Country Bunny Tablescape

You know how some books that your mother read to you

as a little child just touch you and stay with you forever?

Well this lovely book

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

by Du Bois Heyward

is one of those books for me.  

We didn't have a copy of it when growing up so when

I started having children of my own I wanted so badly

to own a copy of it.  It took a lot of research as I didn't

quite remember the name.  This last year I gave each

of my children a copy to have for their homes.

This edition came with a little charm on the front

cover that is the Little Gold Shoes.

Today's tablescape is built around the Country Bunny.

It is a story of a common country bunny who has 24 little babies

that she has trained to care for everything in the house.

This bunny with a baby on her shoulder reminds me of this

wonderful mother bunny.

I have filled the table center with bunnies, especially

little baby bunnies to represent the bunnies in the book.

The Country Bunny's desire is to become one of the

Easter bunnies who deliver eggs to the children, so

our cute polka dot egg cups are filled with candy eggs.

Polka dot edged plates in pink and green make up the

place setting today.

The center of the plates feature a cute little country bunny

nestled in spring flowers.

Little square polka dot side dishes have a glittering

egg nestled on them.

Green bubble glasses are at each place setting.

I love these little foil covered bunnies that look like

they are chocolate bunnies ready to unwrap.  This little

baby is trying to pick up an egg that is his size.

This cute baby bunny has wings and sits on a rocker.

Pink and green napkins are layered together to pick up the

colors of the plates.  I think pink and green is such a pretty

color combination.

All kinds of bunnies and eggs fill the table from Mama bunnies

to baby bunnies.

If you haven't read this book, check it out.  Aren't they they

cutest, most well-behaved babies you have ever met?

As she goes to try out to be one of the Easter bunnies she must appear

at the 

Palace of Easter Eggs

before 

Grandfather bunny.

Everyone laughs at her because she is just a little country

bunny not one of the long legged jack rabbits.  She proves to

them that she can be fast and that her little ones can care for the

home because she has trained them so well.

My favorite part of the book is when she tries and tries to reach

this little child who has been sick for over a year.  She fails

time and time again and finally Grandfather bunny appears

to her and makes her his Gold Shoe Easter Bunny and

with the gold shoes she can jump high enough to bring

the little boy his egg.

Mother Cottontail returns home just as dawn breaks to

bring Easter eggs to her children.

 Her home can always be recognized by the little gold shoes 

hanging in her cottage.

I hope you enjoyed 

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

table with me today.

I will be posting with

Let's Dish

Open House

Tablescapes Thursday

Feathered Nest Friday

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Sources

Green and pink plates - Home Goods

Ruffled place mats - Home Goods

Napkins and rings - Home Goods

Green polka dot square plates - Home Goods

Egg cups - local grocery store

Green goblets - Tai Pan

White chargers - Z Gallerie

Bunnies - Home Goods, Tai Pan

Book - Amazon.com

Flatware - Tuesday Morning