Decorating a Buffet with Crystal & Roses

The dining room buffet has been just sitting there empty since the Christmas décor was put away...for that matter,  the family room fireplace  mantle is still empty too!   To tell the truth,  since I retired,  I don't get in a big hurry to do anything...lol!

So, here is my buffet....from empty to FULL!  I tend to over decorate!
 I put a pretty bow around Hartley's neck...Hartley is an English surname meaning "hart, male deer".  Next to him, is a tall crystal vase of roses for him to smell

(There's that pink phone on the desk that I forgot to show in my last post about the Duncan Phyfe desk!)

I thought I would do something different and show you the buffet left to right...instead of photo's just willy nilly...lol!

My mind is racing ahead to spring, so when I was looking for stuff for the buffet, these birds and nest caught my eye.   I have a vintage mirror behind the smallest bird bowl.  It is very heavy and used to be gold ( the only surprise is that I didn't paint it pink)
 I used lots of crystal pieces to decorate the buffet, most of them belonged to my mother, but anyone that knows me....knows that I bought a few pieces myself!

I displayed some tea cups in a crystal dish.   I really don't know the proper name for this type of dish but I call it a relish dish.   I have three of them that I use around the holidays to serve olives, pickles, that kind of thing.

Next to the relish dish is a picture frame.   I bought this frame quite a few years ago, it's pretty heavy...and it has a black velvet back that opens to allow you to put in different photo's.    I have a box of small cards that I change out....

Today I have a card that says "When you do what you can, God will do the rest"   

The other card says "Home, sweet, home......where each lives for the other, and all live for God"    It was hard to pick what cards I would use in my post, as all the cards in the box are wonderful words to live by.....there's probably 100 cards in the box.



As we move on down the buffet.....I can't believe I'm so organized today...left to right...Why didn't I think of showing you stuff this way before!

I have another crystal relish dish filled with tiny tea cups and a vintage necklace that belonged to my mother.

Next on the buffet....I had two crystal compotes just alike, so I stacked them.  I filled the bottom one with tea cups and the top one with several small plates and a tea cup on the top.

In this vignette,  I put a pretty china plate in each of the crystal bowls (crystal bowl as an "easel"....lol) ,    put a sweet rose teapot on a pedestal,   and finished off the vignette with a simple rose photo on an easel.

At the end of the buffet is my "new" desk  (a repurposed Duncan Phyfe table).  There is a separate post on the desk ...here....
http://penny-pennystreasures.blogspot.com/2014/02/duncan-phyfe-desk.html


See you soon!





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