to desired length and place them atop your favorite cake.
You will be surprised at how nice a spring flower cake actually looks.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… I Peter 1:3
May each of you and your loved ones have a blessed, beautiful, and Happy Easter.
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A dear friend has an April birthday, so I thought a grown up Easter basket 
