TABLETOP ARRANGING 101

This is repost from last summer...

BLOGGER is refusing to let me upload photos today ...so

decided I'd rather do a RE-POST than none at all...

I just love decorating.

I love the entire process.

The pouring over fabulous, decorating magazines and books...O...AND BLOGS !!

Finding things I love to use in my rooms.

Delighting in all the colors offered.....

and I ADORE french country....

This table and the luscious things resting on top is just pure beauty to my olden eyes....

What IS that brown fabric ? I must have some of it...

don't you love that it's somewhat fringed.....!!
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I can feel a "I CAN DO A TABLE LIKE THIS" coming on.

Some of you might know that I delight in copying a beautiful scene with my thrifted items...

I just LOVE showing that you don't HAVE to have a lot of money to spend on a certain look...

I just LOVE showing that you can get the same
 FEEL...

MOOD...
LOOK
...  with just some great imagination and some fabulous thrifted finds....

I think the key is to learn to be able to use OTHER items to represent the look you are after...
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I surely don't have all the beautiful things on the table above.....

but....let's see just what I DO have...

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SUNFLOWERS...check

BOOKS....check

ROUND TABLE.....check  < from my mother>

AWESOME TABLE COVERINGS....check

ROUND TRAY....hmmmm...think SQUARE will work ? ...check

CUTE CUPS.....check

REAL FRUIT....check

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OK, I am ready to satisfy my copy cat instinct...

Gathering....
see that bit of fringed fabric...LOVE it...

 Not just like it.....but close.
The idea is why I love INSPIRATION photos so much....

Of course, it is not exactly alike...
we only use INSPIRATION photos that we LOVE  to help us establish what we would like to accomplish.
If I were going to gather items for a table scape like this one,
I would choose all my pieces in about the same, neutral colors..as in the INSPIRATION...
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MY  VINTAGE cups and bowl are TOO white as is the table covering.
The INSPIRATION photo is from the 2001 DO IT YOURSELF magazine and
gives this great TIP...
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"When arranging, go for a graceful curve:
Imagine drawing a line over the top of the display;
the resulting line should be wavy, not flat."

Now, I am thinking THIS might be a good arrangement for the things that I DO have...
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See how an INSPIRATION photo can spur you on to create your OWN ideas, using the items
you have on hand ?
Is being able to satisfy your own self when you create a table top..a mantel...a dining table,
a form of creativity ?
OH, YES 'MAM....I think it truly is.

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I think we don't have to be able to create a table top that will go into a beautiful magazine...
What I love is when my family says something like
"OH, GOSH...that old table looks fantastic !"

I like the brick red of the SUNFLOWER because it

matches the brick red of the sunflower plate..
....even the little tiny flowers on the french, paisly print book blends in well.

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I love the little french pot that my daughter gave me years ago...

and I love using it EMPTY....

I loved learning the tip about the wavy line....

I love that we are NEVER too old to learn...

OMGOSH....

ain't life grand !
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LINKING WITH:
BORING TO BEAUTIFUL
REDNESDAY WEDNESDAY

LOVE, bj
NOTE;
The OLD COMMENTS came right along with this post.
Don't have a clue WHY...I THOUGHT I left them off...
BLOGGER is driving me crazy today...slow, won't load photos,
NOW THIS !!
SORRY, PEOPLE...:(