Valentine's Day "Won't you be mine?" & Safari, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Table decorations

This is another installment of my table decorations! So, I decided to link up with Naps on the Porch Tabletop Thursdays! What the heck I should share my obsession! 
(Part one is below this one).
 I did this for many years so I have quite a few tables to show you so lets start in this post with my budget table! This Valentine table was done on a budget because the second table I did that year cost me a ton in florist bills! All the fabric for the Valentine table came from the $1 a yard bargain bin at Walmart, as well as the candy, and candles. SO, wa-la a table by Walmart!!!

I built this whole table around these large plates I found at Target. I love Target! And who doesn't love Valentine's Day! The chargers were plates covered in fabric and conversation hearts. I sprayed a clear laquer all over them and the kids still tried to eat them, Yikes! The couple centerpiece is actually part of a fountain and like so many of my centerpieces, weighed a ton!

Since I was trying to keep a cheaper budget on this table, I used carnations and candy, sooooo much cheaper!

I copied old valentines and addressed them to cutie actors, Tom Hanks just says Valentines Day. Can't you just see Tom and Meg doing a movie about Valentines Day?

It looked a little goopy and campy but it just fit. After the night of the event I had conversation hearts and candy kiss wrappers all over the place, I mean a little table manners please!

I found the heart fabric and red satin at Walmart so I used it on everything! This was the cheapest table I ever made which made it even more fun!

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was a pretty easy table to do once I got over the sticker shock of the centerpiece, Yikes Birds of "big bucks" paradise! Once the Rhino was filled with flowers I decided I had to raise that ritzy rhino up so everyone could see him! So I decided to made a thick "pen" made out of books, grass and sticks from a back yard tree. That rhino weighed about 45 pounds with the flowers. I was so afraid it would break the table!

I know you may not be able to see it but each plate has a lion on it. The tablecloth has two layers, the bottom is a velvet I tie-dyed green and the top layer is a greenish chiffon.
I HATE SEWING CHIFFON! It's satan's fabric! It's horrible! Anyway, I borrowed the glasses from Pier One, wasn't that nice of them!

So since my flower was blown on Ralph the rhino I just added a few flowers to the back of the chairs. And wa-la, it only took me three weeks to get this one together! Hope you enjoyed part #2, I have one or two more if you like these. Happy Memorial Day! Be sure to go back to betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com  to enjoy the other tables! (sorry I had that wrong earlier)
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