Turkeys on a Thanksgiving Tablescape

Time for a Thanksgiving Tablescape especially since I have a new set of Thanksgiving plates. I didn’t have the right shade and style of beige tablecloth for these plates so I looked on Amazon and found this maxmill faux linen beige tablecloth last week. It has a slubby textured design on the fabric and it is a bit more formal than my other beige tablecloths.

I was wandering through the Williams Sonoma web site last month and I saw these porcelain Newbury Thanksgiving plates and I really loved their unique design with all the flowers and leaves in different colors and the turkey in the middle of the salad plate. I don’t usually buy matching dinner and salad plates together but in this case I decided to because I really like the pattern.

I love the birds on these plates!

This is a Mikasa Color Spectrum Charger in the color Alpine White. I have this charger in several different colors and I bought them all on Ebay as I saw them over a few years. The Internet says that this pattern was only made between 1992 and 1993. I am not sure that is true but in any case they are no longer being manufactured. I have been trying to get six of this color and pattern for years with no success until earlier this year when suddenly I found six at different places online after occasional google searches. You need to have patience when you are looking for things for tablescaping, that’s for sure!

You can really see the tablecloth fabric in this photo. This flatware is a smoky brown color. The camera makes them look darker in color than they really are. The handles are some kind of plastic material. They are marked SR Showroom Italy. The set was made by Zaffiro and I think I bought it on sale online at Horchow several years ago. The color is called Smoky and it looks like this pattern has been discontinued. I really liked the simple design so I bought it in other colors as well. It is 18/10 stainless and a nice heavy set. The pieces are really longer in length than normal flatware. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

The brown cotton napkins probably came from HomeGoods or Pier 1 several years ago. This turkey napkin ring is one of my favorite napkin rings. It was one of the first napkin rings that I bought when I started serious tablescaping. The bottom says, “j. willfred, a division of the Charles Sadek Import Company, Inc.”. I can’t remember where I bought them. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these Department 56 ceramic turkey place card holders on Mercari a few years ago. I have a few other sets of turkey place card holders but these were colorful and it’s difficult to find colorful turkeys so I grabbed them. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I can’t remember where I bought the slate blue goblet on the left but it was probably HomeGoods. The amber glass goblet on the right came from Z Gallerie online a few years ago. I like that they have the same shape but one is taller than the other one. 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 already have a turkey tureen but when I saw this Spode Woodland Turkey Tureen at Macy’s a few months ago, he was some different colors, so I decided to buy him too.

I have a difficult time walking past cute salt and pepper sets at HomeGoods and this set of turkeys came home with me last month. They sat on a cute small decorative tray but I didn’t use it on this table setting because it was too colorful.

This vintage salt and pepper set is labeled Relco, Japan. I found the set at an antique mall several years ago.

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