Even if you know where everyone is sitting, place cards still add that finishing touch to the table. The following ideas are easy to recreate and don’t need any special equipment (no Cricut!) Yes, place cards are very helpful when you’re hosting a lot of people and you want to avoid the scramble and the…
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Recreate This Beautiful & Blue Shavuos Tablesetting
All you need is a little inspiration and resources to effortlessly pull together this pretty blue Shavuos tablescape. Sometimes, setting a beautiful Yom Tov table doesn’t need a lot of effort–using a pretty tablecloth as a starting point makes the job so easy. Then, you work around the color in the cloth, adding some coordinating…
Recreate this Upsherin Tablescape
You can do a gorgeous job setting up your son’s upsherin on your own. You just need a little inspiration to get started. We’ve included all the sources and links you need to set up a beautiful spring-inspired table below. But you know what? This table is not super “kiddie” so you can use these…
Cute Bags for Your Upsherin Pekelach
If you’ve got a 3-year-old boy who is due for his upsherin, you’re probably thinking about those pekelach. There’s lots of choices here to suit every style of celebration!
All the Basics: The Seder Plate & Pesach Staples Are Right Here
It might be your first time making Pesach, or your 25th…but now you can have instructions for all those Pesach basics conveniently in one place. There are the special dishes and then there are the staples: the items that must get prepared sometime between now and Yom Tov. Here’s a roundup of all the Pesach…
Find Your Perfect Yom Tov Menu Here
We’ve made it easy for you to get a headstart on building the menu that suits your family. We’ve featured lots of different types of menus on Between Carpools over the years, and our readers are always appreciative. But we asked ourselves, “How can we do it better?” Menu making is one of the hardest…
Elevating And Updating Your Yom Tov Table
It’s always nice to get something new for our Yom Tov table. It’s doable, and you don’t need to spend much! Here are a few pieces I found and loved, and thought you might like them too. Sometimes being able to place that new item on the table makes it so very much more exciting…
A Gorgeous Nautical Themed Upsherin (on Budget!)
Here are the details on how you can recreate this upsherin party that’s pretty and fresh and perfect for a little boy. When one reader shared all the DIY details of her recent upsherin, we were amazing at how she was able to create such adorable details that are brilliant, yet completely approachable. We borrowed…
The Perfect Hostess Box is So Easy to Pack & Beautiful Too
It’s never been more effortless to offer the most beautiful hostess box to your guests–read the story behind the BCP Hostess Box here! How did the BCP Hostess Box come about? Between all of us, we’ve been asked and assigned the job of “taking care of the hostess package” more than once for family, neighbors,…
Shavuos Tablesetting Ideas + Easy Gorgeous DIY Place cards
This easy-to-create place cards is the perfect finishing touch to your beautiful Shavuos table. Recently, a reader contacted us and asked, “When is your Shavuos table setting going live? I’m waiting for it to plan my table!” One member of the BCP team asked the others, “She’s waiting for ours? But they’re so simple!” Another…
