Creating a beautiful Easter table is such a happy task. This year I thought it’d be fun to create sweet little egg-filled nests and place one on each plate as part of a lovely Easter and springlike tablescape. The best part is that it takes just a few supplies and not much patience to create each little nest. I’ll show you how to DIY your own.

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • Greenery, filler flowers, or herbs with flexible, twig-like stems such as baby’s breath or rosemary
  • Low temperature glue gun
  • Kitchen shears or garden clippers

Your objective is to create three wreath-like circles out of the greenery in sizes small, medium, and large.

It’s easiest to start with your biggest “wreath” first. Begin by clipping off a piece of greenery and bending it into a circle as large as you want the finished nest to be. Use your non-dominant hand to hold the greenery in place once you get it to the size you want.

Next, while continuing to hold the greenery in place with your non-dominant hand, begin to twist and tuck the loose end of the herbs until it can hold on it’s own long enough for you to add some dabs of glue with your low-temp glue gun. If you have a hard time getting it to hold on its own, you can glue into place as you go along. Repeat with a medium wreath and then a small wreath and then stack the three, starting with the smallest on the bottom, then the medium, then the large, and gluing them all together until it forms one nest. Make as many as you need for your table and finish by filling with darling little speckled chocolate eggs.

IT'S ME, SERENA!

I bounced through the first years of my life in a hippie gypsy wagon, hand-built by my father, wandering the back roads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. My family eventually settled into a tiny cabin in the woods on property that was once inhabited by Native American Indians.

I spent my childhood days searching for arrowheads, teaching myself to sew on a treadle sewing machine and to bake in a wood-burning stove, with no running water, refrigeration, or electricity in our home. My family lived frugally and early on, inspired by my parent’s thriftiness and style, I gained a knack for thrifty creativity and turning ordinary objects into something useful. And I dreamed of the home I would create for my own family someday.

Now I’m married to my husband, Colin, and our children are all grown. After 24 years of producing The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair, I'm spending time visiting other markets around the world. You can watch episodes of Serena Goes to Market here.

I share more about my life story from time to time, here on my blog. You can also find me on Instagram, and Facebook.

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