For me one of the trickiest parts of putting a dessert table together is finding the correct backdrop. A great backdrop can really make or break a table.
A few weeks ago I put together a glamourous dessert table for a 13 year old and I have had lots of comments about the backdrop so today I thought I would give you a look at how I put my backdrop together.
The idea for the backdrop originally came from my friend Jessica from Oscar and Ruby - I blogged about her yesterday and showed some pictures of how her backdrop looked.
I used a slightly different method in how I put mine together and it was a great solution that really made the table look very glamourous.
Firstly I purchased a piece of dowel from my local hardware store. My dowel was 19mm thick. As my table was 1.8m long I had to get a piece that was 2.4m and cut it down to size.
Next I got together 5 or so different fabrics in co-ordinating colours. Some of mine were the ones that Jess used in her backdrop and the rest were extra's I picked up from spotlight.
The great thing about this backdrop was that the strips of fabric where quite vintage looking so just ripping them into strips worked a treat. No being neat, no sewing.
Once I had all my strips of fabric ready I just went along and tied them to the dowel
Simple.
And the great thing about this backdrop is that you can easily change the fabric colours to suit another colour scheme.
