An Octopus Tablescape for Summer

I have been planning this octopus tablescape for a long time. I couldn’t decide what color octopus to use but I was leaning toward looking for white ones because I saw this underwater pattern tablecloth on Amazon and I wanted to use it. It is another Ambesonne tablecloth that came with permanent creases but they don’t show on a busy tablecloth so I bought it anyway. I would not recommend buying an Ambesonne tablecloth unless it has a busy pattern that will hide the permanent folds and creases that the tablecloths always seem to come with.

Once I decided on using white octopuses I looked online and found many octopus salad plates but none with a white octopus. I almost gave up when I found these melamine octopus salad plates at Wayfair online. They are called Whitson Octopus and the brand is Rosecliff Heights. I love the octopus graphic and the background colors are perfect with this tablecloth. They pick up all the different blues and turquoises.

This turquoise melamine dinner plate probably came from HomeGoods a few years ago. I like the beaded rim design.

This blue Cambria charger came from Pottery Barn a few years ago. If you read my blog you have seen a red charger like this one often on my tablescapes. Unfortunately Pottery Barn has this pattern on clearance and it won’t be available anymore.

This white Antique Beaded charger came from Williams Sonoma several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen it several times on different tablescapes. It is my go-to charger when I need a white one.

I bought this frosted white flatware set on sale online at Wayfair a few years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than they would have been if it was 18/10 but I really liked the frosted white color. Wayfair has really good sales on flatware sometimes.

I found the octopus napkin rings at Walmart online a few months ago. They are made by Fennco Styles and they were dark blue but Hubby painted them white for me. I bought the napkins at our Pier 1 store before it closed a few years ago. I love the multi-colored design because I seem to have many different shades of turquoise, teal, and blue dishes and these napkins match many of them. I often use them on my ocean and beach themed tablescapes.

I am using my white clam shell place card holders on this tablescape. They were made by Andrea by Sadek. I have had them for several years, I can’t remember where I bought them but I see them on Ebay from time to time.

I think the blue glass goblet on the left came from Pier 1 a few years ago. I can’t remember where I found the turquoise acrylic goblet on the right but it may have been Pier 1 as well. I have had it for several years.

I had found a gold brass colored octopus mug holder online that we were going to paint and use for a centerpiece but I really hated to paint it. We were in HomeGoods a couple months ago and I found this one, perfect! I love the spreading waving tentacles! It is sitting on a navy blue Rhodes drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn.

I found two small plastic white octopuses on Etsy to add to the tablescape on each side of the centerpiece. They were made by a 3D printer.

I love the different shades of blues and turquoises on this tablescape. I have always been fascinated watching how octopuses move themselves through water. This was a fun tablescape to pull together, lots of movement here like what goes on in the ocean.

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