A Mum-umental Fall Tablescape

I know that Fall isn’t here yet but my son who is in marketing tells me that if I want to share tablescaping ideas with others so that they can use them I should post my tablescapes about a month before the season or holiday starts. I often am not organized enough to do that but right now I am a bit ahead, hence this Fall tablescape while temperatures are still warm in many places. I think I found the fall mums tablecloth at HomeGoods a few years ago. You can see more Fall tablescapes of mine as well as 300+ other tablescapes that I have done on my blog here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes .

Between 2010 and 2018 when our Pier 1 store was still open, it was one of my favorite stores to visit for tablescaping items. They sold a set of plates during that time that was called the Spice Route collection and the colors were named after spices. The dinner and salad plate collections included the colors clove (a dark sage green), and paprika (a darker red). I decided to use these colors and plates on this tablescape. I have plates from the Spice Route collection in other colors as well and if you read my blog you will see them often on my Fall tablescapes.

I like the beaded design around the rim on these Spice Route paprika plates.

I bought these iced glass sage green chargers at Pier 1 several years ago after I saw them on another blog. I love using them in the spring and fall. You can see this charger on a Sunflower tablescape that I did a few years ago here. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers click here.

This is one of my go-to flatware color patterns for Fall tablescapes. This frosted green flatware set is called Madeline Green and I bought it at World Market many years ago. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I can’t remember where these yellow gold cotton napkins came from or the ceramic yellow gold napkins rings. The napkin rings may have come from Ebay. To read about the What, When and How of napkin rings please click here.

From time to time I browse Ebay looking for interesting napkin rings and place card holders and I found these vintage amber glass place card holders on there a few years ago. They have a label that says Make in Czechoslovakia so they were made before 1992 when Czechoslovakia became two separate countries: the Czech Republic (also called Czechia) and Slovakia.

To read about the What, When and Why of place card holders, please click here.

When I first saw the dark amber glass goblet on the left at HomeGoods a few years ago I knew that I wanted it because it is a great color to use on Fall tablescapes and I didn’t have anything like that color in my goblet collection. I love the height too. I think the sage green glass goblet on the right came from HomeGoods as well. 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 wanted the centerpiece on this table to include flowers that were similar in color and shape to the flowers on the tablecloth so I went to Michael’s and found exactly what I wanted. Several years ago, for a while, I collected pottery vases in different matte colors on Ebay, just what I liked not looking at the maker or anything else. This vintage sage green matte pottery flower vase is marked with what looks like Hull, USA, F35. The green color is a perfect match for the green color in the tablecloth. At first I thought that the vase would be too short for this tablescape but the size and height of the flowers made it work. (I did cut the stems of the flowers shorter because they were really tall.)

The base mark on this vase is from an historic American ceramics company, the A.E. Hull Pottery Company in Crooksville, Ohio. Hull deliberately paired their plain block name hull mark with this distinct script "usa" mark specifically for their utility and commercial florist products, most likely dating from the 1960’s to the 1970’s. The F35 is the style and mold identification sequence. The letter "F" designates Hull's expansive Imperial (Florist) Line which primarily catered to the commercial floral industry and home decorators. The number "35" specifies the structural mold shape, which corresponds to a footed cylinder vase. A copyright symbol (c in a circle) was added to some productions.

I saw these small glass vases with faux flowers at Michael’s too and I grabbed a couple of them to turn the flowers into napkin rings on this tablescape but as often happens I changed the table design and I used different napkin rings and then just added these vases to the table on each side of the centerpiece.

I am definitely ready for Fall weather!

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