Tablescape

I don't know if your dining table is like ours, but it's right by the back door where we enter the house and it's a convenient place to put things as you come and go and before you know it, it's a big ol' mess. So, this afternoon after coming home from a meeting of the Portland Women's Forum meeting (where I was nominated for a 3rd year as president.. ) and was looking in there and going.. bleh.  Worse yet is we'd picked up a nice pot of red tulips and a little pot of a pink hyacinth and the flowers weren't being displayed to their full loveliness.  First, put all the stuff away off the table, give the table a nice cleaning, and then find just the right tablecloth in the stacks of them in my china cabinet on the bottom.  I almost picked one covered with sunflowers but settled on one where the border is a rooster and some hens.. along with some chicks.  I also "found" an Easter one.. but will use that later.

Here is a closeup of a red tulip.  I am hankering for an SLR camera that will give me better close-ups, but I'm probably not using my current camera to it's full ability.  I think that's the issue.  Where is that book that came with it? LOL  My current one is a PowerShot SX200 IS with a zoom lens 12xIS - 12x optical zoom.  I'm pretty sure it's "operator error".

I put the fragrant hyacinth in my lantern and sprinkled the rocks and sea glass and shells we picked up the last time we were at the beach.. actually the time before as the last time we found nothing on the beach.

I have a lifelong ****LOVE*** of agates and sea glass and shells... there is even a shell fossil there, see it in the back?

The agates on the other side... and a lovely piece of green sea glass.

Here's my whole "tablescape"... pardon the un-ironed tablecloth.  Do you all iron yours?  I once invited a lady and her whole family to our big 4th of July BBQ here at our farm and do you know what she said when she entered the dining room?  "Your tablecloth is wrinkled! Tacky tacky!"  I thought later that the only one being tacky was the one criticizing the host who'd invited her whole family to our party. :-)

I was looking for something to keep the pot of tulips from falling over and found this vintage sand pail - hubby had found it in the rafters of the garage of his parents house when the "kids" were going through the it and sharing the items before the whole lot was sold at an estate sale.  It goes along with the seaside theme I have going with the agates and sea glass.

I am almost done with the border on my "endless granny stripe blanket".  Things just keep getting in the way of finishing.. but I'm almost there!

I hope you all have a great weekend!  We're having our boys and their families over for Sunday dinner. What are your plans?

Again, I want to thank those of you who leave comments on my blog.. it is the frosting on the cake for me.  ((hugs)) Teresa