Fall Elves for Thanksgiving

The elves have invaded the house to

begin preparations for Thanksgiving

and fall.

I just love my fall elves and am so

glad that they want to come back 

each year for fall.

They have just hopped right onto the

dining room table to participate in

decorating the table for Thanksgiving.

I love having tables set throughout the

various holidays as part of the decor.

It just makes the house festive, no matter

what holiday is coming up.

This table was also inspired by these

new burlap placemats from Home Goods this

year.  I love their rustic yet elegant appeal.

They work perfectly with the rustic, yet

elegant table and the gold flatware.

The table is set with gold and and white.

These gold rimmed china plates are 

ones I bought years and years ago and

are my only real china plates.  I still love

their elegant rims.

I stacked them with gold beaded salad

plates and gold and white chevron snack plates.

Extra Thanksgiving plates are added

to the sides of the setting.

Rather than use gold rimmed goblets,

I decided to use my bubble goblets

to go with the rustic quality.

Whitewashed candlesticks are topped with

pumpkin candles and gold candles.

More fun pumpkins and pumpkin candles

add to the center of the table.

This is one of my favorite pumpkins.  I love

the stem and the details on the top with

the soft orange mercury color.

We have so, so much to be thankful for.

The family is coming this Sunday for 

a Thanksgiving Dinner as we usually go

down south for Thanksgiving Day and

not everyone can come.  

Food assignments have been made and we

will get the holidays started this Sunday.  

Can't Wait!!!

Thanks for stopping by.  It is always so busy from

the beginning of school to after New Year's - 

it seems to just fly!  I appreciate you taking time

to visit.

I will be posting with

Tablescapes Thursday

Have a Daily Cup

Dishing It and Digging It

Woodland Elf Table

This Woodland Elf Tablescape originates

from my former Christmas tree decor and the grapevine wreaths

that I mentioned I made in my last post.

I decided to change my tree which I have had for at least

ten years and as I stripped off the elves, the florals

and the mossy limbs, I just couldn't dispose of

them so I bagged them up and now I am 

featuring them on this table.

I just love using the new grapevine wreaths as a base for 

a layering of purple and green plates.  The tree was decorated

in jewel tones.

and it was filled with elves, frogs, birds, humming birds and

all kinds of nature inspired decor.

You know how we love elves and fairies at

Purple Chocolat Home and so the 

pre-decorated tree was perfect for us.

It brought many years of pleasure, but my

niece informed me that it was time for it to go - 

that it was looking a bit shabby!

I needed to wear gloves to undecorate the tree.  We would

always just put it away decorated which saved so much

time, but with all of the years of handling, I had to agree,

it was looking tired.

There were lots of these acorn elves so I put one

on each placesetting.

The tree was filled with beautiful florals.  I am sure

that the florals will be reused a lot.  These little guys

that I used for napkin rings were wired all over the tree.

A quick wrap around the napkin and they make a perfect

napkin ring.

I just love these little guys.  There is no way I could 

give them away.

I used my sage green flatware again. 

 It is amazing how often I use them for tables.

The tree was filled with these mossy branches and moss balls. Just

past the gnarled moss branches you can see my beautiful 

amethyst goblets.

This is the first time I have used these beautiful glasses.

My sister Jean gave me these.  They are 

Amethyst Kings Crown Thumbprint goblets.

For Christmas Eve my aunt would always have us over and the

adult table got the pleasure of drinking out of her Ruby Kings Crown

Thumbprint glasses.  Of course none of us girls inherited them so I found some

on ebay and bought some for Jean and Joni. (Aunt Ionia was a single lady

her whole life.)  Jean returned the

favor by finding these gorgeous amethyst ones and giving them

to me!  

The color is so light and delicate.  I just adore them.

These guys are really rustic - a little more rustic than most of

my decor, but they are really fun.

This one is unusual as his face is cloth.  I love his velvet frog.

There were at least 30 woodland elves on the tree.

I always love to hang things from my chandeliers for Christmas

so this one has elves in purples and burgundies with

hanging ornaments.

It is such an easy way to decorate and dress up the house.

Earthy - yet elegant!

Hope you enjoyed this visit to Purple Chocolat Home and 

see how I recycled my tree decor and used my grapevine wreaths.  I 

am sure to use them over and over again.

I will be showing you my newly decorated tree next week.

I will be posting this with

Let's Dish

Tablescape Thursday

Feathered Nest Friday

Seasonal Sunday

Sources

Goblets - Gift

Napkins - Home Goods

Plates - Home Goods

Flatware - Tuesday Morning

Tree ornaments and elves - Modern Display

Wreaths - Homemade

Placemats - Wal Mart

Purple glass plates - Spiegel Catalog (years ago)