A Potion Pantry Halloween Tablescape

This tablescape has been a long time coming. I have had these plates for a few years but I just didn’t get everything else together until this year. The white cotton tablecloth probably came from HomeGoods several years ago.

These plates are made in England by Royal Wessex and the pattern is called Halloween Potions. The back says “Adapted by original copper engravings”. I bought them one or a few at a time as I saw them on Ebay over the past few years. There are three different designs in the series including Apothecary, Eyeballs, and Pickled Skunk. I really love the complex designs and all the details on these plates.

This design is called Eyeballs.

This design is called Apothecary.

What is interesting about these plates is that when you stack the same design on top of each other the design carries almost exactly from one plate to the other. You can see that clearly (even though it is a bit blurry) on the top of this salad plate as the design carries over to the dinner plate and the images line up together. The angle of the photo makes the bottom designs not match exactly. I only bought the Apothecary dinner plates so the other salad plates don’t match like this.

This is a Mikasa Color Spectrum Charger in the color Alpine White. I have this charger in several different colors and I bought them all on Ebay as I saw them over a few years. The Internet says that this pattern was only made between 1992 and 1993. I am not sure that is true but in any case they are no longer being manufactured. I have been trying to get six of this white color and pattern for years with no success until this last year when suddenly I found six at different places online after occasional google searches. You need to have patience when you are looking for things for tablescaping, that’s for sure!

I have had these black placemats for several years, they probably came from our Pier 1 store before it closed.

I wanted another set of black flatware that was all black and different from my Ginkgo International LePrix black set to use on my Halloween tablescapes and I found this set a few years ago on sale at Macy’s online. It was made by Lenox and the pattern is called Portola. I love the simple design and shiny black color. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I bought these black and white print napkins online several years ago but I can’t remember where, it might have been Crate and Barrel. They were made by Waverly. I like the way the design plays with the black and white plate designs. The black marble napkin rings came from Pier 1 right before they closed their stores and then reopened online. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these small plastic cauldrons on Amazon a few years ago. I knew I could use them as Halloween place card holders. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I have created seven Halloween Tablescapes this year and the black plastic goblet on the left here has been on six of them. (If you are a tablescaper you definitely need a simple black goblet in your collection.) I have black goblets that are shorter than this black goblet and black goblets that are much taller than this goblet but I wanted goblets this height. I was delighted to find these black plastic ones on Amazon a few years ago. It said that they are disposable but I am keeping them for a while until I can find some black glass ones that are the same height. The goblet on the right 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 couple of years ago. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection here.

I have been gathering these potion bottles for a few years now. Some came from HomeGoods and Grandin Road online. Hubby found some glass bottles and labels online and put some of them together for me and I found an old bottle with a couple of others at an estate sale and Hubby added labels to them for me also. He bought corks for a few of them because they didn’t have a lid. He built some black wood blocks for me to use on my tablescapes to vary the height of things too.

I found this Blue Sky Clayworks salt and pepper set at HomeGoods and couldn’t resist adding it to this tablescape.

I added this salt and pepper set from Amazon as well because it was a great match for this black and white tablescape.

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