Set a Blue & White EASTER Brunch Table

Each year we host an Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt after church. In the past, my Easter tables have been pastel, or covered with green majolica "leaf" plates. This year, I'm changing it up and using a more French Country theme of Blue & White! I know so many of you love Blue & White, it is always fresh, new and well, beautiful. I used our FrenchGardenHouse Country Checked dishes for this table, on Easter I will be adding antique French transferware bowls and platters in blue & white to serve the food. {This was a practice run, I like to plan what my tables will look like ahead of time, so it's not a stress on the day itself.} Since we host our children, grandchildren, and friends, I use a sturdy tablecloth instead of our antique lacey ones. This year, I couldn't really find cloths that I loved in enough of a quantity to cover the buffet tables and the seating tables inside and out in the garden, so I came up with a really good substitute. I found long curtain panels on sale, and was excited to obtain enough for all our tables. I use anything and everything that's washable for tablecloths here at home. Do you? Even our kraft shipping paper gets used as a runner sometimes. I love antiques, but my style is to combine antiques with quirky, fun pieces and elements to tell my own personal style story! Inside each cafe au lait bowl, these French country wax nests are nestled in crinkly white paper shred, with a simple name tag at each place. Name tags always elevate a table from good to better! It makes it more personal for your guests, and is such an easy thing to do. I'm using my antique Mother of Pearl and Sterling flatware this time, the handles give a little gleam to the tables. The antique French compotier holds bright green eggs. A little chalkboard lamb proclaims the reason we celebrate Easter. I stacked the dessert plates on a French country blue checked cake plate. The preserved boxwood wreaths are so wonderful to use, in this case, one surrounds the dessert plates with a pop of green. One of our wax French country hens sits on top of the very first one, on shred. I love elegant. I love antiques, but I never want our home to be stuffy. For me, it's got to be fun too! And especially when our kids and grand babies come over, they love fun. I want them to have plenty of memories to remember us by. I'm not 100% sure what my legacy will be, but I hope that meaningful family holidays and celebrations will be amongst the things my family and friends remember me for! My take on great entertaining and setting the scene: it has to have a lot of personality. a mix of antique and contemporary. it has to have a little quirk. and then, it has to be fun! People respond to fun — a little whimsy goes a long way.

French Country Dishes. Preserved Boxwood Wreath. Wax Hen.

Next time, I'll share the recipe for amazing little individual Parmesan Hash Browns from Lisa at Delicious Table. Make sure you come back for that, I'm making this for my Easter brunch. So. Easy. So. Delicious. Shop for the best in French Antiques, furniture with the patina of age, vintage accessories to delight you and your family & friends, and French Country utilitarian pieces. Treasures that make your home fresh, beautiful, inspirational and uniquely yours. Visit our shop FrenchGardenHouse.com.