I always enjoy participating in Marty's Tuesday Tabletops. Go here for lots more tabletop inspiration! Thanks, for hosting, Marty!
Today's Tabletop is on the round oak coffee table in our family room. I have three different ways I've done this vignette. You can decide which is your favorite.
I recently found this pretty wooden book box at Hobby Lobby at 50% off.
I'm not sure if it is wood or resin, but it is really heavy!
I'm using it in the vignette with two candlesticks on top.
I'm still using the terrarium with the figurines inside. I like it so much I haven't changed it.
I also bought the flat wire basket at Hobby Lobby for 50% off, here it is filled with Guideposts books.
The candlesticks on the book.
In the picture below I was using another book. It is a bigger book that I found at Hobby Lobby for 80% off! I like it, but like the Psalms of King David better.
A close-up of the small magazines in the basket: This is the first vignette:
After reading in the book below I decided to change what was in the wire basket.
A few months ago, Marty recommended this book on accessorizing and I ordered it from Amazon.com for only $6.99
In the picture above, on the left side of the bottom of the picture frame, there's a basket filled with photographs, I liked this idea and decided to try it.
From this book, "The Art of Accessorizing"
I placed family pictures in the wire basket:
I like it this way too!
Which is your favorite?
I hope you enjoyed seeing the different ways I've changed the vignette around on our family room coffee table.
I'm having a little difficulty using our laptop tonight, for some reason it won't let me move the photos around. The pictures are a little out of order, but I think you can "get it" this way!
I'm a little late, but I'm joining in with Kathy's "A Return to Loveliness Tuesday." This is a new meme to discuss the "old" (first) Victoria magazines. Go to Kathy's blog A Delightsome Life to join in with us!
I have a large collection of the first issues of Victoria ranging from the first Premiere issue and many years since. I have subscribed to the "new" Victoria magazines and think they are doing a nice job publishing them, but the ones published back in the 80s and 90s are the best!
1987/88 Winter issue
I've been very busy getting ready for our vacation, but today I took some time to go through some of my magazine files to refresh my memory of what I have and how many. I didn't count them, but will do that eventually. I have them in the plastic magazine files that hold about twelve issues. I have nine of these plastic files, so that gives you an idea how many, but they aren't all full! No, I don't have every issue of them, but I do have the first issue. I couldn't find that first issue today and no time to search. The one above is the oldest one I have and it does have "Good Housekeeping's Victoria" in the title. It is the 1987/88 Winter issue, it was $1.95! Did you know Good Housekeeping first published the Victoria's? I hope you can see it, I wish I had zoomed in on the title. They stopped putting Good Housekeeping after the Summer 88 issue. The next one is August 88. I guess they started publishing monthly then.
Other 1988 issues I have are: Spring, Summer, August, October, and December:
My 1988 issues:
These two are 1989, August, and October:
I have eight December Christmas issues, from 1994-2001. Plus the 87/88 issue above. I guess it was the Christmas issue that year. I will show those at another time.
Click here to read many more interesting reviews of the "old" Victoria magazines. Thanks for hosting, Kathy!
We are leaving early tomorrow morning for a week in the NC mountains. I hope it's cooler there! Maybe I'll take a few of the old Victoria's so if I have some time to relax and read! While I am gone please scroll down to see my latest tablescapes and tabletops if you haven't seen them!
We are taking the laptop, but I'm not sure we will be able to use it there. I hope to join in Marty's Cloche party next week, if I'm able to make connections!
Time for Tablescape Thursday. Thanks to Susan for hosting so we can use our creative juices to do tablescapes, whether real or virtual! Go here for lots of inspiration.
I have wanted to do a tablescape using these gifts from a special friend. The four mini tea pots, and tiny tea cups were the inspiration for today's tablescape. Each mini tea pot is different.
One with yellow roses
One with pink roses
Another with red roses!
And this one with orange roses! I love the shape of this one, don't you? Which is your favorite?
The cream ruffled place mats, the cream lace tablecloth and the cream colored handles on the flatware soften the white plates and large tea cups.
Teapot napkin rings hold the cream colored napkins.
I used two different kinds:
The centerpiece:
I looked around the house for white or cream colored things to make the centerpiece.
White tea pot and flowers
Little girl bust and Blessings plaque Lace doilies and pearls add special touches! I like!!
I hope you like!
The mini tea pots were a gift from my dear friend, DeAnn, we share a love for tea things together! She gave them to me for Christmas, and she gave me these tiny tea cups for my birthday recently:
I'm using them for favors filled with foil wrapped chocolates.
Actually there are six of these tiny tea cups, all different designs. I forgot to take pictures of the last two.
Choose your place to sit! I think this is my favorite little tea pot (above,) I like the design.
Is pink your favorite rose?
Or yellow?
And, for the red lovers:
You can even have my place!
Blessings to you!
I hope you enjoyed my white and cream tea party tablescape!
White plates - Dollar Tree years ago White tea cups - Home Goods last year Cream place mats - Marshall's Cream handled flatware - Home Goods Tea Pot - Home Goods Little Girl Bust - Hobby Lobby Blessings Plaque - Cocoa Village, FL Napkin rings - Cracker Barrel Crystal - Ross, years ago Napkins - Ross
I almost forgot about Tabletop Tuesdays! I usually always post on Monday nights because my Tuesdays are so busy, but with today being a holiday, I just about forgot! I quickly took some updated pictures tonight (with the flash, so they aren't great quality.) Thanks to Marty for hosting so we can play each week! Go here for lots more inspiration.
I've had this vignette on my living room coffee table (which is a butler's table, the tea trays come off!) During spring time I used the mini daffodils in the little white basket vase, but after receiving this pretty vase from my sister recently: The one I used this as the centerpiece in my recent yellow depression glass tablescape: I replaced the daffodils with the yellow roses, daisies in the pretty vase. The fleur de lis ornament was the inspiration for this vignette. I just recently found this little iron fleur de lis ornament for only $2. I bought the little fleur de lis tea cup when we visited New Orleans a few years ago. A few months ago I found the fleur de lis charm at Michael's and tied a ribbon on it to make a bookmark.
Before:
After:
I like both flowers for each season:
I hope you enjoyed seeing my current living room coffee table vignette.
I'm also linking to Tea Cup Tuesday, go here for many more beautiful tea cups! Thanks, for hosting, Martha, so we can share our pretty tea cups weekly!
I have fond memories of the 4th of July going back to when I was probably only four or five years old. We remember the parades, the picnics or barbecues, and the happy gathering of families. During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the American colonies from Great Britain actually took place on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve the resolution of independence previously put forth by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. After debate and revision Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.
Of note is the letter John Adams, one of only two Founding Fathers who went on to become president, wrote to his wife Abigail:
…This day ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever more. (Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. Massachusetts Historical Society)
Like so many of the Founding Fathers, Adams recognized that the day of deliverance came from the providential hand of almighty God. I am not sure about large numbers of duplicitous politicians and other so-called public servants today, whether elected or appointed.
Freedom is a great thing, and we do well to celebrate it on the 4th of July. That being said, it’s something rooted in truth, and apart from the truth there can be no authentic freedom.
If you continue in my word [truth] you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:31-32)
An individual, a country, or a world that does not remain rooted in objective truth cannot ultimately live in freedom. If you are serious about your faith, my dear friends, I strongly recommend that you read #1730-1748 as we approach the wonderful celebration of Independence Day, or the 4th of July.
Some highlights of this reality:
1731: Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude [true happiness].
1733: The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes…
One of the most common errors of all time is to confuse freedom and license. Today, frequently under the specious pretext freedom, mankind acts in a manner that is really license. We are not morally free to do whatever we choose to do. Only when rooted in truth and acting in objective truth can we hope to be free. No one has the moral right to do evil. No one has the moral right to choose to take an innocent life or to engage in actions that are out of accord with right reason or any objective standards of morality we have ever known.
The inevitable consequence of abusing freedom is losing freedom. Soon, if we do not alter our present course, the United States will no longer be the home of the brave and the land of the free. Loss of personal freedoms, one at a time, is already well underway. One day we shall awake from our moral slumber and find that we have become slaves.
We must live in truth and act in truth if we are to remain free. Abuse it and I assure you we shall lose it! Wake up America! God is not a disinterested spectator. Let’s thank God for our freedom, but let’s not sit by idly while the forces of darkness divorce freedom from truth. For, as Jesus says, “The man who sins is the slave of sin.” (John 8:34)
I’ll leave you with the motto of the United States Army Special Forces on this 4th of July:
De oppresso liber! (To free the oppressed)
Indeed, Jesus came to set the captives free. Let’s do our part for our country and our world that we might all remain free in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
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I always enjoy participating in Marty's Tuesday Tabletops. Go here for lots more tabletop inspiration! Thanks, for hosting, Marty!
I'm still using the terrarium with the figurines inside. I like it so much I haven't changed it.
The candlesticks on the book.
A few months ago, Marty recommended this book on accessorizing and I ordered it from Amazon.com for only $6.99
In the picture above, on the left side of the bottom of the picture frame, there's a basket filled with photographs, I liked this idea and decided to try it.
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