From your often MIA blogger, I wanted to share a little table I put together earlier in celebration of Independence Day. I don't really have any Fourth of July decorations so I pulled from things I've got around the house to make a quick centerpiece.....a straw purse with a woven flag on the front which I lined with antique lace and filled with ivy, a Blue transferware plate depicting Betsy Ross sewing the American flag and an antique book called 'The Story of a Great Nation / Our Country's Achievements'. The book was published in 1886 and contains over a thousand pages, several hundred engravings and a vast biographical portrait gallery including each President and a copy of Thomas Jefferson's handwritten Declaration of Independence. It is a fascinating book with a Chronological table of events in American History. The table was set with a vintage plaid throw, red gingham napkins, blue gingham flatware, patriotic themed blue t