Polar Bears on the Tablescape

Yes, there is definitely a story behind this tablescape! It’s a repeat of one I did some years ago but I wanted better photos of it. To explain, my hubby loves polar bears. He collected them for many years until he ran out of space. (He still sometimes gets a small one as a gift at Christmas.) When I saw these melamine polar bear salad plates at Crate and Barrel a few years ago I knew I had to add them to my collection of dishes. I bought the small centerpiece snowflake quilt table topper on Etsy and the tablescape grew from there. Can’t remember where I bought the red felt snowflake placemats.

I love this bear face, it is such a strong design with the white on red.

Using my Cambria stoneware charger from Pottery Barn as a dinner plate on this table. I love this plate, I also have it in pale blue and sage green. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate. I love plates that have that kind of versatility. I use this plate several times a year on tablescapes.

I bought the frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair a few years ago, it is made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than I would like but I really liked the frosted color. Wayfair has really good sales on flatware sometimes.

I think the napkins came from Crate and Barrel several years ago. I found the polar bear napkin rings online somewhere, they were made by Pfaltzgraff. I was really surprised and pleased to find them. Sometimes white bears don’t look like polar bears but these definitely do!

The polar bear place card holders came from Crate and Barrel. I was amazed to find them too!

I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets for this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen this goblet in many tablescapes. I think if I were starting a tablescaping hobby, a set of red goblets would be one of my first purchases. They can be used several times a year. I was looking for a clear goblet that was about the same height as these red goblets and I found these clear ones at HomeGoods a few years ago. They are also part of the Waterford Marquis series. They are a good match for each other.

The centerpiece polar bear was one I gave Hubby at some point. It is sitting on a red Pottery Barn drink dispenser stand. I have a few of these stands in different colors and I often use them to give centerpiece items more height.

This small Lladro polar bear was another gift for Hubby. He normally sits on a book shelf in the family room with a small collection of other polar bears.

The kids gave Hubby this small polar bear bought in Alaska when we took the whole family on a Disney cruise there a few years ago. He has a small jade fish in his mouth. He normally sits on the book shelf in the family room too.

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