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

Christmas Table

Christmas is almost upon us! The inspiration for the table was the tartan rimmed salad plates. Today is a dark rainy day, so some the photos were taken with the flash.

I knew I was going to use the hand crocheted bedspread as a tablecloth. My brother-in-law bought a house fully furnished and this happened to be part of the furnishings. He graciously let me have this piece of handcraft. Thank you, Mark. I wish I had thought to put a plain red cloth underneath so the pattern would really stand out.

I started layering, starting with a black woven placemat. Next is an over-sized red Waechtersback dinner plate that I am using as a charger. A beautiful Hutschenreuther china, circa 1925-1939, dinner plate in cream and white with gold edging is on top of the red charger. The next layer is the tartan salad plate and finally the cream soup bowls/underplates by Noritake, circa 1912 that my sister Judy found for $2 each set.

The stemware is an etched water glass and a Towle Leyland, circa 1982, wine stem.

The flatware is International Silver's Frontenac, circa 1903, sterling. Some pieces have a monogram, some is plain. It is my favorite pattern, a daylily on each piece. I added the salt dips and spoons but didn't fill them as salt corrodes silver. I will add the salt and pepper just before dinner is served.

I used white, red and black linen napkins tied with a Christmas ornament.

The centerpiece is a couple of gold beaded candles, two red beaded trees, a green ceramic tree, red votives, surrounded with live greens from the yard.

The rim shot!

Thank you for taking the time from your holiday schedule to visit...it is really apprecialted.

Merry Christmas to my family and friends!

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Wednesdays Bunny Hop Party at Bunny Jeans Decor
Open House Party at No Minimalist Here
Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch
Thrifty Thursday at Tales From Bloggeritaville
Thrifty Things Friday at The Thrifty Groove

What, Another Tureen...

Another week and month have flown by...it is time for Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch. Thanks for hosting this inspirational meme week after week, Susan.

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My inspiration this week was some red alstromeria that came in a lovely bouquet and a Goodwill tureen with a little red in the pattern. The flowers were starting to fade so I took out all the ones that still looked good, you may see more of them in a future tablescape, who knows.


This rather large tureen with matching ladle was $2.99 and is from the Home Collection at JCPenney. I really had no need for another tureen but at that price who wouldn't have put it in their cart?


I started with a white Damask tablecloth, red napkins, then added an over-sized black dinner plate which I am using as a charger plate, white dinner plate, black salad plate topped with a red soup bowl; all are solid color. The flatware is Oneida Sterling, Afterglow.


I was the lucky recipient of a CSN giveaway that Linda of A la Carte had back in the fall, if you have never visited her blog, you really should...so I used it to get these beautiful red water/iced tea/lemonade stems. It was free shipping, too! Thanks, again, Linda and CSN.


Plates layered.


Table overall.


Sugar cookies in a cute little Godinger serving dish.



White Damask tablecloth-have had for many years
Red napkins-Savers
Home black charger Goodwill
Federalist white ironstone dinner plate-Goodwill
LNT black salad plate-Goodwill
Unmarked red soup bowls-Savers
Red stemware-CSN
Oneida sterling-family
Soup spoons-Rogers/International Manhattan 1932-Savers
Home Collections/JCPenney tureeen/ladle-Goodwill
Clear bud vases-ARC Thrift Store
White candle holders-Goodwill
Dessert tray-Antique Reflections by Godinger-TJMaxx

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Red, White and Green

Now that Thanksgiving is over we will all be concentrating on tables for Christmas. To see more of these you need to head over to Between Naps On The Porch! Thank you for hosting my favorite meme, Susan.

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I have used the dark green dinner plate with the raised leaf and berry border as a charger plate.



The next layer is a red, white and green Gibson dinner plate. I used these in a tablescape last year, too.



The salad plate layer is a white with green border. They are Shenango China made in New Castle, PA. I am sure they were made for restaurants, but they had the perfect green for this table.



The last two layers to make up this place setting are a plain red Waechtersbach dessert plate and the Gibson soup bowl.



Back in October, I won a CSN gift certificate in a giveaway Linda at A la Carte was having...I used it to get some red water glasses...the photos do not do the color justice. It is bright red, perfect for Christmas! Thank you again, Linda.





Place setting.





I noticed I got a pretty good blue hour photo.



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Red, White and Black

Another week has passed and it is time for Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch. Thank you for hosting each week, Susan.

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The inspiration this week came from the colors my nephew frequently wore. As most of you know, Jeremy passed away last month at the young age of 38. Today (Nov. 9th) would have been his 39th birthday; it is also the 15th anniversary of my dad's death. Both my dad and nephew were sports fanatics, didn't matter what the sport was, as long as it was a sport they were happy. I miss you both and think of you every day.

I had everything I needed for the table, except flowers. I ran down to the flower shop hoping for some white roses but all they had were the dark red ones, which didn't look good with the bright red plates...but they did have two Gerbera daisies which I have put in milk glass bud vases. Monday isn't a good day to hit the florist in my little town, they are out of most everything.

The plain red charger plate is actually a large Waechtersbach dinner plate with a white Alfred Meakin dinner plate follwed by the very popular Royal Stafford black and white transferware salad plates found at TJMaxx and finally a red soup bowl. The soup bowl has no markings on it. The only pilsners I own have an etched two-masted ship on one side and seagulls on the other. The small water glasses are black Hazel Atlas...but Dad and Jeremy probably would rather have a beer, which would be served from the Westmoreland Paneled Grape pitcher. I have used a small soup tureen to serve the clam chowder my dad was famous for.

















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