Butterflies on a Spring Tablescape

I posted a butterfly tablescape a few years ago but I decided to create a different one with a few of the same items. I found this butterfly tablecloth on Amazon a few years ago. The border is a weird green pea soup color but I knew it wouldn’t show on the tablescape.

I found these small melamine blue butterfly bowls at Hobby Lobby a few years ago. They don’t have a maker’s mark on them.

I found these large melamine butterfly chargers at HomeGoods a few years ago. They were made by Shabby Chic. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers please click here.

I found these faux boxwood placemats at Hobby Lobby a few years ago also. I love the spring green colors.

This flatware is called Madeline Green and I bought it at World Market several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen it several times on my tablescapes. I use this green flatware often in the Spring and Fall. If you google frosted flatware and add the color you are looking for you will find similar sets. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found these DII metal butterfly napkin rings on Amazon a few years ago. They were black and Hubby painted them green for me. I love this shade of green. The green cotton napkins came from Pier 1 several years ago. It is one of my favorite green shades, I call it Spring Green. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these metal butterflies on Ebay a few years ago. They are not really place card holders but they have short wires on the back that I bent into a stand for them. I knew the place card would slide in front of the antennae. There are nine different designs and I love the color combinations!

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The green acrylic goblets on the left came from our Pier 1 store before it closed several years ago. I think I bought the blue goblets on the right at Pier 1 too. When I started tablescaping I didn’t pay attention to the height of the goblets that I was buying and I soon learned that I like them to be taller like these two. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the goblet colors that I use most often here.

I found these faux blue flowers at Hobby Lobby a few years ago. They are in a large white pottery vase, one of a pair of identical white pottery vases that I inherited from my mother. She received them as a wedding present in 1938. I added three of the same metal butterflies that I used as place card holders to the flower arrangement.

I love watching butterflies in my garden!

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Once Upon a Castle Tablescape

I have been thinking about this tablescape for a long long time, it has just taken me a while to gather it all together. I found the castle tablecloth on Spoonflower online on sale a few months ago. I found the salad plates first and then I started looking for a tablecloth and this one was perfect.

I love the outline of a castle on it with fireworks above.

These collector plates are not meant to be used for food. They would be removed before food is served. I love this image of the castle at Disneyland with Tinkerbell. It took me a long time to find six of these plates to use on this tablescape. I found them one or two at a time at various sites online and I had to keep looking for a while. They are called “Sleeping Beauty Castle” and they were made exclusively for the Disneyland Theme Park. There is a similar version with Mickey and Minnie Mouse in front of the castle that is more common but I liked this one better. It does come in a smaller size so I had to be careful to buy the correct 7 1/2 inch size.

I found this turquoise melamine dinner plate at HomeGoods a few years ago. It matches one of the blues in the tablecloth perfectly. I like bright colors and this is a pretty bright turquoise color.

It is difficult to see this purple glass charger because the tablecloth pattern is showing through from underneath. This is one of my favorite glass chargers. I bought them when I first started tablescaping. They are a heavy purple glass and I love the color and the tweed like design in the glass. They were made by Villeroy and Boch and the pattern was called Verona. Not sure where I found them online. They have been discontinued but you can find them online on the secondary market. I have this charger in a few other colors as well. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

This flatware is labeled SR Showroom Italy. It was made by Zaffiro and I think I bought it on sale online at Horchow several years ago. The color is called Violet and this pattern has been discontinued. I really liked the simple design so I bought it in six other colors as well over a few years. It is 18/10 stainless and a nice heavy set. The pieces are really longer in length than normal flatware. I have mentioned this before. If you are buying flatware and it isn’t 18/10 stainless always check the fork tines to make sure they have been filed enough and aren’t too sharp. Cheaper flatware often has this problem. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I think these cotton napkins came from Pier 1 several years ago, I love the intense bright turquoise color. I wasn’t sure what I could find for a napkin ring for this tablescape. My daughter has an annual pass to Disneyland and she goes often so I told her to look for something small that I could attach to a napkin ring and she found these Disneyland pins. Normally I would cut off the pin part and temporarily attach them to a napkin ring but I decided to leave them as a pin and just pin them to the cloth napkin over a plastic napkin ring that I already had. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these castles at Walmart online a few months ago. Normally I don’t like to buy things from Walmart online because I have had problems with them in the past but I knew that I could use these castles as place card holders for this tablescape so I took a chance and bought them. At least they arrived in a timely manner this time.

The turquoise acrylic goblet on the left came from Pier 1 several years ago. I have this goblet style in several colors in acrylic and in glass and I use them often. I just found the purple glass goblet on the right at HomeGoods. It is a great match for the purple on this tablecloth. For many years I only had one purple goblet in my tablescaping collection but I have found a few more different styles and shades in the last couple of years. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection here.

I found this Sleeping Beauty Castle Play Set at Downtown Disney in January. We were there with the whole family for lunch. I was looking for a centerpiece for this tablescape and I really wanted a castle and there it was. It actually has lights and movement. My son and his whole family are huge Disney fans and I knew that I could pass it along to them after I used it on a tablescape. It comes with five small figures and two action rides as well.

Donald and Daisy Duck on the Tea Cups ride.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding on the Dumbo, the Flying Elephant ride.

Goofy just hanging out.

This one was a fun one to create!

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Greatest Spring Tablescape Ever Toad

I did a Frog Spring tablescape two years ago but it was green and white. You can see that tablescape here. But I wanted to use all my frogs again and do something different so I searched Spoonflower online for a frog tablecloth and when this one popped up I knew I had found exactly what I needed. And before someone points out the difference between frogs and toads, yes, I know the difference, (after looking it up…always the librarian), and these are all probably toads and not frogs but for the sake of this table setting I am using the word frogs.

This tablecloth is such a happy one and the colors are perfect for Spring. It could easily be used on a Tropical themed tablescape as well.

I really wanted a frog shaped salad plate for this table setting but as sometimes is the case I could find five that I liked but not the sixth one so I went with these salad plates that I had already. I bought these Bordallo Pinheiro frog salad plates on Ebay a couple of years ago. I love the raised design of little frogs on lily pads on the lip of the plate and there are also small butterflies among the flowers.

The true pink color of this dinner plate shows more accurately in the previous photo. My phone camera sometimes washes colors out a bit. I found these pink stoneware dinner plates at Pier 1 online last year. Other than this pink flatware set I haven’t had much pink in my tablescaping collection for years so I have been trying to increase items in that color for a while now. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

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 this last month 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!

This pink frosted flatware set was made by Bugatti for Vietri and the pattern was called Aladdin Brilliant. I bought the set at Macys several years ago. I have several sets of frosted flatware. These are 18/10 stainless, and I really like the frosted design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I felt sure that I had a pink napkin set that I could use on this tablescape but none of the pink napkins that I have were the right shade of pink to match the tablecloth so I found these pink cotton napkins on Amazon a few days ago. They are nice casual napkins and they survived the washer and dryer and ironed well so I may buy some other colors. I found the metal frog napkin rings a few years ago at Hobby Lobby and Hubby painted them green for me. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these frog tea light candles on Amazon a few years ago. I love that little face! I have them sitting on my Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holders. I bought them 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. I see them for sale on Ebay from time to time. You can read my blog post for ideas about how to store napkin rings and place card holders here. Just looked back at this and realized that I forgot to add the place cards!

The green acrylic goblet on the left came from our Pier 1 store before it closed a few years ago. I bought the pink glass goblet on the right at World Market four years ago. True pink goblets are hard to find, they often are called pink when they are actually a coral color. When I saw these I grabbed them and then they quickly sold out so others were looking for them too! 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 found this frog figure at a Grocery Outlet store while we were on vacation two summers ago and it was really inexpensive. When I am out and about I am constantly looking for centerpiece ideas. Hubby was dragging his feet about buying it but when I told him I had been looking at frog cookie jars for three times the price he quickly changed his mind! I love the expression on this frog’s face, his eyes, and his feet. He is sitting on a small white plastic stand that probably came from HomeGoods several years ago.

I have so many candle holders and candles so I decided that this year I would try to use them more often. Then I saw this Venezia Smoke Green glass candle holder at Crate and Barrel online and the shape reminded me of a lily pad so I bought two to add to this tablescape on each side of the centerpiece. It comes in three different sizes but I bought the shortest ones. They have this candle holder in Deep Blue and Clear as well. They can also be used for flowers. They are really delicate glass and I love them.

We have had tiny frogs in our garden the past few years although I have only heard them once this Spring so far. I think it has been too cold for them. They are about the size of two thumbnails. I love hearing them croak although it doesn’t sound like a croak, it’s a loud weird scratchy sound. I hope they come back and stay a while!

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A Bee Bedecked Spring Tablescape

I did a bee tablescape four years ago, and then a different one three years ago, and then another different one two years ago as well. But when I saw this bee tablecloth at HomeGoods a few months ago I flashed on all the gray tablescape items that I already have and I decided to do another bee table setting. This tablecloth has a label that says The Farmhouse, Rachel Ashwell. Gray is an unusual color for a Spring tablescape but after completing 220+ tablescapes I need to branch out a bit and go beyond the norm sometimes.

These bee themed salad plates came from Wayfair online. They came in a set of four with four different designs. The plate designs were created by artist Susan Winget and the plates were made by Certified International. When I saw them I knew that they would be a perfect match for the tablecloth.

This is a Fiesta dinner plate in their newer shape Bistro and the color is called Daffodil. The Bistro shape offers a wider food surface and deeper well and it looks a bit more modern than the Fiesta Classic plates. I bought these Fiesta dinner plates online at Everything Kitchens LLC three years ago. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

This Gray stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn. I love this plate, I also have it in other colors. The pattern is called Cambria. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility.

I have had this frosted Light Gray flatware set for several years. The flatware was made by D & D Inox in Italy. I bought it at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale several years ago. This pattern is called Vietri Aladdin Brilliant (not Antique). There are similar frosted patterns available online now. I have this set in other colors too because I really like the frosted design. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I bought these yellow gold cotton napkins at World Market several years ago. I found the bee napkin rings on Amazon last month. They are such a good match for the tablecloth. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

This beehive place card holder went through quite a metamorphosis. I found them online at Oriental Trading a few years ago. They were in the Easter section and they were lemon yellow. Inside was a plastic bumblebee. I bought them because I knew Hubby could paint them for me and then he attached a wooden base so that they could stand. I already had the tiny bumblebees so I added a few just for fun. I set them on a small square bronze place card holder. I can’t remember where they came from. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I can’t remember where the smokey gray glass goblet on the left came from. I have had them for several years. They were made by Greenbrier Glass. The gold Poly/Carb goblet on the right was made by Le Cadeaux and the pattern is called Fleur. We found them at a gift shop on one of our trips up the coast several years ago but they were really expensive so we only bought a few of them. I had been looking for that color for a long time and after we got home, I found them much cheaper online so I bought a few more. 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 found this white porcelain honeycomb cookie jar at Williams Sonoma online last month. I love using cookie jars as centerpieces, they are always the right size. I set it on a small white cake stand that I found at HomeGoods several years ago. The two wood bees that I placed on each side of the cookie jar came from a local gift shop. Looks like they were just made for this tablescape.

If you look very closely you can just see this tiny glass bee to the left of the centerpiece on this tablescape. I have had it for years, I don’t remember where I got it but I knew it belonged on this table. It is a favorite of mine.

I am not a real fan of bees although I know we need them and I try to plant flowers for them but I had fun pulling this table together.

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