A Lobsters for Dinner Tablescape

This tablescape idea started about a year ago when I found and bought some small melamine salad plates shaped like red lobsters. I had done some other sea creatures tablescapes and decided to do a lobster table too. I spent the next several months looking for items for the rest of the lobster table and found the napkins and place card holders this spring. Then I got out the lobster plates, and they were the wrong shade of red… So the hunt for a different lobster salad plate began. I think the denim blue tablecloth came from Crate and Barrel or Sur La Table several years ago.

When I am looking for a specific item for a tablescape (after I search Amazon) I often do a Google search for it because that pulls up lots of different examples for sale at various places for various prices. That’s what I did last month for these ceramic lobster salad plates. They popped out from Wayfair on sale. They were made by Certified International and they are called Nautical Life by Lisa Audit. They were just the colors I was looking for, I got lucky.

This dinner plate is part of our every day set of dishes. It is made by Fiesta and the color is Scarlet. If you read my blog you have seen Fiesta plates of various colors and sizes in many different tablescapes. I have bought them over the years on sale at Macys and on the Fiesta Factory Direct web site.

This charger is another one of my Color Spectrum chargers made by Mikasa, the color is Royal Blue. I bought them a few at a time on Ebay. I have them in several colors. These are actually some of my favorite chargers. I love the strong solid colors and they are good quality.

This Milano Red flatware is Ginkgo International LePrix. I have had this set for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. I seem to use it often on tablescapes when I want something a bit more informal.

I bought these Kay Spade lobster napkins on Ebay after looking at many different designs online. I couldn’t find any red lobster napkin rings so I bought some small plastic lobsters online at Oriental Trading and some wooden rings and Hubby painted them and glued them together for me.

I found these vintage lucite and acrylic lobster place card holders after searching on Ebay. They were orange but Hubby painted them for me so they would match the other parts of the table setting. I love looking for vintage napkin rings and place card holders on Ebay. I find things that I would never find anywhere else.

And here again are my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets, I use them so often on different table settings. We bought them at HomeGoods a few years ago. I usually buy dishes and glassware in sets of 12 and I saw these and started putting them in my cart and after looking around I finally found 12, that was all they had. So many people have commented and asked about them. They are for sale on Ebay from time to time. I bought the same pattern in iced teas on Ebay later. I think I use this goblet more than any other goblet I have. The dark blue acrylic goblets came from Pier 1 on sale last month. It’s difficult to see but they have a rope design around the top of the goblet. It looks like they are sold out of them now since they are going out of business.

I looked for a year for some kind of red lobster to use as a centerpiece and finally bought this one on Etsy this spring. It is somewhat flat and is supposed to go on a wall but the metal bends and I knew I could put it on one of my large shells or fake coral. I think the fake coral came from HomeGoods several years ago. It was a weird beige color but Hubby painted it white for me soon after I bought it.

I wanted a bit more red on the table so I added my Fiesta salt and peppers. I had found some lobster salt and peppers but I forgot to order them! I’m thinking about buying a few more Fiesta sets of these salt and peppers in different colors because they are handy to have for table settings when you want to add a bit more pop of color.

Definitely need some lobster rolls for dinner!

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