An Outer Space Tablescape

This unusual Outer Space tablescape would be the perfect tablescape for an evening of star gazing. Borrow a telescope and after dinner invite everyone outside to look at the heavens or watch some Space shows on television. I found the night sky tablecloth on Amazon a few months ago.

This set of melamine planet dinner plates includes eight plates; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. I only used six on this table setting and left Saturn and Mercury off. The plates are original watercolor portraits of the planets in our solar system. I bought them online at Fun.com last year. This plate is Jupiter.

Uranus

Mars

Neptune

Venus

Earth

Bormioli Rocco Inca Purple Charger

I didn’t want the chargers to compete with the planet plates so I am using my purple glass chargers because they blend in with the tablecloth. There is always a glare in the photos with glass plates, I finally gave up and left it. The purple glass chargers are Bormioli Rocco Inca in purple and I bought them on sale on Amazon several years ago. I have a few other colors of this charger, it is really nice heavy glass. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

Wallace Mikasa Duchess Gold Flatware

I decided to use gold as an accent color on this tablescape. It is a great complementary color for the purples and dark blues on the table. This gold plated flatware was a gift from Hubby a few Christmases ago. I had bought a cheap set of gold flatware several years ago. It was poor quality and the gold started flaking off. You get what you pay for! We found this set on major sale at Macys. It is made by Wallace and is called Mikasa Duchess Gold. It is brighter than this photo shows and it is heavy. I love the design on the handle. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I wanted purple napkins that matched the purple in the tablecloth and my purple napkins were the wrong color so I found these cotton napkins online at Amazon a few weeks ago. After a Google search a few weeks ago, I found these gold colored crescent moon and star napkin rings online at Tea and Linen. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

These gold colored star place card holders came from Amazon a few weeks ago. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.

Artland Purple Goblet

These handcrafted purple bubble glass goblets were made by Artland and I bought them at HomeGoods a few years ago. The deep purple color is a perfect match for the night sky tablecloth. I found the orange and amber colored goblets at HomeGoods last year. They were not labeled. 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.

I borrowed my grandson’s telescope to use as a centerpiece for this Outer Space tablescape. It was serendipity that it was a dark maroon color and the color matched the mood of this table setting.

If you read my blog you know that I have a thing for themed salt and pepper sets and I often have themed salt and pepper sets on my tablescapes. I knew I wanted a space themed salt and pepper set so I looked on Amazon last week and I found this Space Alien set. It makes me laugh when I look at it.

This astronaut salt and pepper set came from Amazon as well.

This is an unusual theme for a tablescape but after creating 200 tablescapes, sometimes it’s time for something unique and different.

To see 190+ other tablescapes that I have created please click here. If you are on Facebook, join my Tablescape Ideas group! Just click on the Facebook Search box at the top of the page and type in Tablescape Ideas. Don’t miss my Tablescaping How-To section at the top of this blog post for more tablescaping tips and tricks.

I put a new tablescape on my blog every week so please check back!