Tablescape Thursday - Casual 4th of July table

Happy Wednesday to you

Sweet Friends,

Hope this day find you well and 

content in your circumstances....

whatever they might be!

This wedding stuff is really occupying quite a lot of my

time these days, so it is easier for me to just down

load pictures and say a few things,  so decided to

show you our CASUAL 4th of July table.

Summers around here means easy and laid back,

and Fun!!! It has been that way since my children

 were little. Not as much cleaning,  not as much

 fuss........cause I just wanted to enjoy my children

 while they were home with no schedules to keep.

We highly enjoyed our summers!  Have to say

I miss those days sometimes.

But we still have days that are the same, and

our 4th of July table represented one of those days,

  as you will see!  We had all the traditional foods,

hamburgers, hotdogs, salads and strawberry

shortcake cake!  All delicious,  and a very nice

time had by all.............

I believe you can have a pretty table no matter what!

 Even using plastic or paperware.  That is our casual look!

Found this cute lil bucket at Target for $1.00

and bought 2 packs of  flags for $1.00 each

and I was good to go for the centerpiece.

I had some clear glass stones I put in there

and then you could pretty much do whatever

you wanted with the flags.

Thought I would just press extra napkins

into place by surrounding the lil bucket,

added a lot of nice color.

Candy of course.........................

love these lil tiny dishes,  they come in so handy

for all sorts of things!

as do the egg cups!

Couldn't believe I got big bags of M& M's 

buy one get one free at Publix,  and I could

hardly find any blue,  and out of 2 bags only

7 red ones,  fourtunately,  just enough to put

one red on top!!  

These are my candle jar lids turned upside down

as candle holders,  added the lil stars around

the edges to make them more festive.

This is one of the photoshop affects!

 Think this is posterized affect,  one of my favs.

Guess what the red under the candle is???

A posterized affect 

The red under the candle is candy sprinkles 

you use for cookies,  they have been in my 

cabinet for years...............so thought it was

a great way to get rid of them!!  lol

and liven things up a bit at the same time.

These are solo plates and they look royal blue until you take

them apart, so they weren't quite as colorful as I thought they

would be,  but with the napkin on them they actually looked

quite nice.

I really love these mylar stars,  they make everything

look quite festive!  and you can save them and use

them over and over again for all sorts of cool things.

Notice the 1 red star that looks a lil 3 dimensional,

well,  Scott was playing at our Chritmas table and 

put lil folds in it to make it stand out more,  so I kept it,

 (after all,  I have been saving his art work for years, lol)

 and for grins put it at his place to see if he would notice,

  but Megan wound up sitting there instead,  but as

we were cleaning up,  I said something about it,  and

he laughed and then took 2 more and made a flower out

 of it,  then asked for a straight pin to make the center,

  Very Cute,  until I tried to pin in on Megans

shirt and stuck her with the pin,  poor thing!

This has a Crosshatch affect

This has a cut out affect

 Posterized affect!

Gotta have some candle light even if it is still

daylight out!

 Paint daubs affect!

Posterized affect! 

Hope you enjoyed your visit with me!

Thanks so much for coming by,

love hearing from you.

I am linking up to Susan over at

 between naps on the porch, 

 if you want to see all the 

wonderful tablescapes they

 have click here.

See ya tomorrow!

Love,  Hugs, and 

Red White and Blue Blessings............

Nellie