Re-Visiting My Favorite Tablescapes Over the Years

I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.  This is a special TT because this week makes Susan's 500th Tablescape Thursday since she began her blog.  Congratulations, Susan, -- that's quite a milestone!!  We're all invited to share some of our favorite tablescapes that we've created over the years, so I decided to join in.   You can click on the links provided with each group of pictures to see the full tablescape post.  There are other tablescapes in my decorating category at the top of the blog page.  Just hover over "Decorating" and click on "Tablescapes."  Thank you, Susan, for hosting Tablescape Thursday.   I'll begin with a tablescape from 2014, which I put together to participate in a challenge Cuisine Kathleen hosted on her blog and also to celebrate our wedding anniversary that May.  

  These are our wedding dishes, and the pattern is "Juliet" by Royal Doulton; it's still one of my very favorites.  I love it and haven't tired of it even after 31 years.   

   

  Later that same summer, I did a "Farewell to Summer" tablescape, using my Lenox "Butterfly Meadow" dishes.  

   

     

  In the fall of 2014, I was contacted by Lifetime Brands about hosting a giveaway for a set of their Pfaltzgraff dishes.  This was my Italian Tablescape.  I enjoyed doing this table for a number of reasons.  I thought the dishes had a pretty pattern and I liked the bright colors, which is something I don't normally choose for dishes.  I also tied this tablescape to a visit we paid to a local winery, Raffaldini Vineyards; this was truly a fun tablescape to create.  :D  

  These dishes are the "Villa Della Luna" pattern by Pfaltzgraff.  In addition to giving a set to the winner of the giveaway, Lifetime Brands gifted me with a set of these dishes for myself, along with the book, Dancing With the Moon (pictured on the right of the table).  

    It was fun to set this up in our, then, newly renovated kitchen.  I can hardly believe it's been six years since our kitchen was re-modeled.  How time flies!     

    In March of 2016, I did a St. Patrick's Day Tablescape, which remains one of my favorite tables to this day.  

   

   

   

  In July of 2016, I put together a Fourth of July Tablescape for our dining room.  I love the way this one turned out.  

   

   

   

   In August of that year, I did a Nautical Tablescape, a project I had wanted to do for several years.  This is also one of my favorites.  :)  

    

   

    

  I love doing Thanksgiving and Christmas tables, but since that's usually such a busy time of year, I haven't done them every year.  These are a few of my favorites.  

  This is our 2016 Thanksgiving Table; the dishes are Johnson Brothers "His Majesty."  

    

     In December of 2014, I did a Silver and Red Tablescape, using some silver reindeer my mom had given me the previous Christmas.      

    

  Last for today is my Christmas 2016 Tablescape, most certainly one of my very favorites.   

     I enjoyed putting together this Christmas table using blue and white dishes, rather than the traditional red and green.      

    

  I didn't realize how much fun it would be for me to look back at my previous tablescapes.  My thanks to Susan, our hostess, for suggesting this idea.  Thanks so much to all of you who stopped by to read my post!!  I hope you enjoyed looking at these tables half as much as I enjoyed putting them together.   Have a great week friends!!   Cheers,