Tablescape Thursday - Winter picnic table for a Guy's birthday

Greetings Sweet Friends,

How are you this fine day??

I just finished packing all my Christmas stuff away,

next to get it to the garage and put it away in it's

respective places. Looking forward to finishing

that task.  Home is looking pretty sad and empty,

course, a few days will cure that problem,  I hope!! 

  Depends on how well my creative

juices are flowing...............lol.... you laugh........

cause you know just what I mean by that!!

Thought I would post our table from my new

son-in-love's birthday.  I think it is good for folks

to know that you can always have a pretty table

no matter what the ocassion or if you have great

dinnerware.  Since Jerry loves picnic type food,

decided to make it easy and simple, and do a

picnic type table, but with a manish winter theme.

Since I still had my Christmas decorations up,

this was what I came up with..............

I always use dark reds, blue's and greens

during the Winter Season anyhow, so this
 would go with that as well.............

I used a tan tablecloth,  with a plaid tablecloth
 as a runner.........

same pic just with a posterized affect!

Shot of the wreath,  see the lil raspberry looking things

from my Thankful Thursday post last week.

These are hefty plates and cups,  with cloth napkins
 and regular flatware.

another shot of the wreath......

This time posterized,  my fav.........................course, I am

starting to find some other favs too!!

A look down the table from the other end.
Don't know if you recognize the cranberry
candleholders I made the first part of December.
They were on my kitchen table.  Well,  I am
happy to report that the cranberries held up
all season,  and I just threw them out yesterday,
and they still looked great.

If you would like to take a peek
just click here.

I did a pocket fold napkin to hold the flatware.

 With cut out affect!

I wound up putting another ribbon on the other side,
but never took a picture of it.

As you can see the pillar candles burned
down quite well.................

A just for the fun of it shot!

Will finish out with some pictures with different affects
just for fun..........................
This has a Colored pencil affect!

This is underpainting and watercolor affect!

This is a gradient map affect

this is with underpainting, paint daubs and equalized affects.

and this is underpainting and paint daubs only.

I almost forgot to show you the beautiful cake his new wife, 
 made him.  Didn' t Dee do a great job!
I was so proud of her,  she just whipped it 
together like it was nothing,  just a natural....lol

This is probably the first time or 2nd time
she has made a cake,  it is a funfetti cake
and it was as delicious as it looks.........




Hope you enjoyed your visit...............


Got my Christmas stuff out to the garage
 as I was downloading pictures,  so now
 just waiting on hubby so we can put it
 away for another year.  Yay!!


Hope you have a pleasant 
and relaxing evening.


I am linking up to Susan over 
at Between Naps on the Porch, 
  so  if you want to see more fun
 tablescapes. Just click here.

Glad you dropped by,  and look

 forward to hearing from you.........

Hugs and Blessings,

Nellie