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SandieS
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Long Island, NY
USA
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 Posted - 03/23/2005 : 1:36:00 PM
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Hello everyone!
I knew that I could get some good ideas from you folks!
I'm having Easter dinner at my house. We're having a casual barbecue - steaks, corn on cob, potato salad, etc. I know, not traditonal, but that's us!
Anyway, I found a great tablecloth in creamy yellow and adorable paper plates and matching napkins with little chicks on them! I would like to put a cute place setting in the front of each plate, but I'm stumped for ideas.
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Shuree
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Chesterfield, MO
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2005 : 2:07:45 PM
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Edible place settings are always fun! Here are a few ideas I came across---
http://www.grandparentsmagazine.net/MiniSites/Easter/easterplacesettings.htm
If you have the Michael's craft stores by you, they had those little pots on sale.
http://www.marsbrightideas.com/easter2001/newsletter/newsletter_easter.html
cut 'n pasted from the web: (I like the chick one)
Wacky Place Setting Ideas:
• Make place card holders with marshmallow chicks! Use a paring knife to make a small slit across the back of the “neck” and insert the place cards. Your guests will be surprised and amused, and then they will eat the place card holders…
• Use your computer to print out each person’s name in a cool font. Cut out the paper and tie around a pretty dyed Easter egg.
• Use crème eggs to make a candle wreath in the middle of the table. This would go along well with the marshmallow chick theme.
• For an inexpensive table decoration, use a pink or purple plastic tablecloth and scatter green “Easter basket grass” around the table. Total Easter nostalgia!
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JanJojo
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West Virginia
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2005 : 2:14:30 PM
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A cute and simple idea for Easter place settings is to make egg shaped cookies.Decorate the cookies with pastel colored frostings
and pipe each person's name onto a cookie.This makes for a nice treat
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SandieS
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Long Island, NY
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2005 : 04:12:35 AM
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Great ideas!
Shuree, I went to both sites - they have great ideas. I like the chick idea myself. I'm thinking of printing out the egg pattern, writing the name and putting it on the chick's back. Then make the Easter egg cookies like JanJoJo said, and place them on the dessert dish.
Any ideas for centerpieces???
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Shuree
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Chesterfield, MO
USA
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Posted - 03/24/2005 : 07:58:36 AM
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| If you're using the chicks, you might like this idea I used once. I had a bag of those wooden squewers sticks (not sure if that is spelled correctly). But I pulled out my sticks and stabbed a chick onto each end and put about 20 of them in a vase like a bouquet. I pushed easter grass in the vase and around the base of the vase. Kinda silly but totally easy! |
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SandieS
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Long Island, NY
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2005 : 12:33:19 PM
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I had such a hard time finding those peeps! Last week they were all over the place. Only Waldbaum's has a decent selection now.
I picked up yellow chicks,yellow bunnies and purple bunnies. Bought the skewers and some yellow and green cellophane grass. I made a "wreath" out of colored eggs, hot glueing them end to end. In between the eggs, I glued some small, white silk flowers that I had lying around. I'll put the vase in the middle of the wreath, and put everything in like you said! I'm psyched!
When I showed my husband what I was planning to do, he said "So, basically, you're impaling the little Peeps?"  Obviously, he has so sense of craft. 
I'm working on the cookies now! Thanks for the ideas. Oh, and I'm also using the chicks place setting idea. |
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LauraB
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Frederick, MD
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2005 : 3:20:20 PM
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I stole your centerpiece ideas - peeps, eggs and all! I will enjoy it more if I confess my idea theft.  |
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GailGibbsYoung
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Salem, OR
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2005 : 6:03:29 PM
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Easter colors are yellow and violet. With your pretty new table cloth, I would get some purple crepe paper, cut it into streamers and run 3 down the middle of your table length wise, then run more across the table so that it is sectioned into dining places.
Use the green Easter basket grass to create a "Bunny" nest in the middle of the table for a center piece. Place Easter eggs, peeps, chocolate and jelly eggs, etc., in the nest. This can also double as a "help yourself" dessert.
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.StephanieA
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Redmond, WA
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2005 : 9:15:25 PM
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| You can get those peeps in a variety of colors now. They had pink, yellow, purple, and turquoise at the store I went to. That would make a very pretty decoration. I use to set the table and put a peep in an egg cup with the persons name stuck on the top of each one. |
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SandieS
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Long Island, NY
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2005 : 04:59:33 AM
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Gail, you need to come to my house to help me decorate for the next holiday. Where do you think of these ideas? You're so clev-a.
Laura, enjoy your centerpiece. I'm going to try to take a picture of mine and share it.
I saw yellow and purple Peeps and picked those up. I also saw pink, but turquoise? I would have LOVED those! That's one of my favorite colors. They were probably swiped as soon as they came out. People out here are animals.  |
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.StephanieA
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Redmond, WA
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2005 : 11:46:34 AM
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SandieS
I'll send you some, Right now there about 4 packages for $2.00 I think.
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Anni
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PA
USA
690 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2005 : 7:29:54 PM
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Have you seen the red Peeps? They were at Target and were mixed in with the pink, yellow, white, purple and blue Peeps. I thought they might have been left-over from Valentine's Day or were possibly a Target exclusive. Anyhow, they didn't seem to fit into the Easter theme.
Back to the topic...I am having 20 people for Easter dinner. The kids and I made everyone a mini Easter basket. We took small margarine containers and attached a pipe cleaner for a handle. We then added Easter grass, a Peep, jelly beans, and a colored egg with each guest's name on the eggs. We'll use them as place settings tomorrow. |
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.StephanieA
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Redmond, WA
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2005 : 8:13:27 PM
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I forgot about the white one's, the blue are pretty but I like the turquoise best. I was getting real sick of seeing those yellow one's years and years. |
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