Tablescape Thursday/Pink Saturday -- Pink Valentine's Table

This post is doing double duty today as both Tablescape Thursday and Pink Saturday.

This Sunday is Valentine's Day, a day when you should spoil your special someone (if you have someone! If not, spoil yourself.) Here's a pic of my current background on my desktop.


As an avid Goodwill shopper, I am always on the lookout for the perfect plate with which to do a tablesetting. I found some sweet plates with pink roses. They are edged in silver so I added silver chargers and a silver sugar and creamer set.

The table was set with a pink tablecloth layered over a white one. The placemats are the ones I have used again and again that I found in a vintage store.

Candlelight is always romantic, so I wanted to show the table in the dark with candles aglow.


Here is a closer view of the table setting. Forgot to add that the pink goblets are from Goodwill for less than a dollar. The plates were fifty-five cents each. The chargers were marked way down at Dollar General for about sixty-six cents. The pink heart candles were only thirty-five cents each from GW. The candlestick was less than a dollar at GW. The sugar and creamer were a dollar each from GW.


Here you can see the pink rose in detail. I thought these were just the prettiest and most romantic plates! I had never thought to use pink and silver together, but they sure do fit together...just like Valentine sweethearts!


The candles were so pretty lit...in light and dark settings...


...and even unlit.


I added my painted stand and porcelain pink rose.


Here is a close up of the wine goblet. I love the pink shades. So perfect for Valentine's Day!


Of course, a romantic dinner would not be complete without a bottle of wine. This is a bottle of Strawberry Patch dessert wine from a local winery. I've drank it before and it's very yummy.


I won't be celebrating Valentine's Day with a special someone, but do plan to create another tablescape geared toward my children who are my very heart! I'll post that next week.

To see more Tablescape Thursday posts, please join Susan at Between Naps on the Porch. For more Pink Saturday posts, please join Beverly on Saturday at How Sweet the Sound.

Happy tablescaping and enjoying all things pink! May you have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Tablescape Thursday/ Everything's Coming Up Roses!

The weekend looms! Yay! Well to tide us over until then, we have Tablescape Thursday, sponsored by Susan at Between Naps on the Porch. Visit her blog to get links to other participants' tablescapes.

This week I decided to do a rose theme. There's a story behind this.


This weekend, my 16 year old son Jared and I went to our old hometown to mow a lawn there. My son worked very hard, but when I took him to the local service station to get something to drink, he surprised me. As I was paying for gas and picking out a diet Dr. Pepper, he was buying something for me! Here is what I found when I got back to my van...an ice cream treat and a red rose! What a sweetheart my son is!


He even asked if I was going to post about this on my blog. I told him I sure was! He was happy about that, but didn't want his picture taken. I decided that it would be fun to build a tablescape around the rose.


The plate is one of my favorites that I have sitting on a shelf in my bedroom. I put it in the center because I like it so well. It is decorated with pink roses with a light green band. I just love the scalloped edging.


See how beautiful the rose looks on this plate?


The plate sits on a pink depression glass serving plate. It's in the open rose Mayfair pattern.


When I visited my brother this weekend, I asked if he had anything in the house he was wanting to get rid of. He offered me this beautiful pitcher and five matching glasses. Of course I wanted them! He said he was glad to free up the space in his cupboard. I had always thought this was such a pretty pitcher growing up. Can you believe that we used to use those glasses all the time?


I used last week's green napkins folded to hold the silverware and secured with a brooch.


If memory serves, I got the brooch at a big rummage sale for $4.


I added a few more things to the table to add interest. I've had the lamp for a couple years. It looks vintage, but was actually on $6. I got the little girl figure at an antique shop, but she isn't antique. Her skirt is actually a tassel.


She sure looked happy to be part of this tablescape!


Everything I used in today's table was something that I had on hand around the house. The pink tablecloth was a Goodwill find last year, the placemat is a lace runner that I've had for years, and the lace in the background is actually part of a lace window valance. The green depression glass sherbet cups are from last week's tablescape. They used to belong to my mother. The green plate under the pitcher is from last week's tablescape also.

As I was putting the tablescape together and taking the photographs, my neighbor was out mowing his lawn. I wonder if he thought I was a little nuts! Oh well. I had fun, lol.

I haven't forgotten about our Stella. I am waiting a few more days until I have some money on hand so that I can take her to a couple more fun places before I send her on. I'll be posting as soon as I do!

Happy Tablescape Thursday!

He's the Lily of the Valley, the bright and morning star

While sitting on my deck a couple days ago, I noticed a heavenly smell coming from the flowerbed! Lily of the Valley has the best smell!
It's been a crazy week. I was without wheels from Monday night until last night. I had to catch rides into work early, and had to stay until I could get rides home.
On Tuesday, I was at work from 9:00 a.m to 8 p.m.
Wednesday I worked from 8:00 a.m. until almost 6:00 p.m. I was pooped.

So I didn't get a blog out earlier this week. I won't say how much it cost me to get my van fixed, but lets just say that the grill I wanted to get for Memorial Day weekend isn't going to happen, and neither is the new set of mattresses for my oldest son's bed.
After all these stresses, all I have to do is sit out on that deck or look through my gardens.
Just look at all the beauty I found! I have lily of the valley growing, a bush of beautiful yellow roses, and some lovely two toned tulips.
I also have some pink flowers, and these beautiful blue flowers. I like the above picture the best!
God's creation is so beautiful. We need to take some time on stressful days to smell the roses...and the lily of the valley, and the lilacs. Breathe in the fresh air, look at the fluffy white clouds scudding along the sky, and listen to the birds sing their songs. I feel blessed.

May God bless you too!