A Spring Tablescape with Lemons and Navy Blue

I was at HomeGoods a few years ago and I saw this tablecloth with lemons on a blue trellis pattern. As soon as I saw it I pictured a lemon tablescape that I could create using it. I did a lemon themed tablescape three years ago but it was yellow, green, and white. You can see that tablescape here. On that tablescape the lemons were a true yellow color. I knew I had dinner plates with lemons that had bits of orange and brown added on the lemons and I knew they would match this tablecloth. Looking at both tablescapes shows how a theme can be changed by using different colors and elements.

I bought these ironstone lemon dinner plates at Pier 1 several years ago before our store closed. The pattern was called Lemon. I decided not to add a salad plate to this tablescape because I didn’t want to cover up the design on the dinner plate.

This charger was made by Mikasa and it is called Color Spectrum in Royal Blue. I love this charger, it is heavy and a great color. I have several others in other colors. I bought them all a few at a time on Ebay over several years.

This navy blue placemat probably came Pier 1 several years ago. I have this placemat in many different colors. It’s a good basic placemat for a tablescaping collection. I decided to add them to this tablescape because I wanted to break up the busyness of the tablecloth a bit with a solid color.

I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair several years ago, it was 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. Frosted flatware is really popular right now and a Google search will turn up several patterns and colors. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found the lemon napkin rings on Ebay two years ago. I can’t remember where I bought the cotton royal blue napkins, I have had them for several years. Over the years I have shopped for napkins at HomeGoods, Pier 1, and World Market so they probably came from one of those stores.

I was looking for something with a lemon theme to use as place card holders on this table setting and I found these faux lemon slices on Etsy. I bought them not knowing how I would use them but I decided that I could figure it out. I just set two of them on a Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holder. I bought the place card holders at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They are heavy and solid and I really like the simple design. I often use them as a stand for place card items. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here.

It can be difficult to find yellow glass goblets that don’t have a gold tint to them so when I saw these yellow goblets on Etsy a few years ago I immediately bought them. I love the color and the size of them. The dark blue acrylic goblet on the right came from Pier 1 on sale a couple years ago before our store closed. I like the matching texture on both goblets. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection here.

I knew I wanted to use a lemon branch centerpiece on this tablescape. I found these faux lemon branches at Michaels a few years ago and I added them to three smaller ones that I had already. I wanted to put them in a navy blue vase and I found this Frankoma G4 Prairie vase on Ebay a a few years ago too. I set it on a small blue stand that probably came from HomeGoods several years ago to give it a bit more height. Because of the busyness of the tablecloth I didn’t add anything else to the center of the table.

Blue and yellow is a great color scheme for a Spring tablescape.

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