A Berry Sweet Summer Tablescape

May 21, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This is the third strawberry themed tablescape that I have done and posted and each one is a bit different than the other ones. I had planned to do a strawberry table this season and I was thinking about reposting the one that I did five years ago. I have new readers all the time and I sometimes repost old tablescapes again especially when life is busy or we are traveling. But I joined a vintage tablecloth group because I collected vintage tablecloths for a few years and I decided that I wanted to use one of my vintage strawberry tablecloths on this strawberry table setting. You can see my other strawberry themed tables as well as 270+ other tablescapes that I have created on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes I found this vintage strawberry themed tablecloth on Ebay several years ago. It was made by Beauty Kraft and the design was called Strawberry Festival. Because vintage tablecloths are smaller than modern day tablecloths, I put this tablecloth over a plain white cotton tablecloth to cover the entire table.

I was planning to just use the salad plate that is under this strawberry plate on this tablescape but it just didn’t look right to me, it was too busy. The table needed more areas of solid red color so we found these ceramic strawberry appetizer plates at World Market online and Hubby went over and bought them for me. They just say World Market on the back. I thought that I had some larger melamine strawberry shaped plates but we couldn’t find them! I was going to just use this strawberry shaped appetizer plate on a green dinner plate and change the charger color to red but Hubby suggested just putting the strawberry shaped plate on top of the other strawberry plate and I like the way it looks.

I found these melamine strawberry salad plates at Sur La Table last year. I love strawberries, as my mother did, and they remind me of her so I love doing strawberry tablescapes. They also remind me of when my daughter was growing up, her friends called her Strawberry because of her auburn colored hair, and she collected anything strawberry for some time.

I picked my Fiesta dinner plates in the color called Scarlet to use on this tablescape. These are our every day dishes and I love the bright red color. We bought them probably at Macy’s when we remodeled our kitchen several years ago.

These chargers were made by Mikasa and the pattern was called Color Spectrum, this one in the color Hunter Green. I have several different colors of this charger and I really love the size, design, and shape. They were discontinued but I bought them all on Ebay a few at a time over the years as I saw them. One has to be patient when gathering tablescape matching items on the secondary market!

This Milano Red flatware is by Ginkgo International LePrix. Le Prix was first created for Ginkgo in the late 1970’s in a small village in Southern France. I have had this set for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. I now have it in other colors as well. I like using this set on more informal tablescapes. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here. You can see the strawberry basket design that is on the tablecloth in this color. I love it!

I have had these red strawberry wood napkin rings for several years, I bought them on Ebay several years ago. I love these green cotton napkins. They belonged to my mother-in-law, and my sister-in-law recently gave them to me. I am so happy to have them and use them on my tablescapes! The camera makes the fabric look tweedy but it isn’t. It is a perfect green cotton. To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

I was thinking about the baskets on this tablecloth and I suddenly remembered these tiny baskets that I bought a few years ago. I can’t remember where I bought them but if you google tiny basket, lots will pop up. I bought the miniature strawberries on Ebay. I buy miniature items from time to time to use on napkin rings and as place card holders and I love the way that these strawberries look in the tiny baskets. I often use a small item as a place card holder and then set it on something else, in this case a small red plastic circle place card holder. I can’t remember where I bought them. To read about the What, How and When of place card holders, please click here.

These red and green glass goblets came from The Vermont Country Store online. They are made in the United States by Mosser and the pattern is called Georgia. They are really heavy glass and they are very good quality. I have bought a few at a time over the years until I had the number that I needed. 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 took a long driving weekend up the Pacific Coast a few weeks ago and we were wandering around an antique mall in Cayucos and I suddenly saw this strawberry tureen. Of course, I had to have it! I knew it would make a perfect centerpiece on a strawberry themed tablescape. It was made by Temp-tations by Tara and the pattern was called Figural Fruit Strawberry. The pattern was made 2016-2017 but you can still find pieces online on the secondary market. I love the matching ladle! I set it on a small white plastic cake stand to make it a bit higher on the table.

This strawberry salt and pepper set came from HomeGoods a few years ago. The set was made by Arlington Designs.

I have had this small jam jar for a long time. It has a cute little spoon with a strawberry on it too. You can just see the tip of it. The jar is labeled MWW Market. It is a good match for the centerpiece strawberry tureen. I can’t remember where I bought it but it might have come from a wonderful gift shop near here that went out of business several years ago.

Time to buy some strawberries!

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Tulips on a Spring Tablescape

May 14, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This tablescape theme idea started with these red tulip place card holders. I saw them and I thought that they were so cute but I passed them by. Then I started seeing tulip photos all over and I decided to create a tulip table. I circled back and bought them and then the hunt for tulip items was on! This Yanlin Spring Tulips Milliken Signature Tablecloth came from Wayfair online. I love the bold bright design. It came in other colors as well. You can see several of my earlier flowers themed tablescapes and all my 270+ other tablescapes that I have created on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes . I also have written several blog posts about Tablescaping DIY and you can read them here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapehowto .

I found these Tulip Tyme Stoneware Collection salad plates on Ebay and Replacements online. The design was copyrighted in 1985 by JMP Marketing. I knew that I wanted to use red, yellow, and blue tulips on this table setting and these plates were perfect! They have more wear than I would like but it doesn’t show that much.

I am using my Fiesta Scarlet salad plates on this tablescape. They are our everyday dishes and I love the bright red color. We bought them when we remodeled our kitchen several years ago, the kitchen is red and white. I think the plates came from Macy’s.

The dinner plate is also made by Fiesta and the color is called Sunflower. I have this plate in several different colors because it is a great basic pattern to use on a plate stack. It may have come from Everything Kitchens online. They often have good prices on Fiesta plates.

This charger was made by Mikasa and it is called Color Spectrum in Royal Blue. I love this charger, it is heavy and a great color. I have this charger in several other colors as well. This charger was discontinued but I bought them all a few at a time on Ebay over several years.

This Milano Red flatware is Ginkgo International LePrix. Le Prix was first created for Ginkgo in the late 1970’s in a small village in Southern France. I have had this set for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. I now have it in other colors as well. I like using the set on more informal tablescapes. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I have had these red cotton napkins for many years and I can’t remember where they came from. I love the true red color. I found the yellow wood tulip napkin rings on Etsy online. I love it when I start looking for items to carry out a theme on a table and I find the perfect thing! To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

This is what started the idea of the theme for this tablescape. I found these red ceramic tulip place card holders at World Market online. The yellow place cards came from Amazon. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here.

Hubby found the red glass goblets on the left at an estate sale several years ago. I think they are hand blown Iris Ruby Red Bubble Glass Goblets made by Artland. You can find them for sale online from time to time. It can be difficult to find yellow glass goblets that don’t have a gold tint to them so when I saw these yellow goblets on Etsy I immediately bought them a few years ago. I love the color and the size of them. I don’t know who made them or what the pattern is called but they are a good match for the red one. 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 decided to use my Fiesta Scarlet vase as a centerpiece on this tablescape. I can’t remember where I bought it online. I have had it for a while. I added faux red, yellow, and blue tulips to it that I bought on Amazon last month.

I added Fiesta red and blue salt and pepper sets to the table also. I might have bought them on Ebay a few years ago.

I love bright tablescapes and tulips!

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A Peel the Love Summer Tablescape

May 07, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I did another oranges themed tablescape three years ago but this one has a different color scheme. I bought this cotton sateen orange and white gingham tablecloth at Spoonflower online. I have a few dishes with an oranges pattern on them because I was born in a town called Orange, graduated from high school there, and was later married there even though I didn’t grow up there. You can see my earlier Oranges themed tablescape and 270+ other tablescapes that I have created on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes . I also have written several blog posts about Tablescaping DIY and you can read them here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapehowto .

I found these Foster Icon Stoneware orange themed dinner plates at Anthropologie earlier this year. I have such a soft spot for dishes with oranges on them and I love the color combination of orange and this bright blue color. I didn’t buy a salad plate because I didn’t want to hide the design on the plate.

This is a Fiesta dinner plate in the color Poppy, a perfect color for an oranges themed tablescape. I can’t remember where I bought them online but if you google it, there are several sources where they can be purchased. I have this plate in several different colors and I use Fiesta plates often on my plate stacks when I need a simple solid color dinner plate.

This is one of my favorite glass chargers. I bought them when I first started tablescaping. They are a heavy blue glass and I love the color and the tweed like design in the glass. They are made by Villeroy and Boch and the pattern is called Verona. Not sure where I found them online. I have this charger in a few other colors as well.

I have had this frosted blue flatware set for several years. The flatware was made by D & D Inox in Italy. I bought it at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale many years ago. There are similar frosted patterns available online now. I have a frosted red flatware set from the same company with a different stainless design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found these oranges napkin rings on Etsy a few years ago. The orange color was off but Hubby saved the day by painting them a better color. The blue napkins came from Amazon sometime. To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these faux orange slices on Etsy. I had bought lemon ones for another tablescape and I knew they had oranges as well. I set two of them on a Oleg Cassini clear glass square place card holder. 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 items. They pick up whatever color the tablecloth is and I love that. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here.

I think the blue goblets came from Pier 1 a few years ago. The orange goblets came from Michael’s a few years ago too. 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 knew that I wanted a blue bowl full of oranges on this tablescape. Hubby found a glass bowl and spray painted it blue. I wasn’t sure that painting glass would work but it came out perfect. The faux oranges came from Michael’s a few years ago.

I have many candles and candle holders and I decided that I needed to use them more often. I bought these blue glass candlesticks online last year at Sur La Table. They are a really thin and delicate glass and I love the design. The photo shows them darker than they really are.

I added a set of salt and pepper small oranges to the table. i think that I found them on Amazon.

This would be a perfect tablescape for a breakfast or brunch especially if you serve orange juice!

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Geraniums on a Spring Tablescape

April 23, 2025 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I have several different colors and varieties of geraniums in my garden and I love them all. Geraniums are easy to grow in our Southern California climate and I love all the different colors. I bought them at a local nursery and also online because there is a much greater variety online. Because I love geraniums I bought this vintage Geranium tablecloth several years ago on Ebay but I have never used it on a tablescape before. I have another geranium tablecloth that is larger and I used it although it was a bit short also. I decided to use this one with a white tablecloth under it to cover the shortage. To see my 270+ other tablescapes, please click here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes and please join my Facebook group, Table Settings and Tablescape Ideas, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2553689988183392 to see mine and the tablescapes of others.

A vintage geranium tablecloth that I bought on Ebay several years ago.

I bought this set of Bordallo Pinheiro Geranium Leaf ceramic plates on Ebay one or two at a time as I saw them over several years. It took a while to get the matching chargers, dinner plates, and salad plates!

The dinner plate has a plain center without the leaf design.

I love these geranium leaf chargers. They could easily be used on lots of other spring and summer tablescapes. The green color is perfect for those seasons.

I wanted to add some red accents to the table to play off all the green on the table so I am using this red flatware set. The set is called Milano Ginkgo LePrix. I have had this set for many years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. If you google it you can find it. I have it in a few other colors as well now. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

The green cotton napkins came from World Market several years ago. When I started tablescaping I bought several sets of napkins at World Market in different fall colors because they were inexpensive then. All the faux red geraniums came from Michael’s this week.

This clear acrylic vase napkin ring came from Amazon a few years ago. They were made by Deco-Mate. I love being able to add small flower bouquets to these napkin rings depending on what is on the tablescape. To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

I really love these small white vase place card holders. They often appear on my Spring tablescapes. I bought them on Amazon a few years ago. To read about the What, How and When of place card holders, please click here.

I love a red and green color combination, it is one of my favorites. The green goblet on the left came from Macy’s a few years ago. It is called Qualia Glass Meridian. I like the height and the beautiful green color. I think the red glass goblet on the right came from Crate and Barrel a few years ago. I had been looking for some simple red goblets and I grabbed these when I saw them online. I only bought six and I wished I had bought more but then Hubby found six other red glass goblets at HomeGoods that are so similar you can’t tell the difference. 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 knew that I wanted a bouquet of geraniums to use as a centerpiece for this tablescape. I put them in my Fiesta Scarlet vase. I bought it online a few years ago but I can’t remember where.

I decided to add a Mosser Glass red salt and pepper set to this Geranium tablescape. I bought this set online at The Vermont Country Store a few 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. If you read my blog you have seen their goblets on some of my tablescapes.

Because the tablecloth is vintage I decided to add my vintage Depression Glass green Circle pattern salt and pepper set to the table. They are vintage and well loved.

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