Simple Summer Celebrations Tablescape for the Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July!  The colorful holiday is fast approaching this year.  The summer months are an eagerly awaited welcome.  The Fourth of July holiday and its festive celebrations seem to elevate a happier spirit.  Year after year in the past, parades and picnic celebrations at the park, home and back yard of family and friends were highly anticipated and filled the holiday with sweet memories.  Memories of catching up with relatives that haven't been seen in a while.  Great picnic food, warm weather, outdoor games, swimming and, in the evening, fireworks that lit up the night sky. 

To commemorate the holiday and cherished memories, I designed a simple, but nostalgic tablescape. 

The theme of the Simple Summer Tablescape starts with the vintage red and white ticking tablecloth.

Naturally, the red and white striped enamel dinnerware set was the first set to come to mind for this table. 

It is topped with a ceramic salad plate from the Texas Home collection at Walmart with rippled edges like that of a paper plate and with red poppy flowers and blue denim details.  

And what would compliment it more than a red striped tea towel as part of the placemat.

The little red truck becomes part of the table centerpiece because it is a nostalgic symbol of the good old days.  It is filled with more blue and white gingham checkered paper napkins and patriotic straws.  

 

The little red truck is parked next to a red and white splatterware pitcher filled with white peonies, red geraniums, blue hydrangeas and red, white and blue glitter stars and firework picks.

And, of course, we need to include the American flag and some blue star table scatters.

A red metal tin punched with a star pattern for tea light candles makes the perfect casual summer time candle holders.

The use of Mason jars as drinking mugs with American flag printed straws couldn't be any better to represent summer and the holiday.

So it is time to slow down, relax and share in every minute of the fun that this holiday brings. 

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!