National Tartan Day 2012

I will join in the National Tartan 2012 Party that Sarah of Hyacinths For The Soul and Babs of Upstairs Downstairs who are hosting for this fun meme. Please make sure you stop by so you may enjoy anything tartan! Thank you ladies for hosting.

Most of the tartans I have are very Christmasy, lots of reds and greens. I did have a fairly good sized piece of tans/rusts/grayish blue tartan that I cut into a runner and napkin liners.

The very simple table was started with rattan chargers, a blue/gray dinner plate and salad plate. The dinner plate is Noble Excellence Country Manor and the salad plate is Burgess & Leigh Dalmeny, circa 1900-1912. The colors are definitely more gray than blue in these dishes.

Flatware is the champagne Madeline from World Market. They go with just about anything. The napkins are light brown linen napkins with the tartan placed on the interior. Napkin rings are from World Market, also.

The amber glassware is from TJMaxx a few years ago. I use them all the time, they are a great size for just about anything.

Rim shot so you can see the patterns up close and personal.

Thank you for visiting today, hope you will come back again.

National Tartan Day

After reading a post by Babs of Upstairs Downstairs the other day, I decided to do a tartan table in honor of National Tartan Day, April 6. If you haven't checked out her delightful blog, you really should!

To enlarge any photo, just click on it.

The only real tartan I have is a square one from Goodwill a while back. I think it may have been meant to be used as a kerchief/babushka back in the 1950's-1960's. It makes a nice square for a table, though. The main colors are red and blue. There are very thin white and yellow lines of yarn running through, too.

I kept the table very, very simple, almost stark, so that you could enjoy the tartan pattern. If anyone knows this pattern by name, please let me know what it is.

I have used only a solid red Waechtersbach dinner plate and a dark blue Design House soup/salad bowl.

The stemware is Fostoria Monet in the dark blue. It was manufactured between 1985-1986.

The napkins are solid red cotton. I have used the flatware many times, Oneida Afterglow, circa 1958.

The centerpiece is a pillar candle in an urn with votives surrounding it. The candle looked too bare, so I added a little bit of lambs ear to jazz it up.

The place setting.

The stack...pretty sad, isn't it!

A view of the entire table.

I will be linking up to
Blue Monday at Smiling Sally
Rednesday at It's A Very Cherry World
Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch.

I appreciate and thank you, very much, for taking the time to visit my blog! Hope to see you here again soon.