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Mother’s Day Brunch Inspiration: birds, butterflies and booze. Ahhh. (decor ideas)

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Why do I host a Mother’s Day Brunch? I’m a mom… shouldn’t I be the attendee and not the host…?

Why play hostess? Because I get to do crafty things that are purely unnecessary… but they bring me joy. Crafty Joy is my Mother’s Day gift to me.

Mother's Day Brunch inspiration - Robin's egg blue, butterflies and white blossoms.

Each year I have a different color scheme. This year was robin’s egg blue and chocolate brown. (… ‘cuz I had the brown curtains handy from Thanksgiving…)

Spring brunch decor - turquoise chandelier for spring time.
In December I wrote about this free chandelier that I re-made into a candle holder. I painted it red for Christmas but even then, I knew that by spring it would be blue and have nests and birds on it.
DIY holiday chandelier
I spray painted a cornflower blue over the red, Once it was sprayed blue, I mixed up some acrylic paint (remember acrylic paint…?) into the shade I wanted and painted over the whole thing. I then sprayed the chandelier with a glossy, clear sealant.
DIY turquoise chandelier
Since I already had the spring chandelier idea on my mind, I was fortunate enough to snap up some gold bird’s nests that were on clearance right after Christmas.
Robin's egg bird nest - Spring brunch decor I lightly sprayed them with brown. I placed little votive cups in the nests to hold a little water and then stuck clipped roses into them. I added a bird and added some bling, and it was a nice focal point.
Roses and bird nests on a turquoise chandelier.

I decided to go completely economical with my centerpieces. I bought rolls of crepe paper streamers at the dollar store and crumpled little 12″ strips into flowers.

DIY tissue paper spring blossoms All together it looked like used kleenex sitting on the counter, but once I hot glued the “flowers” onto branches I’d been collecting, it looked pretty cool.

DIY paper flowers
I also wanted to incorporate the robin’s egg blue color by adding a couple of butterflies or birds into the centerpieces. I couldn’t find any birds that would work.
I also couldn’t find any butterflies that were the right size and the right color. (And the right price.) I finally found some that were the right size and price and figured I’d have to fix the color part on my own.
Butterfly decor
Gold? No.

I mixed 1 part paint to 2 parts water and kept dunking the butterflies in it.

blue butterfly diy project
Butterfly spring decor
Once they were the right color, I edged the wings with a different shade of blue and added glitter. I wired them onto the branches. They looked like they were hovering over the flowers and they moved in the breeze a little.
Butterfly centerpiece ideas
I think they turned out pretty well. Since I already had everything but the crepe paper and the butterflies, the out of pocket cost for these centerpieces was $11. ($10 was for the butterflies…)

Of course, decor and everything is fun for me, but the really important part of Mother’s Day Brunch is family…
….my sister….
… my dad, out-numbered by the women in his life…
Grandma with her grandsons…
And of course, food is important. Baked eggs in a bacon and polenta crust, stuffed french toast, chicken fried steak with biscuits and gravy…. Holy cholesterol!


And champagne. Lots and lots of champagne.
OK, you guys know it's sparkling cider, right? ;)
Hope everyone had a happy Mother’s Day!

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  3. I love everything! So pretty! I love the chandy painted blue with the nests. Fab! I will have to try the crepe paper flowers some time.

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  7. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m gonna google earth your house or whatever and be there next year. 🙂
    The centerpieces are amazing! They look like cherry blossom tree branches.

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  8. I absolutely LOVE reading your Mother’s Day posts! You did a SUPER, SUPER fab job Viv!! I love every single thing you did, and literally just sat here and oohed and ahhed over everything! It’s so beautiful! {and cheap!!??} You’re my hero!

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  11. Oh what a great job you did. It really came together. How did you ever have time to cook while doing all this?
    I love champagne. Cheers.

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  12. What a beautiful day you treated everyone to! You know you’re setting all your future daughter-in-laws up for failure, don’t you? They’ll never be able to compete. “Well MY mom ALWAYS did it this way.” 😉

    Happy Belated Mother’s Day.

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  14. I love those arrangements! I remember youe table settings and decor from lst year. Wasn;t that for Mother’s day you did this last year too? you are so talented!!!!!

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  15. You are really talented! I am feeling so dang lazy & useless after reading about how you decked out that chandelier! I am going to go find me a chandelier & do something with it…

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  16. Happy Mothers Day Vivienne! What a fun brunch. Your chandelier is so cute – I love the color and those nests!

    Great pictures!

    XOOX
    Jen

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  17. Happy Mother’s Day!

    And, seriously, you have to stop making the rest of us look bad. Decorating and hosting on Mother’s Day? And, like way out-doing yourself? Wow!

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  18. You are seriously a creative genius! I LOVE the transformation of the chandelier! It looks fabulous in Robin’s Egg Blue!!! I love all the little touches…the blue sparkly butterflies really stand out against the tiny white flowers! It looked amazing! I hope you had a VERY happy Mother’s Day!!♥

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  19. Holy cow Viv, you have talent. And I now realize what the key difference is between people who have the innate talent you do, and the rest of us – you’re constantly thinking ahead & have ideas spinning around so when you see useful stuff you GRAB it. Whereas people like me see your great ideas and try to hunt down stuff to replicate it, and end up spending 10x as much 🙂

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