Rainbows on the Tablescape

When I saw this tablecloth on Amazon I remembered these striped salad plates I have and I decided to try to create a rainbow themed tablescape. This tablecloth was made by Ambesonne and I have bought several of that brand on Amazon in the past and they were all perfect. Unfortunately, I can’t recommend buying this one because there is a factory defect in it, a long crease that wouldn’t come out no matter what I tried. You can see it faintly running diagonally across the tablecloth but I decided to use it anyway because I really wanted it for this tablescape. I bought a second one hoping it would be ok but it had the same problem. Ambesonne has other rainbow themed tablecloth designs so you could get one of those instead if you want one with a rainbow theme.

I bought these melamine striped salad plates on sale at Pier 1 several summers ago. They reminded me of beach balls and I was going to use them on a beachie summer tablescape but I never got it pulled together. When I bought the tablecloth I figured these plates would either work with it or they wouldn’t and I got lucky. It took Hubby a while to find the plates because they were in with another set of plates and buried on a lower rack in the garage. I knew they were somewhere! They have some of the same colors as the tablecloth and that helps pull the two elements together.

I decided to emphasize the greens on this tablescape and we pulled my Fiesta dinner plates in the color Lemongrass to put under the striped salad plates on the plate stack. I bought them a few years ago at Macys or online on the Fiesta site, I can’t remember which. I really like Fiesta dinner plates and salad plates. They are bright colors and they are the perfect basic building blocks for a plate stack.

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 over several months. 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.

I have this Ginkgo International Le Prix flatware in black and red and last fall I added yellow and this color called persimmon. I can’t remember where I bought the set online.

The lime green napkins were made by Fiesta. I think they came from Macys several years ago. I bought the rainbow napkin rings on Amazon a few years ago. I put the napkin rings and napkins on the table and I couldn’t figure out why they didn’t look right. I suddenly realized that I had the rainbows upside down, it was an easy fix!

I couldn’t find a rainbow place card holder so I decided to use my Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holders because the tablecloth colors would show through. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They are heavy and solid and I really like the simple design. It’s handy to have a clear place card holder to use when you don’t have one to match your colors and theme. Whatever color or colors the tablecloth is will show through.

I found the purple goblets at HomeGoods a few years ago. I was able to get six at one store and six at another store. I am not sure who made them. I bought the green spiral glass goblets at Pier 1 several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen these green goblets several times on my tablescapes. These are both taller goblets and I like the height. I try to buy taller goblets now. They show better on my tablescapes because I have a large table.

I knew I wanted the centerpiece on this table to be some kind of rainbow image so I googled rainbow vase. I found many beautiful glass rainbow vases, all too expensive. Then I found this inexpensive one on Etsy. I bought it and decided that I would figure out what to put in it after it came. I knew I didn’t want to use flowers of any kind. I searched rainbow on Amazon and these multi-colored pipe cleaners popped out. It was the kind of unusual design that I was looking for, simple but effective, and the pipe cleaners mirror the stripes on the tablecloth and the salad plates. A bit odd but I like it!

I love rainbows and all the bright colors on this table. (My son says I need to set it again for Cinco de Mayo.)

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