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Friday, October 21, 2016

Corals, Oranges and Peaches in a Pumpkin

This beauty needed a pretty table to sit on! I used it last night for a dinner at church, and it is too fab not to use again. It's a real white heirloom pumpkin with a selection of peach, coral, and orange flowers.

I started with a taupe straw place mat on our dark wood table. Then I stacked a ruffled burnt orange charger, a white oak leaf dinner plate, and this pheasant embossed salad plate.

Can you see the pheasant? These oranges are intentionally mis-matched to reflect the colors in the flowers.

I used these salad plates a couple of years ago the night before Thanksgiving. It was a really pretty table you can see here.

I realized that I never took a pic of the glassware. Can you see it here? It is a tortoiseshell water tumbler and a raffia covered stemless wine.

Here's the same selection of flowers that I added on the chunky gold washed candlestick.

Aren't they yummy? I especially love the brown scabiosia pods.

Here's the secret to using the pumpkin without carving into it: this little plastic prong. I buy them at the floral wholesaler, but if you can't find them, you can use the piece that comes in the center of a delivery pizza!!!

This, my friends, is the most wonderful product. That's what I use to attach the prong to the pumpkin.

Then I use a soaked piece of oasis, and it STAYS ON!!! It will also come off when the flowers fade and I still have an intact pumpkin.

Here's the candle cup and oasis that I used for the flowers in the candlestick. I did a post on how to use it here.

These will be even prettier when the roses open up a little more.

So, here's the way the table came together.

This is a simple cream linen napkin held in a brushed gold napkin ring. I'm not that much of a trend follower, but I find I am certainly using more and more gold these days. The flatware is a cream handled French design.

This seemed to be a perfect day to use these bittersweet place card holders.

I was happy to depart from the bright, bright orange and yellow flowers I have been using lately. It look much better with our dining room colors, too

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Carrots and the Cutest Company

The boys are on their way!!!!! Two of our three grandsons and our daughters are coming for their spring break. These guys are NOT the pastel, fluffy little bunny type, so I've set a table that is clearly celebrating Easter, but is bright and cheerful and much more of interest to these young men.

Upon arriving at the door, they'll see this new wreath.

It's grapevine, silk forsythia, burlap carrots, and burlap bows. I found it at Old Time Pottery. I think it's as fun as the table inside.

Doesn't this look like a place where there will be lots of giggles and joking around?

The very first item that I decided to use it this wonderful decoupaged tin pitcher that my BFF brought me for my (early) birthday. See the carrot on it? Well, away I went with a carrot theme. I know there are many who scoff at "theme table", but am not one of them. I get a seed planted in my brain and it takes on a life of its own. When you are the insomniac that I am, you obsess over most tables until you sometimes just get up and start pulling things together, and most times there is a common thread. You can call it a theme table, or one with a common thread!!!! Ok by me! At any rate, these great orange tulips were 3 bunches for $12 at Whole Foods this week. Perfect!

Can you just see me doing my happy dance in the aisles of Pier One when I spied these napkins? You should have been there! The napkin knots are from Old Time Pottery and were $1 each. Cha-ching. I already had these orange rimmed salad plates that I bought for a wedding shower a couple of years ago. I never could have guessed how much I have used them.

Under the salad plate, there is a white everyday dinner plate, a rattan charger, and a bright green straw placemat. The green flatware is from World Market. I sure wish I had bought service for 8 instead of just 4. Dang!

I once had 8 of these bright green stems, though, but now I only have 5. :-( These orange glasses are from the same wedding shower.

These leaf embossed bread and butter plates are from the floral wholesaler, and I have a couple of different sized platters to go with them. I felt these little twig spreaders went with the table, too.

Pier One had these tiny paper mache carrots that I used almost as confetti, and just scattered around.

These old oak and brass barley twist candlesticks seem to be on almost every table I do. They are so versatile and they still make my heart stand still. This runner is used to be a picnic sized tablecloth that I cut up for runners. It made three and I can use them several different ways.

My daughter's mother-in-law gave me this sweet little bunny and chick salt and pepper set. Aren't they darling?

I love to take this shot, but I couldn't quite get it centered. Oh, well.

We'll have some meals on paper plates, some in restaurants, some on picnics, and some at this fun table.

I can't wait to see those little guys with their devilish grins, smelling like chlorine from the pool.

Nothing precious or fragile.

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

"Borrowed" Fall Flowers

I was flattered to be asked to do the flowers for the serving table at a beautiful event at our church. We call this autumn United Methodist Women's event "Soup and Sisterhood". Pretty self-explanatory. A group of women gather for a dinner of a variety of soups and celebrate our friendship. As I was putting these flowers together in the house, I could NOT stop myself from thinking about how perfectly the colors went with a tablecloth I got at Homegoods last year.

Check out these incredible roses. They were open perfectly to arrange. Sometimes that doesn't exactly happen to me. (Just sayin'.) These joined a couple different kinds and colors of mums, snapdragons, and some gerbera daisies.

I HAD to take them outdoors for a quick pretend dinner. Nobody ate here, I just borrowed these flowers, set the table and brought it all back in. Usually, if I post a table, we've actually dined there.

You need to see these floral picks up close. Acorns! Hello! The only direction the committee gave me was that they were using copper in the centerpieces, so I went with this copper and brass pan.

So here's the table.

And here's the placesetting!

I started with this burnt orange colored charger that I bought this fall at Hobby Lobby. They had the best colors this year. The light colored wooden handled flatware showed up better on this table cloth than my dark wooden set.

Then I added these cream plates embossed with acorns and oak leaves. I use these so much in the fall.

A picot-edged gold linen napkins separates the plate and this sweet pumpkin dish. If this were a real dinner party, I would choose from a collection of fall soups to serve in it.

Whenever I have a busy tablecloth, I sometimes tend to use more coasters and chargers to separate the dishes from the pattern. This wooden slice serves as a good coaster here.

Here's the glassware I chose. Can't see them too well?

Better?

This was sitting on my kitchen counter, so I added it at the last minute.

And, of course, these acorn salt and peppers joined the party.

I really wanted to sit down and take a rest, but I didn't.

Even without the chair pads, it was inviting.

I'll do a post soon about those fall decorations you see in the background. And I'll show you how these flowers looked at the church event. It was beautiful.

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