Tablescape Thursday!

Welcome to Tablescape Thursday! One of the most celebrated events in Blogland. This meme is graciously hosted each week by Susan - a revered Tablescaper, at Between Naps on the Porch.

I need to say that I have great respect for Susan, who week after week both hosts this event and creates a new tablescape, to boot. I am not sure how she does it. My point being, its hard to create something original each week. That said, I am hoping that you do not remember that my last tablescape, also, featured roosters. (oops, maybe you would not have remembered if I had kept my mouth closed!) :-D

In my haste to put together a table this morning before I went to work (because I knew there would be no time when I got back home) - I looked around to see what plates I could use. A-ha! Rooster plates! D'oh! (said in my best Homer Simpson voice). I did Roosters last time. Oh well.....ya' work with what ya' got...and I got more rooster plates. LOL

These plates are a set of four salad plates that are usually hanging on my kitchen wall. (hence the dust if you look really close)

These plates are my newest impulse buy purchase at Marshall's. These red lovelies have been calling out to me for several weeks now. Alas - I could resist no further.

Here is one of the plates...

.. and the second. (don't you just love the harlequin edging?)

... the third design...

... and finally the fourth.

Look what a beautiful placesetting this creates when the red plate and the rooster plate is paired together. I used a gold square charger - not to bring in any formality, but to pull in some of the gold tones from the Provencal tablecloth. (Marshal's)

I heart the embossed detail on the edge's of the red plates.

But, man cannot create a tablescape with plates alone....oh no, no, no...

...So bring on the accoutrements!

Simple black, painted wood candleholders with Goodwill candles. These candles are the battery operated kind and I was tickled pink to find them for 50 cents each. Until I got home, popped in some brand-new batteries and realized they didn't work.

So, a tuft of moss and a tealight later...and I love the look of my new candles.

I grabbed my two-tiered metal basket from the top of my hutch, and plopped in some geraniums, eucalyptus, euchenacia and black polka-dotted ribbon loops.

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you the following public service announcement:

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life is having a Cloche Party on Friday....

Here is a small sampling of my post.... this mini-cloche-topped dessert stand.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....

Look who's on top of the tiered basket.....Monsieur Le Coq!

A crockery wine jug is draped with a black and white "spill rag." When we used to live in Brussels, we loved to go downtown to the Grand Place and have dinner. The waiters would wrap all the wine and water jugs with pretty napkins. I always thought it was a very practical, and pretty, idea.

This is some of my recently acquired "crystal" stemware. Love the red edging.

Oh - did I say "crystal?" I'm sorry, I meant to say "acrylic." $2 ea at Wally World.

Lookie here! The second cousins of the Roosters and Hens (twice removed) stopped in for a little visit - the little Target birdies.

So - please forgive me for doing another Rooster and Hen themed tablescape. I promise I will try to let a few weeks go by before I repeat this theme again. :-)

Please make sure you go by Susan's blog at Between Naps on the Porch so you can visit all the other Tablescaper's posts. It is truly a day filled with awe-inspiring eye candy.

Happy Tablescaping....Barb