Pizza Night in front of the TV...

Tonight is "Pizza Night", so I set the coffee table with paper placemats and plastic pizza plates:

These pizza plates are over 25 years old, and I use them quite often:

My favorite beer glasses are "stolen glasses" from my college days when I went to the Canary Islands:

The MacKenzie-Childs cups are for our chicken wings:

The placemats are disposable paper sheets, with a tomato and herb theme:

All set, just waiting for the delivery man to arrive!

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Bunny Rabbits are Having a Grand 'Ol Time around here….

Bunnies are quite cute….

…however….they have had a grand 'ol time with my bushes this winter:

They have chewed all of the leaves and stripped the bark off theses bushes in our front landscaping - as well as leaving little piles of of turds all around the house!

AND…then I found her winter home - do you think she is nesting?  OH, NO!!  

For now, I will just enjoy my decorative Easter bunnies...

….and the bunnies on our Easter tree:

At least these little guys...

…won't be messing around in my landscaping!

Burlap Table Top

I bought this end table at an estate sale but the top was really in bad shape.  I purchased some printed burlap at HL and adhered it to the top for a quick fix:

I gave it a few coats of Mod Podge to make it waterproof and make it stiff:

The handles on the drawer were given an update with a few coats of champagne colored car spray paint:

Another table given a new life!

It's for sale at Shabby Chic Home and Garden!

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Paper Bag Table

I bought this cute little end table at the local thrift shop and wanted to try something new:

I painted the table black and then adhered torn pieces of a paper bag to the top:

I trimmed the edges with gold:

This treatment gave the table an "old world" touch and it is certainly a conversation piece!

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Sitting on Top of the World...

I love these old school chairs.  They are so sturdy and comfortable, but this one wanted to be updated!

I picked up a map of NY State and adhered it to the chair!

It's a perfect chair for a teen's desk, don't you think?

Joining Under $100 Party at Beyond the Picket Fence

Syracuse Table Top

This was a quick fix to a leather table top that was in poor shape:  

I adhered a local map of Syracuse to the top!  Easy Peasy!

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My Take on a MacKenzie-Childs Table Runner

I wanted to make a table runner, so I purchased some black and white checked fabric (of course)….

and added a bit of color to the checks (you know why!):

I chose to add a bit of padding and white backing - the trick here, to make it lay well, is to pin the padding under the wrong side of the checks and lay the backing fabric face down to the checks.

I angled each end to make rounded point and added a small tassel:

After turning it right-side out, I topstitched around the outside edges:

And here is the finished table runner:

I have set my table for dinner, my brother- and sister-in-law are stopping by for dinner tonight.

I made gazpacho as an appetizer and we will have roast pork, stuffing and vegetables.  While in Florida the last few weeks, I found these red enamel soup/salad bowls - they are perfect with my CC dishes!

I was feeling energetic, so I also made a rectangle shaped runner with striped ends:

I can't decide which runner I like best!

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Grace at Home

Back to reality...

I am home from my Florida/Bahamas vacation...

 I ate too much…but how can you refuse meals that look this tasty?

and I probably drank too much…but the sun and salt made me feel parched :-)

The sun and sea made me forget about all the snow in central NY...

…and the warm nights made me yearn for summer!

I am in a blogging funk…and as soon as my creative mind adjusts to the cold weather I will be back!