Easter Tablescape

I like decorating mantels and table settings, and any home decor is generally a happy endeavor for me.

Most of the time, I'm glad about the end result, but sometimes not. However, most of the time, I'm delighted when working and letting my imagination run freely throughout a room or project.

While setting this Easter table, I was transported to when I used to play pretend store as a little girl.

It was Spring break, no school, the days were long, and we had all the time to play!  

Yes, we, me and my sisters. What better friends.

The games were endless, tag, hide and seek, cards, and kitchen. But the game I loved most was "La Tienda"  (having a store).   Well, the store I re-created most of the time was something like a grocery store because that's what we had in real life, a small neighborhood tienda.

The game was for each of us to create a make-believe tienda and then visit each other to "buy" stuff.

There were not many toys to play with, we had to have big imaginations!

Our dusty backyard was the perfect place to find all sorts of treasures.

Very skinny wooden sticks worked great as pasta.

Light, grainy dirt was our everyday rice.

Outside, on the side of the house, we could find all our green material.

The long pieces of grass were converted into beautiful leaks or green onions.

Flowers were picked up for those customers with good taste, those tiny white and yellow flowers that grew between the grass. :)

Empty little boxes were chocolate bars.

Rocks were candies, but the bigger ones were potatoes.

We even ventured into our authentic tienda to look for items we could use from there.

Bottle caps were dishes or simply cups.

Any box or container not used in the real tienda had to go to ours.

Picture clippings from newspaper inserts were my favorite wall decor.

Of course, we were allowed to have real fruits, which meant our little tiendas were well equipped with them. Bananas, oranges, guavas, mangos.... they were there.

Oh, it was so much fun to find unique items that were "one of a kind" that my sisters couldn't see.

A big box, an unexpectedly colored bottle, or a mundane container with an excellent shape did the trick.

When everything was set and done, my tienda was full of customers, and I was happy to have them all. Oh my, I'm missing every one of my sisters at this very moment.


Have a great Easter week, everyone!

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