A Prelude to Thanksgiving!

This week I've decided to create a tablescape and make-believe dinner for two using

all the gorgeous golds and ambers of Autumn and Thanksgiving with a

favorite cranberry accent thrown in! I think the centerpiece is stunning

and was taken off a nearby sofa table...

along with this lovely brass candlestick.

The color theme centered around this beautiful April Cornell

tablecloth I purchased at TJ Maxx.  The amber plates were a Marshall's find.

The drinking glasses were a gift from my mom which she purchased

from a current home party - sorry, the name of which I just can't remember!

At each place setting, I included a shiny gold pumpkin that I had

gotten at Michael's and included in a previous post HERE.

I added another less-shiny but glittery pumpkin on a gold

pedestal, as an addition to the centerpiece.

Tucked inside each cranberry napkin ring is a sweet-smelling gardenia blossom.

Along with some sexy lighted votives, this would clearly be a romantic dinner for two!

Don't you think?

 

The menu suggestion I have made tonight would be:

 

Bacon-Wrapped Beef Appetizer with a Horseradish-Chive Dipping Sauce

Spinach and Mushroom Pastry

Slow-Roasted Pork Roast with Cherry Sauce

Carrots Vichy

Molasses Walnut Tart

 

(Menu compiled from Southern Living Sept/Oct Issue,

Cook's Illustrated Fall Entertaining, and

Le Cordon Bleu Vegetable Practical)


This week I will be joining:
 

   

 

Thank you for visiting!

 

Fondly,

~Karen