OK, I’m late. Late for a very important date…. (apologies to Louis Carroll and Disney), I know I should have posted all my spring stuff before this. I mean, geez, other bloggers have had their spring decor out for weeks. Somehow April got away from me and here it is the first week in May! The older I get the faster time goes. I used to hear that from my elders growing up and I was……”What?” “That doesn’t make any sense. How can time go faster?”  But I sure get it now.

For my spring table this year I rounded up a couple of bird nests left over from my Easter centerpiece and added a few things that evoked spring to me. I didn’t want to buy anything new so everything here is stuff I had already had. Greenery….zero dollars. Feathers…. Zero dollars. Nests…. Zero dollars. Free Spring centerpiece? Priceless.

Putting the nests under cloches gives them a little more importance. And what says spring better than greenery in peat pots?   Two vintage crystal glasses with bird feathers and rolled up music sheets, and all of it on my favorite chippy wood base layered on a grain sack remnant. It’s low enough that guests can see one another and converse over it, narrow enough that I can still set the table without dismantling or moving everything.

I added an old book as a riser for one of the peat pots because it was green and had a nifty title. Five acres and Independence. I bought the book months ago for $2.00 with the intention of taking it apart for another project. I didn’t pay particular attention to the title until I got it home. It struck a chord. And I couldn’t bring myself to take it apart.

All the time I was growing up I said I wanted to live on a little farm. Five acres sounded like a pretty good number. I wanted all sort of animals. I didn’t actually want to FARM, I just wanted a farmhouse and animals. Farming looked like hard work and I wasn’t into the whole plowing the field part, but I was into the animal part. Life had other plans for me and I never got my five acres. (Or the farmhouse.) I did, however, get to share my life with various critters over the years. And still have two furbabies. So as far as dreams coming true, I got half of that one. A win surely…. plus I didn’t have to plow any fields. Bonus.

Where was I? Oh yes, the book as a riser. I’m still looking for another vintage book or two….. maybe a gardening or botanical tome for the other end of the table, to balance the arrangement. It’s a bit lopsided with just the one book. I noticed after I added the photos that I still have a crusty little twig hanging out for no apparent reason. It has some great lichen on it but it feels sort of….off…. in the arrangement. Should I remove it?  I like to tweak things after I get the basic plan down. This one isn’t any different. There may be other changes besides adding a book and subtracting the twig. Or not. Sometimes an arrangement can feel static and boring without something a little “off.” For now, this is my spring table. I hope you approve.

Create the home you see in your heart. Create a sanctuary, no matter where you live.