Crabs on a Summer Tablescape

We live about a mile and a half as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean. During the summer months I seem to lean toward creating ocean and beach themed tablescapes. I really don’t do them any other time of the year so I save up my ideas from year to year for the summer months. I found this Ambesonne underwater pattern tablecloth on Amazon a couple of years ago. If you read my blog, you saw it on my Octopus tablescape two years ago. I love the colors and the movement on it.

These white crab shaped shallow bowls were made by Bordallo Pinheiro and it took me five years to find six of them one at a time on Ebay. (As it is, one arrived broken and we had to glue it together.) I have been saving them for a few years to use on a tablescape. I have done two other crab tablescapes in the past few years but I used red crabs on those tablescapes.

This teal dinner plate matches the teal color in the tablecloth although the photos don’t show the accurate colors as well as they should. It is a brighter color. I bought these plates at HomeGoods several years ago. They were made in Portugal. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

This white charger is part of one of the first charger sets I bought when I started tablescaping. The pattern is Antique Beaded and I bought them at Williams Sonoma several years ago. I use this charger constantly on my table settings. If you look back through my blog at my tablescapes, you will see it often. A simple white charger is a great first purchase if you want to create more interest in your table settings. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers please click here.

I have had this frosted aqua flatware set for a few years. The flatware is labeled Bugatti for Vietri and the pattern is Aladdin Brilliant in Aqua. I bought the set at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale several years ago. I have frosted blue, gray, and pink flatware sets in this same pattern also. There are similar frosted patterns available online now in different colors. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I bought these wood white crab napkin rings on Etsy a few years ago. They were red but we painted them white for this tablescape. I bought the napkins at our Pier 1 store before it closed. 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 chose them for ocean themed tablescapes. To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.

I found these plastic crabs online somewhere, I can’t remember where. They were red and we painted them white. I set 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. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

The turquoise acrylic goblet on the left came from Pier 1 several years ago, I have this goblet in several different colors in both glass and acrylic. I really like the height of these goblets. The blue glass goblet on the right came from Hobby Lobby a few months ago. 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 saw this large cast aluminum crab online at Grandin Road three years ago and I knew it would make a great centerpiece someday. I think it is supposed to be yard art. It had a weathered copper finish but Hubby painted it red for me for a tablescape that I did a few years ago and white for this tablescape.

Now to find a delicious crab bisque recipe!

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