Indian Corn on a Fall Tablescape

August 15, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

Summer has gone so fast this year, I can’t believe we are looking at Fall tablescapes now. I think that the idea for this tablescape came from my sister-in-law when she was visiting earlier this year and it was a good one. I wasn’t sure that I could find indian corn items but I got lucky. I found the maxmill ochre yellow tablecloth on Amazon a few months ago. The design kind of reminds me of corn and corn kernels and I love the color. Fall tablescapes are fun to pull together after several Spring and Summer tables. You can see 22 of my other Fall tablescapes and 270+ other tablescapes that I have done of all kinds here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

When I started looking for indian corn salad plates online these plates came up and I wasn’t sure that I liked them but they have grown on me. That’s good because they were really the only ones that I could find that would work on this tablescape. They were made by Avon about 1984 and they are actually trivets but I knew that they would work as salad plates on this table setting. I found them on Ebay.

This dinner plate came from Pier 1 several years ago. It was part of their Spice Route Collection. Each plate was named after a spice and this color was called Ginger. I have a few other plates from this collection and I often use them on my tablescapes this time of year because they are all perfect fall colors. I really like the beaded design around the rim on these plates, it adds an additional bit of interest to the plates.

These rattan chargers were among some of the first tablescape items that I bought many years ago. I think I bought them at World Market but if you google rattan charger you can find similar ones that are available on several sites.

This marblelized light brown and cream flatware is marked EM3 Inox 18/10, Made in Italy. I can’t remember where I bought the set online, I have had it for a few years. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here. The soft brown color on this flatware set works well on Fall tablescapes.

I found the leaves napkins on Amazon recently. The indian corn napkin rings are vintage and they came from Ebay. I feel really lucky to have found them.

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I had no luck finding indian corn place card holders so I just set the indian corn napkin rings on their sides and rested the place card against them. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

The amber glass goblet on the left came from Pier 1 on sale right before our store closed many years ago. I love how tall they are. I can’t remember where I found the goblet on the right but it was probably HomeGoods. 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 was looking for something to use as a centerpiece on this tablecape and I found this Harvest Indian Corn Compote on Ebay. It came in the original box and it was originally sold at Cracker Barrel. I found the indian corn at Michael’s.

I added a couple sets of indian corn salt and peppers to the table too that I found on Amazon.

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A SchoolHouse Tablescape for Fall

August 07, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I have been thinking about creating a schoolhouse themed tablescape for some time. It took me a while to gather what I wanted together and I am still not completely satisfied with it. September always reminds me of my years serving on the local school board while my children were in school. I found the tablecloth at HomeGoods a few years ago.

I looked forever for a salad plate with a schoolhouse on it and I couldn’t find one that I liked. I saw this handmade card on Etsy and decided to use it instead. It could be a party favor to take home after your back to school celebration. The detail on these cards is amazing.

These black plates are smaller than most of the salad plates I have used recently on my tablescapes. They are called tidbit plates or appetizer plates. These plates were made by 10 Strawberry Street and the pattern was called Classic Black Porcelain. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. I have basic black plates in several different sizes and shapes and I use them often.

I was thinking about my plates a few weeks ago and I realized that I only had one beige melamine dinner plate in my collection so I decided to look for another beige plate in a different style. I found these dinner plates at Pottery Barn online. They are called Mason Stoneware and the color is called Wheat. Very simple in design but a great basic plate to add to a plate stack when you need a beige color.

This charger was made by Juliska Ceramics and the pattern was called Berry and Thread in the color Ruby. I like plates with interesting rim designs because it adds something different to the plate stack. I bought these chargers a few at a time over a couple of years until I had the number I needed. I can’t remember where I bought them but it was online and probably from several different sites. This charger is a deeper red than the photo shows, it’s almost a brick red. These plates are no longer in production. If you read my blog you saw them on my Red Barn tablescape.

This black flatware set is Ginkgo International LePrix. I have had it for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it.

Meg at ME2Designs on Etsy made these school themed napkins for me. I couldn’t find a schoolhouse napkin ring so I temporarily attached a schoolhouse iron on patch that I found on Ebay to a napkin ring I have.

I do love this chalkboard place card holder, such a fun idea especially for this tablescape. I bought them online a few years ago but I can’t remember where. It was probably a wedding supplies site. I have found some cute place card holders on those sites.

The goblet on the left with the black bowl and clear stem was made by Classic Touch and it is called V-Shaped Water Glass, Black With Clear Stem. I bought them at Houzz online a few years ago. These red goblets on the right 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 knew I wanted a red schoolhouse for the centerpiece on this tablescape and I looked for a long long time and finally settled on this red schoolhouse bird house that I found on Etsy. It will go in a tree in the backyard later. It is sitting on a wood stand that I bought at Pier 1 a few years ago. The stand was a natural wood color but Hubby painted it white for me to use on one tablescape and then black for a few other tablescapes. I added a small wood apple for fun.

I decided the tablescape needed something on each side of the schoolhouse so I added a couple of small vases with faux berries. I bought the vases online a few years ago but I can’t remember where. They are a perfect match for the chargers.

Children are headed back to school here soon, the summer went really fast.

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Tomatoes on a Summer Tablescape

August 01, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This tablescape is a repeat of a theme that I did five years ago but I changed things up a bit for this one. I found the black and white buffalo check tablecloth on Amazon several years ago. It is a nice heavy cotton and it is really easy to iron with a steam iron. I have used this black and white buffalo check tablecloth before on my tablescapes, you can see them and 270+ other tablescapes on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes

These tomato shaped salad plates are marked Jacques Pepin for Sur La Table, Handcrafted in Italy. I bought them several years ago at our Sur La Table store that has been closed now for a few years. I love the bright red color.

This green dinner plate came from Pier 1 many years ago. It was part of their Spice Route collection and the color was called Clove. This shade of green is a great shade for Fall tables and I use it frequently during the fall season.

This black glass Starburst charger is called Charge It and they were made by Jay. I bought them several years ago on Amazon. They are heavy glass and a simple design and they work well with many different color schemes.

This flatware is Ginkgo International LePrix and the color is called Milano Red. I have had this set for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. I use it several times a year on tablescapes. The simple design is perfect with this busy tablecloth and the tablescape’s tomatoes theme.

These ceramic Ganz CBK tomato napkin rings came from Fitzula’s Gift Shop online a few weeks ago. I had someone on Etsy make the tomato napkins for me a few years ago. I love the fabrics! They only had fabric for four napkins but they found a similar fabric for the other two napkins. If you look really closely at the tablescape photos you can see the difference between the two napkin fabric patterns.

I wanted to use a small red tomato as a place card holder on this tablescape and I found these tomatoes on Etsy. They are plastic and they were made using digital 3D printing. I set them on a small square metal place card holder that I have.

I found this tomato tureen on sale at Williams Sonoma online five years ago. I really love it. It was made in Portugal by Bordallo Pinheiro. It is sitting on a wood stand that I bought at Pier 1 several years ago. It was a natural wood color but Hubby painted it white for me to use on a Beach tablescape and then black for several other tablescapes.

I wanted another pop of red on this table so I added two red ball candles to the table to mimic red tomatoes. I found them on Amazon several years ago. I have bought many many different colors and shapes of candles and candle holders on Amazon over the years. Candles can be difficult to find in stores if they aren’t common colors and shapes.

I found this 123Arts small tomato lidded bowl with a matching spoon on Amazon last week and I had to add it. Sorry about the fuzzy focus! It’s clearer in a couple of the other photos.

Red and black is one of my favorite tablescape color combinations. You can see them on my Playing Cards tablescape here and my Miss Blackbirdy Valentine tablescape here. I love the way these colors interact on this table.

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A Sailor-bration Summer Tablescape

July 27, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I bought this vintage embroidered sailor themed table topper on Ebay many years ago and it has just been sitting in a drawer. Then I found the vintage sailor napkin rings a few years later but it has taken me a long time to pull this tablescape together. I created it in honor of my father-in-law who was in the Navy. The sailors on the table may not all be in U.S. uniforms but I think it all works anyway. When I want to use a small table topper tablecloth I just place it on a larger one, in this case a simple white cotton tablecloth.

These salad plates came in a set of four, with anchor, ship’s wheel, sailboat, and lighthouse designs but I decided to just use the anchor and the ship’s wheel plates on this tablescape. The bottom of the plates says Euro Ceramica and the pattern is called Ahoy. I found them at Home Depot online.

I like simple designs like these plates.

I am using my Fiesta white dinner plates on this tablescape. When I need a simple dinner plate in a basic color I look at my Fiesta plates first because they are a good size for a plate stack and their simple design works well with any salad plate.

This charger was made by Mikasa and the pattern was called Color Spectrum. They came in several different colors and this color was called Royal Blue, I love this shade of blue. I bought them on Ebay several years ago, a few at a time as I saw them until I had the number that I needed. I have this charger in other colors as well.

Because the centerpiece sailors had burgundy accents rather than bright red I decided to use this flatware set. The flatware is 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. There are similar patterns 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.

If you read my blog you know that I have a weakness for napkin rings. When I saw these vintage sailor napkin rings on Ebay several years ago I just had to have them. They are so cute! They are porcelain and they were made by Enesco. The red polyester napkins came from Amazon, probably last year.

I love the life preserver on the wave and the S. S. Napkin name! To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I wanted to use small sailor figures as place card holders on this tablescape and I found a few different small vintage ceramic sailors on Ebay. Some of them are salt and pepper sets. They are mid-century and they were made in Japan. I set them on my clear glass Oleg Cassini place card holders. I bought the place card holders 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 holder items. If you read my blog you have seen them several times being used as a stand for something that I am using as a place card holder. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

The glass goblet on the left was made by Fostoria and the pattern was called Virginia in dark blue. They were made between 1980 and 1986. I can’t remember where I bought them. I bought the blue goblet on the right on Ebay, you can still find them for sale there sometimes. They were made by Libbey in the 1970’s and the pattern was called Tulip in Dusky Blue. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets (including the colors that I use most often) for your tablescaping collection here.

While looking at local estate sales online earlier this year I saw these two resin sailors and I told Hubby to buy them if they were a good deal. They were much taller than this but I knew Hubby could probably cut them down for me so I could use them as a centerpiece on a tablescape. If you look closely at about knee level you can see where he cut them down and reglued the legs together. He did a great job on them! When he got them home I found old HomeGoods stickers on the bottoms so they originally came from there at some point. I really like the detailed design on the faces.

This tablescape reminds us of our Navy veteran when we look at it and all our military veterans as well.

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