My Spring tablescape was inspired by vintage items and collectibles that I've gathered over the years. I layered it all together in my dining room to create a shabby cottage feel that makes you want to linger over another piece of pie!

This week I've joined Angie from Postcards from the Ridge and several other home decor bloggers to share our decor for the Spring Ideas Tour! You'll find all the decor and links at the end of my vintage Spring table.

I was really feeling all the shabby, cottage-y, vintage vibes for my Spring decor this year! Maybe because I have a large collection of beautiful items that I hardly ever use...there was a time I was shopping at two different huge Goodwill stores weekly and finding amazing deals left and right...so I amassed quite a collection of white ironstone pitchers and dishes, vintage doilies and embroidered tablecloths, even some pink milk glass for literally a couple bucks!

Normally these cherished collectibles sit in a drawer or are on display in one of my hutches. I guess I was feeling their pull, and decided to bring them out into the light and use them to put together a vintage Spring tablescape that has all the shabby-chic, cottage feels! This year the bunnies stayed packed away in the attic.

I recently painted this grandfather clock and made the cottage floral wreath that is hanging on my huge chalkboard. Those pieces probably kick-started the whole feeling in this room!


I will be the first to admit that we don't eat around this table much...it feels too formal! But that actually makes it easier to decorate because I can play around with different ideas and leave the mess sitting out!

 Over the last couple of weeks I've created a couple of different looks in here before I settled on the one I'm sharing today. Here's a peek at some of the styles I created before settling on the one I'm sharing today.


I wish I could tell you that all these amazing doilies came from my grandmothers, but they are nearly all thrift store finds! My mom actually made a couple of them. I can't believe all the time and love that went into making each one...I almost felt guilty paying only .50 or $1 for them!

In the end, I blame it all on the blush peonies that I found at Michaels! I still had a couple of stems that didn't go into my Spring wreaths, and I knew I needed to find a way to make them work!

And I did! I made a garland to lay across my table with florals and greenery, tucking in some natural looking eggs.


I layered the doilies along the center of my table to make a table runner. I used a variety of sizes but tried to stick with all light colors, starting with the largest one in the center and going smaller.

Next I layered a lambs ear garland, some silver dollar eucalyptus and those gorgeous peonies down the center of the table. I was left with a little gap in the middle, so I added a few white roses from the dollar store.


I tucked in some wood eggs as well as some speckled eggs that I had in my Easter stash up in the attic. While I was up there, I also grabbed the gingham eggs that I painted several years ago. They worked beautifully in this table setting.


My layered dishes are all from the thrift store! I have a dinner dish, then a gingham napkin, a lunch dish, topped by a pickle dish...I just found these recently. They are the Dogwood design Orchard Ware, vintage plates from the 40's and 50's. I noticed they were smaller than a lunch or dessert plate. I found out there is such a thing as a "pickle plate"...I guess pickles were a hot item back in the day! The plates are a very soft mint color with painted dogwood stems on them. They're just beautiful!

Each place setting has a mini ironstone pitcher filled with a little moss to support one of my hand painted eggs. It was quick and easy to put together!


I added some milk glass vases to the largest doily in the center. You can add taper candles to these, but you need to beef up the bottom a little because the hole of the vase is usually wider than the candle. I wrap a narrow piece of tin foil around the candle base and then it is supported in the vase!


bringing beauty to the ordinary,