As we are slowly moving forward with our lower level powder room we had to pause, clean up the mess and get ready for Easter.  Though our space for our powder room has been in place for a while now the room also has to hold storage.  Lots and lots of storage.  Of course everything that was in that room had to be off loaded and where did it get off loaded too?  The family room of course.  I have sh__ everywhere behind chairs, under the couch with no skirt behind the trunk.  My newly restyled room that I worked so hard on looks terrible.  Lucky for me we will be a small but mighty group tomorrow and just my daughters family.  As my granddaughter would say when she was 3 with hands on hips “Nanna you make big mess again?”  Why yes, yes I have!

And of course, I had to move the table from the kitchen to the living room to comfortably accommodate all of us.  I’m going to try something new and leave the sofa in place and see how that works as a banquette.  Stay tuned.

 Starting with a beautiful soft blue linen embroidered table square I picked up in Minneapolis eons ago, this table is relatively simple. Let’s take a tour.

I did put a bucket of faux flowers on the table but it was just too full so I went to plan B.  I placed a boxwood wreath I nestled my wood pedestal into it and add a cloche with a real birds nest that I salvaged from the yard years ago and of course eggs.  

Added a small stack of Shelley’s Works poetry books (my moms favorite poet and whom I am named for) a bird a bunny and other stuff.  

I just kept fooling with it until it felt right.  Adding my Pottery Barn Blue dishes and some candlesticks and I was done. 

When creating a table like this I think of it as my canvas and want all visitors to have an experience where they get to sit.  I also think of the people who are missing and try to include a piece of them so that they are represented.  In this case my oldest daughter and my granddaughter won’t be here so I have included a sprinkle of seashells and a piece of coral picked up in the fall on our southern route trip when we visited them in Florida.

This table is definitely about texture.  The crispness of the fine linen table cloth with the heavier texture of the striped napkins that I embroidered last year.  Love the way they turned out.  

The scruffy bunnies, the books, seashells and of course the birds nest.  A bit of wood, pewter, sterling silver and crystal round out the experience.

Here is the question of the week.  I’ve never been able to figure out why bunnies and eggs go together.  I guess bunnies and eggs represent renewal and spring.  Well, we haven’t really had any spring yet here in Omaha.  When the temperatures are warm the wind is blowing 50-70 miles an hour.  Not exactly raking weather.  Maybe next week!  Or not.  We’ll see.

Thanks for stopping!

Shelley