Thanksgiving with Feathered Friends

Good morning dear friends and sweet readers!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful fall season. Our fall here in Calgary has generally been a very mild one with the exception of last week which was cold and wintry. The mild weather had lulled me into a false sense of security as far as Old Man Winter goes, and I found myself scrambling to get all the outside chores done before our first snow, which has since come and gone (thankfully). We are now into milder weather again so I can finish the rest of the outside chores lol.

Canadian Thanksgiving was several weeks ago and my oldest son and DIL decided they wanted to host this year. They put on a fabulous dinner, but I didn’t get a chance to set a Thanksgiving table here. So I am delighted today to be joining 13 other talented ladies in a blog hop hosted by Rita from Panoply to celebrate U.S. Thanksgiving. As always, thank you Rita! The links to all the other ladies’ posts can be found at the bottom of this post.

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For this tablescape, I’m going to begin with the plate stack. The dinner plates are a collection from Pottery Barn known as Botanical Harvest which first came in around 2017 or 2018 and has been variably in stock since then. I can’t remember which year I brought these, but the dinner plates features four of our feathered friends. (My photos don’t really do them justice as parts of the feathers are gold embossed and I just couldn’t capture it.) There is a quail:

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A duck:

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A pheasant:

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And of course, a turkey: I’ve set them on some whitewashed wooden charger plates.

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Jumping ahead to the center of the table, I started with a paisley runner in rust, brick, ivory, and blue colors, to name a few. To this I added a whitewashed doughbowl filled with a feather nest for Mr. Pheasant. He was a clearance item found at HomeSense recently, and he is surrounded by fall leaves and berries.

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Jumping back to the place settings, the napkins match the runner, but no matter which napkin ring I tried, it got lost in the pattern. I also wanted some pattern separation between the runner and the napkins, and didn’t want to cover an pattern on the dinner plates, leaving me wit not a lot of options. I tried various configurations, and ended up with double napkins and folded the edge of ivory napkins over top of the paisley napkins.

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Bronze twig flatware is a fall favorite and I simply laid the dinner and salad forks on the napkins I know I don’t need a salad fork since I have no salad plates, but I like the symmetry of two utensils on each side of the plates. Besides, salad forks can also be used for dessert – we’re ready for pumpkin pie!

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Stemware was crystal goblets for water and stemless crackled champagne glasses for some Prosecco. The clear stemware coordinated the best from what I had on hand. I have to say that the strong pattern of the runner and napkins definitely dictated some more conservative/neutral choices for other elements of the table.

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I think this is one centerpiece I would take off the table before dining lest we end up with feathers in our mashed potatoes and gravy…

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A view from above:

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Resources:

HomeSense: Mr. Pheasant, water glasses.

Pier 1: Crackled champgane glasses, wooden chargers, twig flatware, all many years ago.

Pottery Barn: Botanical Harvest dishware. The table runner and napkins (Jacqueline Paisley) were an eBay find several years ago but were originally from Pottery Barn as well.

Dollarstore: Leaf and berry stems several years ago, I think.

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I forgot to mention that I added some leaf fairy lights in the centerpiece. A few more shots as the sun started to go down.

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Thank you for visiting and wishing everyone a blessed and bountiful Thanksgiving! Please check out my fellow tablescapers’ links below for more wonderful Thanksgiving inspiration.

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Panoply – A Thanksgiving Table of Endless Harvest Blooms

Everyday Living – A Bounty of Blessings

Life and Linda – A Ralph Lauren Thanksgiving

Me and My Captain – Thanksgiving!…”As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”.

Hyacinths for the Soul – Abundance ~ Thanksgiving Tablescape Hop

The Cat’s Whiskerz – Thanksgiving with Feathered Friends

Mantel and Table – Friendsgiving After Dark: A Beautiful Fall Table

My Thrift Store Addiction – Friendly Village Vintage Thanksgiving Breakfast Table

The Little Yellow Corner Store – The Fall Harvest Tablescape for Thanksgiving

Olla Podrida – A Colorful Thanksgiving Table for Two

Corner of Plaid and Paisley – A Bundle of Thanksgiving Tablescape

Thrifting Wonderland – Thanksgiving with the Birds Thrifted Tablescape

Dinner at Eight – Styling a Simply Classic Thanksgiving Table

The Bookish Dilettante – Giving Thanks Tablescape

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