Quarantine, cancelled vacations, and no socializing is all we hear about, amiright? We need a break more than anything so how are you going to get it? Create a moment, your own private escape in your very own space. The irony of quarantine is that I ended up making some amazing deeper connections with people and accidentally turned my little idea of a tablescape into a fabulous collaboration.

I teamed up with local designer, William Lyon and the sassy and equally as sarcastic, Kathleen O’Reilly from Grey Stripes and Denim and we pushed each other creatively to make these fabulous “moments”. I’ve been asked many a time, “Where do you summer?” and guess what, I summer in my back yard this year. Coastal Connecticut is all about blues but I wanted to mix it up with more than just stripes and rattan. Layering different textures and creating our own textiles adds to the richness of this look and makes it anything but basic. Kathleen showed off her DIY skills and created napkins for Dorset and Pond, I found African rattan wrapped placemats (it’s women owned, too!), and added some vintage elements with the classic symbol of hospitality, pineapples. William is an expert stylist and using hydrangeas cut from the yard, vases from his extensive vase collection (we all have that one thing we love to collect), and a custom designed table cloth, we said “cheers” to our collab!

You can purchase the whole collection or just a few elements. Check it all out here: Where Summer is a Verb. Stay tuned for more about our other tablescape collection, On Island Time.

xo

Alicia