Sunday is for Seafood Tablescape

Welcome to Sunday dinner. Yep, we are having seafood. A bit of salmon, grilled with a touch of Tangelo - yummy.

I pulled out my plates with the seashell edges, fish flatware, the trusty ferns that haven't croaked are still thriving, some candles and put this together while the grill masters were watching the salmon with an eagle eye!

I like using a charger just because it gives a nice finish to the plates. When using a tablecloth, they are almost a necessity to preserving its pristine condition. Usually when I use chargers, I can reuse a tablecloth with at most a minimal spot cleaning.

I should have taken a picture with the candles lit. But by that time, I was deep into dessert and assemblying the crepes filled with marscapone/Tuaca cream and strawberries, overwhich was drizzled a few dashes of Nutella. Trust me on this one.. YUM!!

I had picked up the seashells at CTS on one of my trips to Dallas. I'm not quite as lucky as the Tablescaper and the rest of the CTS queens, I miss those fabulous bargains they come across. But I do love these!

I have had these dishes for a decade at least. Love the shell edges.

This is my one big score! I was in Savers a long while back. And there hanging on the peg hooks were 3 packages of these bamboo looking rings. All clamped together. $1.99 for them all. I have 21 of those rings. The package said Curtain Ring. I said Napkin Ring! They sure look great with the Tommy Bahama napkins, don't they?

Both the hurricane and the wine glasses have a luscious blue tint and a delightful wrapped stem. Found at our local grocery store - sorry no markings.

The pale green salads were a great accent that picked up the green in the napkins and lived well with the ferns that were on the table. The fish flatware was a gift from my mother decades ago, from WMF.

I do love how the rattan and bamboo pieces blend together so favorably. If an element is repeated more than once, it gives purpose to using it.

Cast:

Chargers - World Market

Dinner Plates - TJ Maxx - San Marco, Made In Italy

Salad Plates - TJ Maxx

Napkings - Tommy Bahama via Stein Mart

Napkin Rings - Curtain rings from Savers

Flatware - WMF

Glasses and Hurricane - United Market Street

Seashell Votives - Christmas Tree Shop, Dallas

Ferns - alive by the grace of God

I'm joining Cuisine Kathleen for Let's Dish Wednesday evening and Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.

First Dinner... Tablescape

Don't be thinking anything silly. It's not our first dinner. Or the first one I cooked. It's the first time we have dined on this new table. Our son made it for me. You can read the background HERE.

I hadn't even started sanding the top yet. Boy is that hard! But I am loving working on it. Now to the first dinner.. It's grilled salmon with a dill/caper sauce; buttered new potatoes, steamed broccoli, a fresh lettuce salad, and Dad brought a store bought peanut butter something pie that was really worth the calories!

To play up the rustic-ness of the table.... faux-bamboo flatware, nito chargers, Shell shaped plates and an Ironwood salad bowl. 

 Those Tommy Bahama napkins came back out for this family affair. Also wrapped in a Nito napkin rings.

I love these glasses. Found them in my favorite grocery store, United Market Street. They have the most fabulous gift-ables section.

Our backyard is a bit of a mess. We reseeded where the plumbers had a field day earlier this year. I've got an extra table sitting out there now. And a few other projects are "brewing".

I love all these textures.. I hope you do, too.

Can you believe that two of these succulents are from last year? Yep, didn't drown them. The rest are new this spring. Yep, they aren't being drowned either. And I made that concrete planter. With a wee bit of help from my best friend. Quasi-Instructions HERE.

I don't have many dishes with delicate edges. I raised boys you know. One good clank and you are missing an integral piece of the edge!

The sweet one on the left is the furniture builder, grass seeder, trim remover, tree trimmer, and second in command. The sweet guy on the left puts up with us! So I let him have his bright lights as long as my Mexican stars stay!


Cast:
Nito Chargers & Napkin Rings - Pier One and World Market
Dinner plates - TJ Maxx eons ago
Salad bowls - Ironwood
Wine glasses, hurricanes - local grocery store
Water glasses - Dollar Tree
Flatware - Horchow's
Napkins - Tommy Bahama

Thank you so much for being so loyal and coming to visit. It certainly is a bright spot in my day!
Your kind comments let me know you were here. I'll be joining these weekly fun parties:
Cuisine Kathleen's  Let's Dish
Susan's Tablescape Thursday

See y'all there!