Coastal themed Father's Day

Tablescape Greetings Sweet Folks,


Seems like ages since I have done one of these!


Hope you are well,  and that you all had a great
Father's Day weekend spoiling your sweeties
or your Daddies...........
....
This was my attempt,  too bad I had planned
Mexican fare,  should have had seafood,  but
as you will read...........didn't know I was gonna
go Postal  Coastal......

When I started out it was just a blue and brown

color pallette,  and I was gonna use yellow, and

white flowers in a blue vase, but didn't really want

to use flowers just didn't know what else I could

use at the time,  but when I got the napkins out to

start on the table,  I found these silver napkin

rings I had forgotten about,  so thought oh,

I'll use those that will be a different look.

Once I putthe napkins rings on,  I sort of fluffed the ends and

then was just playing with them, and I thought hey, that sort of looks

 like a fish, and if he just had an eye it would probably definitely look

 like a fish,  so I went in search of something for fish eyes and I found

 some white buttons, and they did the trick.

Actually,  I thought later about using the candy with both sides
taped back and it looked good,  but asked advice and she
said the buttons,  so I was good I went with the buttons...

Then I thought okay, I could use shells to go with the fish,  so

drug my shells out and thought putting them in a glass container

would work, so found my trifle dish and I had a yellow candle

in my bedroom,  so grabbed that, stuck it in the center and

placed the shells all around it.  Then I thought I could use my

new lil candle jars I got for the porch since they are just the

right color,  so thought it needs a little something else.

So started adding the bigger shells but only had about 5 big

ones, so thought I will just add more candles,  so went in

search of those,  so used 2 different styles,  had some

yellow tealight candles the perfect shade of yellow, so

stuck those in the candle cups,  put them around the

main centerpc,  then added some more small shells,

and was so happy since it looked a lil more guyish,

for Father's Day.

Do you see the lil goldfish,  they are candy,

sort of like werther's candies,  and I just

tapes on end back underneath,  and put

them at each place setting and then added

some to the centerpc area as well. 

I have had this starfish for ages,  think it is so pretty!

A look from the top down.  Don't you just love
 the beauty of shells................

Been trying to remember where I got this big
one every since hubby asked me!  Still can't
remember.................I knew about all the
others.............

Shot from opposite end of the table.

photoshop affect,  colored pencil

 Great reflection of the table in the window..................

Cute lil goldfish type tail.

 colored pencil again!  This affect has become
another favorite.

 overhead shot.  The yellow dishes were for salsa

I took these and forgot I didn't have the silver
ware on yet,  as you can see it was set for more
people,  originally 7 of us,  but since Scott and Megan
wound up having to come on Sat. it was just for 5 of us.

 You can see the true color of blue that they are
in this picture.  They were $1.20 each.
Can't beat that...........

posterized

 Gradient map affect, 
 thought I would make him look like a goldfish!

 from opposite end of the table,  was able to put
gifts there since we downsized the amount of people.

 from same end of table just the other corner.

 love that candlelight,  took this at night as you can see....
too bad Father's Day dinner was in the daylight,  but we
still lit the candles just not as pretty as at night!

colored pencil affect


and

That's All Folks.....................
you are probably saying.....Thank Goodness!


I always take way more pics that I need to, as some
times I have not taken enough and missed something
I wished I had gotten, then feel like, oh well, took them
might as well use them................lol


Thanks for bearing with me and my logic!!  lol




Have linked up to Kathleen over at Cuisine Kathleen
and if you would like to see more beach themed 
tablecapes Just click Here.


Also linking up to Susan
 over at Between Naps on the Porch and if you 
want to see some more great tablescapes
Just click here




Also linking up to Yvonne over at Stone Gable
for Tutorials, Tips and Tidbits.
check it out Here.


Just got invited to link up with the style sisters
for centerpiece Wednesday,  they have some 
4th of July ideas as well..............so
just click here to see!




Glad you could drop by,  and look forward to hearing
from ya!  


Hugs and Coastal Blessings,
Nellie