Dinner for two.......

This Tablescape Thursday and Time Travel Thursday is dedicated to  two ladies, left to their own devices on a week night, while their loving hubbies attend some sports thing. The evening is to include an early supper of Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Mixed Fruit Compotes, and a Pasta Salad, and then, an evening with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, and Tom Selleck.

Since it's just the two of them they'll do something different...eat in the Living Room at the Coffee Table where it's a little fancier than TV trays in front of the television.

Here it is all set up ready and waiting.

These are the components of this tablescape............

Cherry Coffee Table with vintage hexagonal mirror and turn-of-the-century hand-tatted lace runner.

I have included one of my new vintage inspired designs onto this tablescape. I have taken a new footed serving plate, attatched a 1940's hand-tatted doily, and added a serving plate to the top to protect the doily.

Some are plain like this one others will be hand-painted to match the doily colors. They will be available soon on my website and Etsy, but if you'd like to custom order one in a special color I'd be happy to create one for you.

The plates are a very special find I made this past week at the Ohio Valley Antique Mall. They are aluminum porceleain clad plates, marked ' Berens Ware,  England'. I know they were probably an 8-pc placesetting in the 40's, but all they had were the 3, so now I'm gonna spend a lot of time trying to locate matching peices...don't ya just hate when that happens ;) They a re each names in the back.........one is the Cottage, the other the Arbor, and lastly Friends. To see them closer just click the pic.

 

I placed the Cottage plate on top od the footed sering dish for the sandwiches.

The napkins pictured are 1940's hand-crocheted hankies, The Iced Tea Spoons are vintage 1950's and the Silver is Onieda Southern Garden form 1993, which is now discontinued.:(

The iced tea glasses are crystal by Kronos. If you look closely the bottoms have a cross pattern with color fused in. The colors match the plates.

The Sugar Bowl in a very old hand-painted porcelain peice that was a gift. I believe it's marked Austria, but it's so worn I can't be sure. I have the creamer too. The pressed green glass pitcher is Fostoria.

And, lastly these are the salad bowls. Really they are 1950's ice cream bowls, but they work.

So, this is my Tablescape  for Thursday and my Time Travel inspired table for Time Travel Thursday. I'm linking to Susan over at Between Naps On The Porch for Tablescape Thursday of which she so graciously hosts. Don't forget to stop by and see all the incredible tablescape thru Here  I'm also linking to Liz at Brambleberry Cottage for Time Travel Thursday you can visit all the travelers thru Here

And, dont' forget I'm having a little surprize giveaway in my last post. Go here to get more details. Everyone who leaves a comment in my posts this week is entered!

I love it when a table theme comes together !!!

Hi Welcome! I'm so glad you got to stop by. Hope you had a great Red, white and blue weekend.

I know that summer has officially started, but I just could not resist doing this Holland Inspired (some would think spring) tabletop. Last year I found this vintage 1940's tablecloth at a friends blog 'yard sale'.............

It's a very happy print in greens, yellow, red. and blue.  It depicts a Dutch boy and girl in a small village with windmills, sailboats, seagulls and of course the national flower of Holland the Tulip. I think its so unique, but alas very worn.....so, LOL, don't look too close. Eventually it'll become a tablerunner for my table and a myriad of other creations for my Etsy and website. I just couldn't pass up using it today for this tablescape because.............

I found a place setting of six of these dishes at an antique mall! The red caught my eye and as I focused in closer I couldn't believe it, a little Dutch Girl by a canal with a windmill, cottage, and sailboat. I thought since they were marked on the back, Stanton 24k gold, they'd be out of my price range. Ya know how when you look at something, but you think you just aren't focusing right....ok maybe you don't cause you're not almost 50.....anyway.....it read $15.  My Mom laughed cause I didn't think about, didn't take a moment, didn't go around once and come back, I picked every piece up and placed it in our cart. No one was gonna grab these. You see they not only go with the tablecloth, but they match the pattern of these.........................

          

This vintage hand-wrought aluminum tray by Continental 

and this Orman ice bucket I have had for a few years.

I was so happy when I later found this meat platter and vegetable dish.

     

To complete the table I used other things I had collected over the years, like..............

Two aluminum chargers. One round for him and one floral for her.

This vintage aluminum serving tongs and salt and pepper.

New acrylic and aluminum tea/water glasses

Vintage Pressed Glass vegetable dishes

1990's Onieda 'Southern Garden' silver serving spoons

1990's hand-woven napkins from Gatlinburg, Tn.  I folded to create silverware cozys.

A vintage chrome percolator coffee pot. I can't make out the maker, but it clearly reads Stratford-on-Avon, England. The creamer and sugar are Rodney Kent.

Took this pedestal plate, inverted it, and topped it with

a plate and created this                                                                        

cake plate. And, for mood lighting.......................................

an oil lanp from the early 1900's.

Put it all together and add a Flemish Bouquet......................

A Dutch treat table for two.

As I said, I love it when a table theme comes together! And, it only took a few years to locate all the components. I think the fun of the search is why vintage collections are so popular.

I'm linking this post to Susan over at It's a Very Cherry World for her Rednesday and at Susan's Between Naps on the Porch for her Tablescape Thursday. Remember to stop by both these very gracious hostesses and chexk out the participants at their memes.