Tablescape Thursday...the beginning of Fall.

Time for Tablescape Thursday, thanks to our hostess Susan at

http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/.

Be sure and check out her blog for other tablescape posters this week!

The beginning of Fall...

when dusting and cleaning the house this week I decided it was time for a bit of Fall

color.  Our weather has been changing and sure feeling like Fall lately, which I am not ready for yet, how about you?!

So the formal dining room got a cleaning and transformation.

(Click on any photo to enlarge)

I even changed out my buffet lamp shades and the shades on the chandelier.

I started by criss crossing these pretty patterned table runners on the table. I found them

 and thought they would be good for this time of year. I also bought some matching napkins.

I found them at Marshalls.

I layered the table setting starting with some copper colored charges I got last year.

I used our green handled flatware, also a Marshalls find.

I used the B brand Salad plates for some texture and for some added white in the mixture.

I put these on top of our everyday dinner plates by 222 Fifth brand in

the Lutece pattern, I love these dishes they seem to go with everything.

For stemware I used some green mercury glass water goblets I got on sale at Dillards a couple years ago.

And wine goblets were some my mother gave me many years ago they have sort of a peachy reddish stem to them.

I topped the chargers, dinner and salad plates off with the napkins and crowned them

with some leaf bowls ; large ones by Olfaire and small ones by Pottery Barn.

The large ones I found at Marshalls and the small ones I actually found like new at a thrift store.

For the centerpiece; I used a leafy topiary, a fleur de lis statuary piece and a mossy looking statuary

of a cherub under a tall cloche in a silver plated ice bucket.

I like the touch of green it adds some bright spots to the dark red and other fall colors.

I think we are ready to have friends over for dinner, don't you?!

On the side board I added a large flower arrangement in a crystal vase that my son gave me for

Mother's Day one year.

Also added another artichoke shaped statuary and some colorful faux pears

under a glass cloche in a silver plate bowl.

All of them resting on a silver plated serving tray.

So with that all said,

Let Fall Begin!