A Jolly Jack-o'-Lantern Halloween Tablescape

September 16, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I love creating Halloween Tablescapes. There is something about the combination of orange and black that is so happy looking. I have done about 28 Halloween tablescapes now over the years. You can see them with my 270+ other tablescapes (I post a new one every week) on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes I found this Jack-o’-Lantern tablecloth on Amazon recently. I love all the different expressions on the jack-o’-lanterns.

I found these bamboo jack-o’-lantern dinner plates online at My Mind’s Eye. This site has cute party supplies, mostly made out of paper, but I watch the site because sometimes the plates are melamine or bamboo. These plates come in a set of four with four different facial expressions on the jack-o’-lanterns.

I love the bold designs on these faces.

I reach for this black dinner plate often during Halloween season. It was made by Waechtersbach and it is called Fun Factory. A black dinner plate was one of the first plates I bought when I started tablescaping and I use it often. If you are starting a tablescaping collection a simple black dinner plate would be a good choice because you will use it often. This one probably came from HomeGoods several years ago.

This is another plate I reach for often during the Halloween season. This black glass charger plate is called Charge It and it was made by Jay. I bought them several years ago on Amazon. They are heavy glass and they work well with many different color schemes.

The color of this orange placemat is a bit off in this photo, the previous photo shows the more accurate color. Sometimes when a tablecloth is a busy pattern I use solid color placemats as I did here to help break up the busy pattern and give the eye a place to rest. These orange placemats probably came from Pier 1 many years ago.

I have this Ginkgo International Le Prix flatware in black and red and over the years I have added yellow, moss green, and this color called persimmon. I can’t remember where I bought the set online but if you google it, something will probably pop up. I like this flatware design because it is a bit more informal like my tablescapes style. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think these orange cotton napkins probably came from Pier 1 or HomeGoods several years ago. I love the bright orange color, it’s a perfect color for Halloween tablescapes. I found the black metal jack-o’-lantern napkin rings on Amazon.

To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.

I found these Department 56 Mercury Glass Jack-o’-Lantern place card holders on Ebay a few years ago. I love place card holders, they add such a fun element to a themed tablescape.

To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

I bought these black goblets on Ebay many years ago, they were some of the first goblets that I bought for my tablescaping collection. They were made by Lenox and they were called Midnight Mood black glass water goblets. They were made between 1974 and 1982 but you can still find them on Ebay from time to time. They are shorter than the goblets that I usually like to use. I like taller goblets but I wanted their height to be closer to the other goblet. These wonderful jack-o’-lantern goblets were designed by Johanna Parker and they are also labeled Transpac, Every Day is a Holiday. There were two different goblet face designs. You can find them online on several different sites if you do a google search. I bought them a few at a time online wherever I could find them for the best price several years ago.

After I bought the tablecloth, I knew the centerpiece needed to be an orange jack-o’-lantern and I remembered this vintage plastic blowmold jack-o’-lantern that I bought a few years ago and used on a couple of Halloween tablescapes. I have had really good luck finding unusual things on Mercari online and I found it there. I set it on a small black plate and then on one of the orange placemats.

I added a couple of salt and pepper sets to the table. This set was designed by Johanna Parker. I found the set a few years ago at Roger’s Gardens, a nursery and gift shop in the next County.

I have had this jack-o’-lantern salt and pepper set for a few years and I can’t remember where I bought it.

Happy Halloween Season!

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A Fang-tastic Batty Halloween Tablescape

September 10, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

My son who is in Marketing has been telling me that if I am posting holiday tablescapes to give people tablescaping ideas I should be posting them early enough so that people have time to gather the items that are needed to recreate them in some way if they want to. So here is my first Halloween tablescape. I created a Bat Halloween Tablescape three years ago but I decided it was time to do another one because I wanted to try a different tablecloth and centerpiece. I found this Christian Lacroix Bats polyester tablecloth at HomeGoods a few months ago. The background is a silver metallic fabric. It would be interesting to play up the silver aspect sometime on another Bat Halloween tablescape. Maybe next year although the silver doesn’t show up in photos as well as it should. I have done 28 other Halloween tablescapes and you can see them, and 270+ other tablescapes that I have done, (I create and post a new tablescape every week) on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

I found these Teenyyou small ceramic black bat plates on Amazon a few months ago. They are not really practical for food except for appetizers but they look great on this tablescape!

Fiesta dinner plates are some of my go-to dinner plates when I need a basic dinner plate in a primary color. The color of this Fiesta plate is called Poppy and I love it because it is a true orange color. I have this dinner plate in several different colors as well and I use them often. Our every day dishes are this Fiesta plate design in the color Scarlet. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here. When I want to buy Fiesta plates I do a google search and then I buy them from the cheapest place that I can find.

This black plastic acrylic charger came from tableclothsFACTORY online a few years ago. I was happy with the relatively inexpensive price for six chargers. A basic black charger is always a good purchase when you are starting a tablescaping collection. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

You can kind of see the silver specks in the tablecloth here, they are the dots that are showing. I have this Ginkgo International LePrix flatware set in black, red, green, and I added yellow and this color called persimmon a few years ago. I like this flatware design because it is somewhat informal like most of my themed tablescapes. I can’t remember where I bought this set online but if you google it, something will probably pop up. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think these orange cotton napkins probably came from Pier 1 or HomeGoods several years ago. I love that they are a true primary orange color. I found the black wood bat shaped napkin rings on Etsy a few years ago.

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I found these black bat tea light candles that I am using as place card holders on this tablescape at Anthropologie online. If you look in the background across the table you can see that I set them on a small metal square place card holder that I have so that they would be a bit taller. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

I was delighted to find these black plastic goblets (on the left) on Amazon a few years ago. The advertisement said that they were disposable but I planned to keep them for a while until I could find some black glass goblets that were the same height. I have since found the black glass goblet on the right but I am keeping the other ones for now. I can’t remember where I found the black glass goblet on the right. They look like Libbey Premiere but those goblets are about an inch shorter. I really like the height of this one. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets (including the colors that I use the most) for your tablescaping collection here.

I found this large black wicker bat at HomeGoods last month. He had eyes that were just white wicker circles so I ordered some googly eyes from Amazon and replaced them. He looks much better now.

I found the two small ceramic black bats at HomeGoods also.

Sometimes when I am at HomeGoods I wander around the candle area and recently I saw these metal bat candlesticks and the bat candles and I knew that they would be perfect for this Bat tablescape. The candles match the tablecloth perfectly.

I love Halloween tablescapes!

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Scarecrows on a Fall Tablescape

September 04, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I have been trying to do a Fall scarecrow themed tablecape for the past three years and I could never find everything that I wanted for the tablescape until this year. I have always loved scarecrows, especially ones that have cute faces. I bought the heavy cotton green and white gingham tablecloth several years ago on Amazon. I love it when the seasons change and I can leave the themes for one season and move on to the next. You can see all of my different tablescapes (270+, a new one every week), read about everything that is on each tablescape and where it all came from on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes .

I adore this cute scarecrow design! Several years ago I found three scarecrow salad plates that I really liked and I have been looking for three plates to match them ever since with no luck. I am still looking! In the meantime I found this metal scarecrow sign on Etsy and when I saw it I knew that I could set it on a small plate for my scarecrow tablescape. I just love this little scarecrow with all the fall colors.

I can’t remember where I bought this small orange glass plate but it may have been HomeGoods. It is not marked.

This green dinner plate was called Fun Factory and it was made by Waechtersbach. I have had them for several years and I can’t remember where I bought them. The color was called Apple Green.

This orange glass charger was made by Bormioli Rocco and I think the pattern was called Inca. It is well made and heavy glass. I have bought it in a few other colors as well over the years. I found them on Amazon several years ago. I do have to use a placemat when I use these glass chargers because the pattern on the tablecloth would show through if I didn’t.

This orange place mat and several others like it in other colors came from Pier 1 several years ago.

I have this Ginkgo International Le Prix flatware in black, red, and green and I added yellow and this color called persimmon a few years ago. I can’t remember where I bought this flatware set online but if you google it, something will probably pop up. I like this flatware design because it is a bit more informal like my tablescapes style. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think these orange cotton napkins probably came from Pier 1 or HomeGoods several years ago. I love the bright orange color, it’s a perfect color for Halloween tablescapes. These resin scarecrow napkin rings came from Ebay a few months ago. To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.

I found these tiny resin scarecrows on Ebay. I set them on a small orange plastic place card holder that I have. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

I think I bought these orange glass goblets at Ross or T.J. Maxx. They were some of the first goblets that I bought many years ago. I remember thinking that I would probably not use them that much but I have, especially this time of year. Dollar stores often have plastic goblets from time to time and they have glass goblets too. I bought the green acrylic goblets a couple years ago online at Home Depot. They are made by Certified International and they come in other colors too. This green is a great basic green color if you are looking for a green goblet to start your tablescaping collection. 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 love Jim Shore designs and this scarecrow, a retired design, is a favorite of mind. It was part of the Heartwood Creek series in 2005 and it was called Open Star, Keeping Watch, from Enesco. I bought it on the secondary market but I can’t remember where. Jim Shore’s designs are so detailed and I love the way he uses color in unexpected ways.

These small wooden scarecrow figures were made by Doublefill and they came from Amazon. There were six different scarecrows in each set. I set some of them back to back on this tablescape.

I am hoping to see some scarecrows this season!

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A Red Barn Raising Fall Tablescape

August 29, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I love old barns and I especially love old red barns. I drove across the country and back several times over the years and I also took the train back and forth a few times too. I love road trips and riding trains and I don’t fly. (We are getting ready for another road trip across the country and back again.) I would always be fascinated by all the wonderful old barns I saw along the way as we traveled. This tablescape is a tribute to all of them. I posted a red barn tablescape four years ago and then I reposted it two years ago but I decided to post it again with some changes. I have had this green tablecloth for several years, I bought it on Amazon. I love this color for a Fall tablecloth or for Thanksgiving. It is a green tweed color and it is perfect for the Fall season. I used it on one of my Thanksgiving tablescapes some years ago. You can see all of my 270+ tablescapes on my blog, I post a new one every week. They are here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

I had seen these red barn plates several times over the years and when I started looking for barn salad plates, they popped up and I knew I wanted to develop a tablescape around them. I bought four of them at Mercari online and three more at Replacements, Ltd. online several years ago. They sometimes turn up on Ebay too. The designs were copyrighted in 1998 by Warren Kimble for Sakura, New York and the series was called Barns. These salad plates were made between 1998 and 2002 and there were four different barns in the series.

This green stoneware dinner plate came from Pier 1 several years ago. It was part of their Spice Route series and each color was named after a different spice. This color was called Clove. I love this plate for Fall and Thanksgiving tablescapes and if you read my blog you will see it often during those times of the year. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

I bought this Balsa Circle Rustic Brown acrylic charger on Amazon a few years ago. It got lost in the stacks for a while and I didn’t have a photo of it in my inventory but we reorganized a bit and I found it again so this is the first time that I have used it on a tablescape.

This dark red flatware set was made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern is called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale several years ago with a few other colors as well. There are similar designs available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

These barn napkins were made by a seller on Etsy who made napkin sets for me several times. I love all the different barns that are shown and I see an outhouse too! These metal red barn napkin rings were a challenge. I ordered them from one place online and they were suddenly on back order. Then I ordered them from another place online and suddenly they were on back order there too. I finally found them at Walmart online a few years ago and I bought them there. To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.

These red barn place card holders are actually bird house red barn ornaments. I sometimes use ornaments as place card holders. I set them on a small square metal place card holder that I have. I think that I found the ornaments at Michaels a few years ago. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

I usually set two different goblets on my tablescapes but I decided to use the same goblet on this table because I have twelve of these goblets. When I started tablescaping I bought goblets in sets of twelve but storage space became an issue after a while so I started buying sets of six or eight goblets instead. These dark red goblets were made by Cristal D’Arques-Durand and the pattern was called Antique Ruby. They are a pressed glass diamond and fan pattern. I think I bought them years ago a few at a time on Ebay until I had a set. They were made between 1990 and 2008.

I looked for a long time for a red barn cookie jar and I finally bought this one online at Country Village Shoppe a few years ago. It needed more height so it is sitting on a wood stand that came from Michael’s a few years ago. The cookie jar was made by Park Designs and it’s called Life on the Farm, copyrighted by Billy Jacob.

I added a red barn salt and pepper set to the table from Amazon.

I suddenly remembered this red barn that I received as a gift several years ago and I added it to the tablescape. It was part of Jim Shore’s Heartwood Creek collection and it was called Red Barn, Strength And Plenty. He copyrighted the design in 2004 and it was licensed by Enesco.

We are planning another driving trip across the country soon, more barns to see!

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