In my last post, I explained all the elements and components I generally incorporate when creating my tablescapes. In this post, I’m sharing my philosophy and my approach to creating a tablescape. That said, my philosophy is a work in progress. There are multiple reasons for that with the primary reason being I just didn’t know where to begin. I was a newlywed at the time Martha Stewart was becoming a household name as a creator of beautiful food and tables for entertaini

Tablescapes. What are they? Who’s making them and why? Tablescaping is not a new concept. Creating an artful table began back in the late 18th century, but the noun/verb did not come into existence until designer David Hicks coined it in the 1960s (according to my internet search.) So what exactly is an artful table? The answer to that is purely subjective which, by definition, means you can’t get it wrong. How liberating! When it comes to modern day tablescapes, th

Welcome to the Crafting a Blissful Bungalow blog! I’ve wanted to start a blog for a while now, but to be honest, I couldn’t quite decide which direction to take it. You could say I suffered from ‘shiny object syndrome’ when it came to content topics. Then, a week ago, I had a lightbulb moment: Why not write a collection of posts related to a specific topic and call them the ‘So and so series’ ? This way I could write about any topic that was happening in real time. Direc