Give Thanks For Tablescaping
Good morning, lovely lions!
I’m busy as a little bee, trying to get my mom’s house (because her table seats a whole lot more than my little bistro table) prepared for a large influx of friends, relatives, and one horse-of-a-puppy named Oliver for Thanksgiving. I love tablescaping, especially for a holiday. I’m decorating for the event, so I thought I would share some of my favorite ideas for creating a fun, funky, and fabulous setting for your dinner with your loved ones.
1) Tablecloths are your friends. I like to layer different colors, textures, and sizes to create depth to my base. For example, start with an aubergine colored heavy linen tablecloth and put an antiqued gold sheer runner over the top, with maroon and aubergine fabric napkins at everyone’s place setting. In fact…this leads me to my second idea concept…
2) Look away from your typical color palette. Most people use the same old reds, oranges, and yellows for Thanksgiving. I lovelovelove deep purple on my table to compliment the reds and golden yellows of autumn. Try accents of bright green, too.
3) Height=AWESOME. When you’re putting your tablecloths down, use things like books, cake stands, and platters underneath to create height so when you put out your beautiful spread, you don’t have a flat spread.
4) Flowers aren’t everything. Yes, you just saw the floral + ambience lioness go against her stripes. Thanksgiving is a season of bounty, and that screams edible arrangement to me. One of my favorites is the very kitsch cranberry tree; take a foam cone form (found at your local craft store), and stud with cranberries on toothpicks. Bowls of oranges, pears, bunches of wheat…think of what goes into a cornicopia and mass them together.
5) Check out your china cabinet! I’m pulling my whole color scheme this year from one of the most amazing presents ever. You see, my husband and I chose not to register for china when we got married because…well, when would we ever use it! My wonderful Mimi gave me her “china” pattern from 1953 for my birthday last year. My dandyLion grandmother went against the grain in 1953 and registered for pottery instead of frou frou china. I’m very excited to use my Redwing Capistrano set and my linens will reflect it: a black heavy under linen with a light green leaf-patterned runner with stoneware bowls of fruit instead of flowers.
Give thanks this year for your creativity, dear lions. If you look outside of your box again and take your cues from vintage touches, your Thanksgiving will be amazing.
Until next time, with much love and sweet potatoes,
Amanda
floral + ambiance lioness
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