Deck-orating

I’m baaack! Sorry that I’ve been MIA lately: it’s been a crazy couple of weeks! But, now that my school concerts are over, I can get back to doing a bit more of my other passions… like DIYing! My husband is thrilled at the prospect of the to-do list. 🙂

I have been waiting and waiting to work on styling our deck for the summer, and I am so excited to show you how it turned out! I’m starting with the table, since it really is the heart of our summer entertaining.

The flowers I chose were the jumping-off point for the entire deckor. (See what I did there?!) I picked up a few items at our local grocery store, from their Joe Fresh line (gotta love reasonably-priced housewares), and the rest was « sourced » from our own cupboards.

The chair cushions are also new this year. I found three of them at our local Giant Tiger (again with the reasonably-priced housewares), and the fourth… Well, let’s just say that I spent more in gas driving to Valleyfield than I did on the actual cushion. No matter! It was worth it because they are the perfect shade of coral.

The floral charger plates, turquoise lanterns, and knobbly blue decanter are from Joe Fresh. My mom gifted us with the lanterns, and when I saw the matching plates I knew that turquoise would be our accent colour. I’m so pleased with how the decanter is exactly the shade of the blue salvia in the planters. God, I love when things match.

You might be wondering about the white table runner. Well guess what?! I made that! Yup, one evening I decided that I needed a break from prepping for school concerts, so I whipped up this table runner. Not even kidding! I thank my lucky stars that my mom has been teaching me to sew, because I finally feel that I have enough basic skills to actually pull off this sort of thing. Before, I’d try to sew something like this and it would end up a big mess and just lie, unfinished, in my fabric box. But no longer!

I’ll be posting a tutorial for making this runner really soon! Stay tuned for it.