Spring / Easter Tablescape with Classic Blue & White

Happy spring, and welcome to Panoply! I am so excited that spring will officially be here this evening (and one day earlier than the norm due to it being a leap year). Although we've been having some very nice weather already, this week I'll necessarily be covering a few plants while morning lows dip below freezing. 

Today I'm also very happy to be hosting a group of table enthusiasts who are each equally excited in bringing you table designs to kick off your spring inspiration!

You'll find all the participating bloggers and their table designs in links that are listed near the end of this post. The links will take you directly to their posts of spring tablescaping.

For my own tablescape, my inspiration comes from a desire to set a classic blue and white design, but with a touch of playfulness. Its versatility is also by design, such that it can be used for either a spring or Easter table. Since Easter is so early this year, the tablescape transitions particularly well. Daffodils are blooming prolifically now in my area, so yellow is my accent today.

Last year, I found these sweet, hand-painted salad plates from an online company called Dondolo. While children's clothing is the main emphasis, the entrepreneur loves setting a beautiful table, and has offered items manufactured in her home country of Columbia. These plates were one of those items offered. I happened upon her company in one of my magazines, but cannot remember which one. The salad plate rests on a blue stripe dinner plate and Royal Check charger.

The tablecloth was also purchased last year. Often I will find individual items which, over time, eventually inspire me to put them together. That's really how this tablescape came to be. The blue glasses and napkin rings were finds from two years ago. Once the table was arranged, I used Battenburg placemats - a find from several years ago - to give the eyes a rest with the centerpiece and each place setting, apart from all the blue and white pattern play.

The daffodil arrangement (faux) in the blue and white planter was a recent find (along with a paperwhite arrangement) from an very nice, upscale estate. Fun fact: my best friend has been looking for a new home and is currently under contract at the house where this latest estate sale was hosted! Lol, that's how we ended up in the house we're in. I went to pick up an estate sale purchase, and ended up buying the home!

Bookending the floral arrangement on the table are dapper rabbits holding candy treats. Each is part of a pair called Eric and Eloise, with Eloise being a fox. Their names seem counterintuitive to me. Doesn't the bunny just look more like an Eloise? Nonetheless, I have a pair of Eric rabbits, and I also have one Eloise fox, currently on hiatus in the decor closet.

Just another pop of yellow beside each smokey blue glass is a stemmed, Mirage Yellow glass by Denby. These also came from an estate my sister in Cincinnati sourced, and I have a set of double old-fashioned glasses to match. These are mid-1970s glassware from Sweden.

My little crackled rabbit is yet another estate sale purchase, made by Dedham Pottery of Massachusetts in the mid-1980s. Equally sweet as the hand-painted salad plates are the white seersucker napkins, also from Dondolo, and the decoupaged wooden eggs used as guest takeaways.

I picked up the live potted daffodils while at the grocery a couple weeks ago and placed the pot on the credenza across from the table. The placemat is a nod to St. Patrick's Day. March has everything I love, particularly with Easter's timing this year. St. Patrick's Day, spring, my oldest daughter's birthday, and our anniversary, which was at the start of the month - my favorite time of year! Seeing the daffodils as first blooms in my own landscape honestly makes me giddy.

While it warmed to 80° this past week, I took advantage of the time in the landscape and already planted the store-bought daffodils next to my concrete reader boy on the north side. Last year I dug up several daffodils that were randomly blooming and planted them together, and hope they will naturalize. I want more!

I hope you enjoyed today's tablescape, and leave with a feeling of spring fever. If that's the case, I have just the remedy - a bushel more of inspiration in the links below! 

As with all my tablescapes, I like to provide sources. This may give you ideas for finding similar items (when vintage, eBay, Etsy or Poshmark are good places to look). However, I am a non-revenue producing blog, so the sources are simply a courtesy for you. Listing these also helps me in future tablescaping. I can just search on my own blog to find elements used in prior table settings to be able to provide consistent labeling (and prompt myself for ideas again!). 

Spring / Easter Tablescape with Classic Blue & White Source List

Charger plates (Royal Check) - MacKenzie-Childs

Dinner Plates (Laura Ashley), Tablecloth (Rachel Ashwell)- HomeGoods

Salad Plates, Seersucker napkins - Dondolo

Flatware (Fortessa Luca) - Horchow

Smoky blue glasses (Libbey, USA), Mirage yellow stems (Denby, Sweden), napkin rings, floral arrangement, white Battenburg placemats, blue & white crackle rabbit (Dedham Pottery) - estate sale finds

Blue & white decoupaged eggs - Nora Murphy 

Brass bunnies (Eric) - Darby Creek Trading

I hope you'll enjoy all the table aesthetes who've joined me today to bring you spring and Easter ideas!

Panoply - Spring / Easter Tablescape with Classic Blue & White

Hyacinths for the Soul - March into Spring

Home is Where the Boat Is - Easter Bunnies, Chicks, and Blooms

Pandora's Box - Easter Breakfast Table for 2

Life and Linda - Hippity Hoppity Tablescape

Everyday Living - Celebrating Spring's Arrival and Easter's Blessings

My Thrift Store Addiction - Birds and Blooms Spring Tea Party

The Cat's Whiskerz - Hello Spring

Belle Bleu Interiors - Bunnies and Blooms

Mantel and Table - Spring Garden Tablescape with a Beautiful Basket of Tulips

Thrifting Wonderland - Simple Bunny Table Setting

The Painted Apron - Bunnies in Bloom!

Dinner at Eight - Celebrate Spring's Arrival with a Pastel Tablescape

Corner of Plaid and Paisley - Spring Sprouts New Life

Karin's Kottage - Charming Easter bunny table setting

Red Cottage Chronicles - Spring Fling Tablescape

The Bookish Dilettante - Spring  Tablescape: Bookish Bunnies

Me and My Captain - Keepers of the Traveling Shamrock TableCloth

Please do let me know you stopped by my blog today by leaving a comment. If you show up as anonymous, please add a comment to know who you are! And tell me - has spring sprung in your region? What flowers are blooming near and around you, or in your garden?

If you're new to my blog, welcome! And if you're a return visitor, thank you for your loyal readership. Happy spring!🌷💜🌿🐣🪻💗🐇🌿

Rita C. at Panoply

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