Botanic Bleu: Bee Breakfast Table - Display Favorite Pages

Inspired by bees buzzing around a HUGE clump of rosemary plants, April's l'heure bleue collage was BEES. From there, another simple and quick table centerpiece for the breakfast table sprang to my mind.

One with bees.

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bee breakfast table

Table centerpieces can be grounded with pages from magazines, with old letters, with music pages, or with prints. This is one of my favorite ways to add interest to a centerpiece and to display images that echo the theme of the 3-D objects.

The iron bee and the blue free print from Victoria magazine were the two things that began this collection of bees on the breakfast table.

The other two paper images came from a magazine and an advertisement brochure. I pull out pages from magazines, flyers, and catalogs before disposing of them and save the pictures in a small file box.

As you can see, displaying favorite pages from magazines doesn't have to be on the wall, on a bulletin board, or hung as part of a banner. Best of all, using them as the base of a centerpiece, they are up close so you can read the captions.

Paper has always SPOKEN to me and still does even though I also collect electronic images on PINTEREST. See a link to my PINTEREST board about bees, BEE BUZZZZZ, at the end of this post.

Bees go where the flowers are. A bee breakfast table calls for a pot of fresh flowers like this 4-inch bedding pot of blue lobelia. Flowers on the table don't have to be large bouquets or expensive. Small 4-inch bedding plants are inexpensive and make a bigger impact on the table when placed inside a larger container. Preserved moss hides the plastic bedding pot, but still allows the plant to be watered.

Added benefits of using small bedding plants are 1] they will live longer inside than cut flowers, 2] there are many more varieties for bedding plant flowers than there are for cut flowers at the grocery store, 3] bedding plants are inexpensive, even less expensive than grocery store flowers, and 4] they can be transplanted outside for enjoying all summer.

The small blue mixing bowl is from Williams and Sonoma, but has a crack making it no longer usable for cooking. I almost threw that bowl away when I noticed the crack, but kept it because I love the French bleu color.

Have you noticed that antique dealers have no qualms about selling vintage items with cracks in them? Just consider this an antique in the making. You probably have some in your home, too, that would be great bowls for holding flowers potted in a plastic pot... before you sell your cracked bowls to antique dealers.