Pretty Table Setting for Spring on the Porch
This year’s Easter table may be a smaller party than usual, considering the current social distancing. Today’s Pretty Table Setting for Spring on the Porch reflects a more intimate Easter gathering, but still just as special.
Spring has sprung, and the beautiful ideas of a new season are just what we need to give us inspiration right now! Having pretty surroundings are so important for our mental health, especially when we’re in our homes more than usual.
This week kicks off a whole lineup of amazing, seasonal ideas from talented bloggers, organized by my vintage-loving friend Paula at Sweet Pea. Every day you’ll get pretty ways to decorate and be creative, and to escape to a beautiful place on this Spring Ideas Tour!
So that you can pop back everyday and easily get to all the inspiration, I’m placing all the links at the beginning. Hopefully it will help you enjoy visiting all the different blogs each day!
Spring Ideas Tour
Monday: Mantels
Hearth and Vine | Postcards from the Ridge | Marty’s Musings
Tuesday: Tablescapes
Lora Bloomquist | Our Southern Home | The Painted Hinge
Wednesday: DIY
Sweet Pea | 2 Bees in a Pod | The How to Home | Our Crafty Mom
Thursday: Recipes
My Wee Abode|Thistle Key Lane|Harbour Breeze Home|First Day of Home
Friday: Porches
Redhead Can Decorate | Worthing Court | Follow the Yellow Brick Home
I hope all the ideas on this Spring Ideas Tour are just what you need to embrace the beauty of a new season, a time of new birth and renewal for us all!
Here are my ideas for creating a smaller, more intimate Easter that’s still a special celebration!
Pretty Table Setting for Spring on the Porch
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For an Interesting Table Setting, Layer Textures
Instead of using a fabric tablecloth that may blow with springtime breezes, anchor each place setting with fiber placemats. Give store-bought fiber placemats a custom touch with simple, DIY embroidery. You can see how I added pretty spring flowers to mine in “DIY Vintage-Inspired Fiber Placemats”. Coordinate your embroidery stitches with your dishes.
The fiber placemats are a wonderful, rustic texture layered on a glass patio table.
Make Each Place Setting Special with a Spring Touch
For a garden-inspired touch, each place setting features a mini herb topiary, tucked into a vintage mug. A bit of extra moss on top gives a boost of earthy green, too. Ferny coasters sit atop gingham bee napkins and flowery plates.
When it comes to utensils, break the mold of placing them where they’re “supposed to be”. Treat your flatware like jewelry as the final accent to a pretty outfit and be creative with where and how you place it.
Placecards and Candlelight, Always
Placecards are your way to communicate with the special people you’ve gathered around your table. At the least, hand write their name; if you can, add a sentiment of love or an encouraging word, all the better! Some basic wooden eggs received a splice on the table saw so the placecards could stand up in them. These cute bunny placecards are available for FREE in my Resource Library for Lora B Insider’s. Sign up below or on the side!
More wooden eggs fill a vintage pottery flower pot for decor. Farm fresh hard boiled eggs would be lovely offered in vintage pottery, too.
Every special table should have a little flicker, too. This fresh-smelling grass candle is hand-poured by a friend and is one of my favorites for Spring and Summer! Each candle features a verse that coordinates with the scent; perfect for gift giving and yourself! You can get the Fresh Grass Candle Here
Create a Casual Centerpiece with a Collection
Instead of a more formal floral arrangement, this pretty spring table setting features a vintage floral casserole carrier with a simple faux lavender plant and teatime options. Because there’s not much room in the center, a moss bunny sits off to the side for an Easter touch.
To complement the pretty table and extend the centerpiece idea, a garden-inspired vignette sits nearby. A stenciled, vintage galvanized bucket is a ray of sunshine filled with faux forsythia branches {for stencil info and how-to, see “DIY Stenciled Galvanized Bucket Gift Idea”}
My newest FREE printable, “Give Me all the flowers” can be found in my Insider’s Resource Library. Get access HERE.
Hope today’s Pretty Table Setting for Spring on the Porch and the whole Spring Ideas Tour has your mind swimming with ideas for your home! It’s definitely a great time to surround ourselves with beauty and the hope of Spring!
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I love this. I would love it if you would share this on The Fabulous Friday Link Party this Friday. You can find the link on my website. Hugs to you.
Thanks for the initiation, Renae!
Love the brightly colored spring table! Especially ie the idea of using flatware as jewelry! I’m still obsessed with trying to figure out where I know you from! What was the name & location of your shop? Keep those wonderful blogs coming & stay healthy!
Thanks, Diane! My shop was named Patina General and was in Buffalo, MN. We had it from 2010-2016.
I’m obsessed with those mini teacup topiaries. Did you make them yourself or find them at a nursery? The whole table and all the garden elements are perfect for Spring. LOVE it!
Hi, Debra! I’m a little obsessed with them, too! I got them last year at Pier 1 and they were on clearance. The base is just a simple little black plastic pot so I popped them in these vintage coffee mugs and added more moss. I haven’t been able to find the same ones online anywhere this year:( But they’ve got to be somewhere!
What a lovely spring table, Lora! Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm!
Your welcome, Cecilia! Loved pulling out my pretty flowered china!
Lora I love how you always think outside the box and come up with the most creative ideas to make things extra special. I love your topiary teacups and how you displayed the utensils. Of course I am swooning over all of your vintage garden style elements. Your stenciled galvanized can is still one of my favorite projects in blog land so far this spring.
Thanks for always inspiring!
I’m glad someone can put a positive spin on my decor rebellion, Amber:) Thanks for your kind words; I treasure them!
I am a tea fanatic so this idea is right up my alley! I love the mix of forsythia and lavender, Lora! So happy to be a part of this tour with you!
Oh, Lora, your table setting and decor are so beautiful. They definitely put me in a spring mood. Have a lovely spring. xo, Mary Beth
Thank you, Mary Beth!
This table has such a happy vibe, Lora! I just adore that basket in the middle with the fruit on the side. It drew me in immediately. The colors on the dishes are beautiful, too. You’re so good about offering pretty printables. I’m taking notes! Pinned!
I love those vintage woven casserole carriers, Crissy. Hoping to find more if we can ever go secondhand hunting again! Thx!
I love all of the greenery the most here in your tablescape. It just screams spring!
Yes, beautiful foliage makes such a difference, Kate! The faux ones look so real these days!
Hi, Lora! Your table is just stunning and I love those chargers. Just perfect for a small gathering at home (emphasis on SMALL!) What a world we live in these days! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks, Marty! Yes, it looks like Easter will be a small celebration this year:(
Your spring table setting is perfect. The colors, the extra touches like ribbon and place cards make it so special. I’d love to have a party and sit and chat with you all day. I’d even bring a cake! Happy Spring Lora!
Me, too, Cindy…except for being 6 feet apart:( Stay healthy, friend!
That is beautiful. The mixture of textures and colors is just perfect for spring.
Thank you, Joanne! Beauty just fills the soul:)
Such and fun and floral table already for some spring. That cute bunny and those eggs are just an added attraction.
Thanks, Marlene!
Hi Lora,
Sorry I didn’t visit for this yesterday, your table is beautiful. Love your dishes and your lavender. You’re such a creative person. Love seeing you work your magic.
Cindy
I love setting pretty tables, Cindy! Kind of nice to not have to make the whole meal to go with it, too;)
Every detail looks as if it was carefully and thoughtfully planned with love. One of my favorite tablescapes of all time and I’m dying over the topiaries in the cups. So lovely Lora!
I scored those cute topiaries on clearance last year at Pier 1, Michelle! I loved them so much, I went back and got more. I’ve got plenty to play with now! So glad you enjoyed it; it was a fun one for me, too:)
Lora,
Your tablescape is absolutely beautiful! It’s so fresh and cheery for the season. Those plates are stunning!
Thanks, Christy! I’m still happy I chose this set for our wedding china. At the time, hubs was complaining I picked out the most colorful dishes in the store. I strong armed him, though, telling him all he really cared about was the food ON the plate:) Good way to start out the marriage!
Your spring tablescape is so fresh and lovely, Lora! I especially love the wooden eggs and the topiaries! Pinned!
Thanks, Julie! Setting a table outside is always the best! Luckily the weather cooperated; luckily you can’t see my breath in the pics! Twas a bit chilly!
Oh Lora – your tablescape is so gorgeous! I love all the colors and textures! I simply adore how you always incorporate your vintage finds perfectly in your decor, and your tablescape did not disappoint! It’s so hard for me to find a favorite thing about your tablescape because I love it all, but I narrowed it down to your tea serving centerpiece (what a brilliant idea!) or your teacup topiary. You’ve captured the essence of spring! So happy to be touring with you this week!
You’re so sweet, Michelle; thanks for your kind compliments! Fun that we ended up on the same day and both did tablescapes!
What a pretty and cheery tablescape! I love so many things about it, and those bunny place cards are so very cute! Thanks so much for being a part of the Spring Ideas Tour. It was a joy to “visit” with you today!
Thanks, Rita! Can’t wait to see all the rest of the ideas all week!
Lora, what a sight for the eyes you have created. I love all the herbs and greenery and so agree with you that having beautiful surroundings is so good for your mental health. I have no idea what we are going to do for Easter but you can bet I’m going to decorate our table.
I just love setting a pretty table, Patti. I don’t even care if I sit and eat at it. I could set pretty tables all day!
What a lovely spring table you set, Lora! Being a dish lover, my eye first went to your beautiful plates. I then admired how you angled the silverware on the plate and added the Rosemary topiaries in coffee mugs. I love your idea for making place card holders using wooden eggs and it’s wonderful that you even provide the adorable place cards to print out. I’m one of your insiders, so I’ll be printing these out for my Easter table, even if it is only two of us sitting at it this year. As always, I love seeing your vintage and how you creatively use it for decorating in any season.
Thanks for you sweet words, Paula:) I do still love my set of Flora Dora Green by Royal Doulton, even 28 years later! It’s a classic pattern and I love the variety of Spring colors. Fun to set a pretty table with! Glad you’re going to enjoy those cute bunny placecards!