Spring Dinner Party

Here is a party that I did in April - that included some guests from the music world. We wanted a kind of cool and hip vibe in this traditional home, so we did a fun grouping of different vessels on the table - brass cut out hurricanes, gold mercury votives, turquoise bottles and old pharmacy bottles. 

And for the tableware, it was in the dining room, but we used anything but china. We used Earthborn Pottery and wooden chargers paired with metallic grasscloth placemats and sage colored R.Woods salads plates and Alain St. Joanis's Boxwood handled flatware. For the stemware we used turquoise recycled Tom Collins glasses with William Yeoward's Annabelle.

We used a palatte of white and green for the flowers. It was a beautiful evening! 

Gazing over the infinity pool from the dining room table. 

Happy Entertaining!

Charity Tablescapes Event

Last week Table Matters participated in a Tablescapes event at St. Mary's Episcopal church that benefited their GED program. Not only were the tablescapes there for decoration, but event goers actually dined at the tables!! It was so much fun!

 I started with my centerpiece and chose a stunning Jan Barboglio piece with a mercury vessel. It was perfect since the arrangement was high above the heads of the ladies. Then for the linens, I chose some items that I had at home since these might risk getting dirty!

The tablecloth is an Ann Gish silk ministripe topper. And the napkins are Chilewich in a khaki color, matching the stripes in the cloth and some beautiful, mulit-color beaded napkin rings. I also scattered mercury vases about the table and filled them with seeded eucalyptus. The placemats coordinated with the topper and the chargers were a combination of Juliska's Berry and Thread and Jardin du Monde. And the new Juliska colette Plum glasses set the mood and gave me inspiration for the flowers.

 With the inspiration from the plum colette glasses, I chose purple flowers of all shades to fill the mercury vessel - hydrangeas, stock, dahlias, smoke branch and seeded eucalyptus.

And our beautiful meal...cooked by some ladies of the church! Delicious!

Thursday Night Delivery - Birthday Dinner Party

Centerpiece for a birthday dinner party. 

The client's husband made a very big outdoor table to seat 14 people and she had a big cloth made in a mushroom color and we did burlap placemats with Mottahedah's Tobacco Leaf pattern and Herend's Blue Chinese Bouquet...beautiful green striped napkins and lots of tealights and this beautiful Fortunata clover leaf bowl filled with orchids and foliage...I'm hoping the client will send me some photos soon!

Shoe Flower Arrangement

I was asked to do an arrangement for the grand opening of Gus Mayer's shoe department at the Summit. Our inspiration was a wire high heel...see how I combined these three containers to make a beautiful spring arrangement.

Step One: Double line the moss container with a garbage bag and fill with a few packing peanuts (for drainage) and fill wih potting soil.

 

Step Two: Cut oasis block to the size of the shoe. Any sort of knife will just cut right through it. And secure the shoe to the oasis with u-shaped wire pins.

Step Three: Place the shoe in the middle of the moss planter. Line the shoe with sheet moss to fill the wire form.

Step Four: Begin adding live plants. I selected ferns, tulips and hyacinths. I selected certain areas of the container to plant - so the shoe would still be seen from certain points of view.

Step Five: I then begin adding some cut plants/flowers that I placed in floral water tubes. I kept the stems cut low, so they would just be a ground cover around the remainder of the base planter.

Step Six: Begin adding flowers in floral water tubes to the high heel as well. And then secure and cover with  sheet moss.

Step Seven: Cut the extra liner back and tuck into the planter. Then begin adding mood moss to finish off around the flowers and cover any oasis that is showing. {Note: Its best to wet the mood moss first and then squeeze it like a sponge. It cleans it and makes it more pliable to work with and mold around plantings.}

Step Eight: I then finished of the moss planter or shoe box with a pretty blue ribbon and attached with pearl tipped pins. The shoe department has sky blue accents, so I wanted to pull that into the compostion.

Step Nine: I then used the same method of planting the wire handbag. I lined it with moss and filled with potting soil and peanuts. Wrapped the handle in the blue ribbon and placed some of the pink spray roses in the floral water tubes.

Step Ten: I've added a white primrose the the handbag and also lined the outer edge of the high heel with satin white ribbon to highlight the lines of the shoe. As well as a sassy bow to the heel in the sky blue

ribbon. 

And Voila!!!

A wire shoe rising from a beautifully flowered shoe box with a coordinating handbag!

 Hope you'll go by and see the new Gus Mayer, as well as my arrangement!