Tables on Five: It does not have to be difficult or expensive!

As some of you will know I am writing this blog from Venezuela. I live here because my significant other got offered a job here and I decided to go along on this adventurous ride to South America.
I don't think I have to tell you that Venezuela has its challenges and thus you can imagine that beautiful tableware is not widely available in this country, hence the topic of this blog ;)

Creating a nicely set table does not have to be difficult or expensive! With a little creativity you can transform your table from 'nothing much happening' to nice!

When we arrived in our furnished rental house our tableware collection existed of exactly 3 plates, 5 long drink glasses, 5 different wine glasses and no cutlery. You can imagine we had to be a bit inventive when making breakfast the next morning :). Of course the bright side of it was that I did get to pick my own tableware! The selection in the shops wasn't big but hey, we were only going to stay here for a year or 2. So now I have a little bit of a bigger tableware collection which serves just fine (although sometimes I do miss my pretty little things I have back home).

The point is that even with very little it's possible to create nicely set tables. Below are some examples to illustrate. If you get inspired and if you want to share your before and after photo's please feel free to do so via the tables on five facebook page, my aunt and I would love to see :)

Obviously the above pictures categorize as 'nothing much happening', let's add a couple of little decorative things to transform them to nice!

The 'ingredients' I used to spice things up.

Table 1: Paper flower love

You see a lot of paper flowers appearing now when it comes to decorating and why not! They're fun to make, cheap and look amazing. On Pinterest, and I am sure through Google as well, you can find multiple photo tutorials on how to make them. These flowers I made out of tissue paper (vloeipapier). The hearts on the plates I made out of aluminium deco wire (you can buy this is in a craft store).

Table 2 - Mothers day breakfast

Here I used, again, paper flowers because I like them so much :) but now I made them out of crepe paper and I opened the 'leafs' only towards the top to keep a flat back, easier to put on a plate. The little pink, white and black flowers I made out of felt (vilt).