Red, White And Blue!

I found this red, white and blue table linen at Savers a couple months ago. The tag is in either Chinese or Japanese...I am guessing Chinese, though! The piece barely covers the top of the table, so I folded both sides in to make a table runner.  With the colors in it, I decided it would be perfect for a Memorial Day tablescape. I forgot to add the red  pillar candles between the vases before taking the photos. Sorry they are so dark, the weather has been rainy today and will continue through the week.

The napkins are held with red jeweled rounds.

The placesetting begins with a white wood charger, navy dinner plate, red salad plate and white ice cream bowl.

The flatware is International.

The red 6-paneled glassware was found at Goodwill.

The centerpiece is 3 milk glass bud vases filled with white carnations and a couple red pillar candles.

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you will come back next time.


White wood chargers/Pier One
Navy dinner plate/Max Studio
Red salad plate/Waectersbach
White bowl/Bordallo Pinheiro Cabbage

Nature Challenge

This week Cuisine Kathleen challenged us to a nature theme...birds, bees, flowers and trees...I chose to do the only thing I could think of that used my favorite blue green combination...dragonflies. The salad plates are trimmed in blue and green, so I ran with it...

I started with square green woven mats. These were $3.98 for 4 at Savers.

To the mats I have stacked 3 plates...charger, dinner and salad.
Charger-Gibson Regalia
Dinner plate-Wedgwood Hedge Rose
Salad plate-Portmeirion-Lakeside

The flatware is Oneida Louisiana.



The glassware are my favorite cobalt stems. They are such a vibrant shade of blue, I use them every chance I get.

I used a plain cobalt napkin held with the dragonfly napkin rings.

The centerpiece is just a low white bowl with a few tiny plants and a little squirrel holding a pine cone. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit today...hope you will be back again.

I will be joining

Let's Dish/Cuisine Kathleen

Centerpiece Wednesday/The Style Sisters

Whatever Wednesday Linky Party/Holly's Stamping Addiction

Thrifty Things Friday/The Thrifty Groove

Festive Friday Fiesta/The Home Girl

Seasonal Sundays/The Tablescaper

Anything Blue Friday/The Dedicated House

Ladies, thank you for hosting each week!

Summer Is Winding Down

Another week has passed and it is time to check out Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch. Thank you for hosting, Susan. Summer is winding down according to the calendar, but certainly not by the weather here on the plains!

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This week's inspiration were dinner plates I found at Savers on Sunday. We had to go pick up a piece of gym equipment for the town's recreation center...Savers happened to be on the way so I ran in to see if there was anything I couldn't live without!

I started layering with a woven placemat then chose a white charger (Certified Inernational)with a daisy pattern to place the Villeroy & Boch Romantica, circa 1986-1991 atop. It has an orange flower surrounding with little blue and white ones. The border is tiny blue polka dots and daisies. Blue and orange are a favorite color combination of mine. I try to use it often. I topped the dinner plate with a soup/salad bowl from Canonsburg Pottery in the American Tradional pattern.

The charger was purchased on sale at TJMaxx months ago. I think I may have paid a couple dollars each for them.

The V/B dinner plates were $1.99 each...Replacements. Ltd. is selling them for $39.99 each! How I wish there had been other pieces of this pretty china.

The rimmed soup/salad bowl.

The flatware is my old standby, Oneida Afterglow, circa 1956 and a solid orange napkin from World Market. The tarnished napkin rings were a thrift store bargain long ago.

The orange glassware is some I discovered at a little stripmall shop in Topeka a few months ago. The clear stems are Towle Leyland found quite some time ago at Goodwill.

The rim shot!

I used the same daisy arrangement from last week as it still looks pretty good. I just changed out the vase. This time I used an old tarnished silverplated ice bucket.

I will also join Kim at Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday.

Thank you for your visit today...if it weren't for friends like you I probably wouldn't be blogging! Please do come back again.

I've Got The Blues

I will be joining Between Naps On The Porch for Tablescape Thursday. Thank you for hosting, Susan.

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It has been raining off and on, mostly on, for the past couple of weeks...it is getting old. I really would like to see the sun out for more than an hour or two at a time.

Inspiration for this week's table came in the mail last week. I received a package from Cuisine Kathleen filled with 3 different placemats, napkin rings. Thank you again, Kathleen...you are the best!

The placemats I used today are a lovely Waverly white, blue and tan floral.

I tried the table with a blue and white tureen, but it seemed to dark seeing the sky is overcast, again. Did I mention that I have found 4 tureens for only a few dollars each in the past few weeks? Three white, made by Calif USA, during the 1950s, each one a different pattern, and a blue that was probably someone's ceramic project, as there are no marks on the bottoms.

I settled on this white with grapes/leaves. Isn't she a beauty? She was sitting on the bottom shelf at Goodwill, kind of toward the back, behind a vegetable serving dish. According to the tag, it had been there 2 days before I scooped it up.

I thought the tan flatware from World Market went very nicely with the placemats instead of the sterling. The plaid napkin was a thrift store find, as were the dinner plate and soup/salad plate. I have had the napkin rings for about 20 years, maybe longer.

The blue glassware is also thrifted. I used cobalt cordials as candle holders.

Thank you for taking the time to view my post this week. Please leave a comment so that I know you have been here. I will be having a giveaway soon...when I reach 200 followers.

Good Bye Pink and Red

It's that time again...Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch. Thank you, Susan, for hosting. If you have never checked out the tables, you are missing out on something very inspiring.

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I am about done with pink and red for a while. I chose blue for the nice clear blue of the sky the past couple of days. I am thinking SPRING from now on. The blue and white tablecloth is one I found at Savers, the napkins were from a cooking forum swap several years ago and the flatware is Rogers Deluxe Plate Gracious 1939, which is the pattern I grew up with.

The place setting is a white ironstone charger/dinner plate with a blue edged dinner plate, white salad plate and clear blue soup bowl stacked atop one another.

The water/iced tea/lemonade glass is Indiana Glass Whitehall. These are one of my favorites, at least until I get my hands on the green! The blue is a crystal clear shade...beautiful.

Stacked plates.

Candlelit table.

Thank you for taking the time to come visit. Hope to see you here next week.