A Fang-tastic Batty Halloween Tablescape

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.

To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

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!

To see over 270 different tablescapes that I have created please click here. If you are on Facebook, join my Table Settings and Tablescape Ideas Facebook group (4,100+ members) for lots of tablescaping inspiration! Just click on the Facebook Search box at the top of the page and type in Table Settings and Tablescape Ideas or click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2553689988183392

If you live in Southern California join our Facebook tablescaping group Southern California Tablescapers BTS Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/440356398581157 . We had a gathering in January 2025 and we plan to have others as well.

Don’t miss the Tablescape How-To tab at the top of my blog for DIY tips and tricks or click here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapehowto

I put a new tablescape on my blog every week, please check back!