Thanksgiving Tablesetting

I picked one! A tablesetting for Thanksgiving dinner, that is. I bore easily, so I like to have a totally different "look" each year. I am sorry that you can't see the cloth (that's why professional Photographers get paid the big money~I can't get it to show up at all!) it is such a lustrous shiny and see through Pumpkin color. (It's a see-through Curtain Panel from Target, which I actually got at the Goodwill for 5.99) layered over a plain cream colored cloth.

Then I used my Brown and Cream Quail Plates, with a salad plate of Edme, Wedgwood. An antique Napkin with lace, tied with a large piece of vintage Brown Grossgrain Ribbon. Instead of silver, this year I am using my wonderful French Black Handled Brasserie Flatware , set face down, like the French do. I love this flatware, it is beautifully finished with a French Scrolling design, and the Black handles are very comfortable to hold. Some great French Glasses finish off the setting. The centerpieces will be fresh Roses placed in floral foam in our always popular sea-salt finished Urns, I love these, the plinth makes it a bit higher, perfect for a centerpiece! (before this they had Ivy in them on our outside deck table)

I made these little covers for some very inexpensive glass votives. (These were used years ago at a family wedding) I wrote some words in a pretty script on the computer, printed this on parchment paper, cut and glued, and viola! Instant holiday votive holders! This is so easy...the words I used are: Family, Grace, Love, Thanks, Friends, Hope and Joy. I made a lot so there will be plenty of little candles twinkling over the tables. (each place setting will just get one, I lined these up for you to see)

Okay, tables, CHECK! Now on to the rest, I am going to spread it out over the time I have left, so I don't have way too much to do at the end.