Author Archives: cathyboettner

This is a super fun game night table. I used a vintage spinner on the center of the table and then filled an earthenware and two cherry bowls with vintage scrabble and other game letters. I scattered some dice with letters on them around the center bowl and used oversized dice as “candle holders”. IContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 9”

This table starts with a white cloth and a rustic runner from Pottery Barn with red, olive green, blue, on a light tan background. I topped it with some reproduction cast child’s toys and some vintage croquet balls. I used cobalt Fiesta ware plates to echo the blue in the run and olive napkins forContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 8”

This is a studious table with a vase of antique rulers and scales standing in for a vase of flowers. I added vintage books, a brass candle holder, vintage box of pencil leads, small wooden box, a vintage globe, and a pair of glasses. The tablecloth is a king size light blue oxford cloth sheetContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 7”

This is a spring break theme with aqua lanterns, loads of seashells and pebbles and a plant in a lovely light blue bowl. (I have all these items in an open box on the built-ins normally and this was a good excuse to give everything a good cleaning.) I used the persimmon Fiesta ware toContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 6”

This table incorporates all the Easter items that I have. Resin bunnies, a wooden bunny silhouette, egg cups of various types, a wooden Easter basket, a Paas tin, hens on nest, a papier mache bunny, a coir bunny holding a happy Easter banner, a tin chocolate box, a porcelain basket, framed Easter items, cardboard birdhouses,Continue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 5”

This is a very simple table for a small gathering. I started with a fabulous antique tablecloth with massive handmade crocheted lace and embroidered with pink and green flowers. I topped it with a jadeite green vase with faux flowers, hens on nest, a porcelain basket, Snowbabies bunny and chick and green votives. For theContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 4”

This table starts with a ladies summer scarf in a spring green chevron pattern. I’ve topped it with milk glass hens on nest, a vintage rooster pull toy, a rooster trinket box, egg cups, a Paas egg dye tin, cardboard birdhouses, a framed antique Easter postcard and some fresh flowers. The table is set simplyContinue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 3”

This table starts with another runner that is actually meant to cover pillows on a bed. This one is a white field with pretty pink banding and appliqued and embroidered flowers and vines. I topped this with lots of bunnies and some faux flowers (which I wouldn’t use if I was really having people over),Continue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 2”

The weather has been rainy and cold here and with the pandemic, I am pretty much stuck in the house. As a cure for my malaise, I decided to start playing with table ideas for the spring. The table runner is actually a antique cover that they used to put over pillows on a bed.Continue reading “Stuck at Home Spring Tables–Table 1”

We had VERY non-traditional meals for the holidays, and Chris has chosen a menu that has all the flavors of the holidays–which is perfect because we are celebrating Christmas with J today too. He chose chicken casserole with buttered stuffing mix on top; sweet potato casserole; broccoli; and a salad. I will also put outContinue reading “Chris’s Birthday–Dinner”