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13 Apr 2021

Entertaining & Holidays

Your Beautiful Easter Table

Happy Easter (Photo: Pottery Barn)Celebrating Easter and decorating for the holiday is a lot of fun. Popular customs include coloring eggs, wearing new clothes, exchanging Easter baskets filled with chocolates and other goodies, an Easter egg hunt, the Easter bunny, and an Easter parade. Gone is wearing your “Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it.” Too bad . . . it was such a lovely tradition.

Another tradition is the Easter meal and setting a beautiful table for the occasion.

Setting a beautiful table for Easter

Sophisticated spring-green palette. (Photo: The Gypsy's Corner)

This sophisticated spring-green palette is offset by a brown-and-white floral print salad plate, brown eggs, and chocolate bunnies. Note the ribbon around the stemware—nice!
(Photo: The Gypsy’s Corner)

Simple, easy-to-make centerpiece. (Photo: Jenny Steffens Hobick)

Simple, easy-to-make centerpiece—planted daffodils with green moss . . . brown and heirloom blue eggs . . . everything in white cereal bowls with a single daffodil at each place setting. (Photo: Jenny Steffens Hobick)

DIY Supermarket Centerpiece: Cookie Jar Creation. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)

A clear cookie jar is filled with a fat bouquet of spring flowers and a mix of white, brown, and pink-dyed eggs. To achieve the effect, put a smaller vase inside the jar for the flowers; then fill around the vase with eggs. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)

Bunny napkins. (Photo: Delish)

Bunny napkins, easily made from spray-starched square napkins, offer simple decor. (Photo: Delish)

Decoupaged eggs.

Decoupaged with paper napkins, eggs are placed among pansies in a basket. Ribbon wrapped around the handle is a nice touch.

Dyed eggs, covered with glitter.

Dyed eggs, covered with glitter-glue spray, shine when displayed on crystal candlesticks among lit candles.

Birdcages filled with Easter treats. (Photo: Wunderwieb)

Birdcages, at each place setting, are filled with Easter treats for guests. (Photo: Wunderweib)

Egg Candles

Egg candles.Hard-boil, dye, and dry eggs. Break shell crown of egg by gently tapping with spoon. Discard and remove egg contents with small spoon. Pour colored dye inside egg shell, drain, and place shell upside down on a paper towel to dry.

To make candle, first melt candle wax (from craft store) in a double boiler. Next, using a glue gun, place a small drop of glue inside egg, on bottom. Put a wick in the glue spot; it should reach above the eggshell. Wind wick around a toothpick three times, and gently place toothpick across the egg opening. Using a small ladle, spoon, or funnel, pour wax into egg. Fill 7/8 of the egg with wax, making sure to evenly surround the wick. Allow wax to harden, remove toothpick, and cut wick to size.

Place egg candles in eggcups.

(Photo: Good Housekeeping)

Edible Nest Place Card Holders. (Photo: Delish)

For edible place cards, twist two or three black-licorice laces together to create a cup. Soften in microwave for 20 seconds. Reshape. Let cool, then nestle candy eggs inside. (Photo: Delish)

Heirloom blue egg on a nest of green moss and twigs. (Photo: Jenny Steffens Hobick)

An heirloom blue egg rests on a nest of green moss and twigs.
(Photo: Jenny Steffens Hobick)

Colored eggs in a bowl. (Photo: Wunderweib)

Simply-colored eggs in a bowl and a pitcher of flowers on the table provides country-casual elegance. Love this for breakfast! (Photo: Wunderweib)

Grass-and-egg Easter table setting. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)

A cheerful place setting incorporates an egg name card, Easter candy, and artificial grass with a bright blue plate and rickrack-edged napkin on top of a yellow gingham tablecloth. Wheatgrass would work well, too. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)

Assorted tulips and wheatgrass in baskets. (Photo: Martha Stewart)

Assorted tulips and wheatgrass in baskets compliment the apricot tablecloth for a formal look. Jelly beans in orange, yellow, and green add a bit of fun. (Photo: Martha Stewart)

Want to grow some wheatgrass for your Easter centerpiece? Here’s how!

White eggs and white tulips. (Photo: Decor Pad)

An ultra-sophisticated Easter tablescape has an all-white palette—white eggs and white tulips in glass jars on raised cake dishes . . . candles in floral votives . . . hollowed-out white eggs hold a single tulip on each dinner plate. (Photo: Decor Pad)

Pretty spring nest. (Photo: Country Living)

For a pretty spring nest: Start with dampened moss in a medium-size bowl and tuck small flowers around the edge. Next, place a smaller bowl filled with speckled candy eggs in the center, making sure the rim of the bowl is well camouflaged with moss and flowers.
(Photo: Country Living)

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