Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! There is much to be thankful for...family, friends, and my blogging friends and followers...yes, I am very thankful.

My contribution to the family dinner tomorrow. You can find the recipe here.

We will not be having dinner here, but I did set a festive table!

Thanks for taking the time to visit today...do come back next time.

I will be joining Let's Dish/Cuisine Kathleen and Foodie Friday/Rattlebridge Farm.

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.

Thanks for visiting today, hope you will return the next time. I really appreciate all the comments that are left. Have a great week!

I will be joining Let's Dish/Cuisine Kathleen.

Yellow And Green

I have been going to do this table for a couple of weeks, but just didn't get around. I saw some corn plates on a blog (forgot which one, of course). I really didn't know there were corn plates out there, but shouldn't be surprised. I hopped on eBay and found some little ones. I have added them to my corn collection. The corn harvest has just ended in my area...of course, I didn't have my camera with me when we passed by the big green and yellow farm machinery hard at work in the fields.

 I started building the table with green square placemats after selecting the dishes.

The napkins are a solid yellow held with a green napkin ring. I thought the perfect flatware would be the vintage, circa early 1970's, yellow handled Oxford Hall Fashion Wear flatware I found at Saver's couple months ago. I just love the chunkiness of the handles!

The pale yellow dinner plate is topped with an apple green salad plate. At the top of the meager stack is a small corn plate. The corn plates are made by Terrace Ceramics, Marietta, Ohio (one of the plates still had the maker's sticker on it). I believe they were from the 1950's and 1960's.

I debated on whether to use yellow or green glassware...felt the yellow would fade into the table so pulled out green Artland bubble glass.

Other pieces of my collection that I have used on the table are someone's vintage ceramic covered dish casserole, salt/pepper set, candle holder and small pitcher. I have several other pieces, but the table just isn't big enough! 

Thank you for taking the time to visit today. I enjoy hearing from everyone. Have a wonderful week...

I will be joining Let's Dish/Cuisine Kathleen.