Welcome, dear friends and also 1st-time visitors! Some of you may have come from Joan’s blog at 2 Ladies & A Chair and I’m sure you’re still swooning over her blue and yellow Easter table like I am!  I’m so glad that you’ve joined us for our 2-day Easter Tour with a group of fabulous interior bloggers.  Yesterday I shared my spring/Easter mantel and today I’m thrilled to share my blush and blue Easter table and also the Easter decor in my kitchen.

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The blush and blue has been a favorite color combo of mine this spring and such a fun color palette to bring into my bright white home.

I was so happy to find these blush stock at my grocery store to go in this new vase I found at HomeGoods.  I also found this adorable blue and white bunny jar there and it may or may not have some of my favorite Cadbury Eggs.  Is anyone else obsessed with those like we are?

I traded out my white cherry blossom stems for these pretty blush-colored stems.  I tried bringing the jar over here but it’s going to stay on the island…where we can all easily reach our favorite candy…ha!

On the other side of the kitchen, I grabbed blush and blue cookbooks from my cabinet and stacked them with one of my favorite candles and placed behind it the cutest floral plate I found at an antique store.  There was only 1 plate, sadly, but I knew I could find a way to use it to decorate some vignette.  It’ll also be perfect to put our pink sugar cookies on that Brooklyn just made.

Tip:  Don’t be afraid to try something unconventional and use what you have in your kitchen to style it.  get creative and think outside the box!

I was so excited to find this blue rug runner and bring it into my kitchen.  It’s a darker dusty blue but perfect over a lighter blue, as to not show as much wear and crumbs.

And since my floor had just been swept and mopped, I sat and admired it for a while.  Yep, it’s a keeper!

Let’s head over to my table!  When I lived in Portugal years ago, so many cafes and restaurants had blue striped table linens.  In fact, so did Italy and several other European countries I’ve visited, so it makes me smile to have found this one that I love.

It’s adorable AND it has the cutest tassel trim!

A few weeks ago on Instagram, I posted about this gorgeous set of vintage gold-rimmed milk glass place settings and teacups that I found on my local Facebook Marketplace.  I am so in-love with them.

They were well-loved by this lady and her family before moving in with her daughter and have served many meals and been a part of many memories.  I will treasure them always and couldn’t wait to use them on my Easter table.

I already had this lovely gold flatware, or “goldie-ware” as I like to call it, and the gold-rimmed goblets.  But I found the most perfect and affordable blush cloth (no-iron) dinner napkins.  Score!  I was really wanting blush plates but the ones I wanted from Pottery Barn HERE don’t ship for a few months.

So in the mean time, I found these adorable disposable vintage-style blush plates that come in several sizes. I bought the salad plates and layered it with my dinner plate and then a small bowl for dessert.  It was a perfect fit!  I’m crazy about them and will use them for cookies to friends and neighbors too.  Wouldn’t that be the cutest plate to gift them on?!

In my Spring Mantel post yesterday, I talked all about how I gave these german glass glitter bunnies that I had (I have a lot of them) a little makeover with some gold spray paint since they’d aged and changed color.  It’s charming and a lot of people love that but it didn’t go with my more transitional style.

The gold was perfect!  And to think, I almost tossed them out….gasp!

Ok now for the vase……

So…I’m in this thrift store a couple of weeks ago looking for snow boots for homeless people at the shelter I volunteer at.  I found boots and I was glad.  And then, like a “High 5” for doing a good deed, there it was….a lovely blush pink vintage vase.  Aaaaaaaaah!  (cue angels singing)

Three dollars later it was mine and I knew it was going on this table.  I had this grandiose flower arrangement in mind for this table but then when it came down to it….I wanted simple.  Pink on pink.  Pink roses in the pink vase. This is also very European.

I wanted it to compliment the simple striped tablecloth and compliment the gold-rimmed and layered plates. I didn’t want the enormous floral arrangement to take away from all the dainty and elegant little details.  Very often in Portugal you’d see the same thing.  Roses or carnations were found often in the vases and on tables of clean, pressed linens.

Also common in Europe, since I’m reminiscing and getting all sappy and missing it there, are drinks in pretty glass bottles and carafes.  This pink lemonade from World Market is not only delicious but color-coordinates with my table so I had to pull it out of my pantry and set it on the table.

THEN…

….I wanted to keep it simple but it needed more floral.

So I added snips of carnations to all the tea cups and around my gold glitter bunnies.

Much better right?!

Carnations are so under-appreciated.  Wouldn’t you agree?!

They’re such pretty, little ruffly flowers.  Love them!

So as the sun starts to set and I watch it from this side of the house…

…I sit and reminisce of my time living overseas and dream of being back in Portugal.  I’ll just linger here a little longer and imagine I’m outside at a cafe….with gold bunnies..ha!

I swear I’m getting more sentimental with age but I have so many good memories and I love that they reflect my design and style.  I love that this Easter table and kitchen remind me of a special time in my life, a time that changed my life.  I’ve loved my travels overseas.  I’m loving my adventures here right in this home.  And I’m so glad you’re here joining me for ALL of it!

So, thank you!!!

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Please make sure to visit Judy at Life Is Better At Home and see her gorgeous Easter decor!  Don’t forget to visit all my fabulous friends and pin all the ideas you love!

WEDNESDAY’S TOUR

Joan | 2 Ladies & A Chair

Summer | Summer Adams

Judy | Life Is Better At Home

Gloribell | Know How She Does It

Jackie | Finding Lovely

Ashley | Modern Glam

THURSDAY’S TOUR

Yuni | Love Your Abode

Rhonda | Hallstrom Home

Amie | Meme Hill Studio

Kim & Lacey | Styled With Lace

Sheila | Maison de Cinq

Janine | Happy Happy Nester

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Oh how I just LOVE spring!  I don’t even mind the crazy Texas thunderstorms because it only means that gorgeous flowers are blooming, as a result of all that water.  Bring on the blooms!  Then there’s Easter…another holiday I love…and it’s only 2 weeks away.  Do you decorate a lot or not at all for Easter?  Maybe you need some inspiration?  You’ve come to the right place since I’m sharing a few subtle hints of Easter decor in today’s Easter Parade Blog Hop.

Welcome to all of you coming from my fabulous friend Joan’s blog, 2 Ladies and a Chair.  Don’t you just love her style and her home?!  It’s always so gorgeous and cozy.  Huge hugs to my regular readers that come back for every post.  Love you guys!

So, I used to have a TON of Easter decor when we were first married but over the years I got rid of most of it and I’m glad.  A lot of it was given to me or something I made and there wasn’t a lot of anything I loved.  So I decided to use subtle hints of Easter decor in my Spring decor.

I decorated my family room coffee table with just some simple green stems this spring from my friends at AFloral (see more HERE for some of my favorite peonies from them and HERE for other fabulous floral).  It was a simple way to bring in some green.  Now here are 2 other ways I’ve styled this room for the month of Easter.

I hope you brought some tea with you to get cozy because I usually have herbal tea ready when guests are here.  I decided to add this lovely “beach glass” color.  This light aqua and just pastels in general make me think of Easter.

When I was little, my mom and I would go shopping for an Easter Dress to wear on Easter Sunday.  It was always something pastel.

Sometimes with an Easter bonnet, sometimes white gloves and patent leather shoes and ruffle socks.  The good ‘ole 80’s.  I need to find a good picture but here’s a FUNNY one I just found and I’m not sure why I was wearing socks with sandals? My mother is in trouble LOL. But check out that Easter bonnet or silly hat that I probably found in my grandmother’s dress-up box on this particular Easter. Circa 1982? Grandma Crosby always played the piano while we sang and danced, played instruments and…..my little brother Josh imitated Zorro?  LOL I don’t know but we always had fun.  Gosh, I miss my Grandma. She loved decorating for holidays and she and Grandpa Crosby would hide money in our egg hunts!  That was a fast way to make cash ha!

So back  my decor….yes, I love these soft pastel colors.  Bringing out my coordinating teacups is a way to bring in some color and some of those white cloth napkins with aqua trim.  Also, my friend Rhonda from Hallstrom Home has an online store at Hallstrom Home where she sells these gorgeous jumbo sea glass beads.

They so nicely compliment my Beach Glass Ruffle Throw Blanket on this tufted chair.  You can find it HERE in my online shoppe.

And there’s my little bunny fwend, ha!  I said subtle, didn’t I?!

But I think he looks so cute under all those cherry blossom stems.  I switched out the green leafy stems for these and I’m definitely loving the feel of Easter in this room now.  Ok, so that’s one way to style this area and add some pops of color for Easter.  Now, how about this….

If you’re a regular reader, you KNOW how I just LOVE pink!  Pink, blush, bashful, any shade or name…I love it all.  So blush felt like another perfect color for this Easter Parade.  I kept the white cherry blossoms instead of using pink ones because I had those lovely peonies that I mentioned earlier.

The Blush Shabby Chic Ruffle Throw Blanket HERE is also from my online shoppe.  When showing off my peonies last month, I also decided I wanted to bring the blush back in here for Easter.  As I love to change things often, it was the perfect companion to my beach glass-colored throw.

Do you see those mini Cadbury Eggs in the apothecary jar? They’re my favorite. I swapped out the wrapped mints for these and picked out the blush and white ones to put in the jar.

Speaking of companions….my friend Rhonda also sent me another pair of glass beads and these were the blush glass beads. I absolutely love them!  Aren’t they just gorgeous?!

Then there’s this candle….. Oh mercy, it’s sooooo soooo good.  This comes from my talented friend, Rachel, who I just adore and she makes the most fabulous candles.  She opened up her Etsy shop HERE where she sells her Agapé candle line that she created last year.  I love candles but I’m picky about candles.  I’ve fallen in love with Rachel’s soy candles and have tried several of them and loved them all.  But her latest scent “BLUSH” is sooooo dreamy and I thought it was a perfect visit poster’s website addition to my blush Easter decor in the family room so I had to order one of them as well.  And I think my little bunny agrees, as he looks toward it.

As we are moving from Texas to Washington state at the end of this month and building a home there, we are in the garage deciding what to keep and what to throw out.  I do this every year or two when we move (yes, we have moved a lot but this time it’s permanent), but this time I really want to get rid of a lot and start fresh in the new home.  In doing this, I’m afraid my dear hubby might have tossed one (of our many boxes tossed) Easter box accidentally that wasn’t in a large Rubbermaid container.  I’m cringing and I can’t find it anywhere.  But at least I found a few more bunny fwends to put around the house. This guy is pretty cute.

Easter is a time of newness and rebirth.  It’s a time of celebrating the resurrection of our Savior.  So I love anything floral and blooming.  I found those most darling Magnolia Magazine in the supermarket all about floral.  And then a dear friend of mine, Georgianna Lane, published another book called Paris in Bloom and it’s just breathtaking and the most perfect book to have on my coffee table this Spring.  It arrived just in time for Easter.  I can’t wait to give it to my friends and family for gifts.

Every page is so gorgeous!  I’m loving all of those Easter tulips.

Can you just imagine what a dream it would be to go to Europe during the Easter season?  There are so many fresh tulips and cherry blossoms!

There’s a storage bench in our family room that I switched out for some lighter pillows,

and just one sweet bunny.

Over on my buffet, I created just a little glittery fancy Easter vignette.  I found the pretty Easter basket at Home Goods and they were perfect for my wooden glitter eggs that I found at Pottery Barn Kids last year.  I have a fun idea for those for my kiddos.

Over in my living room, I added green and white faux hydrangeas to my mercury glass compote bowl and another adorable bunny.  It’s subtle and simple but keeps this space looking elegant and not cheesy.

I love how fresh this room feels. I love all the blossoms and green.  These stems here are from one of my recent trips down to Magnolia Market in Waco. Doesn’t it just feel like Easter without having to step outside?!

In the Dining Room, well….you’ll have to come back tomorrow for that one.  I’ll be joining another group of friends to share what fun crafts we came up with this Easter.

Here are some shopping links for things you’ve seen in this post, to make your shopping experience more convenient.

I’m so glad you stopped by today and hope you have a better idea of how you’d like to decorate your home in celebration of Easter.  Please hop on over to continue our Easter Parade and enjoy the home of my friend Lisa at The Farmhouse On Boone.  Make sure to visit each of us on this Easter Parade Tour today.  All hosts include:

Summer Adams (me)  |  Maison de Cinq  |  The Grace House  |  Styled With Lace  |  BVintage
CC & Mike  |  Lindsay-Hill Interiors  |  MeMe Hill  |  2 Ladies & A Chair  |  The Farmhouse On Boone 

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I hope you’re enjoying your Spring!

xoxo,

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