Ok, by now you have seen the bird's nest display in my Farmhouse Inspired Table-Scape but thought I would just give you a quick run down on how to achieve this, in case you were smitten with it, as I would have been had I seen it on another blog or site.
A simple tutorial on how to achieve the weathered paint finish for the candlesticks is found here. In addition, you will need to purchase 2 simple and budget friendly bird's nests (from Michael's or your local craft store selling such items) 4" in diameter, each at a cost of $1.99. Then I used 2 out of the 15 (per package) eggs that came in the prepackaged bag of speckled friends that I purchased from Michael's (cost $4.99 for the 15, see DIY - Farmhouse Found Object Display for both the eggs and the nests I purchased) though these can be accomplished very easily by painting plastic or styrofoam eggs from your local dollar store or the like. If you plan to do these on your own (I will provide a tutorial shortly) a color such as Robin's Egg Blue is probably the most pleasing with an Espresso or Burnt Sienna for the speckling that is typically found.
Once you have accomplished the candlesticks (or allocated candlesticks you already own) and their respective paint finish, you will want to focus on your bird's nest display. To do this, you will need to rough up your bird's nests so that they look slightly more realistic and a tiny bit less contrived. Bend them, break a few of the lesser twigs involved - make them look like they might have actually been found in nature. Then place your egg (created or purchased) in the nest. If your egg doesn't stand upright very easily, use a bit of peat moss (also can be purchased at your local craft store or as I found it at Target in a package for a reasonable price) in the nest first to give your egg a bit of support surrounding it so that it might stand relatively upright. If it is leaning it will look a bit weird...
Then you can put on display wherever your hear desires. For me this was on my Farmhouse Inspired Table-Scape, but since I love aspects of Farmhouse style this is very fitting for me, otherwise as Easter approaches these will have more importance to those of you who aren't already obsessed with bird's and their nests...
















































