Another April Cornell Inspired Table

I bought this blue/green/yellow April Cornell tablecloth at the same time as the aqua/orange one. I think everyone knows, by now, that blue/green is my favorite color combination. There were matching napkins so I bought those, too. I have found that some AC napkins run on the smaller side, so I put them on top of bright green napkins. A bright yellow beaded napkin ring held them together.

Trying to keep as much green on the table as possible I used seeded green glassware.

The flatware is a very simple straight line pattern.

The plate stack begins with a white wood charger, green cabbage charger and dinner plate. On top of the dinner plates are green banana leaf salad plates.

The center piece is a cabbage pitcher with sunflowers and spider mums flanked by green wood candle holders.

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Blue Linens-April Cornell
White Wood Charger-Pier One Imports
Green Plates, Pitcher-Bordallo Pinheiro
Green Seed Glassware-Artland Iris
Flatware-International Silver

Winter Blues...

Who doesn't have the winter blues...maybe someone that is in far warmer and sunnier clime than I. The poor people on the east coast...they sure have had their share of snow and cold this year, maybe I shouldn't complain of winter blues.  I chose to do another very simple tablescape, no frills, no flowers and no fuss!
This week I decided something blue was appropriate...winter seems never ending this year and we haven't had very much snow, just lots of grey days. Of course, today turns out to be sunny!

The linens are a white damask tablecloth (that I used last week) and blue/white Summer Stock napkins that I have had for almost 10 years.

The plate layer starts with a white Mesa International charger, large navy Max Studio dinner plate being used as a second charger, a blue/white striped Pier One Marea dinner plate, a Home salad plate in navy and topped with a white American Atelier Athena soup bowl.

The flatware is vintage Oxford Hall Fashion Wear in navy.

The glassware is Artland Iris in cobalt.

For the centerpiece I have chosen a blue shaded tureen...it was someone with the initial K's ceramic project back on 4/13/1981...she did a great job of shading the blue from dark to light on both the underplate as well as tureen.

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Farewell To Summer!

I am joining Cuisine Kathleen for her Farewell To Summer Table Challenge. When I think of summer's end in Kansas, I think of the sunflowers (Kansas' state flower) that grow along every roadway in east/central Kansas, especially the secondary roads. Must be summer isn't quite over as I haven't seen any of these beauties, yet, this year. I can tell you the temperatures, which have been in the high nineties the last 10 days or so tell me summer is still going strong in Kansas!

The table cloth is a deep golden yellow which is the color of some sunflowers. I topped it with a red, green and sunflower yellow striped runner.

The sunflower napkins are the only thing I could think of to go with the table I had in mind. I have used yellow wooden bead napkin rings.

The plate stack begins with an overly large barn red dinner plate (Max Studio Home) found at TJMaxx on sale for a dollar each. The next layer is a white Wedgwood Hedge Rose dinner plate which is topped with a bright yellow sunflower glass salad/dessert plate.

The simple highball glassware is a citrine Artland Iris, recently bought at Savers. They were $1.99 for 2, I got them on senior day, so with the 25% discount they came to $1.49 for a pair. Unfortunately, there were only 6 of them. I also found 4 iced tea stems for the same price...they are huge!

The fun 1970's flatware is Oxford Hall Perfectionware, just love them, they make me smile!

The centerpiece is an old Bennington Pottery pitcher filled with silk sunflowers...even the local florist didn't have any sunflowers today! The wooden candle stick is another Savers find. I think the little custard bowls that I am using for salt/pepper may also be Bennington Pottery. They were all found at Goodwill for a few dollars at most.

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Vera Meets April!

The inspiration for this table was the April Cornell tablecloth I found at HomeGoods a couple months ago. It is blue, green and cream.

The solid periwinkle napkins are held with a dragonfly napkin ring.

I have used a blue Vera Bradley charger, green BP cabbage leaf dinner plate, blue salad plate from Target and a green BP cabbage leaf soup bowl.

The flatware is Oxford Hall Fashion Wear...they call it lime...I have to disagree with them, it isn't lime by any means...more like a grass or leaf green.

The glassware is Artland Iris in light green.

The centerpiece is a cake pedestal filled with candles...how much simpler can it get.

The rim shot.

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Orange Accents

This week the inspiration came in the way of luncheon plates I bought while visiting my siblings in Vermont last summer. The Wood and Sons English Scenery features pastoral scenes.

I started with woven mats that I have placed wrong side up...I like the more textured side of them. The flatware is Oneida Louisiana.

The chargers are  over-sized dinner plates which hold the luncheon plates. They are is Wood and Sons English Scenery, circa 1917, which is a pastoral scene. 

The next layers are dishes I have used numerous times, a dessert plate from Pier 1 Basket Relief  and Wood and Sons Gay Day cream soup bowl is the top layer. They are being used here as salad bowls.

The bubble glassware is Artland Iris in cobalt.

I wanted some orange accents so added mini pumpkins to the bowls and oranges to the centerpiece bowl. 

Rim shot.

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