A Starfish and the Sea Tablescape

I love walking along the beach looking for shells and sea glass. I have been thinking about creating a starfish themed table for a while. I wanted a beachie print turquoise tablecloth and I finally found this one on Amazon a couple years ago. It reminds me of how the ocean looks as the waves meet the shore. The camera is showing all the blues as blue rather than the blue green turquoise tone that they really are but at least it all looks beachie.

I was so happy to see these melamine white starfish plates at Pottery Barn a few years ago and when they went on sale I grabbed them. I had been looking for small white starfish plates for a couple of years. I usually have several different tablescape ideas in mind at any given time waiting to find different pieces to add to the table and sometimes it takes a year or even two to gather everything that I want for a certain theme.

These turquoise melamine salad plates came from HomeGoods a couple years ago. They were made by IL Mulino New York. HomeGoods always has melamine dinnerware in the spring in lots of different patterns for summer dining. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying salad plates here.

These white dinner plates came from Pottery Barn a few years ago, the pattern was called Seashore. I love the starfish and shells around the rim. These are large dinner plates (11”) so they can be used as chargers as well as dinner plates. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

I have had these turquoise blue glass charger plates for several years, I think I bought them on Amazon. They were made by Bormioli Rocco, an Italian company, and the pattern was called Inca. I have them in a few other colors as well. They are heavy glass and I really love how solid they are. The goblet in this photo shows the accurate turquoise color of everything. Not sure why the camera got that right just in this photo and the other blues in all the photos are still off. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers please click here.

I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair a few years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 instead of 18/10 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. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think the napkins came from Pier 1 several years ago, I love the intense turquoise color. I bought the napkin rings at Bed, Bath and Beyond a few years ago. They were distressed white but Hubby painted them white for me. I am not a fan of distressed anything! To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I think these starfish place card holders maybe came from either Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel. I have had them for a few years waiting for the rest of the table to develop. I have used them before on a couple other ocean theme tables. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

The turquoise acrylic goblet on the left came from Pier 1 several years ago, I have them in several colors. On the right is a Waterford goblet but one of their less expensive patterns, I think it is Marquis by Waterford Brookside. I bought them at HomeGoods. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

These glass pillar candle holders probably came from Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel. When I started tablescaping several years ago some of the first things I bought were various sizes and shapes of candle holders. HomeGoods is a good source for candle holders of all kinds and candles as well.

I found the large white shell centerpiece at HomeGoods several years ago. It usually sits on a shelf in the family room. HomeGoods often has large objects that make perfect centerpieces. I filled it with some plastic packing material for filler and then added sea glass, sea shells and starfish on top. I love the way the white looks against the turquoise blue.

This photo shows the tablecloth well, it reminds me so much of small ocean swells moving toward the shore.

The phone camera shows this photo with green and teal tones and as the other photos show it is all more turquoise.

After pulling this tablescape together, I can’t wait to get back to walking on the beach!

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