Easter Table Setting Ideas

It's about that time...... are your Easter baskets ready? I wish I could say mine are, but I been feverishly busy working on a really special birthday party for my oldest daughter. I can't wait to reveal the photos after I'm done. It's been a true labor of love!

With just a few more days until Easter, I'm sure we are all trying to find some great ways to decorate our Easter tables with unique and fun table settings. Here are a few ideas that I found from around the web:

This gorgeous display from Better Homes and Gardens uses peony "nests"

in footed glass bowls with some speckled eggs as centerpieces.

Using butterflies as table decorations signifies Spring right away. These beautiful ideas from Southern Living can be executed in minutes after a quick trip to the craft store.

A collage of Easter ideas from Bliss Wedding Market, Delish, and BHG.

The Easter tree makes such a statement for very little time or money.

Martha Stewart shows a beautiful Easter table using large baskets of tulips as

centerpieces and some colorful compotes of jelly beans. The repetition of coral from the tulips to the tablecloth, jelly beans and even the drinks makes an eye-catching display.

Just a few simple blossoms in an egg cup sitting on your plates make a wonderfully easy place setting from Celebrations.com

Or you could try this egg cup idea from the Farm Chicks

using a little moss and a place card flag.

And again, simple is good! I love this place card Easter egg idea from

Better Homes and Gardens.

I hope you all have a wonderful day.... and now to work on those Easter baskets!

{Customer Party} - Easter Birthday!

Today I'm sharing a few photos a sweet customer sent me of a party that I designed the printables for. Little Ella was celebrating her 6th birthday, and with it being so close to Easter, her mom, Andrea, decided to go with an Easter theme and use my Bunny Birthday collection as a good starting place.

The party was held at Twin Oaks Fun Farm where the kids enjoyed lots of fun activites like riding ponies, picking strawberries, feeding animals, hunting eggs, stuffing bunnies and playing on the farm's huge playground. Can you even imagine how much fun those children had!

And with 65 guests, children and parents alike, Andrea did an amazing job of decorating and organizing all of those activities and even served a full bar-be-que lunch.

Andrea chose cupcakes from a local bakery, Bliss, and used the sweet personalized cupcake toppers from the Bunny Birthday collection to dress them up a bit.

The dessert table also included some cake pops and cookies that Andrea made herself.

I love a DIY girl!

What a beautiful setting!

And the birthday girl.....

Andrea used my napkin wraps from the Bunny Collection to wrap around store-bought bubbles which made a fun and inexpensive prize for the kids. And about her cake pops, Andrea says, "For my first try at cake pops they turned out pretty good and were a big hit."

And that's not all Andrea can do! This smart mom used her Cricut to cut vinyl names which she then used to personalize each of these Dollar Tree Easter buckets.

What a smart idea for an Egg Hunt.

Andrea's mom came in to help, too, making all of the table runners for little Ella's party.

What a great mom!

Andrea says, "We had a wonderful time making some special memories for Ella on her 6th birthday." And from the looks of things, I think everyone there must have had an amazing time, too!

Thanks, Andrea, for letting me share Ella's party! You did a wonderful job!

Decorated Easter Cookies

I've seen some super cute ideas around the web for decorated Easter cookies as I've been trolling for Easter ideas. And although some might be a little too difficult for me to make myself, they sure are cute and bring lots of inspiration for making cookies with my own children.

Ifood has such a cute idea for an Easter display or gift for someone you love.... An Easter bunny bouquet of decorated sugar cookies. I don't know anyone who wouldn't love to receive this sweet package!




Glory from Glorious Treats has a fantastic, easy-to-follow tutorial for how to make these sweet decorated sugar cookies for your Easter table.



Adorable Easter eggs with chicks from Hello Naomi would make a perfect favor for Easter parties or a sweet gift for someone special.





Mini iced sugar cookies from Williams Sonoma make it easy for those of us who don't want to do it all ourselves.




What a cute display for these iced Easter egg cookies from Lists of Plenty.




I sooooo love these bunny cookies cupcakes from My Recipes!



I saw these cuties on Peppers and Pollywogs.

And last but certainly not least are these gorgeous little cookies from TS Cookies Etsy shop.

I hope ideas brought a little spring-time cookie inspiration!

Gorgeous Easter Egg Topiaries

Once I saw these gorgeous photos, I knew I had to share this amazing idea from Eddie Ross today for Easter egg topiaries. Eddie was asked by Woman's Day magazine to put together an Easter table and craft for their April issue and what a fabulous idea he came up with - Easter egg topiaries made from decoupaging decorative paper napkins. Wow, right?

And that's not all, Eddie also made these beautiful glittered eggs from a mix of paper mâché and plastic eggs, glittered and embellished with flower confetti.

So pretty and simple, too!

Just a few supplies, a little time, and these topiaries and eggs would last as

Easter decorations for years to come.

I love the simplicity of his Easter dinner table as well..... a grass centerpiece with some of his beautiful, decorative eggs and don't forget the chocolate bunnies.

Be sure to visit designer Eddie Ross' website for more fabulous decorating ideas.

{FREE} Easter Printables for Operation Shower - Part 2

I hope you all are enjoying the FREE Easter printables download I designed to raise money for Operation Shower. To find out a little more about Operation Shower, just take a look at my post from Part 1 yesterday. Amazing how raising only $250 enables them to throw a full, fabulous baby shower with gifts for a military mom to be whose spouse is deployed. How wonderful!

I thought I'd post a few more photos today of these super sweet designs, perfect for all of your Easter brunches, egg hunts and parties.

I hope that once you download the FREE printables, you'll be sure to

1. Check out Operation Shower’s website to find ways to donate or volunteer.

2. Tell your friends, family, and neighbors about Operation Shower and the Give Thanks project.

3. Facebook/Tweet/Blog about this FREE EASTER DOWNLOAD to help spread the word Operation Shower.

4. Donate to Operation Shower here.

Our military families have made so many sacrifices for us. I hope we will all join together in supporting them and this worthy cause!

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{FREE} Printables for Operation Shower

I'm so excited to reveal a project that I've been working on for a great cause, Operation Shower. What's Operations Shower, you say? Here's a great description from the source!

Operation Shower is about celebrating and honoring military families. Operation Shower is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides joyful baby showers for military families to ease the burden of deployment.

For military families who are expecting a new baby and are experiencing or have recently experienced deployment, we accomplish our mission through:

• hosting amazing baby showers
• providing baby showers-in-a-box
• delivering high-quality products and parties
• creating a shared experience
• partnering with organizations to provide value-added services, such as health-related information

To help achieve their mission, Operation Shower started Operation Give Thanks, a nation-wide fundraising campaign to support these wonderful parties. So in an effort to raise money for this worthy cause and to support those who do so much for our country, Shindig Parties TO GO is providing a FREE full Easter Printables Collection. And it's a big one! Cupcake toppers, bunny silhouettes, cross silhouettes, water bottle wraps, napkin wraps, tent cards, favor tags, candy bar wrappers, Easter signs, flags, a banner and more!

I hope that once you download the FREE printables, you'll be sure to

1. Check out Operation Shower’s website to find ways to donate or volunteer.

2. Tell your friends, family, and neighbors about Operation Shower and the Give Thanks project.

3. Facebook/Tweet/Blog about this FREE EASTER DOWNLOAD to help spread the word Operation Shower.

4. Donate to Operation Shower here.

Would you like to see what's included in the set? There are lots of really cute printables for lots of Easter fun from brunches to Easter egg hunts, Sunday School parties and sweet favor tags for friends and teachers, too!

We are asking people across the nation to host a party between now and the end of the year to raise money for Operation Shower. What a wonderful way to express your gratitude and thanks at this special time of year.

Our long-term goal is to reach every military base in the nation. Our short-term goal is to raise $50,000 through Operation Give Thanks to enable us to shower over 200 more moms-to-be ! That’s right, if you raise $250 for Operation Shower, that enables us to throw a full amazing baby shower with gifts for a military mom to be whose spouse is deployed!

If you decide to host a party, please email us at lena@operationshower.org or amy@operationshower.org and we will help guide you as well and provide more information!

Thanks everyone for supporting our military families!

Linking up to: Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Skip to My Lou, Craftomaniac, Tater Tots and Jello, Skip to my Lou, Under the Table and Dreaming, Blue Cricket Design, Someday Crafts, Fireflies and Jelly Beans, House of Hepworths, Somewhat Simple, Tidy Mom, Romantic Home,Shabby Nest, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Finding Fabulous, The Girl Creative,Tater Tots and Jello, Be Different Act Normal, Funky Junk Interiors, Today's Creative Blog, Tip Junkie, The Idea Room, C.R.A.F.T., Today's Creative Blog, Between Naps on the Porch