Tablescape Thursday - Happy Birthday table for my daughter!

Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope you are having a good day......

it is clear and beautiful here right now!

Told you I would share Dee's birthday

table this week,  so here it is..........

I was trying to incorporate some things

that we had included in her initial wedding 

reception so she could still enjoy them, since

 they have decided to just go away, and do a

destination wedding.

So here is the birthday girl.........I finally remembered to take

some pics once they got here,  I usually get to caught

up in the festivities!!  lol

Here is her special spot at the table!

She had her own personal lil bouquet,

and she was planning to have chocolate

covered strawberries at the reception.

and her colors were going to be red, black and

white and possibly some plum.

These pics are not in the order I wanted them to be,

 but was having some difficulty losing them once they were

 uploaded for some reason. 

It was going to be red roses tho,  but at the time I needed them,

  I could not find them, so decided the red carnations would have 

to work, cause I wasn't going to spend a fortune at the florist.

Notice the black and white print on the bottom of the

vases,  those are cupcake papers in a black and white

print my daughter just loves, I purchased them to put

the strawberries in and then decided to try it at the

bottom of the vases.......and liked how it looked.

I found the lil round vases on sale at walmart for $1.49 each

 cause I wanted them to look like lil bouquets like you would carry!

  So they were perfect!  

This is a look down the center of the table.

She was the only one with a placecard!

and this is the napkin fold she had chosen,

it is called the tuxedo fold I think.  I turned

it upside down tho.

Here is a look from the side, and of course, she would
have had candles as well.

This is another look from the side.  You might notice that

some of the pics don't have the carnations in the bowl yet.

That is because I pretty much just did her placesetting, when I 

started taking pics cause I didn't know how long the carnations

 would last out of water.  So I waited till when she got here to put

them in place, so this was taken once she arrived.

Just for you information,  the carnations last well,  out of the

water for about 3-4 hours,  in case, you might like to try

using them sometimes,  then later I just floated them in a

bowl,  since the stems were already cut off. 

Here is a picture without the carnations in the
separate bowls, make a big difference .

With my fav photoshop affect - posterized

Another posterized affect

This is done with a lens flare affect,
Love the soft romantic quality it gives the photo!

This is with a paint daubs simple affect!

This is with a gradient map noise affect.
Love the colors!!

This is with a paint daubs sparkle affect!

This is with a different lens flair affect.

This is with a paint daubs dark rough affect.

Another lens flair affect!
It was perfect for filling in that bare spot!

This is another gradient map affect!

Another gradient map affect, special affects,  I think it is!!

This is a photo filter affect -  warm with Luminoscity
I loved how it looks,  with the light seemingly coming
thru the napkin, how cool is that!!

She took the vases of carnations home afterwards
and put them on her black dining room set.
Haven't seen it but she says it was very pretty,
which I thought it would be..............

 Isn't this just the perfectly heart shaped strawberry??

After dipped in chocolate it was the perfect heart shaped
chocolate covered strawberry for the birthday girl!!  lol

And since I had chocoate leftover,  hmmm,
what else could I used it for...........so decided on these
wonder German made butter cookies I buy,  they are
wonderful,  and I do a number of things with them.
First time to try them with chocolate.........but have
to say they were delcious!! 
In fact, I  have already made more...........
just for me and hubby!!  lol   

Strawberries posterized!  So whimsical!

This was the main dish,  Tilapia,  baked potatoes,  nice tossed
salad and great wholegrain bread.  This Tilapia recipe is very
easy and very delcious...............I always let them pick their
 favorite and this was my daughter's choice.  What you see
on the potatoes that is white,  it is kosher salt.  My son puts
olive oil  on them,  and then rolls them in kosher salt,  after
the taters (lol) have been cleaned well.  He learned that
 working at "Outback" Steakhouse years ago,
 when he was in college.


Maybe I will post the recipe soon on one of  my 
Heart Tips Tuesday's.


I am linking up to Susan
over at between naps on the porch
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to see more lovely tablescapes.


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Decided to link up to Sue too,
over at it's a very cherry world 
for Rednesday
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to see more neat red things!


Hope you enjoyed your visit,  
love having you come by.


Want to see what I did with the carnations that were
 embellishing the bowls...........come back next
week for Tabletop Tuesday and I will show you!!


Have a Terrific Thursday, and I will
 be posting Thankful Thursday as well, 
 just later on tonight!!


Pretty Table Blessings, 
Nellie

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