Mermaids on a Summer Tablescape — Whispers of the Heart

I created a mermaid tablescape three years ago but when I saw these mermaid salad plates I knew it was time to do another one. I think the denim blue tablecloth came from Crate and Barrel or Sur La Table several years ago.

I saw these mermaid salad plates at a Cracker Barrel restaurant a few months ago while we were on a long weekend. They only had five plates but I knew I could probably find them online and so I waited and bought six salad plates online at the Cracker Barrel site after I got home. I really like the raised elements with the mixture of blues and greens that were designed by Susan Winget for Cracker Barrel. This is a different color scheme from the earlier mermaid tablescape that I did three years ago.

The dinner plate I chose for this tablescape was made by Fiesta and the color is Shamrock. This color has now been discontinued but you can still find them online on the secondary market. I have this dinner plate in several different colors because it is the perfect dinner plate for a plate stack when there is a salad plate with a detailed design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

I added an extra plate to this plate stack to create the certain color sequence that I wanted. This stoneware charger plate came from Pottery Barn several years ago. The pattern is called Cambria and the color is Turquoise.

I have a few different white chargers but this is the one I seem to use the most on my tablescapes. The beaded rim design always adds an additional bit of interest to a plate stack. This white beaded charger came from Williams Sonoma and it is called Antique Beaded. It was one of the first chargers I bought when I started tablescaping several years ago. A basic white charger is always a good purchase when you are starting a tablescaping collection. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers please click here.

I decided that one of the accent colors for this table setting would be white so I chose this frosted white flatware set. I bought the frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair a few years ago, it is 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. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I can’t remember where I bought these mermaid napkins several years ago. They are double sided and look like they were handmade so they may have come from Etsy. I bought these mermaid napkin rings on Amazon a couple months ago. They were zinc alloy but Hubby painted them green for me to match the centerpiece. I like the simple design. To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.

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. On the left in this photo you can just see a bit of the design on the opposite side of the mermaid napkins. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I bought the blue goblet on the left at Pottery Barn online earlier this year. They were made by Qualia and the pattern was Flora in the color Dream Blue. The sage green acrylic goblet on the right came from our Pier 1 store before it closed a few years ago. I love the height of these goblets. 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 was looking for a mermaid to use as a centerpiece several years ago. Hubby was at a nursery looking at plants and found this one, she was a gray concrete color but I knew I was going to paint her. We painted her white for the other mermaid tablescape that I did three years ago but she is green for this one. She is solid and really heavy (she weights 25 pounds) and she sits outside in the middle of a birdbath when she isn’t a centerpiece. I found the netting on Amazon a few weeks ago.

I bought these small mermaids on Ebay a few years ago, I think they are supposed to be for fairy gardens. I put a set on each side of the centerpiece.

You can see the mermaid tablescape that I did three years ago here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/blog/2020/6/3/mermaids-coming-for-dinner

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