Happy Thanksgivings Tablescape

 

Welcome to Thanksgivings at our home. As we count our many blessings, come on in, prop up your feet and stay a while.

I'm extremely blessed to have these napkins from my mother. Before she passed away she made sure that I had them and the matching tablecloth in my possession so that there could be no questions. My grandmother handstitched the monograms on all 12 of the napkins AND the tablecloth. They were part of my mother's dowry and are still in pristine condition today.

I'm blessed with this set of silver. In Germany, it's a tradition for the Godmother to buy her Godchild a piece of silver for every event (birthdays, Christmas, Christening, Confirmation, etc). I would have chosen something much more ornate, but this is the same WMF pattern that my Godmother had. My grandmother was worried it wouldn't be complete, so she stepped in.

 

I am blessed with this stack! Each piece has a story and therefore as we sit and recount a years worth of blessings, I am reminded of many more blessings.

I am blessed with this charger and the for the memories it brings forth. It was purchased at Williams Sonoma in Chicago on the Million Dollar Mile while at a sales meeting for Bernina USA. Thank you Bernina! Faith, do you remember?

I am blessed with these classic white dishes. This was the second (first were for the kitchen) set of dishes I purchased after our house fire over 10 years ago. They were a wise choice.

 

I am blessed with a husband who understands my obsession with dishes. As long as there is food on the plates, he doesn't care!

I am blessed with the matching hammered napkin rings.

I am blessed with the best sisters-in-laws ever! I remember when I found these estate-sale-ing with Bunny.

I am blessed with good friends. I was a Thanksgivings baby and Dorothy and Freddie gifted me with this lovely silver bell many, many years ago. Like true friendships, this bell survived the fire.

And I am blessed with a mother-in-law that I would wish everyone could have. This was her mother-in-law's pitcher of which I am now the keeper.

I am blessed with a loving husband, wonderful sons, and two adorable granddaughters.

Without further ado; the table:

 

 

Cast:

Multi-fabric tablecloth - created myself - click HERE for instructions

Chargers & napkin rings - Williams Sonoma

Dinner plates - Wedgwood Windsor

Salad plates - Myott Thanksgiving

Water - Mikasa Parklane

Silver wine goblets - Spain

Silver - WMF

Salt and Pepper - Reed and Barton

Silver candlesticks - unknown

Pheasant candlesticks - Fitz & Floyd

Silver bell - Reed and Barton 

Copper tub - can't remember ;-)

Flowers - branch from our oak tree, feathers from the nephews,

mums from the grocery store

Copper candles - TJMaxx

Turkey platter - Spode

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
He chastens and hastens his will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing,
Sing praises to his name: He forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, wast at our side, All glory be thine!

We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
And pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
Amen --Traditional Thanksgiving Hymn

(A translation by Theodore Baker: 1851-1934)

I'm linking to Susan's fantastic tablescape party at Between Naps on the Porch.. please join us, I'm sure you will be most welcome!