Chestnuts, Acorns & Popcorn

I'm posting a bit early in preparation for Tablescape Thursday but you know what to do! Lots of fun awaits you when you click here.  Susan, our gracious hostess will once again have supplied us addicted dish-lovers with our fix for fabulous 'scapes. 

Last week, my aunt was in town visiting my mom so I decided to  have a family get-together dinner. Since I still had all my fall decor up I went with that type of  tablescape.  This time, I resisted the urge to use my pumpkin bowls and went with an earthy natural theme.

For the centerpiece, I used two large and one smaller hurricane shade/vase. The two larger hurricanes are from Partylite a couple years ago.

A close-up of Mr. Turkey.

 (HomeSense half price at last year's sales)

Chestnuts surrounded the bases of the white pillar candles in two and in the other one, I placed popcorn kernels.  I tucked three large faux acorns in amongst the vases.  A variety of faux grass type stems were laid lengthwise.
 (Mosaic candleholders are from the Global Fusion series at Partylite)

This is the view of the centerpiece from the opposite side of the table.

My gold-rimmed white dishes and copper coloured chargers went well with the brown/gold tones of the table linens.

Dinner consisted of Russian/Mexican Chicken, Brown Rice, Green Pepper Steak, Tossed  Green Salad, Carrots, Corn and Quick Black Forest Cake with Ice Cream for Dessert.  When I am scrambling to get the food on the table, I rarely think to take a pic of it but later I always wish I would have thought of it.  I need some lessons from Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen in that regard!

As a Part Two to that tablescape....

I bought these deep purple glass dessert dishes today at a local antique store (though not antique). 

I got 10 of them for $32 which is just pennies over $3/each which I thought was a good deal.

Of course, when you have something new on hand you want to try them out so I added them to the tablescape I still had set up.

I think the dark purple tones go well with the dark browns.

Shook things up a bit more and put the individual votive holders inside the dessert dishes.

Looks pretty but a dessert would probably be better!

This is one of my favourite fall themed serving bowls.  See the detail in the bottom with the acorns and leaves.

(white marks are from the flash which I needed to capture the detail)

It was hard to get a good picture but the outside edges also have acorns, leaves and pumpkins all around. I used this bowl a lot for my Thanksgiving and fall table settings.

In my last post, I said I was going to get into the Christmas mode now but I guess I wasn't quite ready to leave the fall tablescapes yet....or is it that I'm dreading hauling out all those tubs of Christmas decorations....