Happy Pumpkin Gathering

Hello everyone!

             Join me and my new friend for dinner!

 

My husband saw me eyeing this figurine and a matching 

piece at a store last Saturday (Sweetest Day). 

After we had dined we went for a walk in

our little downtown area of

Traverse City 

and stopped in at a little gift shop...when 

he offered to buy them  for me I quickly 

said yes! We both got a kick out of his 

little stick legs !

My centerpiece includes my new decorated

pumpkin I showed in a previous post here.

By the way  

I'm serving up some Warm Cider,

 and Pumpkin Pie

OH-LOL

 I forgot

the main dish

a Turkey Casserole

recipe 

with some hearty crusted white bread!

The table is dressed with a simple floor

length table cloth and topped with 

a square black netting piece

The flatware is grouped together

with the napkin and wrapped

with a purple wired ribbon

decorated with bats!

I layered the dishes on the

plum colored round placemats

from T.J. Maxx where I also

found the cute purple glasses!

I found these pumpkin plates at

Michaels-I thought they were so

cute and happy!

 This is one of four dessert plates

made by Rosanna- I chose them 

to give the pumpkin a little framework!

The dinner plate is part of a set made by

CMG, called Brasserie and I got it from 

Neiman Marcus (they will make a good 

basic for many other table settings)!

 I turned a votive upside down

and perched this little

guy on it

 I snipped off some of my mums

from outdoors to put in this

matching votive

I used my spider candles with my

mercury glass candlesticks

As you can see I have quite a gathering

of pumpkins in my house! Way out there

on the mantel are some and my previous

blog posting here shows my corner

table has many more!

 I believe we are all set dine now! 

Well thanks for checking out my tablescape

and I hope you enjoyed it!

I'm Joining Susan @ BNOTP Tablescape Thursdays

and

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays

Pumpkin Decorating

Happy Fall everyone!

I was inspired by a posting from Susan @ Between Naps on the Porch 

and decided to give it a try and make one. 

 This is a picture of her finished pumpkin.  

You can click on her name and see her tutorial.

She used a napkin ring with an acorn attached, mine has a large flower.

While checking out Michael's for supplies I found 

two (and only two) purple flower napkin

rings.  The purple was just what I wanted!

I snipped some pieces off of a faux pick I had and glued them by the stem.

Since mine is faux I also put a dab of hot glue at the bottom to keep the ribbon from shifting.  And I put some hot glue at the edge of the ribbon and the napkin ring so they wouldn't let loose.  

 I made this one for my Mom and mine is below.

I decided to try something a little more dramatic and 

chose a black pumpkin.

The ribbon has soft shading that goes from purple, gold to rust.

I just scrunched the ribbon up near the top.

There are a lot of great ideas being shared on the blogs!  

This one is so easy I had to try it!  

There were so many ribbons to chose from- 

some even had skeletons on them!  

I can imagine many more ways

you could do this.  

Give it a try!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm linking up with 

Liz @ Savvy Seasons by Liz: Autumn Arrives link party

and

The Tablescaper- Seasonal Sundays