BEAUTIFUL NEW BOOK AND A GIVEAWAY
I love when one of my blogging friends writes a book! I just know it will be spectacular. So today I have the privilege of introducing the most gorgeous book to you and give you a chance to win one for yourself!
My friend Courtney Allison, just wrote her second book and it’s on a subject that is near and dear to my heart and probably your’s too!
I know you will love FRENCH COUNTRY COTTAGE INSPIRED GATHERINGS!
First of all, you (like me) will be struck with the extreme beauty of every image in this book. Courtney has a gift for creating beauty! It’s just who she is!
The book takes us through Courtney’s travels as she created graceful, ethereal, and stunning tables.
I love her easygoing narrative with so many tablescapes tips and ideas in her warm and sweet storytelling way! She really weaves a captivating spell with her words that pulls you into the book and keep you wanting more!
Here is one little excerpt she wrote about this table she created…
“A beautiful mess- scattered blooms and petals, candles, delicious desserts, cheeses, warm coffee, delicate china, silverplate flatware and blush glasses. An imperfectly perfect view for lovely get-together.”
Inspired Gatherings is filled with breathtaking flowers! Courtney is known for coaxing all the beauty and life she can get out of a flower!
Guess where she’s setting the table in this picture?
I’m thrilled to be able to share just a snippet of this beautiful, helpful book!
You can see her new book HERE. It will make a great addition to your “all things home” library! You can actually get a peek inside her book HERE.
Now let’s have a GIVEAWAY!!!
Leave a comment and one lucky person will win FRENCH COUNTRY COTTAGE INSPIRED GATHERINGS!
Tell me… if you could set a beautiful table anywhere where would it be! Be creative!
*Hi sweet friends, it’s me!
I just wanted to let you know that I have read and loved each comment.
You set the scene of your tablescape so vividly and beautifully! How fun!
I wish I could respond to every comment, but you have outdone me! I’ve loved hearing from you and I’m sure Courtney has too!
The little park we pass each day on our walk.
Oh, how sweet Janette!
I would set a table somewhere off the coast of Italy, in the countryside in France, or Greece. But I will also set a beautiful table at my home in Kentucky! Thanks for the giveaway
Please invite me!!! Those places are on my bucket list! Courtney set a table in a vineyard and it reminded me of France! Oh, so beautiful!
What a beautiful book – fingers are crossed that I am lucky!
It’s a toss-up between on a beach or in a forest clearing (minus the bugs!)
Thank you for highlighting great creative work ans inspiring others!
I love setting a pretty table…..have learned so much from you ladies!!!!!
My favorite place to entertain is in our dinette area where the table is surrounded with floor to ceiling windows.
The flowers and settings in this book are gorgeous. Peonies!
I would set a table in the lavender fields of Tuscany, Italy. Imagine being surrounded by such beauty!
I would love to set a table on the beach and watch the sunset while dining!
I’d set the table at a family farm in Maine !
You website is such an inspiration in more ways than one!!! It is beautiful, refreshing, and gives so much spiritual encouragement. Thank you for all you do, and thank you for the opportunity to have a chance to win the French Country Cottage book!!! I absolutely love French Country!
I adore peonies, flowers and setting lovely tables for family dinners! Looks like a beautiful and inspiring book for browsing through while porch sitting. Thanks and stay well!
Gorgeous pictures!
Oh this book looks amazing! Growing up in Oklahoma I love a beautiful field with rows of wheat or cotton just ready for harvest. Add one of our glorious sunsets and it’s a heavenly sight. Put my table there!
This book is beautiful and refreshing…I would love to own this and thank you so much for the chance to win!
This look like a beautiful book that I could get inspiration from for years. Maybe I will be lucky enough to win.
If I could set a table anywhere – anywhere … Longwood Gardens at sunset… to smell the roses…to hear the fountains… to be in God’s beautiful creation and enjoy His Presence … and hear friends’ laughter… taste and see it all …
thank you for this opportunity to enter the drawing to win this new book you love…
I recently started following Courtney and she is blessed with the gift of creating beauty.
Her tablescapes are stunning but more importantly, you can tell that everything she creates comes from her heart and I admire that. Thanks for creating the giveaway, Yvonne!
She is a very talented photographer and designer. I have admired her work for years. The book would just be a perfect item to add to my home.
Beautiful book…love you blog!
That is one gorgeous book! I would love to win a copy.
To be honest it would be in my backyard. We live in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains and the view in my back yard is priceless. I would love to be able to play it up and enjoy some more time out there.
I would love to set a beautiful table in my backyard. I live in the woods and have beautiful and private stone patio where I could set a table. Oh how I wish I took the time to do that. This book is lovely and I would just let the ideas flow with every turned page. Thank you for sharing this book.
Maureen
I would love to set an inspired table in my garden. I have a wonderful yard and love gatherings with friends and family. Courtney’s book looks amazing!
Beautiful pictures! Love, love, love the peonies! Thank you for sharing.
Location is not the issue in creating a thing of beauty…
The heart of beauty is the desire to share it with others. I long to create an atmosphere of acceptance where others are affirmed and overwhelmed with the fact that I am celebrating them… my efforts to make it beautiful are for them!
I would set up a table on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico where we winter. The waves would be rolling in and the dolphins would be jumping in the water. Soft breezes would be keeping us cool. Now I wish I were there!
Love all the beautiful rustic elegant decor!
I would set a beautiful table in my backyard. I would bring in loads of flowers, lights, beautiful dishes, and delightful food to sit among our huge trees. Home is the place I want to make my most precious memories. Home is what inspires me, makes me feel complete. Home is my safe haven in this ever-changing world. The home may not be the most creative place to set a beautiful table but it is my oasis, my sanctuary, my peaceful place. The photos in the book reflect the peace this world needs – home is that place for me.
I would decorate a table somewhere in a wine country, with lush greenery and beautiful hanging bunches of grapes.
Courtney is very talented and creative and I would love to win her book.
On the beach in Destin FLA
This is such a wonderful book and I can tell how much work Courtney Allison put in to it. Kudos to her for making all of us drool over her new creation. If I had to set up a dinner table it would be in the Black Forest, Germany. So many fairy tales have come out of that forest and making it theme abundant.
Looks like a beautiful book…
The book is absolutely beautiful and on a subject very dear to my heart as well. I took a peek and the pictures are beautiful. The book looks very nicely thought out with very helpful ideas. If I was to set a table it would be outside in the backyard by our amazing creek. The flowing water adds an element of liveliness to the backdrop of the trees.
Truly breathtaking when sharing a meal
With family and friends. ?
I would love to set a beautiful table on a secluded beach in Hawaii with a sunset in the background.
In my grandmother’s back yard in the spring. Her view of blooming azaleas and daylillies with a field of corn just coming up in the distance is the most beautiful place on earth for me.
We live on a grassy slope in a mountainous area with large views from our deck of a 12,000’ mountain just a few miles away. It is so refreshing to enjoy the views and watch the deer and elk browse the shrubbery. A perfect place for entertaining friends!!
I have always been inspired by French country. I find it not only stunning but beautiful! And this would be a perfect addition for more inspiration
Our own patio would be a simple and inviting place to set one of her inspiring tables which could take us to the places that inspired her. The people we share it with will complete the gathering!
The book is beautiful. I would set a table outside in the garden.
Beautiful book! Makes me feel like I want to put on a fancy sun hat and have a tea party in the garden!
A table set with beautiful linens, flowers amongst the grapevines in the Oregon wine country”. Our favorite lace.
I would love to set a table under the canopy of beautiful trees, using lots of twinkle lights and candles. I would use beautiful flowers and fabulous antique silverware. Bit the best part would be the family and friends that gather to enjoy the evening!
I would set up a table next to our pool with flowers and our beautiful outdoor dishes and of course candlelight! I follow Courtney’s blog and she is just precious! I would love to win her book-thank you for a chance to win.
I’d find a secluded spot on the beach on Daufuskie Island, SC. Ah…..
I love to set a beautiful table right in my garden surrounded by the plants and flowers that I nurture. Gardening is a sign that I believe in tomorrow.
Due to my husband’s job, we have lived overseas for years. I love setting a pretty table and hosting dinners for the military personnel that had to be away from their families for a year while stationed in Saudi Arabia. I especially wanted holidays to be feel special for them. When you asked the question, I realized I never set a pretty table out in the desert on our camping trips. I would love to do that with the abundant stars!
In a field of lavender
Stonegable and French Country Cottage are my two favorite blogs! I would love to win the book! Thank you!
I would love to have a table on the beach I walk in Michigan. Coke.
I love this style
Stunning…everything looks perfect. I bet those peonies smelled so good while they were shooting for that picture
I would set a beautiful table out near my rose garden.
I would use a mix of china & my mama’s silver….along with other keepsakes and linens….
My best girlfriends and I would have a wonderful “tea party” at dusk!!!
What a beautiful book! My favorite places to entertain is right in our own home…dining room or patio. Always looking for new ideas and this book looks like its full of beautiful ideas. Thanks for your generosity in giving away one of her books!
Hi Alice, how lovely you are so happy in your own digs! It is Courtney that is generous. She is giving away one of her books to us.
GOD’s beautiful earth always inspires us to enjoy the beauty of flowers and friends together. How special to see this beauty through Courtney ‘s eyes! We can share our love with others anywhere we gather.
I look forward to reading this gorgeouus book.
I’d set a table on a lanai overlooking the ocean.
I would set a table on a dock near our home where there are beautiful old cypress trees, overlooking our beautiful chain of lakes, here in Florida. I would love to set a stunning table with all the beautiful dishes I could find in a grassy meadow in Ireland.
What a lovely and inspired book! I’d love to add it to my library as I love anything French???
What a deliciously beautiful book. I can’t wait to delve into it and relish the beauty. Just the few pages I’ve seen are enticing enough to grab my attention and make me want to consume it. Thank you Courtney for writing such a wonderful book for us!
What a beautiful book! It brings such beauty into our world! Thank you for such a lovely giveaway opportunity!
What a beautiful book! There are so many idyllic places to set a lovely table…Sitting beside water is so peaceful. I think I would choose a balcony, overlooking Lake Como or a patio located high in Santorini . If I MUST select one place it would be Venice. (The city I fell in love with years ago!) Oh! I hope I win the book! Thanks for the opportunity, Yvonne!
The photography is spellbinding!
My back porch
Beautiful book. Love all things French!!
Fantastic book! This is a very hard decision to make. I think I would love to set a table in a private ocean cove with waves rolling in at sunset. Or, a high mountain meadow in early summer. Or my backyard anytime of year ?
Beautiful pictures! Stunning and calming settings give you a sense of peace. Thank you!
What dreamy French Country settings! I am SO missing my “petite maison” in Provence and this book would would take me there while I’m waiting for the green light to go back! Love your blog and ideas!
If I could set a table anywhere I would like to go back to my childhood home and set a beautiful table under the grapevine arbor in my backyard. It was so cool, shady, and covered a large part of the sidewalk. The green leaves and purple grapes were so lush, and the sun peeking through the leaves was beautiful. As a little girl I would “play house” under that grapevine…I had a little wooden table and chairs, and I think Santa brought me a set of play dishes each Christmas. I loved to set the table and pretend…and I often think now, that is why I love to “play” with my dishes, set a beautiful table, and enjoy meals with family and friends. Thanks for the inspiring post and all your work !
If I were to choose the most lovely place to set a simle but beautiful table it would be near a waterfall in Colorado. Surrounded by the magesty of nature, the sound of the cascading water & the peaceful feelings those surroundings bring. To me, setting a simple rustic table with a fragrant boquet of flowers & simple but delicious foods would feed the mind, soul, body & spirit.
Wow! Those photos are stunning! I would love to win a copy!!
This book looks like it has some inspiring ideas in it. I love to entertain and would LOVE to win this book! Thanks and God bless!
The book looks gorgeous. I love to have people over to share a meal and spend just as much time planning the tablescape as I do the food.
I would set a table in my parents beautiful formal dinning room.
Thanks so much for the sneak peek of her gorgeous new book!
I would choose to set my table under the sprawling limbs of an ancient white oak tree by the peaceful water of a pond at sunset as the frogs begin their evening chorus here on our farm. Crisp white linens, mercury glass, various hues of pink roses, a hint of rustic with touches of elegance.
Yvonne
I live in southern Michigan and love Lake Michigan. Even though I am blessed with tea gardens and an abundance of choices on my own 40 acres, I would love to set a table on the shores of Lake Michigan. Or perhaps at Tigertail beach on Marco Island , Florida. Those are two of my favorite places. I would of course use a few of my collected shells
I have traveled far and wide. Although the world is filled with amazing and beautiful places, there is no place like home. I would create a tablescape in my home. The table would be inspired by my favorite relics from my travels. Of course, the best part would family and friends gathered around.
Inspired Gatherings look amazing! Keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll receive a copy! Thank you for your blog and the chance to receive a book.
Country life anywhere abounds with beauty and simplicity! Thank you, Yvonne, for sharing this beautiful new volume capturing some of the “country” spirit.
I would love to have this book – it’s beautiful! I would like to set a beautiful table on my own deck and have our Girl’s Day.
Her photography is amazing and the fact that it is French Country is the Best part. I am new to French Country so I look forward to reading her book. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful post and being generous with a giveaway. The photos were lovely and took me back to a simpler time. My mother in French and we would travel back to France every four years when I was a child. My grandmother could always set a simple, elegant table like the one pictured and this post reminded me of such fond memories. Thank you and have a blessed day, Yvonne!
I The book is beautiful!
They pictures are dreamy.
The ideas are amazing.
The photos give me inspiration and a sense of wonder.
Can’t wait to hold a copy in my hands, go into my SunRoom and get lost in the photos
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere I would enjoy the creativity and accessibility to our son’s college house. This house situated adjacent to campus in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is know by the official name “Tree House” and is shared by twelve young men.
Just the name “Tree House” excites me with a plethora of table scape ideas.
Young college men would discover how the context and creativity of a correctly and attractively set table serves life skills for success. The Tree House decorated table may even be remembered as a special memory and teachable experience where the young men gleaned gentlemen-like poise, grace and confidence, no matter where their course of study has taken them.
Tree House would be where I would enjoy setting a beautifully (handsome) table.
I love all the new ideas you share with all of us and also your wonderful home and how you decorate with beauty and charm. Thank you so much.
It is said that we a visual people. What a beautiful thing to make for family and friends, as a beautiful table scape to make . It can set the mood for a great meal and seem like they have traveled to the countryside of Provence or Normandy without ever leaving home. I’m ready.
Easy!! I’ve visited only in my dreams, but a beautifully set table with a view of the Japanese Bridge in Monet’s garden. That would be the ultimate setting for me!!
I would love to set a beautiful table outside in a field surrounded by wild flowers. I have always loved those pictures, and Allison’s book stirs the heart strings, of a long – really long skinny table with mismatched chairs, fine china, and lots of flowers set up for a lovely brunch or early evening dinner with good friends.
Thanks for starting my day with such beauty.
“FRENCH COUNTRY COTTAGE INSPIRED GATHERINGS” encourages any reader to share the experiences of a lazy morning coffee with overnights guests on the patio, or a spontaneous lunch in the country or a quiet intimate dinner at dusk in the garden. I can’t wait to read it and enjoy the photographs over and over.
Such a lovely book.
What a dream book! This is why I plant new roses every year!
So love all your dedication to this lovely blog. I find wonderful recipes, and inspiration every time I open your site! I’ve sent your emails to many friends who are thrilled to now know you. They say you are helping them get through these difficult days of the virus. Thank you for all you do!
My hubby and I are in the process of remodeling a 1975 home. Always looking for new inspiration AND love books!!!!! Please, please, please pick me!! :0}
Beautiful book, and oh the outdoor settings! Love them.
On a lovely beach! Peaceful and serene!
What a beautiful book! I just planted three rose bushes in vintage concrete planters 😉
Would love to see all the beautiful venues you use?
So serene and subtly elegant.
I love the new book! Thanks for sharing Yvonne! French Country Cottage looks just so fresh and inviting! Who wouldn’t want to gather in one of these lovely settings!
Thank you so much for all you share it’s one of the top things on my morning list to check for an email from You. Have a great rest of the week and be safe.
I would set a beautiful table in a meadow in the country next to a lake with lots of flowers and trees with different colors of foliage all around. A peaceful setting where friends and family would want to linger and be together over delicious food and wine.
Wow, the photography is beautiful and my favorite is French Country❣️ I’ve always pictured a beautiful table at the lake on the boardwalk full of family and friends !
Love your blog! . Went to Paris last year and fell in love with everything French! Had to cancel this year’s trip due to Covid 19…so disappointing!
What beautiful pictures! I love the table in the field. I would have a beautiful table set in my back yard, along with my chickens and grapevines and bees. It would be beautiful in the shade of my two big walnut trees.
In my dining room. The place where so many memories were shared. Now we are older and my children say it’s too much work…and friends are too busy. It would be wonderful to invite everyone back one more time to hear the laughter in that quiet room and have new memories to share and hold close.
How exciting. I have followed you and the group of bloggers for a long time… so many beautiful tablescapes, sunsets, decor, DIY’s, crafts of wreaths, covering books… and tricks of the trade. Adding pillows and plants and a touch of love to rooms in your home-cottage… and I can’t forget all the ‘real time’ yummy recipes. THaNk. YoU… ?hugs
What a beautiful book! The photography appears to be coming out of the pages – like a 3D pop-up book. I went into her blog last week for the first time and it was unbelievable. So gifted. She is a beautiful lady. This book is my kind of book. Thank you for posting about it.
I dream of setting a table like that for a special occasion. I would LOVE to win a copy of this book so I can learn from the best!!
What a lovely book I love when you can get inspiration from a book and use it in your home decorating. Thanks for sharing and making this beautiful book recommendation.?
I would take inspiration from her new book to set a table in the midst of my prayer garden for my family to gather.
In a clearing in the forest.
If I could set a table anywhere it would on the beach at sunset… ?
I live in southeast Michigan. I love our beautiful State.
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere, it would be “up north” in the countryside of the beautiful Leelanau Pennisula !! ❤️
My goodness I can smell those roses and imagine how wonderful to enjoy this special place.
We have a beautiful spring fed creek at the back of our property. It has a flat area where you could do this under a canopy of big old oak trees. It is a slice of heaven.
After working for the Navy for 30 years, I settled in SW Florida in a beautiful community. I would love to use the book as a guide to set a beautiful table for my friends here.
At the end of a dock – but where I live windy days are the norm so would need heavy pieces!
Would love to own this gorgeous book!
I would love to set a long old weathered wood table under giant oak tree decorated with ribbon held hanging lights. The table set with with my Mom’s china and her old stem ware. All colors of soft pink flowers in baskets everywhere, soft music playing in the background but most important at the table are all my wonderful girlfriends.
I love your blog and look forward to all of your advice! You seem to be a lot like me! This book looks like it is based on a lot of table settings which are my favorite.
Thanks so much for brightening my days!!Lisa
What a beautiful book! I would love to set a French country table in England or France. I’ve never been, but have always wanted to visit.
I love the book. Colors in the photos help you feel you are right there. This book would be addition to table talk when friends or family are visiting. Also looking at the photos bring back memories being at my Grandparents home in the country with the flowers, table set outside to have a summer day lunch.
Going to your blog each day gives wonderful ideas and great recipes for the week to plan meals and the devotional to.
Thanks for all you sharing
Brenda
French country style is my favorite! It leaves room for all kinds of creative expressions, and always includes nature and flowers. Her use of nature and time-worn accessories is heart-warming.
There are beautiful flower gardens all around my parent’s Cape Cod house ….. Such a natural appearing landscape. Yes, natural, but perfectly planned with gorgeous roses, lilies and iris of every color. Even the trees my Mom chose have such interesting shapes and sizes.
She left this place in January and her handiwork lives on. This is the place where we would set a beautiful farmhouse table, decorated with her miss-matched glassware and antique China. Just under the filter of the fringe-like leaves of the big Drake Elm. She would love the whole experience, as would I.
Miss you Mom.
Such a beautiful and inspiring book. I would love to have one. I always need great ideas to follow. And what a treat to be given the opportunity to win one.
Love Courtney! I had the privilege of sharing a day with her at the High Point Furniture Market.
Wedding tables are the most fun to me! In a romantic woodsy setting would be such a wonderful place. My second favorite would have to be a fall tablescape. Pumpkins and orange just make me so happy.
Love your blog Yvonne!! Have followed you for many years ♥️
I would set this table every Sunday for tea for anyone to drop by
I would choose to set a beautiful table in my dining room, because it’s either too hot or damp and cold to eat outside in FL. (And way too many bugs!!)
I would choose a Best-est Girl Friends’ Luncheon in my beautiful, flower garden–that is a bit on the wild side… The table would be adorned with my grandmother’s crisp white linens, mix-matched Blue Willow dishes, cobalt blue glassware, and vintage wine glasses. Flowers from the garden and on the table would surround us with smiles. Each bite of food and each sip would be enveloped with old stories, memories, and laughter that only best-est friends would know and share. Nothing like the beauty of flowers, your favorite pieces, and memories shared with dear friends. Makes my soul soar…
I would love to have a beautiful cottage country lake inspired tablescape on the banks of a lake in Minnesota.
My own back yard!
I would love to set a beautiful table on the top of a mountain with beautiful views all around. It would be just before sunset with lanterns close by for candle light. The table would be set with antique china with lots of fresh flowers. The meal would be served just in time to watch the brilliant sunset over the mountains.
This book is georgeous and inspiring. If !! I could set a table ANYWHERE it would be in France in Monet’s garden. The table would be rustic bleached wood. The chairs s would have pretty cushions on cane seats and backs. The table would have a rustic Cotten tablecloth with lace sewn at the edges. The napkins would be soft grreen flower sack Cotten . The dishes would be hand made plates and cups in soft terra-cotta and the silverware a mix and match of vintage pieces. Of course there would be flowers in clear vases. The table would be set next to the river so we could watch the swans drift among the lilly pads. The table would be beneath one of the flowering trees so flower petals could fall on the table as gifts from heaven and the fragrances fo the flowers would drive through the air and mindgle with candles as they burned. We would also have a wood fire burning. The smell of a fire pit is so wonderful. After we ate we could move our chairs and soft cushions around the fire and drink wine and tell stories that made us laugh. Yes that would be a perfect dinner with friends.
love the look of the French Country style. My mother who just passed loved it as well. We both were big advocates of flowers and the freshness of outside living
My backyard underneath my cherry and maple trees!
These photographs are so lovely I feel like I can smell the gorgeous flowers! I love to create beautiful tables capes, in fact I dream about them, I know this book will give me some great ideas.
Thanks for giving one away!
That picture of the bucketfuls of peonies just warms my heart. They are my favorite flower. I think they remind me of growing up in Illinois where my neighbor had them in his back yard. I tried many times to grow them in the San Francisco with no luck. Too chilly. We move (in 10 days!) to a lovely home in Washington State and I shall attempt to grow them again. Thanks for sharing. I’ve followed Stonegable for years. Thank you for the daily inspiration.
Since I don’t have a creative eye, I’ve learned to become a pretty copier of other’s beautiful pictures that rise up inside of them. (Including you Yvonne!). If I could create a place of comfort and beauty with some yummy food like shown in the pages of this book, I’d set it up under the poplar trees on a hidden small mountain top near my home in NC.
I would set a table on the front porch of my grandparents’ house on the lake (we sold the house in 1999). The house was originally built in 1890. It had a long front porch with semi-circle windows. Back in the day there was a picnic table at one end of the porch. For a special summer treat, my grandma would let us have dinner on the porch: BLT sandwiches, lime jello with green grapes, ice tea, etc. Maybe even a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken when a franchise first came to the area. My grandma would pull out all the stops for an occasion like Thanksgiving. Since summer was over, that meant eating in the dining room rather than the porch. She had a white linen tablecloth, Towle sterling silver, Spode china and some pleated crystal. Summer, fall, winter or spring, setting a beautiful table makes any meal seem special. Hope everyone is making the best of this unusual summer!!
Her book is my ‘wannabe’ home and garden!
Ahhhh, flowers need I say more. I’d have dreams of setting up a beautiful table to share with family and friends on the beach outside of our beach home.
I would adore being able to set a beautiful table, once again, in my darling father’s house. I’d cook ALL his favorite foods!
Since we are quarantined here in Austin, Texas, I would want this beautiful table set in my backyard. We’d have to be out early because it’s going to be HOT!
I love the beauty of the French people. Sadly, I missed a long planned trip to France this year.
What a beautiful book. I love the idea of having outdoor dining. It’s like you are swept away into another world. It’s so relaxing enjoying the out of doors. Her book is so inspiring that it makes you want to plan an outdoor dinner party soon. Twinkle lights, beautiful flowers, and special friends making memories.
It’s a beautiful book!
I enjoy so much setting a beautiful table in my own home with my teenaged granddaughters making flower arrangements and choosing the china and we all contribute to the beauty. It is a special time.
Really don’t feel the desire to set something anywhere but home. Her photos inspire me to pull out Gr-grandma’s pretties and give it a whirl.?
Good Morning Everyone. I have been enthralled with French Country for a very long time, probably the last 45 years or so. The easy charm of florals and nature inspire and speak to me in all ways.
I would love (at least dream of) creating a picture-perfect table on an edge of the forest near our cabin in the woods. We love our magical retreat in Canada’s north where pines, loons, blueberries and bears abound.
Owning this beautiful book may just help make a dream come true! Thank you for the opportunity Yvonne and introducing all of us to this special piece of art and creativity. If I don’t win it, I will like buy it!
Wow, would love this book to read and share when I entertain! Being a Pastors wife, we entertain a lot and now great ideas!!!Thanks for the chance
I would set this beautiful table in my parents backyard of long ago. It nearly makes me cry to even imagine how wonderful it would be.
What a beautiful book! Her photos are stunning and her eye for turning the simple into something gorgeous is amazing. I would love to set a table like this beside a creek or waterfall.
I’ve always wanted to do an outside gathering
I cant wait to see the ideas from Courtneys book
I would love to surprise someone who has an old stone house with a wine cellar in it. It would be the perfect setting for a bistro table and chairs set up in the wine cellar surrounded by some wine barrels. I would use my blue & white Phoenix dishes. The flowers would be huge bunches of sunflowers and black eyed Susan’s placed in those French galvanized flower containers. And of course there would be a fine selection of wines, cheeses and scrumptious desserts! ?????
I love the softness of her table settings! beautiful!
The book looks beautiful and inspiring.
I would set a beautiful table for friends and family in the countryside of Morven park, Leesburg, VA. Part of horse country and nature. This would be a backdrop of natural beauty.
? Annmarie
Absolutely lovely. Such a wonderful way to share her amazing talent. Just beautiful!
This is a beautiful book. It would inspire some of my gatherings.
This looks like a book full of beautiful inspiration. If I could set a table anywhere it would be in a high mountain meadow blooming with wildflowers!
My dream location for a table setting would be picnic-style on the banks of the Kenai River in Alaska. We spent several summer vacations there while my son lived there. It was magical. Courtney’s book is lovely! Thanks for sharing Yvonne.
I love French Country! This is a beautiful book full of ideas. I would love to win!
If I could set a table anywhere, it would be somewhere in France!
In today’s world, I know just the place. When I lived in Nebraska, I found out about this town there. There is only one resident there and SHE happens to also be the mayor! I would love to set a table for her. Can you imagine being the only resident somewhere? Sounds heavenly to me in today’s craziness. Thanks for hosting this giveaway. The book looks stunning!
I love the garden pictures, wonderful book.
I follow her on IG and she has the most beautiful pictures. She always inspires me to take better pictures.
I dream of setting a table under the locust trees while they are blooming for the heavenly scent. The book looks wonderful.
I would love this book. the pictures are beautiful and I would love to try and replicate them
I would set the table in the pasture here on our ranch. It would be under a grove of trees and overlooking the creek and the hills in the distance.
Lovely inspirational table settings. Thanks
Looks like a beautiful book….I might need to order this book for my decorating journey.
Today is special because I survived a heart attack one year ago! Praise God I am still enjoying life. We had to cancel our trip to France. This book could be my armchair adventure. I would love to set a table in the woods or a lovely garden with China, crystal, candles, fancy cloth napkins and glorious flowers.
If I could lay a table anywhere?? It would be in a beautiful garden – Monet’s garden . Lol Now that is a dream .
If I could set up a table anywhere right now it would be in our new landscaped backyard. We live only three miles from the central coast in California so the beach is also a favorite place! Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful book.
Such gorgeous photos! So calming at a time when calm is so needed. Love the book and love your blog, Yvonne.
I would definitely set a beautiful table at my Mother’s house and have one last beautiful meal with her. She passed away this past November. I had to sell her house that she lived in for over 40 years and had created so many beautiful events and meals for her family And friends. I’m not as good a cook or creative as she was so I would take one of the pictures in the book and recreate it for my Mom. Love and miss her so much.
Yvonne, I love your site. It brings me pleasure and Consistently turns on my “dream machine”. As I go throughout my day new possibilities fill my mind. Thanks for.being a positive Christian influence in my life. S
This isn’t the most glamorous spot at all. During this isolation we have been sitting outside in a large fenced in area where my husband parks his truck and does some welding and blacksmithing. We have some chairs and a gigantic fan to keep us cool. The fence is very unusual. It’s made from very large pieces of metal, called skeletons, that are left over after various pieces are cut out for clients. Each panel is different and the result is a very cool, artsy fence. I have though many times that with a bit of moving things around, it would be a great place for a beautiful table setting. So it would definitely be my chosen spot. Right at home with my husband and our big dog Harry.
I would imagine my perfect table setting would be by the beach in Figi or Bora Bora. Perfect breeze, not to warm, not to cold…just right! I love neutral colors, such as white, light gray, burlap/sand and my go-to accent colors would be cabbage roses in cream/blush and light coral colors. Was you expecting blue by the sea? Not for me. Think of the inside of a beautiful conch sea shell, thats what I’m talking about. Under a billowy canopy with the most breath taking view to enjoy!
Such beautiful pictures!
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere, I think it would be on a beautiful, small deserted island for just my Sweetheart of 60 years & me!
I would love to have this book! I so enjoy your posts!
I so enjoy you and all your friends, it helps me to dream n Gives me inspiration. Lord bless you.
This book is gorgeous. With all that is going on in our country with the pandemic this makes me forget about it, beautiful pictures.
So many beautiful things in life and one is a beautiful set table, I think I would set a beautiful table on a pontoon just anchored in a quiet part of the lake and enjoy the surrounding scenery
I would love to win the book
If I could set a table anywhere it would be in my daughter’s back yard. Because of the quarantine we were unable to celebrate my granddaughter’s 16th birthday in April. It would be a causal get together of her friends and family for a barbecue. Lots of laughter and love!
I can see why you find Courtney’s new book a delight since you also specialize in beautiful vignettes.
I love your site and read the blog every day. As soon as my last child leaves for college I hope to start a redo on my home and will use many ideas from your blog! I’m also working out in the yard to add more flowers. Have already added peonies and butterfly bushes. Would love to have lilacs (one of my favorites), but they don’t grow well in NC.
If I could set a table anywhere it would be at Manor Park overlooking Ling Island Sound!
This book looks so beautiful! The flowers are stunning. If I could set a beautiful table anywhere, it would be in my backyard next to our waterfall (minus the mosquitos). Thanks for sharing this with us!
The timing of the book’s release is perfect!! Inspiration to make entertaining at home special for family and friends.
So pretty. Would love to have this on my table!
I follow both your blog and the French Country blog and I look forward to reading both whenever they are posted!
I would love to set a table in my backyard surrounded by the perennial garden. It is so beautiful this time of year with all the flowers. Thanks for a chance to win this beautiful book.
We love eating outdoors on our deck, with the fountain going and birds singing.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful book. I’m sure I could learn many things being new to the whole French inspired style of decor. If I could set a table anywhere, it would have to be against a beautiful outdoor Autumnal backdrop near water so the landscape can be reflected upon the surface.
I can picture this table full of fruits and vegetables grown in my country garden right next to the cottage of my dreams.
My table would be set by a babbling brook on the edge of a field of wildflowers with a path through it leading to a quaint English style cottage. White brick with a deep blue door and a large pink climbing rose covering an arbor in front ,this home welcomes all.I would place a bouquet of these roses mixed with some wildflowers on my table. My dishes for little chicken salad sandwiches would be English pink chintz , my goblets pink depression glass filled with strawberry lemonade and some white linen napkins would complete the setting. Dessert for this outdoor luncheon will be lavender and lemon shortbread and some fresh strawberries.
Hope you can join us.
Yvonne, I hope you give it to some very kind, generous, creative, thoughtful, and God loving person who will savor and thoroughly treasure it, like ME! 🙂
Some of her pictures remind me of your beautiful arrangements!!!!
Beautiful pictures, it’s makes me feel as though I am there as well.
I love the combination of flowers into all aspects of her decorating, especially the use of peonies, my favorite!
I have enjoyed visiting Courtney’s blog. So I know her new book will be awesome. Thanks for the giveaway
I’d love to set a table in a sheltered spot by the ocean. There would have to be shade with sunshine peeking through and a view of the water and crashing waves.
Every one of those photos that you featured from her book is absolutely delicious!
During quarantine, my family and I ate dinner on the back patio nightly and I loved it. I live in the high desert of New Mexico and I love outdoor dining!
I would set a table for a sunset dinner on a yacht deck in a remote spot on Lake Powell. Flowers, natural linen colors, and big juicy filet mignons
Gorgeous pictures and ideas!
I would set a table in my own backyard at the end of my pier, late afternoon, overlooking Bon Secour River in Alabama. As your backdrop during your meal, you would enjoy seeing pelicans dive for fish, herons drying in the sun and let’s not forget the ever present dolphins swimming by jumping and playing in the river.
I would choose to set a beautiful table on my back porch. Here we have treetops, bird song, hummingbirds, water trickling, and
sunlight filtering through the branches . Heaven close to my heart.
I purchased a copy of Courtney’s first book and loved it – read every word from front to back cover. A talented lady!!!!
This new book looks beautiful! I’m always looking for new ways to decorate and entertain.
I would set a beautiful table in my home, inside with cozy warmth of lovingly prepped mealtime goodies or out in the yard graced with God’s natural gifts. My wanderlust often does transport me elsewhere but my heart is in my home 🙂
Breathtaking and beautiful. Setting a table outside by the river would be so much fun.
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere it would be on my patio. Since building our home three years ago, we’ve been slowly landscaping and hardscaping to bring an oasis to our little corner of the world.
I love the rugged beauty of a vineyard. Setting a table using burlap, natural elements such as grapevine and pinecones, and flowers in muted tones provide an understated backdrop for the evening’s fare.
Thank you so much for such a lovely post about my book Yvonne!! Adore you my friend!!
xo
This book looks lovely. Would love to see more. A table set up in the garden would be sublime.
I would set a beautiful table for an elegant picnic in the Smokey Mountains by a gently flowing stream. Under shade trees, with a cool mountain breeze blowing, the gorgeous Smokey Mountain peaks in the background, my sweet hubby and I are feasting on a picnic meal of cold shrimp, cheese tarts, roast beef on baguette, fruit, and delicate sweet pastry. Only the finest China, silver, and crystal set on a table covered in beautiful French linen with coordinating napkins will do for our picnic! Our centerpiece is an overflowing bouquet of local flora we picked up on our journey, lovingly placed in an earthenware jug also found on the way. Magical!
Beautiful photography!
Would love the book giveaway. I would set a lively table on a beautiful beach!
I am now in the fall of my life and have gone through all the fadish phases of my 30s 30s 40s and so on. Now an Empty Nester with grown children and 11 grandchildren,I find myself meditating and discovering the things in life that are important to me. If I could have one vacation… It would be a month in the French countryside. The books you are featuring and her lovely home bring a lightness to my soul that I haven’t felt in a long time. Her visions bring me peace and I would be honored to add her new book to my collection.
Oh wow! This looks like a lovely book. I can hardly wait for more!
If I could set a table without wind, I would set one above a particular cove in Sea Ranch, ca. The crashing waves, the salt air and the barking harbor seals make it simply perfection.
Looks like a beautiful book! Thank you for sharing it with us. I love your blog!
I would set a beautiful table at sunset on the beach at Canon Beach, Oregon. The most perfect, soul-refreshing, life-changing place on earth. I can hear the waves now.
I have enjoyed your post please continue
Pretty = Peace
Wouldn’t it be absolutely wonderful to set a table in heaven for our Lord and our friends
I would love to set my small white patio table up for a lovely night outdoors.
What a beautiful book! I would love this for my library!
Beautiful book! Lovely images! Thank you for sharing it with us!
What a gorgeous book!
I love all things vintage…. worn and loved…but then one of my very favorite books is The Velveteen Rabbit. I have many décor items and furniture that has been my great grandparents (and I’m a grandma) nothing of great worth, but priceless to me. Courtney’s ability to decorate looks effortless…a look I’m still trying to achieve. I love your before and after photos. You inspire me!
Oh.My.Stars! What a lovely book. I would love to be considered.
Thank you!
Debra
Beautiful book! Would love to win a copy to wander through.
I have traveled to Provence many times, and I am always inspired by the magic of the location and how the terroir, sunshine, and close proximity to the sea provide such a feast for the senses. The many foods and artisans’ creations found in daily life including the vast array of olives that grow on trees found only in this area of the world, the fruits and vegetables that abound including the delicious melons from Cavaillon and grapes that yield the famous rosé wines from the Bouches-du-Rhône. Artists and artisans create fabulous products that reflect the connection between products, practices, and perspectives of Provence in their vessels and culinary tools made from olive wood, paintings of poppy and lavender fields, and linens with the symbols of the cicadas and gorgeous sunflowers. My favorite table setting would feature a farmhouse table covered with a Provencal tablecloth of blue and green with matching napkins and Provençal silver napkin rings in the shape of an olive leaf with olives. The centerpiece would be a long Provençal bread/dough bowl with several small candles inside it and small white and pink flowers with greenery filled in to create a soft and colorful representation of an authentic Provençal dinner table. The side board for the serving platters would feature a large vase of peonies and greenery. Merci!
What a grand way to visit without leaving home at this time. Inspiration reigns in this book.
Beautiful book.
Gorgeous
Looks like a fabulous book. I would love to win a copy.
To the most beautiful place to set a table would be one of two places. In the middle of an apple orchard in full bloom on a beautiful sunny day with puffy white clouds. A white Battenberg table cloth draping over the edges of the table, delicate China on the table and gorgeous pink peonies and babies breath in a crystal vase tied with a wide dusty pink satin ribbon. Oh, and did I mention a babbling brook in the background? And to sit at my table I would want my mother, who passed away 2 years ago. I would complete my table with ALL of her favorite dishes and a filled lemon cake (her favorite) for dessert. ????
Lovely book.
I would love this book. I would set a table in a park with lots of flowers and kids playing
This book would be an wonderful source of inspiration! I have recently downsized to a very social neighborhood. I would love to browse this book for ideas to set a fabulous luncheon table in my garden.
Thank you for the opportunity to possibly win the gorgeous book!
Sincerely,
Ann
In the woods under a canopy of beautiful trees. The book looks like it’s filled with lovely inspiration. Thanks for sharing!
What a lovely give away! Enter me please!
My patio. I love outdoor get-togethers.
I would set a table in Autumn under the changing leaves of a huge tree. Thank you for sharing this!
If I could set the table of my dreams in the location of my longing with friends and family it would be in Monet’s Garden in France beside the lake and under the flowering trees. The petals that would drop on the table would be gifts from heaven. The table would be rustic bleached wood and mismatched wicker chairs with cushions on Toile. The napkins and tablecloth would be made from flour sack Cotten. Flowers and candles would adorn the table. The silver wear would be mixed matched. The dishes would be made by a local potter. We would sip wine, laugh and adore the swam s that swam in the late and adore the beauty of the lily pads filled with the songs of frogs.
I would love to have a brunch or tea in an English garden. With the flowers, and serenity it would be beautiful and calming. This book has soooo many beautiful pictures and great ideas.
A beautiful book that will no doubt be a classic!
I too love Courtney’s blog. She has a very special talent to make everything so beautiful! I would love to set a table in a little town off the beaten path in Italy somewhere and enjoy all the wonderful local foods and share it with the locals. Thank you for this give-a-way Yvonne!
I would set it in my backyard inviting all my family to come together making a beautiful memory of a beautiful time well spent with those we hold most dear.
The photos in this book are breathtaking! I would choose to set a table at Sunshine Meadows in Banff, Canada. You take a gondola up 8,000 feet to the top where you are surrounded by snow-capped mountains and pristine lakes. I would love to invite my entire family to share this beautiful place.
What a beautiful book! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
On a mountain top overlooking a valley at dusk!
Beautiful book with so many ideas.
I would love to set a table underneath the large oak trees in my front yard. The green grass, the leaves overhead, and a cool breeze would make the perfect setting for a fun summer luncheon.
Such a great price for a wonderful informative book. I love all things French.
Beautiful book, would love to win it?
I would set a table on our back porch. We have a long southern style porch with white columns.
We also have Victorian style wicker furniture with light green cushions in the chairs. The greenery in the chairs blend so well with the trees and nature around us. Early in the mornings, the sun is so bright and beautiful and the birds are singing their little hearts out for everyone to hear. In the South where we live, we are blessed with long summers. The back porch is a great place to read the Bible and study God’s word.
I have Courtney’s first book and LOVE it. I’m sure the second will be just as wonderful. When are you going to publish YOUR book? 🙂
I would pick a balcony overlooking the city of Venice. I might as well dream big!
Beautiful book! Would love it for ideas and I. My coffee table !!!!
In my backyard underneath the crepe myrtles overlooking my garden!
What a gorgeous book! Just the thing to take our minds off isolation And fear!
French Country is my favorite type of decorating and you have certainly taken it to another step. The feminine touches with the blush colors makes me take a deep breath and feel relaxed. Want your book so bad, but on a limited budget makes it difficult. Thank You for sharing.
Respectfully,
Charlene
I would set a beautiful table at the end of the dock on Glen Lake at sunset. With the water lapping gently at the footings and the golden light filling the air, we would dine by candlelight and peonies on fresh caught lake trout and endive salad.
I would make a beautiful table scape of vintage dishes and silverware with lots of flowers on an old wooden farm table in a vineyard in Italy under a tree . The peace and serenity would invite me to linger long after the meal was finished and I would watch the sun set over the hills.
Would love a copy of “FRENCH COUNTRY COTTAGE INSPIRED GATHERINGS!” If I were to set a beautiful table, it would be in a cabin in the mountains of East TN. In the Fall with open hearth fireplace. Tressel table with barrel chairs and a long bench on one side. Lovely Fall branches with tiny pink vineing Roses down the center with tiny votives with white candles or tiny string lights inter twined. Unmatched Vintage Rose dishes, silver and glassware.
Love the book! And stone gable blog!! Thanks for all the great ideas ?
Ooooh! Peonies, peonies, peonies! So pretty!
In the summertime, it would be so much fun to set a table in the shallow end of the pool and enjoy a lively picnic IN THE POOL!
Beautiful book! Thanks so much for sharing!
What a lovely book. Just love all the flowers
Love the photo of peonies!♡♡
I love French Country decor – I had a beautiful dining room set with ladder back chairs that I just loved. I wish I could find one like that again. If I could set an amazing desert table it would be by a lovely river like I saw while living in Oregon.
I would love this book. I absolutely love Courtney Allison’s style and extensive use of gorgeous flowers. I would set up a table in my backyard now that our neighbour has cut down a line of cedar trees by our fence and we no longer have hordes of mosquitoes in our yard and can finally start using it!
There are beautiful flower gardens all around my parent’s Cape Cod house ….. Such a natural appearing landscape. Yes, natural, but perfectly planned with gorgeous roses, lilies and iris of every color. Even the trees my Mom chose have such interesting shapes and sizes.
She left this place in January and her handiwork lives on. This is the place where a beautiful farmhouse table, decorated with her miss-matched glassware and antique China. Just under the filter of the fringe-like leaves of the big Drake Elm. She would love the whole experience, as would I.
Miss you Mom.
Beautiful inspiring arrangements and the photography looks gorgeous! Thank you for the opportunity to win a copy.
The book looks fascinating and beautiful. I would love to win.
Looks lovely; well done!
In a clearing in a wooded area, by a clear, babbling brook. My old farm table would be adorned with wildflowers from a nearby cemetery in the woods. Covering the table would be my Mother’s old crocheted tablecloth with her old china dishes, the napkins would be her beautiful lacy handkerchiefs.
Love her and french country decor and I love setting pretty tables with everything I have collected. I get a lot of great ideas from your blog.
The photos she has in this book look lovely. One of the loveliest places for a gathering would be with family in my mother’s back yard. It used to be a flat grassy yard for kickball games but she & Dad transformed it into a contest winning garden escape surrounded by 8 block-lined beds. It was very English. And they looked just like this book. Thank you for sharing your goodness with all of us.
Breathtaking mountain views serve as an ideal and gorgeous backdrop for a summer picnic in a sun-kissed meadow outside Asheville, NC.
I envision a rustic, European antique table adorned with hand-painted floral china, mismatched silver flatware, and vintage mason jars brimming with mint-garnished hibiscus tea. Wildflower bouquets gathered in ironstone pitchers act as simple centerpieces.
In a vineyard or one of those long tables you see in an orchard or something
Thanks so much for your wonderful give away Yvonne. What a beautiful book. Your friend is so talented.
During this time of “staying home” I am spending more time in my garden. I’ve been loving arranging the flowers from the garden. From daffys, tulips, iris, and now wonderful peonies and roses. So I’d have to do a Table set for my 4 girlfriends. We each celebrate a summer birthday so it would be our annual summer baby celebration in the garden.
Love your we I sure and all your recommendations!
You would make a great neighbor! ??
I would set it in my front yard during summer, as it is a central gathering point for most of my family and friends. I’d love to entertain them all!
My first instinct is to say the beach, I’m all about the beach. But, I love seeing tables in a field surrounded by wildflowers and kind of unruly. If I had the chance though, I would set up a table on some cliffs in Ireland, overlooking the ocean, with old ruin’s of old walls and that rugged look. See, I went back to the ocean. lol Figures.
This is such a beautiful book! Such perfect timing to be able to escape the chaos of our world right now and see the beauty in these pages! ❤️
My youngest daughter was married in Sinalunga, Italy last year where there was breathtaking countryside everywhere you looked. We drove all around the countryside and often stopped and had picnic lunches in some of these beautiful areas. Would love to be able to do again with more elaboration as shown in Courtney’s new book. I think it would be hard for me to leave!!
It would have to be on top of one of the mountains in Vermont with a view of valley and beyond. There is a special feeling that comes over me every time I spend time in Vermont. So biblical. Would be wonderful to set a table and enjoy all that Vermont offers.
Love the feel and smell of getting a new book, plus the fresh ideas to be inspired by. And if it has a ‘country’ theme all the better! Thank you, Yvonne, for a chance at the giveaway! If I could set a beautiful table anywhere . . . actually, I did! It was in a secluded area of my local park at a picnic table to celebrate my best friend’s birthday. I went early and set everything up, so it was decorated and food laid out for when she arrived. Her gifts were part of the decorations. She loves a picnic and she was so surprised!
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere, it would be my own dining room! (Not very creative I know, but my dining room is part of the entire living area, and I love coordinating everything!)
Thank you Yvonne for the preview of Courtney’s elegant unique book and the kind giveaway ! I would set a table under the stars with vintage family silver and linens…and have everyone wish upon a star ! Anne
I would set a table for breakfast, down on the Deschutes River, in the meadow. The Cascades mountains as a backdrop. The beautiful white tablecloth gently blowing in the breeze. A mason jar with Wildflowers and natural grasses as a centerpiece. Pure paradise!
Dear Yvonne,
Thank you for this opportunity as it’s so kind of you not only blessing someone with Courtney’s Book, but giving her the love of a faithful friend.
I inherited from my Grandmother the love of serving others. To know that in a little while I’ll get to show love and care for my family and friends I get beyond excited. Even in creating hand made packaging of cookies, cakes, and food just does something to me. The thought of getting to create pushes me forward. If I did win this gift, it wouldn’t be just for me. The ideas and settings I’ll see, will extend far beyond those pages and stretch right into me creating love to the precious souls in my life. Even if I wasn’t chosen, just what I’ve somehow stumbled on today is so meaningful to me and I’ve already pulled a new notebook off the shelf and have my favorite pen waiting to plan for a get together no one even knows about. Thank you for keeping me inspired.
Kind Regards,
Cynthia C Kelly
Absolutely full of beautiful ideas
I’d love to have lunch in one of those pictures!
Love your post! Look forward to it each day….
I love your beautiful blog! There’s a calm and gentle feeling about your home that I love and strive for in my own home.
I would set my table in our 100 year old pecan orchard. It’s so lovely in the fall.
Beautiful book. Thank you for the peak. I would set a table on my deck, with of course this beautiful book on a side table.
I would host a gathering in the court yard behind our ‘new’ house. The home was build in 1871!!
I’m working hard to do justice to this old beauty and bring it to life again! Someday I’ll host a gathering back there!!!
Stunning. Photographs. Would love to sit and browse.
Hi! I would like to set up a beautiful table in a very nice backyard with Japanese garden theme, beside a water fixture, surrounded with different colors of Japanese trees, beautiful flowers and chirping birds.
Hi Yvonne,
Courtney does a beautiful job highlighting all the natural beauty in her blog.
Have enjoyed your blog as well. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas.
joanne
I would love to set a beautiful table on my grandmother’s farm. Under her large maple tree. My favorite place in the world! Thanks for the giveaway.
Looks like a lovely decorating book to own. The pictures are beautiful.
The book appears to be so beautiful. The photography is lucious. I would love to create a table setting min m wooded backyard amongst the moss and trees…wooden table, linens, China and lots,of crystal goblets and flowers! Thanks for the opportunity for a great giveaway.
Hi Yvonne..Courtney’s book looks and sounds amazing! My favourite part of hosting a gathering, other than seeing family and friends, is the planning. I love to create a beautiful table and love the inspiration you bring to us! I would love to host an afternoon tea with my friends in my backyard this summer, with all the flowers and shrubs blooming, and use them in a beautiful arrangement on the table. Alongside, I would use the beautiful silver tea set and China I received from my mom. I would make beautiful tea sandwiches, entremets and, of course, macarons. It would be a beautiful afternoon with the special ladies in my life.
We would dress up to suit the special get together, naturally, and everyone would go home with a beautifully wrapped box of goodies to enjoy later. Hmmm, I think this weekend would work!
I have a willow tree on my property near a small pond. There are bull frogs and Canadian geese out there. I think an old table from my great-grandmother’s farm along with a rocker from her kitchen would be fun! I have some hydrangea bushes and peonies out there as well. One of my hobbies is photography. I especially like to photograph flowers. I would put a bunch of peonies in some ball mason jars or an old basket. My great-grandmother sold eggs to villagers in order to buy her white Haviland china. I have inherited that china and would use it on the table! I live in the country in west New York state In a small town with only one traffic light!
My dining room.
Looks like a dreamy book!
We go out RVing as we have time and I like to make the picnic table and campsite as inviting as I can. Another trip is scheduled for July 4th celebrations so you can imagine the fun gathering up things for this occasion!
Beautiful images! I would love to visit the places where the photographs were taken! Thank you for featuring this book for us! Love you!
Your pages are lovely. Makes one feel they immediately want to replicate every one of your ideas. Grand to say the least.
Welcome to the Stone Gable fans group.
Tink Bayton
Hi! I would dress a table in the stately home for the Earl and Countess of Leicester, where I’m the Head Housekeeper at Holkham Hall in Norfolk UK. I would love to win this book!
OH, Suzanne! You must love your job! Thanks for commenting across the “pond”. I lived in Scotland and England as a child. I left part of my heart there when our family came back to the states.
We just moved to our new house, so happy and grateful! Our new house came with an adorable chicken coop in the backyard and I have been imagining cleaning out the area and turning it into a beautiful garden. Having chickens roam around enjoying nature! This is where I would set up a picnic table, under the tree with chicken view! 🙂
Everything I would want in a book. Beautiful! Awesome Ideas!
I follow both of these talented ladies ! I aspire to gather and curate a lovely home in this style .
Thank you Yvonne for the lovely giveaway! I would set up a lovely bistro table on our screened in porch.
I look forward to having a virtual getaway browsing the beautiful pictures of table settings in France! Thanks
for giving us a sneak peak!
Love the apple orchard photo! Gorgeous pictures.
Yvonne, have been following you for the past year and enjoy your design tips especially when I “run into a wall” and cannot figure out what is missing!
Also enjoy your recipes that are so easy to make in my hectic work/life world!
Thanks for your constant encouragement to making my house a Home!
I own her book” French Country Cottage” and it is beautiful! I would love to own this new book as a companion!
I love entertaining, planning the menu and setting a beautiful table and enjoying my family and friends. I have done this as a military wife and a corporate wife in places coast to coast but probably my favorite occasions have been the times I have invited my mother-in-law and her friends from her retirement home. We have had a very flowery, chocolate laden Valentine’s luncheon just for the ladies with Mom and her friends and some of mine and an evening cocktail party for Mom and her friends, including a couple, to enjoy Christmas goodies and Christmas decor in a family home again. It is a real treat for these residents to be picked up and transported to someone’s home and entertained the way they remember from years past. I just wish I had started sooner and done it more often. That is how I would use the lovely book.
I would set a table in the woods where I played with my cousins growing up. By the little brook and the spring and the little wild flowers growing there.
The pictures in the book are so beautiful. ???
Thank you for sharing Courtney’s gorgeous book,I can’t wait to dive in! I love the way my mother would always set the table at home, even for a simple sit down to coffee with a neighbor. She would pick flowers from the garden and bring out her pretty china and glasses. She made everyone feel so special and welcome. That was her special gift of hospitality.
If I could set a table anywhere, it would be here in my humble little old house, using my mother’s pretty china and freshly picked flowers from our garden.
I love Courtney’s style and am always inspired by her creativity. I’ve been setting outdoor dining spaces since the weather has warmed. It would be a treat to have her book in my library.
xo,
Karen
Picnic food next to a creek somewhere in the mountains. While commenting my time is sure up fast for the robot( I am not a robot)!
Enjoy your website so much, get great ideas and love the weekly recipes, use them a lot..Thanks
My mother loved flowers, all kinds, but especially peonies! I’ve never really had the knack for arranging peonies nor any other type of flower or setting a spectacular table, but she sure did! It’s sad, but my generation doesn’t have the dinner parties that mom and her friends used have. I consider it a little bit of a lost art.
SO…if I were to set a table it would be in my mother’s presence…wherever that may be…
In my grandmother’s front yard in Marianna, Arkansas between her bed of hydrangeas. And a mimosa tree. Nanny had every flower imaginable growing. I can still smell the scents from her screened in front porch swinging my heart out and singing hymns from the Cokesbury Hymnal.
I have the French Country Cottage book which is GORGEOUS! Can’t wait to see this new book by Courtney Allison
More than ever we need an escape from the world around us. I would live to have this book. But I do enjoy your posts, Yvonne. Fun to watch you in your new home and see how you tackle the open floor plan.
What a lovely giveaway! I would love to have her book! All of her photos on her blog are always so gorgeous! Very inspiring too!
Thank you for the chance ?
Karin
Love the book! I would set my table in my AZ sunroom overlooking grapefruit and orange trees…so delightful!
A perfect space would be in my own backyard. You see I inherited my parents home and have been renovating/remodeling for the last year until Covid-19 hit. Needless to say all work came to a standstill. I hope to resume work and finish in time for a outdoor party late summer. That would be the golden ring!
I absolutely love this decorating style!
Having been confined to close to home, I would love to set a table on the beach in Hawaii. Surrounded by beautiful palm trees and tropical flowers and torches lighting the setting.
Since I have such a hard time growing flowers, I love looking at beautiful yards and arrangements in books. It keeps my attempts going.
The photos in the book are so beautiful! I’ve never set a table in the woods, but it looks so peaceful and inviting. Thank you for the giveaway. All the best to you!
I would set a table in my grandma’s backyard right among the most beautiful hydrangea bushes.
Beautiful settings!
I would love to set a table under some big shade trees in beautiful Provence, France, my heart’s home!
My Dream is to have a entertainment area in our backyard….complete with outdoor kitchen, swimming pool area and a Gazebo for sipping sweet tea and a dining area to entertain outdoor family and friend gatherings that is where I would want to set up a beautiful themed table for what ever event we are gathering for.
The pictures from the book are lovely. I would really enjoy adding it to my StoneGable inspired, newly neutral, living room. Thanks for sharing
If I could set a table anywhere it would be on my parents farm among all their heirloom apple trees. My parents bought their farm in 1955, when I was born. My father is now 90 and my mother is 87. My father just retired from farming a year ago due to a stroke. I grew up on the farm and have picked strawberries, raspberries, cherries and apples. We always had a family run farm stand in the summer. Now their farm is up for sale. I have been planting my own favorite heirloom trees on our property to use for fall baking. I’m hoping I can share the apples with my grandchildren some day.
Love your blog , and this book looks beautiful! I particularly enjoy your Sunday inspirational posts… very meaningful ?❤️
I love that Yvonne promotes other bloggers/authors in her posts. The pictures in Courtney’s book make me feel that I am already there.
Well, since this is a book about French Country Cottages, I decided to pick a spot along the River Seine near Maison Fournaise, where Renoir painted Luncheon of the Boating Party. I’ve never been there, but after reading Susan Vreeland’s fictionalized version of how the painting was created– with live models posing at the restaurant– I was happy to learn that the restaurant is still there, and still a working restaurant! I looked it up on Google Earth and was astonished to see that it looks much as it did when Renoir painted there, and it still sits along a beautiful stretch of the Seine. So I would like to find an expanse of lawn near the river, with trees and beautiful shrubs and set a big table covered with white cloth, beautiful unmatched China and flatware, flowers, and beautiful French food and wine! Next trip to Paris, I’m taking the train to Maison Fournaise!
If I could set a beautiful table anywhere it would have to be in Longmeadow, Monty Don’s gorgeous garden.
My dream setting for a beautiful table would be under an arbor in a beautiful garden with all my family gathered round.
Such beautiful photos that depict an atmosphere of beauty & serenity that glorify His creation.
They truly feed my soul.
I would set a table in a beautiful English garden!
The book just looks fabulous! Great photography!
I would love to set a beautiful table in the back yard of my parents home in Canada so they could enjoy a lovely meal while social distancing.
In a almond orchard among the trees!
French Country Cottage was the first home decor site I ever followed. Courtney has beautiful ideas and her own home is gorgeous!
This book takes me back to one of the most special memories of my life. Our eldest son and his wife had a destination wedding in Paris. The next day my husband and I took off for a beautiful and romantic Sunday in the country. We spent the afternoon at a beautiful country side inn and dined along a small river. Precious memory. We live in the woods in East Texas and I would set a table here on our property and invite family, neighbors and friends! And you of course!
I would love to win this lovely book.
I would set a beautiful table in my Grandma Anna’s back yard under the willow tree.
Love all your posts. I am excited for this new book. Thanks for sharing!
I would set a table on the dock near the water.
I would love to set a table by the seaside – if I only lived by the ocean! Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of this gorgeous book!
I would invite my friends to my own garden under the oak for a garden tea party. We would pour over the new book I had won through Stone Gable and plan our next outdoor get away. I Love your blog.
I can’t wait to see more as what you are showing here on your blog is as tempting as early morning coffee and cinnamon wafting in the air! Love the fresh air – eating outside..Just trying to imagine how wonderful it must be.
Thank you for sharing her new book with us.
So beautiful! I would set the table in the woods behind our yard.
Love books that encourage gathering, this book looks fabulous
Lovely book!! If I could plan a meal I would do one like the Picnic Dinners my Mother’s side of the family would have in Denver, NC. The first Sunday in August the folks would come from all over NC (Texas and Oklahoma , too) to gather under the big oak tree at the old home place on the starting Sunday of the week long Rock Springs Camp Meeting. I would have the favorites…Fried Chicken, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Country Ham Biscuits, Cole Slaw, BBQ and my Aunt Julia’s Lemon Meringue Pies! Plenty of Sweet Tea served in red solo cups and plates from Chinet! They would all be there again, sitting all around in folding chairs, and us kids sitting the ground on quilts…the Grandparents, the Aunts, the Uncles, my Mother and Father, my cousins. That would be the Best Meal, the Best Picnic Dinner ever!
What a beautiful book
If I could set a most beautiful table, it would be in my home with enough seats for the whole family! Thanks for the chance to win a beautiful book. I LOVE all things French Country! and I LOVE your beautiful blog!
Have read Courtney’s blog off and on again for years. So glad to see a record of her talent in this beautiful book!
I think I would set a table in the conservatory at the Opryland Hotel.
Gorgeous book, so inspirational!
Have always wanted to set a table that has French flair, this book looks like the perfect place to start! The colors and flowers alone are extraordinary!
I would love to have brunch in a lavender field, I do love lavender!
Stunning pictures! I would love to have a copy of Courtney’s new book! Thank you for the beautiful giveaway!
What a fantastic book. I would absolutely love to add this to my book collection. The photography is spectacular and the locations/settings are beautiful.
If I could set a table anywhere it would be outside on our property with our background of woods using the inspirations in this book with a beautifully set table with lots of beautiful flowers and our whole family. We have Friday night gatherings with whoever is available and we enjoy spending time together catching up and supporting one another. I love when it’s our turn to host as it’s a great excuse to decorate not only my table but to open our door and share our home with those we love.
I love in a wooded area and to the left of our house is a clear area that is still covered by a canopy of trees. I would love to set up rustic tables and chairs but have real china, lace and flowers.
I would love to have a dinner gathering on top of a mountain hill overlooking a valley. It would have beautiful wild flowers. I even know where this spot is. It was near where I lived in Vermont.
Since we are eating dinners at home these days, my table would be in our backyard.
On the way to our daughter’s house, there is an old dairy farm that we pass by. In that wide green pasture land, there majestically stands a lone old oak tree that spreads its mighty limbs providing protective shade from the hot Summer sun. I always day dream about enjoying a fanciful dinner table under this mighty Oak tree. Somehow this thought makes me feel so safe and serene, even though it is right in the middle of a wide open pasture!
I would love to see Courtney’s beautiful book for inspiration!
I live your website so much, not only for the wonderful crafts and recipes but for the Spirituality as well. I have recommended many of my friends especially for that purpose.
I am looking forward to the book as an opportunity to learn
THANKS for sharing StoneGable with your friends!
I follow her on IG and I’m absolutely amazed by her photos. I would choose any place that she photographs.
Such a beautiful book!!! It gave me inspiration for ideas for my Surface Pattern Designing that I’m learning. It was such a breath of fresh air. It makes me want to “set” a table in a cool old, huge tree that has grown low and sprawling near the ground. Everyone would sit on a limb and a table cloth in the middle. Then all of the beautiful effects would surround the gorgeous, magical picnic/dinner. I hear the birds and see the fireflies. The glow of soft lighting. I’m ready!
This is a beautiful book and would be a welcome addition to my collection.The photos are so lovely you can get lost in them and get transported to another place in time.
I would set a table at the beach ! ?
I would set a table in my orchard,on an old whitewashed table with miss matched chairs. It ‘s a dream of mine. With all of my family. This books is soooo beautiful. I would love to have one. Thank you .
What a beautiful book. I would love to set a table on a private beach at sunset. Thanks for all the great inspiration I always find on your blog. God bless!
I would love to visit the rain forest in South America and create a beautiful garden scene on the table with all the natural plants and flowers in the forest.
French Country….timeless beauty! I have seen her tablescapes and they are beautiful and effortless.
I would set a winter tablescape in Stowe VT.
I would love this book, and I would love to set a lovely table like this maybe in a vineyard, or in the mountains of Colorado, or even my own back yard with beautiful lights strung overhead!!
I would like to open a shoppe called the Raspberry Junction. It would specialize in roses, lavender, crystal, china and lace. I would love to teach ladies how to use these lovely items in their homes. Your website and this lovely new decorating book would give me guidance in making this dream possible.
I would set a tabe under the tree by a lake or stream so you could hear the water when you eat. The book looks wonderful!
Didn’t take long to know I would set a beautiful table in the backyard of the house we moved into when I was in the 6th grade. It was in the country. The house sat on nearly an acre of land. I lived in that house until I was married and still drive by it every so often. That house and acre of land holds some of the most precious memories to me. If I could, I would go back and set a glorious table filled with food that brought generations of my family together every Sunday.
It would be set with the white china and the beautiful gold toned silverware my grandmother gifted me when my husband and I finally moved into our own home. I would add pieces I have gathered on my own to make it even more special. My grandmother is gone now and will always hold a very special place in my heart. I cherish her gifts to this day and use them often.
I would set a table by a stream or lake so you could hear the water when you eat. The book looks wonderful!
I would set a table under a tree by a stream or lake so you could hear the water when you eat. The book looks so wonderful!
I would set my table in the middle of my vegetable garden. I could pick beautiful ears of corn from the tall tasseled corn stalks and slice luscious red tomatoes, wonderful green cucumbers, taste the delicious green beans and devour the sunny yellow summer squash. All of this with a bouquet of sun flowers in a blue mason jar, an antique linen table cloth with red gingham napkins and a big pitcher of sweet iced tea—-yea I live in the south❤️
It just love the look of the book. It is amazingly beautiful!
If I could set a beautiful table it would be in a pyramid!!!! I love and study really ancient history!!!
The book looks so beautiful. One of those books you love to sit and just look at all the pictures and drool over the beautiful things. I love to get involved in one and you loose all time. I would be honored to receive one. Thank you.
What a lovely book! Thank you, Yvonne, I have so enjoyed your blog for several years…
If I were to set a beautiful table anywhere, it would be on the balcony outside our master bedroom. Although my husband & I often enjoy a cup of coffee out there in the morning, I’ve never thought to set up a table & chairs & serve a meal just for the two of us! It is located on the front of the house (very unexpected) on a tree-lined street just 2 blocks from the beach. In the evening, you can hear the ocean & smell the salt air. I would use white linens & place white votives everywhere. I would carry up our rattan serving cart from the patio to use as a little bar. Oh now the ideas are flowing! Even though we have eaten in many beautiful places, this is the location I would choose!
Thank you for giving your readers a peak inside of Courtney’s new book. I have always loved everything that Courtney does and was thrilled to get a glimpse of her new book. I know who ever wins a copy of this book will be inspired by reading it.
I would love to set a table in the evening on a cool fall evening, in a room with a fireplace as the source of light and warmth.
I would love to set a beautiful table under a big , gorgeous, old oak tree by the bay here in the panhandle of Florida. No doubt I would find a lot of inspiration from the pages of this beautiful book! I would love the opportunity to win this one! Thank you so much.
I love that beautiful book!
It just makes you feel good to look at
it!
I would set a table up in a beautiful spot in the woods by the lake or in a Vineyard with a lot of flowers! With old chairs and candles on table with the big flower arrangement! It would be all white dishes with the candles glowing!
The book would be standing in front of the flower arrangement in the middle of the table!
My dream!??
I would set a beautiful table on a beach at the NJ shore.
Courtney is one of the most talented bloggers that I follow (including you Yvonne). Everything she does is so tasteful and beautiful. She makes flowers look more beautiful than they are, if that’s possible, when she applies her magic.
She’s beautiful too; I can’t believe she is the mother of three grown children.
I don’t have a barn or a big tree for an outdoor setting but if I had my choice I would have a she shed like Courtney’s with that gorgeous chandelier overlooking beautiful dishes and yummy food.
One of the most beautiful parts of God’s creation that I have ever encountered in my life was at The Albatroz Inn in Cascais, Portugal (outside of Lisbon) where I honeymooned in late 1972. My parents and another couple stayed there earlier in 1972 and I was completely awed by their pictures and stories about the beauty of the Inn and other gorgeous areas of Portugal – a beautiful country I had never thought of visiting and one that had not become so commercialized at the time I was there. The 1870s mansion, formerly the Palace of the Dukes of Loulé and home to several families until the 1960s when it opened as the Inn, consisted of 11 beautiful, quaint rooms with private balconies, a dining room, a bar and the most gorgeous lawn you have ever seen (replaced by a pool some years later I am told). The lawn stopped not far from the edge of an enormously steep and rocky cliff that dropped off to the beach and ocean below. I have never seen anything since that compared to the incredible view from the top of this cliff as the waves crashed against it onto the beach below. In the glimpses you gave us into Courtney’s beautiful new book, I can imagine one of her tables set with the spectacular view from the top of the cliff at this Inn onto the beach below. I understand the main building of the Inn still remains the same, but like so many other things in life, additions have been added and it has been modernized for the sake of tourism but I will always remember the way it was when I lucky enough to visit!
I have been here. It is absolutely beautiful. The entire town is charming and so are the people. I have visited Portugal twice and both visits were so fun. I have beautiful handpainted dishes made from red clay from Cascais – I had taken the train there from Lisbon and carried them all the way back to the hotel and during the plane ride back to the states – (this was during a time when you could bring multiple carry-on pieces) – I didn’t want anything to break and I was so happy about my lovely dishes. My arms were killing me from how heavy the dishes were. Sweet memory.
Beautiful book! It makes me dream how great it would be to sit at those tables surrounded by my friends. I would love to set a beautiful table near a small bubbling brook
What lovely photos! If I could set a table anywhere, it would be at home with all of my family. I sure miss being able to visit and travel, the book looks like it has so many wonderful ideas and inspiration for when we can all safely travel and visit our loved ones again!
My grandmother’s extra lot next to her home. It is large, empty & surrounded Squarely by 12 Big old cotton woods. It’s one of my favorite places and always wanted to have an outdoor wedding there. I would LOVE to win a copy of the book to set on my coffee table for all visitors to see & would be grateful!! Thanks for the chance.
This book has me drooling! What a beautiful book!
If I could set a beautiful table it would be with my kids and grandkids under a big oak tree in the country side somewhere!!
Thank you for sharing!
I would set a beautiful table on the grounds of Monticello. I live in Virginia and have been there uncountable times. In the back of Monticello, where the family graveyard is located, is probably the most beautiful with the black iron fencing and the beautiful old trees! It would be stunning!
What a wonderfully inspiring book. I love beautiful books that challenge you to keep finding beauty in the ordinary. I would love to set a table in my garden and have a fabulous dinner for my family.
I’ve long enjoyed Courtney’s beautiful photos and this book looks gorgeous. I’d be thrilled to win it!
I think it would be great fun to set a beautiful table underneath the branches of the 100+ year old weeping beech tree behind the Chateau sur Mer in Newport, RI. From a distance the tree just looks like a big, verdant mass but if you walk beneath the greenery there is a beautiful bower created by the trees branches. It would make a great location for an inspired gathering.
I would set a table on a beach on Cape Cod where I live. I love Courtney’s style and blog. She is such an inspiration!
I love to set a beautiful table and my dream is to set a table outside under our maple trees!
This book looks amazing! I desperately need some inspiration and it’s the look I love. She is a great author.
I would set a beautiful table in the mountains of Colorado next to a mountain stream.
Crossing my fingers! The book looks lovely!
I would love to win Courtney’s beautiful book. I think it would be fun to set a table out in a old corn crib. Using an old but loved table. Antique dishes and of course fresh flowers and a table runner. I can just picture it now with lights strung up in it too. A perfect place for a lovely dinner.
There are many beautiful places to create beautiful place settings, but I would choose a nursing home or assisted living home, so those who are permanently sheltered could enjoy the beautiful results!
My back porch! My favorite place on earth is home!
As always, your blog offers such inspiration. Thank you for bringing a smile.
I would like to have a beautiful table setting out on my back porch. Lots of flowers and color.
I am a 76 year old great grandmother. I have a daughter who is an amazing artist and has laid down here gift to take care of her grandchildren. Though this may be done by many grandmothers, she has walked many hard places with God and He is Blessing her with more and more of His Love for these children. She used to love decorating her kitchen and her home as she is also an amazing cook. I would decorate her table with flowers,and make it so beautiful for she and her husband to enjoy and evening of peace and beauty. She deserves it
In my home for family and friends ♥️
I would set a table under our shade trees behind our house and invite my husband and children for a memorable time of fellowship and laughter.
Always love reading your Blog! I live in Colorado about 30 minutes from the mountains. I would love to set a table in a mountain meadow in late Spring when the wildflowers are in bloom. My table setting would be for a luncheon On a sunny day under our beautiful blue sky
I just love your site and look forward to seeing it all the time. Came across the Country French and love it just as much. Ordered a vintage grey poupon jar from France. I’m in love with it.
I would love to set a summer table under our oak trees in our back yard. Inwould use my blue glass dishes and cloth napkins. I just need a table and chairs!
I’d set a picnic table on the edge of a beautiful beach 10 mins from where I live – Blenheim Beach, Huskisson Australia. The tall eucalyptus come right to the whitest sands of this gorgeous beach. A small cove of beauty ???
The book looks so beautiful! During quarantine, my husband and I have been taking long walks and we came upon someone’s garage that looks like a barn. It is bigger than our house! I would love to rent out the space and decorate a table for an intimate dinner with my family!
I love it !!!!!
I’m a floral designer and love to create designs in different settings !
My first thought to set a gorgeous tablescape would be in a beautiful green field with a long farm table and not all the chairs matching, of course ! Lots of earthy elements to decorate with and florals of course !!!!! And chargers is a must !
i love how Courtney’s photos always have flowers in the best locations. i can imagine sitting at this table while those darling blooms encircle toes. yep, i’m one of those homey girls, too. back yard, under the oaks, in the middle of spring, with my children and grandchildren. ..my idea of heaven on earth….
I would set a table in the middle is a beautiful garden-with beautiful peonies in full bloom.
It would be in Tuscany in a vineyard. A big worn wooden table!
Hi Yvonne! This is my first time leaving a comment! I am very inspired by images and love to try new things. My husband has a beautiful koi pond and I think it would be very romantic to relax by the sound of the waterfall and the fish playing around the lillypads.
Tables are my favorite to decorate and much of my inspiration has come from Stonegable. White linen, with flowers, candles and delicate glass garland, woven throughout would set the mood for an intimate luncheon with dear friends. The setting would be on my porch deck, overlooking the small lake on which we live.
Our new home will be completed next month. I am so looking forward to getting out of our temporary apartment, setting a table on our large deck that overlooks a golf course, and having a place to enjoy family and friends again.
We are remodeling our home and this table would go great in the kitchen. We are taking out a wall, expanding the island and updating cabinets, counter tops and floors. This table would look great with our antique cast iron tea pot filled with flowers.
In the woods by a creek!
I’m a plain Jane and I would love a table outside under the trees. I love the pictures of all the beautiful flowers.
I love flowers and my gardens but Christmas is my favorite time of year. I’d love to decorate a cozy table with the fireplace going. Chandeliers would be dimmed. There would be white candles, a linen and lace tablecloth, fresh white and green flowers, pine garlands and cones and an array of antique dishes and goblets. Colors would complement my tree and home decor that year.
Inspiring!
My ideal place would be on a deck overlooking a lake or ocean in the south.
WOW…the book looks amazing!! Hope i win for some inspiration to decorate my home. Thanks
I love to set a beautiful table and gather with friends and family. My imagination of a lovely setting for dining would be in the middle of a forest with the sounds of nature surrounding us. The table would be set with a nature inspired theme…sounds simply dreamy!
I am drooling all over my keyboard!
I would be very happy to take the
book off your hands, Mr. Pratt.
I would set a beautiful table outside of the villa we
Stayed at in Tuscany !!
I’m one of those people who feels emotions on a deeper level – not always a good thing. However, when I see something really beautiful to me, I get butterflies and maybe a little weak in the knees. I’ve been known to swoon over collections of pretty summer dresses that just hit the floor in shades of pink and rose especially. Most people don’t get that so I try not to swoon in public. Long story short this book’s photographs couldn’t be more gorgeous with the glassware and china and then the beautiful flowers. Where would I like to be with all this? If dreams could come true I’d be with Grammie under her honeysuckle tree listening to her tell me that all this was way too fancy and I shouldn’t have gone to all this trouble just for her.
I know exactly what you mean! I’m one of those people too.
I would set a table in my backyard, under the trees close to the perennial gardens. The table would be set with lovely china and glassware and my daughters and I would enjoy a Victorian high tea together.
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I would set tables across my backyard for my daughter’s bridal shower. It would be a vintage celebration of all the strong and wonderful women in her family! I would use all the family china dishes in different patterns, and lots of collected ironstone. All my mother’s white ironstone pitchers and clam bowls would be filled with seasonal flowers. Crystal, and Fostoria glassware would be sparkling on the tables. My grandmother’s beautiful table cloths and napkins. Each place setting using silver passed down generations! Can’t wait!
I would love to win this beautiful book. Always looking for inspiration and can never get enough!
Outside a thatched cottage in Ireland, overlooking the ocean.
Love Courtney’s new book. I am also a fan of France. I have been there 5 times and several with my daughters. I am half french from my mother’s side so I feel an affinity for France. I have to say that I love setting the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I try to do it different every year. I read your blog to get ideas for my table setting. They are never as nice as yours but I am still trying.
Congrats to Courtney on her new book!
So sweet Laura!
I would set a table for two on the shores of beautiful Lake Louise surrounded by summer larkspur in Alberta, Canada. My table would be draped in white linens with ivy enhanced candles. I would let the glacial aqua of the lake and sunset dictate any other decor.