Four Different Tablescape Ideas for Fall

August 09, 2021 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I always consider September 1 as the start of the Fall decorating season. It is just a few weeks away so I decided to share some ideas for Fall tablescapes. These are tablescapes that I did last year and the year before.

I had these acorn bowls for a few years and had never used them on a tablescape. Last year I decided to try to pull together an Acorn tablescape for something different. I was amazed at how easy it was to find acorn items for this table and it was a popular tablescape. This tablescape could easily be used for a Thanksgiving table as well as Fall.

I love these napkins. They were the perfect design for this tablescape. The acorns on the salad and dinner plates were a perfect match as well. For more information about this tablescape please click here.

I did this Pumpkin tablescape two years ago and then did a similar one with a few changes and a tablecloth last year. Fall weather always means soup time so these pumpkin tureens would be perfect for that. I see Pottery Barn has some white pumpkin bowls this year with a matching large white pumpkin soup tureen. I have some small white pumpkin soup tureens that you might see on one of my tablescapes in November.

I have plaid napkins in all different colors and designs. They work well with so many different tablescape colors and themes. These napkins are some of my favorites and they are often in use during the Fall season. For more information about this tablescape please click here.

I don’t think that there is anything more cheerful than sunflowers and they are a perfect theme for Fall. This Sunflower tablescape seems to be saying Fall in every way. The sunflower tablecloth really sets the tone for the table, bright and showy.

I couldn’t find any sunflower napkin rings that I liked so I found some felt ones online and temporarily attached them to a brown napkin ring that I already had. Problem solved! For more information about this tablescape please click here.

Can’t get through the Fall season without at least one Fall Leaves themed tablescape. Believe it or not, I bought the bowls and plates separately at two different places and they matched exactly. Pure luck! I love when that happens!

Hubby made the centerpiece long box for me. I had found some online but they were really expensive. An easy centerpiece for Fall, just find some kind of container and fill it with leaves and/or small pumpkins and gourds and maybe a candle or two. For more information about this tablescape please click here.

Not too early to start gathering for your Fall tablescape. The stores are full of Fall right now. I saw some cute Fall tablecloths at HomeGoods today.

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A Palm Trees Tropical Summer Tablescape

August 05, 2021 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I have been gathering palm tree and tropical leaf items for a while to create a tablescape but I couldn’t find salad plates that I liked until I saw these salad plates on Ebay. I have had the green tablecloth for a few years, I think I bought it at HomeGoods.

These palm tree salad plates were made by Sauvignon and the pattern was called West Indies. I found them on Ebay.

I bought these heavy melamine cream dinner plates at HomeGoods a few years ago. I also bought the same plate in a deep turquoise color. They were made by IL Mulino New York. A basic beige colored dinner plate comes in handy especially on Fall tablescapes. I often use this dinner plate because of the color and rim design.

If you read my blog you have seen my red Cambria chargers from Pottery Barn several times. They are one of my favorite chargers to use on my tablescapes. Pottery Barn is discontinuing this pattern (on clearance now) so over the past few years I added these chargers to my tablescaping collection in a few other colors including this celadon color. It is a somewhat neutral green color that goes well with several other colors and it can be used as both a charger and a dinner plate. I often use it on Spring and Fall tablescapes.

I bought these banana leaf foam placemats at Bed, Bath & Beyond online a couple months ago.

I have had this faux bamboo flatware set for several years, I can’t remember where I bought it.

I found the tropical leaf napkins on Amazon last year. They are still available. The tropical leaf napkin rings came from P. C. Fallon Co. online earlier this spring.

These tropical scene place card holders came from Etsy.

I found both of these acrylic tropical themed goblets at HomeGoods earlier this year. They really started me thinking about creating this tablescape.

I found this centerpiece at Hobby Lobby but I removed some of the leaves and added palm leaves. The container was tin and Hubby painted it green for me. I am not a fan of tin. Because this centerpiece is large it should be removed before dining so people can see each other across the table.

A local art center was having a rummage sale and there were photos online. I saw these palm tree candlesticks and Hubby went and got them for me. They are heavy metal and the bottom is bronze.

California has lots of palm trees, my neighbor out the back has several tall ones around their pool.

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Bathing Beauties on a Summer Tablescape

July 29, 2021 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I love the beachie colorful summer vibe of this tablescape. I found the red striped tablecloth on Amazon a few years ago.

This theme was not on my list of Summer tablescapes to do but as often happens, when I saw these small melamine appetizer plates at World Market online a a few years ago, I knew they could make a cute tablescape. There are four different designs in the set and I used three of them on this tablescape. The fourth one had turquoise stripes so I left it off because it wouldn’t have matched anything on the table.

I decided that I wanted to use a blue, red, and yellow color scheme for this tablescape. I used our everyday Fiesta salad plates, the color is scarlet.

The next plate down in the plate stack is a Fiesta dinner plate in the color Sunflower.

This bright blue metal charger came from Pier 1 several years ago.

This flatware is labeled, Made in Italy, Inox. It was made by Zaffiro and I think I bought it on sale online at Horchow several years ago. I have the set in a few other colors as well. I love the intense deep blue color.

I found the beach umbrella napkins on Etsy and the beach ball napkin rings as well. The napkin rings were custom made for me after I bought some other napkin rings and mentioned to the seller that I was looking for beach ball ones too.

I really wanted a beach ball place card holder. I finally found these small plastic beach balls at Oriental Trading online a few years ago and figured that I could use them. (You do have to blow them up.) They could be given as party favors as well. I used my colored place cards that I found on Amazon.

These cobalt blue and yellow goblets were made by Noritake and the pattern was called Perspective. They were made between 1970 and 1983 and I found them on Ebay several years ago. This pattern came in other colors, I have them in sage green also. Ebay often has this pattern for sale in various colors. It is difficult to find yellow goblets and I was glad to find these.

I had seen some female swimmer figures that I could use as a centerpiece several places online but they were really expensive. I went over to HomeGoods a few years ago and I was lucky enough to find this one. She is sitting on a blue drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn that I bought a few years ago.

Time for the beach!

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A Berry Sweet Strawberry Summer Tablescape

July 22, 2021 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This post is a repeat of a tablescape that I created and posted five years ago. I do that sometimes now because I have created over 300 tablescapes and I continue to have new followers that haven’t seen the older ones. I had been wanting to use these vintage Cemar strawberry plates on a tablescape for a long long time. The problem was their color, kind of a mauve dark pink. I had lots of strawberry items but they were all red. I had to wait until I could find some things to match them. The green tablecloth probably came from HomeGoods or Amazon, I have had it for several years.

I found these Cemar strawberry shaped plates on Ebay many many years ago, way before I started tablescaping. My daughter’s friends called her Strawberry when she was growing up because of her auburn hair and my mother loved strawberries so they became a favorite of mine to collect. I gathered them a few at a time as I found them online. Cemar was a California Pottery company in business from 1935 to 1955. It was founded by former Bauer Pottery employees Cliff J. Malone and Paul Cauldwell. The company was a part of a large growth in the sale of California pottery during World War II when imports from Asia were restricted or banned.

I was lucky enough to find both salad and dinner plates in this pattern. I found some bowls as well.

This charger was made by Mikasa, it was called Color Spectrum in Hunter Green. If you read my blog you have seen this charger in several different colors. These are really my favorite chargers, they are heavy and well made.

I think I might use this flatware set more than any other color I have. The set was called Madeline Green and I bought it at World Market several years ago. I really like the frosted design on the handles and this shade of green goes well with many color schemes. I use them throughout the year. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

When I was inventorying my napkins I discovered these napkins. I had forgotten that I had them because I hadn’t taken a photo of one yet. As I was pulling this tablescape together I was trying to figure out what napkins to use (all my strawberry napkins have red strawberries) and I suddenly remembered these mauve napkins. I probably bought them at HomeGoods, I have had them for several years. I found the pink strawberry napkin rings on Ebay a couple months ago. They have no markings. I knew they would work with these plates but they were more than I wanted to pay because there were 16 of them. I offered less (sometimes that works) but the seller refused so I kept looking. I finally came back to them because I couldn’t find any strawberry napkin rings that weren’t red. I knew if I didn’t get these, I probably wouldn’t use these strawberry plates on a tablescape for some time if ever. To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

Because I had so many, I fudged a bit and I used these napkin rings as place card holders too. They are freestanding so they worked. I knew I would never find anything that matched otherwise! To read about the What, When and Why of place card holders, please click here.

The sage green acrylic goblet on the left came from our Pier 1 store before it closed. Dollar stores often have this goblet in different colors. I looked for tall pink goblets for a couple of years and suddenly World Market had these pink glass goblets a couple of years ago. They sold out quickly so others must have been looking for them too. I like the height of both these goblets. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

I found a vintage cream and sugar set several years ago to match the plates but not a teapot. Just as well, I have no room for one!

I also found a couple of vintage salt and pepper sets that matched.

Cookie jars are one of my go-to centerpieces and I was lucky to find this Cemar strawberry cookie jar that matched the plates several years ago. I have it sitting on a white drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn. I added a small green doily for more definition.

I didn’t put the matching cup and saucer on the table because they are always to be placed on the table after the meal but I wanted to show one. I found them on Ebay several years ago too.

Time for some strawberries!

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