Soup season is upon us! Â Everybody raise your praise hands! Â Truth be told, I enjoy soup year round, but there is something especially wonderful about soup in the fall and winter months. Â Am I right?! Â If you’ve never tried my tomato basil chicken soup, you need to get on that pronto. Â It’s seriously so good and so easy; plus it’s both dairy and gluten free. Â Anyhow, I mention that recipe, and soup season in general, because today’s “project”, if you can call it that, involves recycling cans. Â You’ve surely seen this done a time or two since the invention of Pinterest. Â It’s certainly not a new idea. Â But it sure is a fun one, and there are so many ways to get your creativity on here! Â It’s a great little idea to have up your sleeve as we head into the season of large gatherings and entertaining.
5 Minute Centerpiece
Mixing and Matching
This is such a fun way to play with pattern, color and texture. Â If you’ve ever been pattern shy in your home, this is your opportunity to throw caution to the wind and get your pattern mixing creativity going. Â There’s no commitment here in making these sweet, little soup can vases, so you don’t have to worry about getting it wrong. Â Leopard and plaid mixed with a textural crochet….why not?!
I chose the crochet because it reminded me of a spider web, and I wanted to put together a not-so-scary Halloween tablescape.
Inspired by the mismatched centerpiece vases, I carried that theme through and mismatched the place settings. Â There is some continuity here as there are matching place setting pairs.
I think the key in pulling off a mismatched table setting is in having at least one element of uniformity. Â Here, it’s the white dinner plate.
Well, what do you think? Â Are you going to start pulling all of the cans from your recycling bin? Â Would you set a mismatched table? Â Or do you prefer all matching sets? Â Mismatching makes room for thrifted treasures which is one of the main reasons I love mixing and matching a table setting!
