South of the Border

Sometimes you just have to do it!

Without planning, without time to give it much thought, you just have to do it!

Daughter J had a rare Sunday off work and had come to spend the day with us. She and I had planned for us to go out for lunch but Greg had other ideas.

It was to be lunch at home — chicken fajitas with a Cuban twist. They cooked while I set the table and snapped photos.

I had twenty minutes to set a table with a south of the border flavor. . .

. . . to go with the dozen sunflowers we had bought the day before.

Stoneware in earthy colors — check!

Colorful linens — check!

Iced tea in palm tree glasses — check! Margarita glasses with blue in the upper stem — check!

Intense, vibrant sunflowers direct from the field — check!

And in the center alongside the sunflowers, I placed a reproduction of a Meso-American chacmool, found in Toltec and Mayan sites, that I bought in Mexico many years ago.

I also included these exquisite hand-crafted salt and pepper mills (previously used here).

Fun and casual? Yes!

 

And it came together in less than 20 minutes with what I had on hand!

Resources  

Dinner plates | Bordallo Pinheiro
Salad plates | Pier 1 'Spice Route' (previous post)
Iced tea glasses | Godinger 'Palm'
Napkins | Fiesta
Napkin rings | Silver-plated, antique mall
 

Chacmool information | Popular Archaeology fall 2015,  "The Mysterious Chacmool" by Victor Zugg