NAUTICAL AMERICANA

Let's celebrate our RED, WHITE AND BLUE!

I had the menu planned...

but what did I want to do with the tablescape

for our July 4th celebration?

Then....I found my inspiration piece...

this darling little vintage canvas print, which

I had bought for our Maine coastal guest bedroom!

I was going Nautical mixed with Americana!

All the decorations are bought on a budget...

you can collect so many decorating items

you like without spending a great deal of money!

I bought this pillow about five years ago

when the Divine Miss M and I went to Home Goods

and never had room to bring it back to Texas!

Lo and behold, on our last visit, I had enough luggage room

to pack it up...perfecto!

The nautical throw is new 
and 
is reversible,

so you can get two looks!

Many of the items I put together
were from our Maine days!

I have had the dinnerware from a July 4th three years ago

and

 just added new servingware from 

The Pioneer Woman's collection

and

nautical napkins!

I purchased this darling little vintage bathing beauty

to match my canvas print and fell in love

with this vintage six pack of Coca-Cola!

It's fun to find little sweet treats for the kiddos.

The lighted star garland is also a dollar isle Target find!

The floral centerpiece was only $5.00....

and I found the nautical stars in the dollar isle at Target!

I rewrapped the vintage thread spools which are about thirty years old now.

Who doesn't love little Baby Ruth's?

 

Americana Tootsie-Pops 

Vintage boxes of Cracker Jacks

Red Licorice bundles

Americana M and M's

An Americana dinner plate 

was used as the base for the floral centerpice,

surrounded by individual packages of Cracker Jacks!

I am just wondering if the grandchildren even know

about the surprise inside...

remember that?

“I’d like to buy the world a home

And furnish it with love.

Grow apple trees and honey bees,

And snow white turtle doves.”

“What the world wants today…

Coca-Cola…It’s the real thing!”

Stars and Stripes....

It's a Star Spangled Celebration!

Yes...they light up!

As we celebrate AMERICA.....
Wishing you and those you love

a very happy and safe

July 4th, 2016

Thoughts of Home on Thursday

Tablescape Thursday