A Spring Sprinkled Tablescape

April 17, 2026 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I created a tablescape with a watering can centerpiece five years ago but I decided to tweak it a bit and do another one this week. It seems so whimsical to water a garden with a watering can but of course it is very impractical as well if you have lots of space to cover. I bought this heavy cotton green and white gingham tablecloth several years ago on Amazon. You can see the other watering can tablescape that I did together with 300+ other tablescapes of mine on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

I have always loved Mary Engelbreit designs and when I saw this small stoneware appetizer plate on Ebay that she designed in 1994, I decided to use it on this watering can themed tablescape. I love the small watering can and the red and white design around the rim. The plate was made by Sakura and it is marked Garden Time, At Home with Mary Engelbreit.

One of the color combinations that I seem to return to over and over on my tablescapes is red and green not only at Christmas time but at other times of the year as well. I just like the way these colors look together. This Fiesta salad plate in the color Scarlet is part of our every day dish set. I bought them at Macys when we remodeled our kitchen several years ago.

I am using another Fiesta plate on this table, a dinner plate in the color Shamrock (a color that has been discontinued). This is my favorite green dinner plate and I use it often. They probably came from Everything Kitchens online because they have sales on Fiesta dishes from time to time. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

I have a huge collection of these placemats in many different colors that I bought when I first started tablescaping. I bought them years ago at our Pottery Barn store, I wish it was still there. I was going to add a charger to this plate stack but then the stack was going to be too tall so I decided to use a placemat instead.

Seems like every time I use this frosted green flatware set I get questions and comments about it. The pattern is called Madeline Green and I bought the set at World Market several years ago. If you google frosted flatware and add the color you are looking for you might find similar sets. I use this green flatware often during Spring and Fall. You can see it here on a Fall Pumpkin tablescape. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I had someone on Etsy make these napkins for me several years ago, she made several sets for me. I told her what I wanted on the napkins and she searched for different fabrics for me to choose from. I really wanted green watering cans and she found gardening fabric with them. The watering can napkin rings came from Michael’s a few years ago. They were a tin color and Hubby painted them green for me. To read about the What, Where, and How of napkin rings please click here.

I saw these small plastic watering can party favors on Etsy a few years ago and I knew I could use them as place card holders. They were baby blue but Hubby painted them green for me. To read about the what, where, and how of place card holders, please click here.

The green goblet on the left came from Macy’s a few years ago. They are called Qualia Glass Meridian. I like the height and the beautiful green color. I can’t remember where I bought the Cristalleria Fratelli Fumo red glass goblets on the right but I love using them with these green goblets because of their similar shape. 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 saw this large green metal watering can on another blog a few years ago and I knew that I had to have it. I have used it as a centerpiece on a couple of other tablescapes that I have created over the years. It was made by MacKenzie-Childs and I bought it on their web site. Someone on another blog mentioned how lifelike these red poppy faux flowers were and I bought them on Amazon to match the red flowers on the napkins.

I love this butterfly!

I decided to add a Mosser Glass red salt and pepper set to this tablescape. I bought this set online at The Vermont Country Store a couple of years ago. The Mosser Glass Company was established in 1971 and it is located in Cambridge, Ohio. They sell high quality American made glassware and I love their products. I have a few sets of their goblets and a few cake stands too.

I bought this Mosser Glass Panel Hunter Green salt and pepper set online at Everything Kitchens a few years ago.

Time to get out into the Garden!

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A Toad-ally Chic Spring Tablescape

April 07, 2026 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I am in the middle of several projects so I am reposting a favorite Spring tablecsape from four years ago. We had tiny frogs in our backyard a few years ago, they were about the size of two thumbnails. I loved hearing them croak although it didn’t sound like a croak, it was a loud weird scratchy sound. Hubby said that he could hear them down the block too so they migrated as well. I had been thinking about a frog themed tablescape for a couple of years and when I saw this frog figure that I could use as a centerpiece I decided to start pulling things together for it. I found the tablecloth on Amazon a few years ago. You can see my 300+ other themed tablescapes on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

Bordallo Pinheiro Frog Plates

I looked for frog salad plates for a long time and I finally bought these Bordallo Pinheiro frog salad plates on Ebay a few years ago. I love the little frogs on the lily pads on the lip of the plate and there are also small butterflies among the flowers.

These Bordallo Pinheiro small green dinner plates came from Ebay several years ago. I thought I only had five so I had never used them on a tablescape but I counted and there were six. I’m not sure what the pattern name was if they had one. They were a good match for the green frog salad plates.

Pottery Barn Cambria Chargers

This white stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn a few years ago. I love this plate, I also have it in a few other colors as well. The pattern is called Cambria and the color is Stone. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility. You can read about what to consider when you are buying chargers in my blog post about them here.

This sage green placemat probably came from Pier 1 several years ago before our store closed. I have several of these placemats in several different colors.

Cambridge Frosted White Flatware

I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair several years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than I would like but I really liked the frosted color. Wayfair has really good sales on flatware sometimes. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found the metal frog napkin rings at Hobby Lobby and Hubby painted them green for me. I bought the vintage white damask napkins on Ebay several years ago. I have them in a few different colors. My mother loved damask napkins and tablecloths so I always think of her when I use them.

I found the frog tea light candles on Amazon a few years ago. I love that little face! I have them sitting on my Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holders. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They are heavy and solid and I really like the simple design. I often use them as a stand for place card items. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here.

The green acrylic goblet on the left came from our Pier 1 store before it closed a few years ago. Hubby found the green goblet on the right at an estate sale a couple of years ago. I joined estatesales.net and estatesales.org and I get emails every week that tell me what estate sales are going on in my area and it includes photos of everything that is for sale. I saw these green goblets for sale and he got them for me, he likes going to estate sales. 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 this frog figure at a Grocery Outlet store while we were on vacation a few years ago and it was really inexpensive. Hubby was dragging his feet about buying it but when I told him I had been looking at frog cookie jars for three times the price he quickly changed his mind! I love the expression on his face, his eyes, and his feet. He is sitting on a white plastic stand that probably came from HomeGoods several years ago. I put a green place mat under him for a bit more interest.

I really loved hearing the sound of our garden frogs. I hope they come back again someday.

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A Quack-tastic Easter Tablescape

April 02, 2026 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

My tablescaping has gotten short shrift the past few weeks because I am working on a genealogy project for a friend. I pulled this Easter tablescape together but I ran out of time to tweak it a bit. I have come to realize that I like using tablecloths on my tablescapes that have a design on them, solid colors just look too plain to me. I am in the middle of inventorying all my tablecloths and I went looking for a baby blue one and I didn’t have one so I found this polyester one on Amazon. My phone camera has done a number on the baby blue and mauve colors on this tablescape. They are showing weird in some of the photos. You can see my 28 other Easter theme tablescapes as well as my 300+ other themed tablescapes on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

I love Mr. Christmas ceramic holiday salad plates. The vintage designs are so cute and these duckies in a basket are perfect. I Iove the blue bows and the bonnet. I bought these plates a few at a time as I saw them on Ebay.

The baby blue color on this Fiesta dinner plate is so much better than this photo shows. I think I have all the Fiesta colors now in dinner plates and I just bought this year’s new color lavender. I didn’t have any dinner plates in that color. I probably bought these baby blue plates at Everything Kitchens online because they have Fiesta sales from time to time.

This charger is actually more of a mauve color than this photo shows. They were made by Mikasa and the pattern was called Color Spectrum in Rose Blush. I bought them on Ebay several years ago.

This flatware came from Villeroy and Boch online several years ago. I had been looking for yellow flatware for a long time and I was delighted to find this set, the handles are some kind of plastic. The pattern was called Play! The spoons are tiny and the set didn’t come with a salad fork but I like the bright yellow color. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I can’t remember where I bought these mauve napkins (yes, they are different from what this photo shows)! I couldn’t find a yellow duck napkin ring so I took a small white duck place card holder that I had and Hubby painted them yellow for me and I attached them temporarily to a white napkin ring that I had. I can’t remember where I bought the napkin rings or the place card holders.

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I bought these vintage yellow duck place card holders on Ebay. They came with two different poses. They are full of crazing but I still like them. I think the crazing looks like feathers!

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I used the same goblets this week that I used on last week’s tablescape. We found the blue glass goblet on the left at Michael’s a few years ago. I was looking for a light blue glass goblet and these were perfect. I found the pink glass goblet at Pottery Barn a few years ago. The pattern was called Arlo. 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 this duckie centerpiece at HomeGoods and I knew that it would be a perfect match for the duckie salad plates.

I can’t remember where I found these small fuzzy ducks.

Happy Easter!

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A Hoppy Easter Tablescape

March 25, 2026 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

When I saw these Easter Egg appetizer plates I had to buy them. I decided to buy the matching table runner too. I love the touches of pink, blue, and green and the brown bunnies on them. I also used a sage green tablecloth that I bought several years ago on this tablescape. It was a perfect match for the green color in the runner. You can see my twelve other Easter tablescapes as well at 300+ other tablescapes that I have done on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

I found these egg shaped Botanical Bunny stoneware appetizer plates at Pottery Barn online.

I decided that I wanted the plate stack on this table to be a combination of pink, green and blue. I had the other plates but I didn’t have a pink salad plate so I looked on Amazon and I found these Ruxmirae pink stoneware salad plates. They have a very slight speckled finish on them but the pink color is what shows.

I am using my Fiesta dinner plates in the color Sky on this plate stack. It is a good match for the bunny plates and the runner. I bought them at Everything Kitchens online because they sometimes have a sale on Fiesta dishes.

I bought these iced glass sage green colored chargers at Pier 1 several years ago after I saw them on another blog. I love using them in the spring and the fall. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers click here.

This cream colored flatware set was made by D & D Inox in Italy. I bought it at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale a few years ago. I love this flatware pattern, I have it in a few other colors as well. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

The bright pink cotton napkins probably came from Amazon. I wanted a brown bunny napkin ring so I looked on Etsy and I found these 3-D printed bunnies in an online shop in England. They came in other colors as well. I really like the simple bunny design. To read about the What, Where, and How of napkin rings please click here.

I remembered that I had these bunny place card holders and I knew that they would work on this table setting. I bought them on Ebay several years ago. I found a few at a time until I had a set. They were made by Boston Warehouse. To read about the what, where, and how of place card holders, please click here.

We found the blue glass goblet on the left at Michael’s a few years ago. I was looking for a light blue glass goblet and these were perfect. I found the pink glass goblet at Pottery Barn a few years ago. The pattern was called Arlo. 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.

We found this resin brown bunny at Hobby Lobby. It looked a bit too plain on this table so as a decoration I added a couple of stretch bead bracelets that I found on Amazon. I set the bunny in a cream and green colored basket that I had and I raised it all up a bit with an upside down small bowl. I like the bunny’s eyes and big ears.

Here comes Peter Cottontail!

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