Easter Spring Table Setting with Tulip Centerpiece: Welcome to the 188th Tablescape Thursday!

Easter Spring Table Setting with Tulip Centerpiece

Happy Spring and welcome to Tablescape Thursday, a party where we celebrate our love for entertaining and creating pretty table settings for our friends and loved ones.  A beautiful table setting is really just an expression of caring and love for those who'll gather there.  It not only offers substance for the tummy, but for the soul, as well.

And, did I mention that it's just plain fun?

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Pottery Barn Knock-off: Double Bowl Hurricane Easter Tulip Centerpiece

I've been using a lot of fresh flowers in table settings lately.  Once those cold winter months are behind us, it's such a joy to bring fresh flowers into our homes.  One of my favorite flowers is the tulip.  It's almost impossible to think of spring and not think of beautiful tulips.

Tulips are a wonderful flower to give or receive for a birthday or for Mother's Day.  I've been the happy recipient of tulips on several previous Mother's Day.   Roses are always nice, but tulips are such a delightful surprise, not the same old, same old.

A few months ago I was shopping in Pottery Barn and I came across a vase that really caught my eye.  It was designed with a center vase for flowers and that was surrounded by a larger vase.  It was more or less, a vase within a vase and it opened up lots of possibilities for pretty centerpieces.

I couldn't find a picture of the vase online, but here's a screen shot of two of them being used by a Pottery Barn Floral Designer and Expert Sylist in this Pottery Barn You Tube Video found, HERE.  He calls it a "double bowl hurricane."

I really liked the design of the double bowl hurricane but not so much the $49.  So I decided to try and make my own.

I purchased two vases, one a bit larger than the other.

I found both in a local discount store.  The large vase was just $9.99 and the smaller one was on sale for $5.   You can see in the photo below, the smaller vase fit nicely down inside the larger one leaving about an 1 1/2 inches all the way around.  Before purchasing the vases, I checked to make sure the height of the center vase would work fine with that of the larger vase.  It was just right...not too tall and not too short.

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Spring Easter Table Setting with Daffodil and Moss Centerpiece: Welcome to the 187th Tablescape Thursday!

Greetings!  Hope it's as beautiful where you are as it is here in Georgia.  This has been such a wonderful spring!

As I looked through the photos for this post, I noticed the background is changing with each week's table setting here on the porch.  It's getting green and wooly out there...love this time of year!
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Springtime Table With a Daffodil Centerpiece: Welcome to the 182nd Tablescape Thursday!

It was another warm day today so the pull of the porch won out again.

All this warm weather we're having has me thinking spring.  This table setting would work well as an Easter tablescape with its springtime colors.

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