G'day gals, hope you are enjoying the summer heat, I hear it's hotting up in the Northern Hemisphere with sizzling skies…well, we are enjoying beautiful Australian winter temps here so I guess we're all doing well.
Someone recently told me that setting a table was just so passe. Someone who knows a whole lot more about what's hot and what's not in homes and dare I say it lifestyle, than I do. Which is I have to admit, not hard. I play by my own rules for sure.
I thought I'd better not, then, mention my dangerous new sport, tablescaping, and that I get some twisted pleasure out of spending some of my lifestyle time putting plates and such like on the table, standing back,often in my undies and wondering if it looks nice or not. Best to keep ones mouth shut on occasions like that.
Please I am just so not interested in interior-snobbery and whether or not it is hip to set a table. But I thought I would investigate this advice and sure enough, could I find a set table in any of the hundred-and-one home books I have? Nope, not at all, though, a lot of 'undressed' heavily 'un-styled' tables for sure.
So having friends over for lunch at the weekend I contemplated a more casual pile-it-on and pretend I hadn't tried to make it look casual look. But what's inviting someone over for lunch without a set table?
My weekday life is busy and stressy and my cottage is often so untidy it's mind blowing so at the weekend it's good to potter about making things look nice and I like that. For this one I used new striped nautical table mats and everything else plain with a few vintage pieces thrown in for good Beach Cottage measure.
How much pleasure you get out of tablescaping I couldn't be sure, but a warning for those of you partaking – do not put tealights under a much-prized vintage glass cake stand unless you are particularly interested in frantically vacuuming up shattered glass just before the doorbell rings…
Ba-humbug! setting the table is fun and yours always look great. Shame about the cake stand – maybe you could find a thrifted cut glass tray or plate and glue it to the left over metal bit?
sarah – i must admit, i love creating a beautiful table esp. for special occasions. it makes the meal even more special, don’t you think? i love the casual & classy look you achieved. you might just start a new tablesetting trend!
Oh Sarah, I guess that must have been quite a spectacular shock!
I think setting the table is lovely and would love to be able to do it more at home, we just don’t have the room…. but one day I will. I have the table just need the space to put it!
How sad, your beautiful vintage glassware. Keep the stand, I am sure you will find a use or invention for it. [ps i want your vintage mirror in the 1st pic]
Oh your pretty little stand….but it did look lovely while it lasted. I love tablescapes, and I am so inspired by yours. I say we should follow our hearts. My says the more touches we can provide for those we love, the better. XXX Annie
The candles did look lovely. If you want that glowy look again, I have seen battery operated tea-lights. Yes, I know it’s not as lovely as the real thing but you have such a knack, I bet you could disguise them and get the candlelight “look” without the broken items. As for a set table, go for it, it looks beautiful and if I can ever get the clutter cleared, I plan to get my table set.
Oh no! Better that it happened before your guests arrived. Everything certainly looked lovely. Who cares what other say is “in”. I just posted about this topic too recently.
That was a beautiful cake stand, but now you get treasure hunt for a new one, which will be thrill to look forward to. It did look pretty with the tea under it though. :O) Mary @Boogieboard Cottage
Can’t wait tosee what you make of the cake stand pedestal. I don’t decorate my tables but I sure would be wrapped if a hostess did it for me. I would know she thought I was special. Keep it up. It is one of YOUR trademarks.
Oh no! I always feel heartbroken when I manage to break something vintage. I once cracked a bathroom mirror by leaving a tall candle directly underneath it. NOT pretty.
I love your table setting! I like to think there aren’t rules to how one decorates the home. I think it should reflect your own personal life and style, and if that means creating tablescapes in your undies, then so be it!
May a thousand fleas infest the home of little miss Bah Humbug and make her wish she could be setting a table instead of fumigating.
LOVE your art…which it is. If somebody invited me to a meal at any one of your delicious table settings, I’d feel so loved I couldn’t stand it.
I feel your pain for the cake stand…I have also learned never to put heirlooms on shelves where a cat will find a way to reach it. The pain stays in your heart forever over such a tragic loss.
Oh, that’s too bad about the cake stand! That must have been scarey! Your table looks wonderful! I enjoy setting a table too…I didn’t know that was “out” now. Hmmm…I don’t think I’ll play by that rule!
Hi Sarah,
I for one particularly really like your tablescapes because they are always so well thought out and beautiful. I am not very talented in that department but you do give wonderful ideas.
I don’t think tablescaping is out at all, at least not from whole blogs devoted to just that subject that I’ve seen anyway!
My family is so big that it’s easier to serve buffet style, but I used to leave my dining table ‘set’ all the time, now with my grandson living with us though, that table is the toy/craft/project/fun table! I don’t even bother with a nice centerpiece anymore.
Such a shame about your vintage glass, and it looked so pretty with those tea lights burning under it.
Thanks for the tip! Sorry you had to lose such a treasure.
Looking at the photos make me want to listen to the soundtrack of Enya and totaly enjoy the pleasure of a relaxing lunch with some friends or family. The arrangements are soothingly pretty! I have a dear friend who’s decor is cottage chic. She would absolutely enjoy this.
Oh, SO sorry to hear about your vintage cake stand…your table looks lovely, as always, though. I tend not to play by the rules either…there’s just something about being a rebel, don’t you think. He He!
What is this??? Tablescaping is out? Oh no! Well, I always have marched to the beat of a different drummer. Therefore, I will continue to scape my tables!
Beautiful table Sarah. Sorry to hear about the cake stand. I’ll remember your advice.
Oh my Sarah! Thanks for that tip cuz that cake plate is very shattered indeed! I’m glad you got some photos before the explosion! It really is an inviting table :0)
I think that dressing the table for guest is an extention of etiquette, and etiquette never goes out of style!! Your table looks lovely as usual!
Sorry about your cake stand!
Michelle
I am SO sorry about your cake stand. That happened to me one Christmas with votives under glass shelves in the wet bar–lost a ton and almost never got the sticky liquers up Ignore the table scape snob!
I have a confession…. When my own house is terribly messy and in a state of general blah-ness I often log on to your site for a nice hit of “house-porn”. In fact I’m doing it now!
Who cares what the design police say – your house is just lovely and your table settings so pretty and inviting.
your tablescapes are gorgeous, keep it up.
shame about the vintage cakestand, but I agree about finding a plate/platter to drill and try to reattach. Maybe not even a glass or ceramic plate, maybe a round metal one would look fab?
I’d love to know where you sourced your large “under” tablecloth. I can only seem to find nasty very synthetic tablecloths, yours appears to be a nicer material. Any ideas?
Regards
Romana
O no….so sorry about your cake stand. I did the same thing once with a vase of flowers…just terrible.
Your table looks absolutely delightful…everything you touch turns out lovely…
Clean beautiful lines and soft lighting…love it. And then my little heart broke with the cake stand…so sorry. sniff.
Still your table is lovely
Robin
All Things Heart and Home
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G’day ladies, oooh have I got a good Beach Cottage recipe for you or have I got a good recipe for you. Well it’s actually not Beach Cottage, I cannot claim that… So, a couple of months ago I met up with a couple of blogging friends, AllConsuming and Mrs W for a lil [...]
G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
G’day, I stumbled upon this blog yesterday and thought it might interest you.
http://rosannainc.blogspot.com/2009/06/tablesetting-contest.html
Thank you for sharing your lovely home. I enjoy coming back every time.
Ba-humbug! setting the table is fun and yours always look great. Shame about the cake stand – maybe you could find a thrifted cut glass tray or plate and glue it to the left over metal bit?
sarah – i must admit, i love creating a beautiful table esp. for special occasions. it makes the meal even more special, don’t you think? i love the casual & classy look you achieved. you might just start a new tablesetting trend!
I saw a BEAUTIFUL one today…I love setting a nice table…check this one out..
http://itsthelittlethingsthatmakeahouseahome.blogspot.com/2009/06/lots-of-jars.html
I want to do this in the garden this Summer some time. Now if only I had not thrown out ALL my father-in-laws glass jars…will I ever learn?
As always your table is beautiful and inviting! Sorry about your cake stand
I know you will find another one 
Toni
Love the contrast of the Navy blue -
Simple, Elegant, Tasteful – Yes I think that sums up my feelings!
Oh Sarah, I guess that must have been quite a spectacular shock!
I think setting the table is lovely and would love to be able to do it more at home, we just don’t have the room…. but one day I will. I have the table just need the space to put it!
Oh no about your cake stand – it looked perfect with the candles under it
Inspiring as always
How sad, your beautiful vintage glassware. Keep the stand, I am sure you will find a use or invention for it. [ps i want your vintage mirror in the 1st pic]
Bad luck about the cake stand!!
As always your table looks wonderful
Alison
Oh crikey mate!
I wonder who decides what’s hot and what’s not…that has always intrigued me? I like setting the table for dinner, turning off the TV and lingering. x
I love setting a table and “dressing” it up! Take care, Caroline
I thought the candles below the plate looked stunning Sarah. Who’d have thought the plate would shatter… bummer!
Hugs ~ Kerryanne
uh oh!
as to the new sport, maybe we are just ahead of the curve? Setting more than tables, maybe we are resurrecting a trend!
I think it looks casual and elegant, a great combination in my book! So sorry about the cake pedestal, but an excuse to go hunting!
Michelle
Hmmm… Note to self. Learn how to set a table! Shame about that lovely plate!!
Oh your pretty little stand….but it did look lovely while it lasted. I love tablescapes, and I am so inspired by yours. I say we should follow our hearts. My says the more touches we can provide for those we love, the better. XXX Annie
The candles did look lovely. If you want that glowy look again, I have seen battery operated tea-lights. Yes, I know it’s not as lovely as the real thing but you have such a knack, I bet you could disguise them and get the candlelight “look” without the broken items. As for a set table, go for it, it looks beautiful and if I can ever get the clutter cleared, I plan to get my table set.
Oh no! Better that it happened before your guests arrived. Everything certainly looked lovely. Who cares what other say is “in”. I just posted about this topic too recently.
That was a beautiful cake stand, but now you get treasure hunt for a new one, which will be thrill to look forward to. It did look pretty with the tea under it though. :O) Mary @Boogieboard Cottage
Can’t wait tosee what you make of the cake stand pedestal. I don’t decorate my tables but I sure would be wrapped if a hostess did it for me. I would know she thought I was special. Keep it up. It is one of YOUR trademarks.
I wonder why you can still buy all the components for table setting if it is not in!
What a shame about that glass!
A special mention and award for you on my blog!
Amy
The tablesetting is gorgeous, I love setting the table too
Thankyou for your comment and stopping by my blog. Your blog is lovely, would be coming for more!
Oh no! I always feel heartbroken when I manage to break something vintage. I once cracked a bathroom mirror by leaving a tall candle directly underneath it. NOT pretty.
I love your table setting! I like to think there aren’t rules to how one decorates the home. I think it should reflect your own personal life and style, and if that means creating tablescapes in your undies, then so be it!
May a thousand fleas infest the home of little miss Bah Humbug and make her wish she could be setting a table instead of fumigating.
LOVE your art…which it is. If somebody invited me to a meal at any one of your delicious table settings, I’d feel so loved I couldn’t stand it.
I feel your pain for the cake stand…I have also learned never to put heirlooms on shelves where a cat will find a way to reach it. The pain stays in your heart forever over such a tragic loss.
Hey, I clicked on your “undies” link expecting some ooh la la… you sneaky gal.
Poor little cake stand. You’ll find a way to use what’s left, I’m sure of it.
Oh, that’s too bad about the cake stand! That must have been scarey! Your table looks wonderful! I enjoy setting a table too…I didn’t know that was “out” now. Hmmm…I don’t think I’ll play by that rule!
Hi Sarah,
I for one particularly really like your tablescapes because they are always so well thought out and beautiful. I am not very talented in that department but you do give wonderful ideas.
Hugs,
LeAnn:)
I don’t think tablescaping is out at all, at least not from whole blogs devoted to just that subject that I’ve seen anyway!
My family is so big that it’s easier to serve buffet style, but I used to leave my dining table ‘set’ all the time, now with my grandson living with us though, that table is the toy/craft/project/fun table! I don’t even bother with a nice centerpiece anymore.
Such a shame about your vintage glass, and it looked so pretty with those tea lights burning under it.
Thanks for the tip! Sorry you had to lose such a treasure.
Looking at the photos make me want to listen to the soundtrack of Enya and totaly enjoy the pleasure of a relaxing lunch with some friends or family. The arrangements are soothingly pretty! I have a dear friend who’s decor is cottage chic. She would absolutely enjoy this.
Cheers from Teacake Martini!
Oh, SO sorry to hear about your vintage cake stand…your table looks lovely, as always, though.
I tend not to play by the rules either…there’s just something about being a rebel, don’t you think. 
He He!
Rachel
How can setting the table be ‘out’ that is ridiculous! Who decides these things!!
Maybe the person who thinks tablescaping is out can’t set a good table herself. It’s an art….
What is this??? Tablescaping is out? Oh no! Well, I always have marched to the beat of a different drummer. Therefore, I will continue to scape my tables!
Beautiful table Sarah. Sorry to hear about the cake stand. I’ll remember your advice.
Oh my Sarah! Thanks for that tip cuz that cake plate is very shattered indeed! I’m glad you got some photos before the explosion! It really is an inviting table :0)
It looked so cool before it shattered to pieces…oh well…more room for more creativity!
I think that dressing the table for guest is an extention of etiquette, and etiquette never goes out of style!! Your table looks lovely as usual!
Sorry about your cake stand!
Michelle
How beautiful and soothing these pictures are!
I enjoyed reading what you wrote about tablescaping!
So sad about your cake plate
Katherine
What a sad story about your cakestand; but the table looks beautiful and so serene. Sally
I am SO sorry about your cake stand. That happened to me one Christmas with votives under glass shelves in the wet bar–lost a ton and almost never got the sticky liquers up
Ignore the table scape snob!
Oh, your table is lovely. It is so calming and soothing….makes me smile just to look at it. Very nice!!!!
Barb
How sad for your cake stand, but your table is beautiful.
I have a confession…. When my own house is terribly messy and in a state of general blah-ness I often log on to your site for a nice hit of “house-porn”. In fact I’m doing it now!
Who cares what the design police say – your house is just lovely and your table settings so pretty and inviting.
don’t throw out the metal stand-
drill a hole in another plate
Oh, Sarah! Everything you do turns out beautiful! I love your pretty soft looking table! Oh, no! I’m sorry about the cake stand!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia
your tablescapes are gorgeous, keep it up.
shame about the vintage cakestand, but I agree about finding a plate/platter to drill and try to reattach. Maybe not even a glass or ceramic plate, maybe a round metal one would look fab?
I’d love to know where you sourced your large “under” tablecloth. I can only seem to find nasty very synthetic tablecloths, yours appears to be a nicer material. Any ideas?
Regards
Romana
O no….so sorry about your cake stand. I did the same thing once with a vase of flowers…just terrible.
Your table looks absolutely delightful…everything you touch turns out lovely…
Clean beautiful lines and soft lighting…love it. And then my little heart broke with the cake stand…so sorry. sniff.
Still your table is lovely
Robin
All Things Heart and Home