Tablescape Tuesday – New Breakfast Table Setting

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For the Christmas season the breakfast table was set with Spode "Christmas Tree" dishes and goblets, and Avon "Cape Cod" Ruby Red glasses, napkin rings and salt and pepper shakers. See post here.

Now for the next month or so, I’ve set the table with Churchill "Bermuda Blue" dishes, which are one of the everyday sets. Just before going to the hospital last Thursday to bring my mother home, I quickly put together a new daily place settings for our breakfasts, lunches and supper.

To save time I left the white tablecloth on (which is over the usual blue and white with dark aqua topper).
Churchill "Bermuda Blue" dinner plates
Canonsburg "American Traditional" square salad plates
Churchill "Bermuda Blue" cereal bowls
Oneida "Raphael" stainless flatware


Clear Water tumblers for water
Cobalt tumblers for juice
Churchill "Bermuda Blue" cups and saucers

Canonsburg "American Traditional" salt and pepper shakers
Blue and white ceramic napkin rings with dark blue cloth napkins.

On Saturday my youngest sister and her daughter brought the flowers for mother. I placed them in a blue and white vase.

In the center is a covered bowl in Churchill "Blue Willow" with a blue and white crocheted doily underneath. There is also a cream compote with a small pitcher by from Spode’s Blue Room collection.
So these are our dishes and basic tablesetting for daily meals. If we ae having a chunky soup, I'll use the rimmed soup bowls by Canonsburg "American traditional" or Churchill "Bermuda Blue". When other family or friends come, we use the dining room table.

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Tablescape Tuesday - Hurry-up Luncheon Setting

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This weekend I had a short time to put together a luncheon for a friend whose visit had been suddenly moved up due to impending snow storms. There wasn’t time to pull together a detailed tablescape, so I just went for something elegant with a bit of color and a clean fresh feeling.
Having just taken off the holiday table setting from the dining room, I had a bare tabletop. I quickly pulled out the following elements:

Round aqua woven mats I had gotten in December at Marshalls
Spode "Consul Cobalt" dinner plates
Mikasa "Crown Jewels" dessert plates
Mikasa "Estasi" flatware
Ivory napkins in gilt floral napkin rings
Clear crystal "Vendange" goblets
Clear glass salad bowls on "Consul Cobalt" bread and butter plates
Clear footed gravy boat

Two silverplate candlesticks on another round placemat and a small silverplated candy dish served as a very simple centerpiece.

Under the goblets were cream and gold ceramic coasters which I bought in Athens in 1993. I gave my guest the one depicting Sunion, Greece, which she and I had visited on that wonderful trip.

A tasty menu of: Yellow Rice,Sauteed Tenderbits in Mushroom Gravy, Mushroom Gravy in Sauce boat, Green Peas, Corn, Romaine Salad, Apple Fritter Bread slices, Cranberry Juice, Apple Pie and Vanilla Ice Cream.

My guest, a fine cook and exquisite hostesss, approved the menu and tablesetting and expressed that she had had a wonderful time.

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Tablescape Tuesday – Breakfast Table

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Today’s tablescape is the table in the Kitchen where my mother and I have breakfast and most our meals when it’s just the two of us. An 18" tree is decorated with tiny Hallmark nativity ornaments.

The holiday setting uses Spode "Christmas Tree" plates and cereal bowls. The "Christmas Tree" goblets are supplemented with Avon "Cape Cod" Ruby red tumblers for water, and juice glasses.

We keep the table like this and switch out the larger Canonsburg "American Traditional" off-white soup bowls depending on the menu. "Christmas Tree" mugs are added for hot drinks, while the matching sugar and creamer are right at hand. So is the matching cake plate for sandwiches or other menu item.

Deep green oval placemats embriodered in red holly berries are under the glass with a white tablecloth adding a bright note. Matching green cloth napkins are in "Cape Cod" napkin rings.

My mother enjoys eating at pretty place settings so she really enjoys this one. But she says her favorite is the one in the dining room, with its Lenox "Holiday" china and linens. Go to my Carola Nativity Gallery blog to see this more formal setting.
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Tablescape Tuesday – Brown Transferware

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For Thanksgiving this year I have little to do other than shop for some of the groceries to take with me, since my mother and I will travel to be with other family members. So I just had fun setting the table with my brown and white dishes. I’ll be setting up the Christmas holiday table once I get back from the Thanksgiving weekend.

The linen placemats are in a paisley design with green, blue, and brown on white.
The large cloth napkins (22 inches square) with hand-worked border and main corner are off-white with some brown threads. I found them last week at a local consignment shop - six for $10.00. The napkin rings are wood with brown ridges.



For the centerpiece I used my by-now-familiar large covered pumpkin dish set on a white ceramic stand. Tucked under the stand are brown hydrangea stems with white and green sprays tucked in. Two matching smaller pumpkins are at each end as are two dark wood spiral candlesticks. Underneath are two of the napkins.


I started out with a white tablecloth underneath, but decided I wanted the polished table to show instead. Don't you agree that it looks better?

The dinner plates and berry dishes are Royal China "Wellesley" made in USA. The pattern is unusual with its stylized flowers. In the same "Wellesley" pattern, but made in England by Woods & Sons, is a covered butter dish - brown base and printed top and one 8.25" serving bowl. Wedgwood Queensware Ivy embossed bread and butter plates have "Wellesley" berry bowls set in them. The silverplated flatware is in different patterns that I have gotten from my mother and from thrift stores.

I used two different glasses -- "Virginia" goblets in brown by Fostoria, and clear "Vendange" goblets by J.G. Durand from France.

The other items include clear glass gravy boat and ladle, white embossed footed square plate, and four different salt and pepper sets.


The salad/dessert plates in brown and white transferware are by Royal Stafford, England.

I enjoy using placemats on the bare dining table and letting the rich brown set off the place settings.

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Tablescape Tuesday – Thanksgiving 2006

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Today I am sharing a few photos of Thanksgiving at my sisters’s house in 2006. The table was set with warm fall colors.



She loves flowers -- as seen in the framed print, the silk flowers and the drapery swags which she had just completed sewing before Thanksgiving Day. The satin draperies were from JC Penney.

She has large floral arrangements all over her home, each of which she has made herself. This one is in a corner of the dining room.

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my baby sister’s lovely décor.

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Tablescape Tuesday – Fall Side Table Buffet

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For this week’s tablescape, I thought I’d set up an after meal dessert and tea buffet. It is set on a side table near the fall table I did in my last TT post. I used the same Royal Worcester "Evesham" pattern teapot, sugar and creamer, teacups and saucers and dessert plates. The flatware is the same "Estasi" by Mikasa used on the dining table.

At the right side the teapot, sugar and creamer is beside the four stacked cups and saucers. The teaspoons are placed on the saucers

The large white pumpkin dish in the center is for a simple fruit salad.


The smaller pumpkin is for sesame crunch candy. In front of it is a Fitz and Floyd server set on four dessert plates. Behind is another FF eggplant covered container.

The Fitz and Floyd eggplant server is to hold natural almonds. It has a spoon designed to go with the lidded server.

A colorful fall garland of leaves, berries and tiny pumpkins from my local CVS store is draped around the vessels on the table top. Underneath it all is a white runner with corners and edges embellished with lace trim.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you will leave a comment. For more table settings please see the list of participants at Susan’s blog.

Tablescape Tuesday - Table for Four

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Today's tablescape is set for four and has a fall motif. The table is covered first in a white cloth over which is a square vintage tablecloth printed with fruit. It is placed at a diagonal.


The centerpiece consists of a large ceramic which was made for me by my secretary’s mother back in the early 90’s. Inside it is a spray of variegated green leaves and russet floral bouquets from Michael’s after season sale in 2007. All around are other ceramic fruit or vegetables. Scattered about are silk autumn leaves from CVS end of season sale last fall.
The dishes are my Royal Worcester “Evesham.” The large water glasses are in the Evesham pattern, with each glass having a different fruit – cherries, blueberries, pears, peaches.
The napkins are in light green fabric. The four napkin rings are each a different fruit – peach, lemon, banana, apple. A couple autumn leaves are tucked into each ring.

At each place setting is a different set of salt and pepper shakers. This one is a pair of acorns from Fitz anf Floyd.


Next is Vintage Inarco salt and pepper


A small pumpkin and a small gourd from the Hannaford grocery at $1.50 each.


A halved pear


With its motif of colorful leaves, fruit, and vegetables on the cloth, dishes, glassware, and accessories, the tablescape has a sense of the autumn outdoors.

Thank you for stopping by today. Do leave a comment. For more table settings please see the list of participants at Susan’s blog.