Tablescape Thursday – Casual Lunch

For this week’s tablescape I am using mainly green and white, with a bit of yellow and brown. There are three place settings at one end of the dining room table.
Here are the dishes and utensils for a menu of an appetizer, manicotti, spinach, garlic bread, garden salad. The tablecloth is a goldenrod yellow linen that I got for a quarter at the thrift shop. The natural woven placemats, I’ve had for a couple decades. Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage plates are set on a white Canonsburg "American Traditional" dinner plates. At two places Johnson Brothers white ironstone hexagonal fruit bowls are set on the cabbage plate, to hold a light appetizer. At one place a Canonsburg fruit bowl is used, since I only have two of the Johnson plates, but liked the shape with the cabbage leaf plates.

The salad bowls are set on the Canonsburg bread and butter plates. The flatware is a mixture of silverplated pieces. Green and white napkins are placed in a wooden napkin ring. The brown goblets are Fostoria "Virginia." Their angular shape works well with the other shapes at the table.

The centerpiece has a pair of Bordallo Pinheiro candlesticks, a white squash or pumpkin with white faux flowers.
A white ceramic grated cheese dispenser (in shape of the Leaning tower of Pisa) bought at TJ Maxx several years ago, and a long green and white ceramic server for olives. My mother got a pair of these very narrow servers from Lillian Vernon catalog.

I almost forgot the dish for the garlic bread. It is a white dish lettered "garlic bread" on the inside. It was also a gift to me from my mother.

Other incidentals are a Canonsburg salt and pepper set, and a small Pinheiro leaf dish.

Not actually a part of the tablesetting, but nearby is a footed cake plate in green and white with a motif of pears. A ceramic pear and two ceramic limes

I hope you enjoyed my casual table for three diners. Do visit again soon, and leave a comment, please.

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Post no 349 Thrifty Thursday

I am also linking this post to Thrifty Thursday hosted by Leigh at Tales From Bloggeritaville.



Here are the thrifty elements from the above tablescape:

Johnson Bros. Ironstone - 50 cents for 3 pieces
Tablecloth - 25 cents
Bordallo plates $3.99 each at TJ Maxx
The Bordallo bowls, candlesticks, and pumpkin basket were all bought at TJ Max at sale prices.
Silverplated flatware - gift and thrift store, some for 10 cents a piece
The brown Fostoria “Virginia” goblets were a good buy on Ebay
The faux flowers were a couple dollars at a consignment shop.
GIFTS – olive server and garlic bread tray from my mother, footed cake stand from my sister, ceramic pear and limes from my secretary who also made them.

For more Thrifty Thursday posts go to Tales From Bloggeritaville.