A Toile Tale: antlers

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Antler Dish Choices

When I was given an unexpected gift certificate, I decided to use it towards these lidded stag bowls made by Creative Co-Op. I knew I could use them many ways and was excited to put them to use. I envisioned soup, salad, or even a dessert in them. I knew they would add a bit of drama to any table.

When Chloe Crabtree from Celebrate and Decorate invited me to join a great group of bloggers for this holiday tablescape blog hop, I thought it would be an opportunity to create a post showing these antler dishes in several table designs. Be sure to visit the bloggers listed at the bottom of this post for lots more inspiration.

I love this neutral look.

I found these napkins at Ballard's and then had my monogrammer add my initials. They are heavy linen, and a great size. I also used a quilted placemat that we got on market day in France.

This dark wood handled flatware joined a rough bark charger from Pier One. I think I have a charger addiction. I realized that I have way too many, but these were pretty special. Then I used an off-white dinner plate from ZGallerie and a dark brown salad plate from Pottery Barn.

The glassware is a tortoiseshell tumbler and a rattan covered glass.

I just love the placecard I came up with. It's a bit of dark brown pearlized construction paper with this fun three D stag head.

I bought them at Paper Source in this package. They are already adhesive and have gold or silver antlers.

I changed up a few things to use this antler dish with plaids for Christmas.

There were a few more stags in the design. Here's one on the rattan covered napkin ring.

I used the same bark covered charger with a plaid rimmed dinner plate from Target.

These etched tumblers came from World Market and the smaller one came from a store in Cashiers, N. C., but I don't remember which one. I love the fact that the etching is similar but not the same.

These stag candleholders are the perfect choice to join this table.

I love me some plaid!

Here's another plaid that I love with these antler dishes.

I used a lot of very bright fall colors this year, so this table was a departure that I found soothing. Here, I used an antique celluloid napkin ring.

This cream handled flatware cooled things down a bit.

It joined these birdseye maple chargers and these acorn embossed dinner plates.

These glasses look right at home here.

This velvet runner might have been overkill.

But, it looked good with this Cinderella pumpkin topped with succulents. I used it on another table a couple of weeks ago, and it is still looking great.

I ended up taking these candlesticks to my daughter's house for Thanksgiving, but I just love how they gave this table a bit of a modern look.

I served a mushroom soup in this that I have posted about here.

I used these antler rimmed salad plates from Pottery Barn for ginger bread topped with vanilla ice cream and butterscotch sauce. Yum!

I know I'll use these over and over. I just hope I don't break those antlers off.

Visit the following this week:

Monday

Twelve on Main | Everyday Living | Home is Where the Boat Is | Rustic – Refined

Tuesday

Life and Linda | Rattlebridge Farm | Rosemary & Thyme | Living With Thanksgiving | Cozinest

Wednesday

Belle Bleu Interiors | MyKentucky Living | A Toile Tale |Bluesky Kitchen | Starfish Cottage

Dining Delight

Thursday

Citrine Living | B. Lovely Events | Ramblings of a Southern Girl | Panoply

Friday

Celebrate & Decorate | Farmhouse 40 | The Painted Apron | Sweet Sensations

Joining:

Tablescape Thursday

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Between Naps on the Porch

Dishing It and Digging It (Sun.)

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Rustic and Refined

Inspire Me Monday

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My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

The Scoop (Mon.)

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Cedar Hill Farmhouse

Inspire Me Tuesday

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A Stroll Thru Life

Home Sweet Home (Fri.)

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The Charm of Home

Feathered Nest Friday

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French Country Home

Foodie Friday

Designs By Gollum

Wow Us Wednesday

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Savvy Southern Style

Monday Funday

All Things Heart and Home

Make It Pretty Monday

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The Dedicated House

Moonlight and Mason Jars (Wed.)

Amaze Me Mondays

Dwellings

Merry Mondays Link Party

Twelve on Main

Celebrate It Sunday

at Celebrate and Decorate

Sundays At Home

at Love of Home

Share It One More Time (Sat.)

designthusiasm.com

Share Your Style (Thurs.)

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

White, Birch, and Antlers

Sometimes, a table just comes from nowhere. Many times, I sort of "percolate" a design and think and gather and play with options. Today, this started with a quick errand that inspired me to set this table.

Sort of woodland, sort of winter, and sort of serene.

These latex birch placemats were left over at Pier One from their holiday line. I never saw them at Christmas time, but spied them in the clearance area last week. I mean clearance! They were originally $5.95 but were 90% off. Yep! Fifty-nine cents. I sure wish they had more than four.

With the wood grain of the placemats, I decided to add wood grain plates. These came from Boxwoods in Atlanta, my favorite table-top store. (Maybe my favorite all-around store.)

I thought I'd pick up the grey in the placemats with these ikat napkins from Pottery Barn. I never saw them in the regular store, but found them at the outlet. I used them to separate the dinner plate from the salad plate.

Then, for some more grey, I chose this twig flatware that Michael Aram designs for MadHouse. Beautiful!

I tried several different combinations of stemware, but settled on my trusty Waterford. I like rustic/elegant, high/low combinations.

Whole Foods was on my errand list anyway, and their flowers are often so interesting. This week was a bonanza of glorious spring blooms. I don't even remember putting these in my cart, I was so fast. I had this white washed birch vase that seemed perfect, so into it they went. I'm not too good arranging flowers without oasis to stick them into, but these soft stems do not want to be jammed into oasis, so this arrangement is sort of sketchy! I did add some river birch twigs from the yard to give it a little more interest.

Just look at these feather edged Dutch tulips!

And I truly wish you could smell these fabulous hyacinths. Heavenly!

Without a runner, this arrangement seemed sort of lonely and puny, so I grabbed these silvered antlers from the living room to extend the interest.

They helped, didn't they?

Then I remembered these silver antler candleholders that I've never even used yet.

They are a little small for these white faux bois candles, but even if the proportions are a bit off, I think they worked just fine.

A Waterford crystal wine coaster seemed to be the best choice, since I have the Waterford stems on the table already.

Because it's so cold out, I knew we'd be drinking coffee after dinner, so I sat the cream pitcher, sugar bowl, and a small custard dish with sweetener onto a fluted tin plate. Grey and white again, get it?

I can't wait to sit at this table, smelling these spring blooms, while we await the "snow event" here in Georgia. We've been hearing about snow for days. It's ok. We'll light the fire and cozy up reading tonight. I need to finish my book for book club by Tuesday!!!

Joining:

Tablescape Thursday

Between Naps on the Porch

Share Your Style (Wed.)

Show and Tell Friday

The Scoop (Mon.)

Inspire Me Tuesday

Be Inspired (Tues.)