Ghosts on a Halloween Tablescape

I found this tablecloth online at At Home. I was looking for a tablecloth to use with these Johanna Parker ghosts and I wanted it to have an orange background. This tablecloth was exactly what I needed. This is the 23rd Halloween tablescape that I have created and the second Ghost tablescape. Halloween tablescapes are some of my favorites to create. You can see the other Ghost tablescape that I did before here.

I have such a weakness for Johanna Parker designs. I think they are so cute! These Johanna Parker ghost salad plates were made by Transpac and they are also labeled Every day is a holiday. I bought them at Mercari online, Ebay, and Etsy in order to get the six that I needed.

I have an extra plate on this plate stack. I bought these black melamine salad plates online at Home Depot last summer. They were part of their Home Decorator Collection and they were made by Trenblay. An unusual plate design that is appearing more often now. I have noticed that plate designers are changing the shape of the edges of plates more and more often now.

I love the orange color and the white edge on this dinner plate. The orange is a true Halloween orange and I love true primary colors. This dinner plate was a Rachael Ray design, the pattern was called Rise. I bought them online somewhere several years ago but I can’t remember where. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

This black plastic acrylic charger came from tableclothsFACTORY online a year ago. I was happy with the relatively inexpensive price for six chargers.

This black flatware set is Ginkgo International LePrix. I have had this set for years and it came from Overstock.com. If you read my blog you have seen this flatware on other Halloween tablescapes also. It is in constant use in October. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

These black cotton napkins came from Crate and Barrel a few years ago. They are a really nice study cotton fabric. These Johanna Parker ghost napkin rings came from Christmas Traditions online last year. They match the salad plates and the centerpiece. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I love the happy ghost face.

I found these small soy white wax ghost candles on Amazon last year. 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 holder items. If you read my blog you have seen them several times being used as a stand for something that I am using as a place card holder. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I often use black and orange goblets on my Halloween tablescapes but this black goblet is a newer addition to my goblet collection. I bought them last year. I have black goblets that are shorter than this goblet and black goblets that are much taller than this goblet but I wanted goblets this height that were all black. I was delighted to find these black plastic ones on Amazon last year. The advertisement said that they are disposable but I plan to keep them for a while until I can find some black glass ones that are the same height. I think I bought these orange glass goblets at Ross or T.J. Maxx several years ago. They were some of the first goblets I bought when I started tablescaping. I love using them this time of year. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets (including the colors I use the most) for your tablescaping collection here.

I found this Halloween Boo ghost cookie jar designed by Johanna Parker on Ebay last year. I set it on a small black glass cake stand that I have had for several years. Not sure where I found it.

I added a couple of small white wood ghosts to the table that I found at Hobby Lobby. When you have a busy tablecloth you don’t want to fill the table with too much clutter because everything blends into everything and the eye doesn’t know what to look at. You also need to add areas of solid color to rest the eyes.

I found this Johanna Parker ghost salt and pepper set on Ebay last year. I love how the facial expressions match the ghosts on the tablecloth.

You can see the 23 other Halloween tablescapes that I have created here. (Scroll down to Halloween.)

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