A Berry Sweet Summer Tablescape — Whispers of the Heart

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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