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My Thanksgiving table

16 years ago

I struggled all afternoon yesterday trying to get a Thanksgiving setting done. I finally got frustrated when I couldnÂt get it to look like I wanted it to, so I just made a few changes to the setting I previously had on the table.

I added a brown topper over the white tablecloth.

I used white chargers and exchanged the white and amber plates for QueenÂs Myott Thanksgiving salad plates and Indiana Recollection dinner plates. The glasses belong to my aunt and are also Indiana Recollection. I'm sort of disappointed that the color of the plates doesn't show up better. I had thought they would against the white chargers.

I added in a turkey figurine and placed sparkly bronze colored pears at each setting. They would work for holding place cards, but since it's just the four of us, we all know where we sit. lol!

To all my friends here, I hope all of you will have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Comments (7)

  • 16 years ago

    Lovely, DG. I really like that big floral, its gorgeous.

    Hugs and Happy Thanksgiving,
    Karen

  • 16 years ago

    I really love the colors in your turkey plates, and what a nice turkey figurine as well. Everything looks wonderful, and I know you will have a great meal with your family. TFS. Luvs

  • 16 years ago

    DREAM! DREAM!! DREAM!!!

    You are the answer to my prayers. Well, one of them anyway! LOL

    I must know all about your glasses. Aunt B had just one and I haven't been able to find anymore, anywhere, or find any info about them. I'm going to go write down 'Indiana Recollection' down right now and stick it in the glass so I will at least remember the name to search for now!!

    They are the same aren't they?

    I'm sooo excited!!!

    Please excuse my blue bedroom shoe in the background! I was trying to get a good shot to send to my niece who is helping with the hunt for these illusive glasses.

    I have some little saucers to go with your pink dinner plates. I also, was bummed because the color doesn't show up as much as I want it to. I was hunting for the green salad plates exactly like your pink dinners and the pink dessert dishes for a tablescape I was trying to copy.

    I only found these..

    Oh Girl, I didn't mean to highjack your Thanksgiving tablescape post, but you have NO IDEA how frustrated I've been trying to find these glasses!

    I've been all over creation with my 1 little glass to every GW, TS, SA, and antique shop trying to find them.

    Thank you so much for using them in your post. What a Thanksgiving present!!

    NOW GIVE ME ALL OF THE DETAILS!!!! QUICK!! Hurry, I'm getting lightheaded!

    OK, OK I'm calming down now. Deep breaths, deep breaths.

    Back on the subject...

    You know I love that centerpiece from all of the gushing I did in your other post. Adding Mr Turkey really made it Thanksgiving. He's sooo cute!

    Great minds think alike. I think we all fell for those lovely turkey plates this year. I know I did!

    I LOVE all of your candlelight shots. What a beautiful table to enjoy Thanksgiving at. Wish all of us here could gather our families and tables together and have one big Thanksgiving celebation.

    All Y'all are my family, too. :o))

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Betty

  • 16 years ago

    Very nice, Love what you did, and you were right, the brown topper finished the look perfectly, I know what you mean when you have the whole table pulled together and you think that something is off and you rack your brain to figure out how to "finish" it, its always such a great feeling when you pull it off. I love layering and you have accomplished that so well.

    Happpy Thanksgiving

  • 16 years ago

    Betty, yes your goblet is identical to mine! Indiana Glass made them in the 1980's and the pattern is called Recollection. It's a reproduction of the Madrid depression glass pattern. They were sold in WM type stores.

    The glasses originally belonged to my grandmother. She loved pretty dishes and glassesÂmust be where I got my obsession from. My aunt never married and always lived with my grandparents, so she ended up with most of my grandmother's dishes after she died. My aunt only does one setting a year, at Christmas and itÂs always red, so most of her dishes never get used now. I think she enjoys letting me borrow my grandmotherÂs stuff just to see it used again. I think my grandmother would be happy too.

    Indiana made several different pieces in this pattern. A set of the hurricane candleholders is on my list to buy before I use these again. IÂm sending you a link to the pattern on ebay. There are some goblets listed on there now.

    Judith, thank you! IÂm so glad to see you postingÂwe miss you when youÂre not here as much. IÂm so looking forward to seeing your tablescapes for the holidays.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Indiana Glass

  • 16 years ago

    Thank you so much, Dream. It is so sweet that you would take time on Thanksgiving Day, as busy as this day gets, to help me.

    I hope your day was wonderful. And please keep sharing the beauty.

    For friends like you, I am thankful.

    Betty

  • 16 years ago

    Dream,
    Your table is beautiful and I love your turkey plates, pink plates and glasses. I'm a pink fan to the end and those are some of the prettiest turkey plates I've seen. The brown table cloth looks great.

    Betty, I hope you can finish off your sets and I'll be waiting to see your tablescapes with them. DD was looking at all the ads today and ask if I wanted anything. One guess, what I told her I'd like. The dishes of course but then I told her no, I had better be the one to pick them out for sure.LOL I don't have room for more dishes but I'm starting to love this!!!

    Happy Thanksgiving, again, to all of you. As Betty said, "For friends like you, I am thankful too."

    Punk