Do ya have the Monday Morning Blues? Or perhaps, where you are it’s the oh-no-it’s-Sunday-night-so-Monday-Morning-Blues-are-coming?
I have to tell you it’s a fairly nice Monday morning here in Beach Cottage Land…it actually feels a relief for all to be quiet in this here cottage…all are gone from this place, and all I have to do is recover from the bomb site that is our house and the tiredness that is in my bones from what seems like 48 hours straight of sport. Over the weekend we added 7 medals to our cottage and a couple more trophies so I guess that’s what’s to show for it.
Anyway, in the midst of all that action, I tablescaped. Yes you may think this is a strange and odd way for a person to unwind late on Saturday arvo. Not for me. The sport of tablescaping is one guaranteed to fulfill one’s need for calm.
I don’t think it matters where you live, what you do nor do not have…dressing up a table with next to nothing is all too easy.
You may think that fussing about with a table is indeed an odd way to spend time, and I’d never have thought once upon a time I’d enjoy this so much, but really, the only big deal with this is making the effort to start…the actual doing it is incredibly easy and more, nicely satisfying.
This scape, if that is what we are calling them, is a product of a couple of things I love…the first being white shells and the second vintage bottles…and this one has then turned out to be one of my faves…and is for me about celebrating everyday pleasures…
There’s nothing much to it and I love how a few simple things can end up looking lovely…this is what I started with…
I wanted to use some of the new old bottles I found on that haul recently, in particular the vintage milk bottle, I love the thick old glass and wide top…the shells are my favourite, tiny and white and perfectly formed, nature’s pretty good like that huh?
All the rest my usuals…mis-match of napkins from vintage and the plaid ones from IKEA…old and soft after lots of washings…
The napkin rings are simple circles of the tiny white shells (coming to the BC Store soon), the cutlery vintage, the plates IKEA, tablecloth a vintage sheet….flowers I have no idea what they are but they are part of the hundreds of bulbs I planted back in the Autumn and are now popping up all over the garden..the other sprigs of green, I do believe are what is commonly referred to as weeds
The chairs are IKEA with covers that pull off and hop straight in the machine on a 60 wash which my friends is exactly what they did this Monday washday after the bashing they took at the weekend.
Loving catching our blog, just before I retire for the night! I can’t wait until I can tablescape .. first I have to get a dining room in this tiny place… although I think it would be wasted on my hubby and the toddlers at the moment… they seem more impressed with the wipeable table cloth and I’m not going to lie, for now it’s my idea of heaven too. Congrats on the medals! Lx
Firstly congrats to the BC kiddos on their sporting achievements and bringing home the throphies!!!!
Secondly I love how simple this scape is…so serene and peaceful looking, makes me wanna pull up a sit and just chill.
I do miss strolling up and down the beaches back home in NZ….you always found some sort of treasure be it driftwood, shells, pumice or polished glass, here the beaches are just, well, too clean (I mean that in a good sense), and I am very limited in what I find….hooray for the BC store where I can soon get my fix of all things beachy, YES I will be indulging I think
I subscribed to your blog a wee while ago and really enjoy keeping up with your posts. This morning I received a text from my 16 yo son asking me if I could please pick him up from school and take him into JustCuts as he had been told he had to get his hair cut immediately or have an internal suspension ie sit in the office all day long. I obliged and while I was sitting waiting for his hair to be cut (the hairdresser couldn’t believe the school thought his hair was too long but that’s another story) I picked up a copy of Real Living. I was delighted to come across an article featuring your home! I was glad for that interuption to my morning )
Angex
PS Í use White on White paint on everything too.
hey thanks Ange….funny that Real Living magazine gets around, I have had similar messages from people who have picked it up in the doctor’s surgery, hairdressers etc…small world huh?
Hi Sarah~~~setting a table is a great way to get happy. It gets those creative juices flowing, and feels nice to sit down and look at a pretty table when you are finished. I like the simplicity of your setting…yet the beauty of all of it all together.
Debbie@houseatthelake
Beautiful and serene.
Your blog and your tablescapes have inspired me to have a go at tablescaping and I have been able to join in at naps on the porch the past few weeks, still have the” L” plates on though!
Hi!
I did the same thing with my Ikea chairs this weekend – a few too many good dinners and conversations around our dining room table! Have a lovely week, love your table idea.
Very pretty, Sarah. So calm and peaceful looking it would be ALMOST a shame to add food to the picture and ruin the vibe! But, I do love food, so guess it would be worth it, as long as it matched, or at least co-ordinated with your whites everywhere!
Hope you have a great week.
XO
Heidi
Hi Sarah, congratulations to the kids – what a weekend! Your table looks lovely – some very serene photos to start my Monday morning with – thank you. Love those little white shells and looking forward to the online store. Nice to know the name of that ‘weed’ – Shepard’s purse (thanks to Tricia) … always one of my favourite weeds, so pretty!
Hi Sarah, I’ve been coming here only for a week since you were featured at Design Sponge and since reading up on all your posts the one thing I love is how you show a before shot, like the one today of the table, there are not many people who have the balls to do that, most pics I see around blogland are the end version only or just pics taken from magazines, I love how you show a regular old table and a few bottles and how it can be turned into something that is quite stunning. Though of course that is easier said than done but still very inspiring. I just want to say thank you for showing the befores (I just recently read your post on the bus blind destination how to, amazing that you turned that old picture from a goodwill for a few dollars into wall art). thanks alisa
I have for long read blogs that are so ridiculously perfect, you seem to get it just right, good enough to look very wonderful but then your writing and a before photo show that it can be done.
Thanks for your blog, I have been following your from the early days and I never comment, I suppose I should really but anyway I feel that your blog is getting better and better.
i love how you you admit the covers get a bashing, I have the same chairs from ikea and as you say they wash up with a hotwash great! I have a similar table,not that one but this weekend I have some friends coming over and I am going to make my first start on table dressing. inspired!
I am about to dress a big celebration being held at our house soon and have been thinking what am I going to do? I think today I may have found the answer via you!
I will keep it simple and use my vast collection of vintage bottles to dress the tables up a bit and use whatever flowers take my fancy, really what could be easier.
Thanks again for your continued inspiration and me too I love how you show what can be done with an ikea cheapie table and a few bottles@
who cares if your chair covers need washing! for me this is table fantasy land and I for one love it! you my dear area a genius, show me some so-called stylist with lots of money under his or her belt and they come up with something not in the same leauge as this.
Sarah, as someone in the business and following your blog since you were in REal Living and via the Decor8Blog, I cannot wait to see when you hit the big time, I haven’t seen raw talent like this with basic props (and don’t even get me started on the photography) for a very long time.
Reading with my coffee and as just simply enjoying seeing you create.
I love how you can dress an Ikea special, they really should be getting you on board the amount of times you mention them, I can see it now, you as one of Ikea’s top stylists, if you can turn a table into this then the sky’s the limit.
I’ll be back tomorrow for the giveaway, oh and where did you get that mirror?
Shepherds Purse of course! And I can’t believe it looks this good with a few simple other added things.
I found you via Design Sponge, as I assume a lot of people have recently, though I am very surprised that you don’t seem to have mentioned the fact that you were featured on there on your blog??? Or have I just missed that?
I know I’ve already commented, but every now and then I like to read other people’s comments on the blogs I follow and I just spotted the one above from Nicola and wanted to say that I totally agree with her and I’m sure others do too. Not that I’m in the business (unless you call being addicted to home beautiful magazine a business), but you just get a feeling from your blog that something exciting is going to come from this (and I truly hope it does) – the photography and the refreshing real-ness of your blog is a hit and a real inspiration to us home decorators on a budget! Well done and cheers to you : )
hello Sarah! you have inspired me to have a go, which means a lot to me!
I have just moved into a house that is probably far from my dream home, but you know what, I have a table and boy am I ready to dress it up and prettify my life anytime soon.
Oooh I love your tablescapes. I also love cloth napkins…my mother and grandmother always use them, but no one these days seems to. (At least, no one my age = mid twenties.) Its so sad! It makes my heart happy to know you can still FIND cloth napkins and napkin rings…I must just not be looking hard enough.
Loving the simplicity and beachiness of this- with accent of colour in the flowers! I too find tablescaping relaxing- once I get started! Great way to unwind and potter about with a beautiful result!
Hola Sarah, your tablescape turned out soooo very beautiful, and if I follow your lovely council and enthusiasm perhaps I can just start myself playing tablescapes… thank you!!!
cariños,
maria cecilia
Sarah… you inspire me to lift my table setting game. But with twins aged 19 months… I must exercise patience. That time will come again that I can lay the table with things other than plastic glasses for the wee ones ……. I crave flowers and candles ON my dining table during dinner.
Love your pretty flowers :)
LOVE the simplicity of your tablestyle! Happy to have you today over at Susan’s party for Tablescape Thursday…. I’ll have to come back more often to visit…
The reflective value of your bottle collection, the texture of your the beach pebbles, the always gorgeous white on white with the perfect, almost graphic shot of red….this is one lovely and quite sophisticated tablescape. Thank you for sharing your gorgeous design. Cherry Kay
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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
Loving catching our blog, just before I retire for the night! I can’t wait until I can tablescape .. first I have to get a dining room in this tiny place… although I think it would be wasted on my hubby and the toddlers at the moment… they seem more impressed with the wipeable table cloth and I’m not going to lie, for now it’s my idea of heaven too. Congrats on the medals! Lx
Your table looks simply lovely!
Firstly congrats to the BC kiddos on their sporting achievements and bringing home the throphies!!!!
Secondly I love how simple this scape is…so serene and peaceful looking, makes me wanna pull up a sit and just chill.
I do miss strolling up and down the beaches back home in NZ….you always found some sort of treasure be it driftwood, shells, pumice or polished glass, here the beaches are just, well, too clean (I mean that in a good sense), and I am very limited in what I find….hooray for the BC store where I can soon get my fix of all things beachy, YES I will be indulging I think
yeah, there is always something to be found Tammi!
oops typo…sorry bout that
The darling delicate red flowers are so beautiful against all the white. Nice work.
Fondly,
Glenda
I subscribed to your blog a wee while ago and really enjoy keeping up with your posts. This morning I received a text from my 16 yo son asking me if I could please pick him up from school and take him into JustCuts as he had been told he had to get his hair cut immediately or have an internal suspension ie sit in the office all day long. I obliged and while I was sitting waiting for his hair to be cut (the hairdresser couldn’t believe the school thought his hair was too long but that’s another story) I picked up a copy of Real Living. I was delighted to come across an article featuring your home! I was glad for that interuption to my morning
)
Angex
PS Í use White on White paint on everything too.
hey thanks Ange….funny that Real Living magazine gets around, I have had similar messages from people who have picked it up in the doctor’s surgery, hairdressers etc…small world huh?
sarahx
Hi Sarah~~~setting a table is a great way to get happy. It gets those creative juices flowing, and feels nice to sit down and look at a pretty table when you are finished. I like the simplicity of your setting…yet the beauty of all of it all together.
Debbie@houseatthelake
Beautiful and serene.
Your blog and your tablescapes have inspired me to have a go at tablescaping and I have been able to join in at naps on the porch the past few weeks, still have the” L” plates on though!
Hi!
I did the same thing with my Ikea chairs this weekend – a few too many good dinners and conversations around our dining room table! Have a lovely week, love your table idea.
Caron
Very pretty, Sarah. So calm and peaceful looking it would be ALMOST a shame to add food to the picture and ruin the vibe! But, I do love food, so guess it would be worth it, as long as it matched, or at least co-ordinated with your whites everywhere!
Hope you have a great week.
XO
Heidi
Hello Sarah,
Your table looks beautiful….
I hope you are having a great Monday!
xoxoxo
Maria
Hi Sarah,
I LOVE IT!!!!
Your blog is wonderful!!!!
Adoro questa mise en place!!!!
Hope you have a great week!!
Kisses
Daniela DREAM SHABBY CHIC Milano
Not any old weeds though – shepherd’s purse! Very romantic…
Your table looks just lovely Sarah – couldn’t be improved upon. What a gift of grace~
Tricia, you my lovely are the fountain of all information, thanks!
Hi Sarah, congratulations to the kids – what a weekend! Your table looks lovely – some very serene photos to start my Monday morning with – thank you. Love those little white shells and looking forward to the online store. Nice to know the name of that ‘weed’ – Shepard’s purse (thanks to Tricia) … always one of my favourite weeds, so pretty!
Hi Sarah, I’ve been coming here only for a week since you were featured at Design Sponge and since reading up on all your posts the one thing I love is how you show a before shot, like the one today of the table, there are not many people who have the balls to do that, most pics I see around blogland are the end version only or just pics taken from magazines, I love how you show a regular old table and a few bottles and how it can be turned into something that is quite stunning. Though of course that is easier said than done but still very inspiring. I just want to say thank you for showing the befores (I just recently read your post on the bus blind destination how to, amazing that you turned that old picture from a goodwill for a few dollars into wall art). thanks alisa
I have to agree with the last commenter too.
I have for long read blogs that are so ridiculously perfect, you seem to get it just right, good enough to look very wonderful but then your writing and a before photo show that it can be done.
Thanks for your blog, I have been following your from the early days and I never comment, I suppose I should really but anyway I feel that your blog is getting better and better.
judie
if I put weeds in vintage bottles it would look awful
i love how you you admit the covers get a bashing, I have the same chairs from ikea and as you say they wash up with a hotwash great! I have a similar table,not that one but this weekend I have some friends coming over and I am going to make my first start on table dressing. inspired!
Lovely Sarah, really beautiful. Thanks
oh I love the belt over the jacket and do I spy a dotty blouse underneath?
oh yeah sorry Sarah I love the table too
Hi Sarah
This looks great!
I am about to dress a big celebration being held at our house soon and have been thinking what am I going to do? I think today I may have found the answer via you!
I will keep it simple and use my vast collection of vintage bottles to dress the tables up a bit and use whatever flowers take my fancy, really what could be easier.
Thanks again for your continued inspiration and me too I love how you show what can be done with an ikea cheapie table and a few bottles@
Nice…..again
who cares if your chair covers need washing! for me this is table fantasy land and I for one love it! you my dear area a genius, show me some so-called stylist with lots of money under his or her belt and they come up with something not in the same leauge as this.
Sarah, as someone in the business and following your blog since you were in REal Living and via the Decor8Blog, I cannot wait to see when you hit the big time, I haven’t seen raw talent like this with basic props (and don’t even get me started on the photography) for a very long time.
keep it up girl
Hi Sarah
Lovely, as ever!
Reading with my coffee and as just simply enjoying seeing you create.
I love how you can dress an Ikea special, they really should be getting you on board the amount of times you mention them, I can see it now, you as one of Ikea’s top stylists, if you can turn a table into this then the sky’s the limit.
I’ll be back tomorrow for the giveaway, oh and where did you get that mirror?
MandyB
stuff it, all I can say is every time you see a table, you rock it baby!
Shepherds Purse of course! And I can’t believe it looks this good with a few simple other added things.
I found you via Design Sponge, as I assume a lot of people have recently, though I am very surprised that you don’t seem to have mentioned the fact that you were featured on there on your blog??? Or have I just missed that?
I know I’ve already commented, but every now and then I like to read other people’s comments on the blogs I follow and I just spotted the one above from Nicola and wanted to say that I totally agree with her and I’m sure others do too. Not that I’m in the business (unless you call being addicted to home beautiful magazine a business), but you just get a feeling from your blog that something exciting is going to come from this (and I truly hope it does) – the photography and the refreshing real-ness of your blog is a hit and a real inspiration to us home decorators on a budget! Well done and cheers to you : )
hello Sarah! you have inspired me to have a go, which means a lot to me!
I have just moved into a house that is probably far from my dream home, but you know what, I have a table and boy am I ready to dress it up and prettify my life anytime soon.
Your tablescapes are always gorgeous…and I love the weeds. They always reminded me of little strands of hearts.
Ness xx
Your table is so pretty. Simplicity at its best. Have a wonderul week, Sarah! La
so darling. I so need to see the BC store is it open yet? I do so desparly want the shell balls soo wonderful! love your blog.
Lovely tablescaping. Those delicate sprigs lend a nice contrast.
Sigh!! This is lovely in its simplicity!
The table looks amazing! What a great idea. I especially like the red flowers, beautiful touch.
xx,
Michelle
Happy Monday to you! Thanks for the tour of your table scape. I love the white on white design!
Do you pick up those shells on the beach? They are so white ! Ours in Florida are more brown with only a few white ones. I covet white shells !
You are too funny. Did you seriously pick a weed for your flower arrangement? I should try it – it looks quite good. xx
Oooh I love your tablescapes. I also love cloth napkins…my mother and grandmother always use them, but no one these days seems to. (At least, no one my age = mid twenties.) Its so sad! It makes my heart happy to know you can still FIND cloth napkins and napkin rings…I must just not be looking hard enough.
You take very good photos. I love how everything is white in the table scape except for the pop of color from two delicate flowers.
Loving the simplicity and beachiness of this- with accent of colour in the flowers! I too find tablescaping relaxing- once I get started! Great way to unwind and potter about with a beautiful result!
Hola Sarah, your tablescape turned out soooo very beautiful, and if I follow your lovely council and enthusiasm perhaps I can just start myself playing tablescapes… thank you!!!
cariños,
maria cecilia
Sarah… you inspire me to lift my table setting game. But with twins aged 19 months… I must exercise patience. That time will come again that I can lay the table with things other than plastic glasses for the wee ones ……. I crave flowers and candles ON my dining table during dinner.
:)
Love your pretty flowers
Lovely tablescape-thanks for these fresh and summery ideas!
Best wishes,
Natasha.
Just lovely, Sarah…very quite and mellow and lovely…:)
Lovely with the tiny bit of red!
LOVE the simplicity of your tablestyle! Happy to have you today over at Susan’s party for Tablescape Thursday…. I’ll have to come back more often to visit…
Blessings to you…
Lynda
So clean and so restful. What a wonderful, calming tablescape. The white is so quiet, yet sophisticated. Very pretty
I love your table. I LOVE the center decor with the bottles , 2 red blooms and the bottles. It turned out spectacular.
The reflective value of your bottle collection, the texture of your the beach pebbles, the always gorgeous white on white with the perfect, almost graphic shot of red….this is one lovely and quite sophisticated tablescape. Thank you for sharing your gorgeous design. Cherry Kay