How to Build a Centerpiece #4: Asian Inspired Theme
Day four’s centerpiece foundation is the most different of the bunch, which got me excited to try something new. I love a good challenge and the pattern on this plastic square platter got me thinking of Asian elements.
Years ago I hated orange, but it’s really grown on me. I didn’t allow Big Boy to paint his room in the loud color when he requested it as a grade-schooler, but I do enjoy sprinkling it around my home occasionally.
You’ve had a couple days to see the How to Build a Centerpiece Challenge , are you learning the process of the centerpiece build?
After the foundation, I add the vertical elements:
Brightly colored Reader’s Digest books are stacked with a thrift store brass handled bowl on the top. I rarely use brass around my home, so this bowl and the brass owls are fresh from the used-before shelves. The blue pillar candles and cute little pedestal succulent cloche were also from the thrift store.
I love how these refreshing citrus colors work with the brass. I added wood slices for a natural texture along with some bark pencils. Origami flowers fell right in line with the Asian inspired theme and I even had some with the right colors for this vignette. If it was summer I’d float a flower in the pretty ruffled brass bowl!
On the backside I tied a bundle of twig colored pencils with natural twine and tucked another origami flower nearby. I layered some moss so the candles would stand relatively straight, since the platter had a slight tapered edge.
Think I can enjoy this “Asian Inspired” centerpiece on my coffee table for awhile; I kind of like how it enhances the colors of my vintage school map, which has been very undressed since Christmas {“Christmas Map Display”}. And don’t you just love the owls?
Here are the other centerpieces in the challenge: