I have been collecting a variety of gold, bronze and copper items to create a fall tablescape all year. When Cuisine Kathleen issued a challenge to create a Fall tablescape using purple (but no orange) tablescape I thought it would be easy to substitute purple for the teal color I had originally planned. I found out that purple is very hard to capture in it's true colors on a photograph. After three days of fooling around to try and get the pictures to look reasonably like they should I finally managed to get some early morning sunlit pictures. There is a bit of a glare in some pictures but they did show more of their true colors.
The base is a tablecloth from a semi-sheer crinkled curtain panel that has metallic threads of gold to bronze running through subtle stripes of autumn colors that is layered over a deep purple tablecloth.
Pretty bubble glass deep purple water goblets and the etched glass grape wine glasses were thrift store purchases.
The woven fall design napkin is overlayed with a sheer copper fabric with golden leaves embossed onto the fabric. This pretty fall sheer was wrapped around bouquets of Thanksgiving flowers last year at a local grocery store. I bought three bouquets after they were marked down to five dollars per bouquet of a dozen long stem red roses after the holiday.
The fall brocade napkins and deep purple and gold napkin rings were thrifted a while back.
The stack layers of various textures of dinnerware in fall colors.
A small cluster of green grapes was placed in a clear purple figural grape bowl to add some contrast to the dark colors.
I think the gold salad plate is a pressed depression glass. But I could be wrong about that. I just think they are pretty.
The purple plates came from HomeGoods last winter (they had been marked down after Christmas). I used them in my Mardi Gras Tablescape that you can see here:
My Imitation Mardi Gras Mask Tablescape.
The amber and gold mosaic tiled chargers came from Pier 1 bought late in the winter this year. They were marked down from the previous Fall's leftover stock. Yep, I left the price tag on, they were $4.18 each. They have some again this year which you can find here:
Amber-Gold-Mosaic-Charger The price has gone up a bit for this year.
The flatware was an Ebay buy.
The centerpiece is a simple arrangement of three decorative candle sticks with green pears set upon them instead of candles. I did have candles on them, but the candles were orange. So I decided to go with the pears instead.
You can see the orange candles here from one of the pictures from the day before I took the pictures with the pears.
I had a purple vase, and a bronze pumpkin on the table while I was playing with what to use for the centerpiece in the following pictures.
The whole table took on an orange glow. So I promptly removed the candles and the pumpkin and started over again.
Copper leaves cut from an old metal wall decoration are scattered across the table in the following pictures. Sweet hubby used a nipper to cut the wire stems.
You can see the orchid in the window that one of my son's bought me for my birthday.
The purple sherberts were thrifted a long time ago.
The gold and red candle holders were thrift store purchases too.
The beaded place mats say made in India for Wall Mart on the back, I bought eight of them at the VOA Thrift Store for one dollar each.
The little brown birds are from Marc's (my favorite close out store).
The sun was coming in at an angle that lit the whole table up in the morning.
Just the pear and the grapes were touched by the suns rays in this picture.
There you have my Deep Purple and Golden Copper Hued Fall Tablescape. There were a few retail purchases for this table but other than the chargers and the dinner plates (both of which were bought at close out prices) and the pears & brown birds that were bought at Marc's, and the Ebay flatware the rest of the
table was thrifted.
Thank you for stopping by to visit. I do so much enjoy your visits and comments that you might leave. Just remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on.
I will be sharing at:
Kathleen's Purple Fall Challenge
Susan's Tablescape Thursday
Share It One More Time
Dawn's History and Home Link Party
