Homemade Centrepiece Ideas and Personal Place Settings

• 

I found it hard to make centrepieces once I became vegan as they all seem to involve eggs or huge bunches of fresh flowers. These are a few of the frugal and vegan friendly ones I have created this year to hopefully give you a few ideas.

Lemons, limes and very big candle:

I saw this idea on Pinterest in a huge glass bowl. Now I don’t own a big glass bowl so I recreated it in a wooden crate. It would have taken too many lemons and limes to fill the whole box (by too many I mean more that I could use before they went to waste), so I added a nice big candle into the mix, which normally sits on my windowsill, and I placed a dishwasher tablet box in the bottom of the crate to take up more space. Then I simply popped a bit of brown paper over the box to hide it and played around with the lemons and limes until I was happy with how it all looked.

• 

• 

• 

I am pleased with the overall effect and think the colours are bright, happy and spring like. It also gave me a good excuse to make homemade lemonade and lemon curd!

Carrots in a vase:

Bunny Bottoms:

This one is so loved by the children and gets extra points for being reusable. I simply made two big pom poms for each of the two bunny bottoms and then two smaller pom poms for the tails. I would recommend doing the tails in a different colour, as when I made them with white yarn you couldn’t see them, so this twine I found in the jam storage draw was a perfect alternative. 

For the feet I used felt and a bit of glue to hold the pads on. Sticking the tails and the feet to the biggest pom pom was a bit fiddly and it does take a while to dry, but not so much that it’s off-putting or anything.

Then I arranged them in a small wooden crate, added some brown paper to look like mud and two fabric carrots from my children’s cooking set. 

• 

• 

I really love the playfulness of this centrepiece, the fact it is reusable and that it was made with stuff I already had, plus my children love it! What more could you need?

Place settings:

If you have read any of our other Easter related posts you won’t be surprised to see that our personalised place settings are bunnies. I used the same template as for our Easter bunting (which are in a blog post we shared last week) and drew around it onto white card, before painting them with green watercolour to match our dinner service. Then I simply found a font I liked on the computer, wrote out our names and then copied them as best I could onto the bunnies in a fine black liner pen. 

• 

• 

Our dinner service came from my husband’s Grandma and Grandad so it means a lot to our family and we thoroughly enjoy using it for special occasions. It is so wonderful to have family history and the memories associated with it on our table as we continue on the tradition of sharing food on special days. 

I hope that some of these centrepieces spark your creativity, and you like our place settings. These are quick and fun crafts, and we would love to see your ideas and versions if you try any of these.

Keep an eye on the blog for our upcoming Simnel cake recipe, it’s not one to miss!

Livvy and Summer