Welch House 1900: French country Easter

Today I would love to share with you my Easter table. I have to admit setting a beautiful table is not one of my strongest talents but I am trying to put more effort into my styling. This Easter table is one of my very favorites so far. I've really been on a mission this year to try my hardest to not spend any money on new holiday decor and use what I already have, mostly because I'm trying to save my money to put towards refreshing the house and other home improvement projects.

For this particular table I started by using brass chargers and layers of beautiful mixed patterns of china. The sweet little egg cups are TJMaxx finds from last year and I absolutely love them!

I think they compliment the china plates so nicely!

I used my favorite antique crystal stemware with the floral swag etchings that I recently found thrifting. Next to them I used some smaller stemware to hold my favorite Cadbury chocolate eggs.

But the star of the show I think is the floral arrangement. I spotted this three tiered vase at the thrift store recently, it was partially hidden behind a bunch of junk. I really wasn't impressed with it at first but as I looked at it more closely it started to remind me of the Seventeenth century Tulipiere Vase.

While an authentic or even a reproduction Tulipiere vase is currently out of my budget...this little guy was not. So for only $7.99 I was getting a Tulipiere look alike vase to bring a bit of seventeenth century European charm to my Easter table... yes please!

I picked up a few discounted grocery store rose bouquets and began to fill up the tiers. Whenever I encountered some empty spaces I just filled them in with a few sprigs of faux lavender that I found at Wal-Mart for under a dollar. I think it turned out so pretty!

The little brown bunny I was thrilled to find while thrifting last summer. It is extremely old and is actually a money bank! I also love it because it looks so similar to my real life bunny Antoinette who you met in my last post.

I always get so many compliments and questions on my lace tablecloth that you see here. Its actually not even a tablecloth! Can you believe that they are Martha Stewart curtain panels from close to twenty years ago?!! When I was a teenager they hung in our family room.

I love the elegance and romance that they bring to the table.

After twenty years and many washes they are still in perfect condition!

I'm also loving the embroidered antique panel that I hung in the doorway that leads to the kitchen.

I'm really pleased with this sweet Easter tablescape. Aside from the napkins and pink table runner, most everything on my table was thrifted.

Do you love to go thrifting? Will you be using any of your thrifted finds/treasures to set your Easter table this year?

I hope you enjoyed this post! So many of you enjoyed seeing our bunny Antoinette in my last post...I have to tell you that this past week we brought home another bunny to keep her company. He is very little and gray colored. We named him Louis. If you follow me on Instagram @larissa_jenkins you will see lots of him in my stories. I will have to do a photo shoot of him soon for the blog...you will love him.

Thank you again for visiting!

-Larissa

Easter is such a fun holiday to decorate for and I was so excited to be included in this wonderful "Hop into Easter" blog hop hosted by my dear friend Amber at Follow The Yellow Brick Home. Thank you so much Amber for hosting!

If you are coming over from Emily's beautiful home at Le Cultivateur I would like to welcome you to Welch House!

I do love Easter and springtime, but I have to be honest when I say that I have such a hard time decorating for this time of year! I don't have a lot of Easter decor or spring decor, and the items I do have seem to clash with one another. This year I decided to only bring out my very favorite items for the holiday and those items were my small collection of Faux chocolate bunnies.

I have been collecting these cuties for a long time now, and as much as I love them, I have the hardest time blending them into my Easter decor.

After some thought, a light bulb went off in my head...why don't I group them together and create a sweet bunny vignette instead of spreading them all over the house!?

I really didn't want to spend any money on this idea so I started "shopping" my house. As I started digging through cabinets and armoires I realized that I had quite the collection of urns and other "urn-like" items...but how would I be able to make them all flow together? Another light bulb goes off in my head...gold paint. I absolutely love gold gilded mirrors and dressers, why not gild my urns? So I did just that and added a bit of dark wax to age them. Perfect!

I decided to showcase each of my bunnies in their very own urn pedestals. I filled each one with some Spanish moss and a few colored eggs. I absolutely love the way it turned out! Everything you see on top of my piano aside from the bunnies, I have thrifted for just a few dollars each. In fact the mirror I found at a garage sale for $12 and the chandelier for only $5 at another garage sale last summer.

These two sweet little bunnies I grouped together and they look like they are giving each other a kiss.

The tall bunnies on the ends are my very favorites. I bought them at JoAnne Fabrics years ago and I love their vintage vibe.

With all of the bunnies lined up on the piano it just reminded me of an Easter Parade line up. I am going to do this set up every year I think. It will be fun to search for more chocolate rabbits and pretty containers to display them in, throughout the year.

On the dining room mantel I decided to display another chocolate rabbit in a very rustic basket.

I added soft pink satin ribbons to the sides.

Speaking of bunnies....

There seems to be one more that popped up recently here at Welch House.

Meet the newest addition to our family...a sweet girl that we named Antoinette.

We've had her since late February and she is much bigger now! These are just some of the very first photos that I snapped a couple of weeks after she arrived at her forever home.