FAUX PUMPKIN TABLESCAPE

Normally, I think of gold when I am setting a table for Fall.

Last year, after Thanksgiving, I bought two mercury glass pumpkins on sale, and they made me think outside the box about this table. 

In addition to the mercury glass pumpkins, I was inspired by my velvet pumpkins made my friend, Susie.

I am so fortunate to be one of the people that Susie gifts with these pumpkins.

Aren’t they gorgeous?  I elevated them on a mirrored silver plateau that I ordered from an Etsy a couple of years ago.

The mercury glass pumpkins inspired me to use my square silver-colored chargers that I bought at Tuesday Morning about three years ago.

I got the etched glass bowls at an estate sale a couple of years ago. I previously posted this oh-so-simple recipe for Laurie’s Soup, which is what I served in these bowls.

These salad/dessert plates that I used as a server for the soup, came from One Kings Lane last year. I’m always looking for china with silver on it.  (Wedgwood, Vera Wang’s Vera Lace)

Most rimmed china has a gold rim, but this dinner  plate, which is the pattern we selected when we got married, has a silver rim.  (Lenox Moonspun), and it is the reason I look for china with silver on it.

I used Eternally Yours flatware, because it is the only silverware set I have that has soup spoons in the set.

We also selected these water goblets (Lenox Moonspun) when we got married.  The pineapple etched wine glasses were a wedding gift that came with a matching decanter.

I used silver monogramed napkin rings that I ordered from an Etsy last year.

I bought eight of these napkins at an estate sale one time.  I paid $10.00 for all eight napkins.

 

I served dessert in silver champagne goblets that were another wedding gift.  When I saw the simple recipe for Grilled Bananas Foster on the blog, Home Made Modern, I couldn’t wait to try it, and it didn’t disappoint.

I moved one of the dessert plates to the tabletop, so you could see the pattern.  I also purchased these at an estate sale.  I think I paid $10.00 for four of these, and I use them frequently.

 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog.  laurie

I’m linking this post to  Let’s Dish Wednesday at Cuisine Kathleen, Centerpiece Wednesday at The Style Sisters, Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch, and Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper

 

ANNIVERSARY TOAST

No, I didn’t fix my sweetheart toast for breakfast on our anniversary.  As a matter of fact, I haven’t fixed him anything for breakfast in a very long time.  In spite of that, he has stayed married to me.  And believe me, he’s had plenty of reasons to not stay married to me.  I don’t know how I got so lucky.

We did toast each other to celebrate our wedding anniversary this past weekend. 

If you read my last post, you know that I was sitting on this loveseat when he proposed to me!  Yes, that was many years ago (44, but whose counting?), and no, it’s not the same upholstery.  I decided that it would be a good place for us to toast our anniversary.

You are probably wondering what that mess is in those two champagne glasses.  Those were the glasses we used at our wedding reception, and they are filled with remnants of the bouquet I carried. 

I used one of the plates from our china pattern we selected when we married.  (Lenox Moonspun)

I put breadsticks in a stem from our selected crystal (also Lenox Moonspun).

The wine stems had nothing to do with our wedding.  I used them, because I love them.  I ordered these beauties from Vanna’s Armoire Etsy.

I have always suspected that he decided I was the girl for him when I told him that I love daisies (so much less expensive than roses – cheapest date he’d ever had)!  He always brings me daisies for our anniversary.

I included a little reminder of why we were toasting (you know, when you get older, and you start drinking wine, you might forget why you’re drinking it).

Thank you for joining us for our little anniversary celebration.

I’m joining Let’s Dish Wednesday at Cuisine Kathleen, Centerpiece Wednesday at The Style Sisters, Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch, and since this is the season of our anniversary, I’m joining Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper