Halloween Arrives for Lunch

WELCOME TO MY HALLOWEEN TABLE

 I've said before that I'm not much on Halloween decorating preferring the fall harvest look. In reading many blogs I find that I am not alone in the fall harvest preference but today however, in honor of Halloween I dug through the ruins of my fall decorating stash and found a couple of Halloweenish type pieces to put together a table that says "witch in residence". I have family coming over for a fun day of baking so the table is set for both Halloween and a noon time luncheon. I will edit out the table for the actual luncheon as I got a little carried away with what I placed on the table and left no room for the guests.

 I started with a Witch's hat that I purchased at a craft fair in Indiana this summer. I loved the lady's booth, filled with lots of primitive fall and Halloween decorations. I don't use many primitives anymore in decorating my home but I'm always drawn to them. This one I just had to have. It has a cute star on the top and there is a crescent cut in the tin of the hat so if you want to place a candle inside it will glow.

This sweet little blackbird was a another purchase from the MAXX.  I do love that store.

 I love these glasses, I picked the up years ago at Pier One.  I think they still carry the spider web effect in different styles of glassware now.  These just reminded me of a web you might find in the witches hut.

For the place settings I used my fall acorn dishes from TJ MAXX, purchased three or four ;years ago.  The pumpkin colored salad plate was a recent purchase at the grocery store, I love the combination together and for $1.50 each you can’t beat the deal.  Oh and the chinese lantern in the bottom of the bowl is actually from my yard.  I was so surprised a week or so ago when I was out cutting things down for winter to find one lonely branch of chinese lanterns in one area of the flower garden.  I guess I must have some traveling bird passing by last spring to thank for that.

The silverware was placed in the napkin and tied with some leftover burlap from my Autumn tablescape. click here I printed Halloween sayings on craft paper and tied that into the silverware bundles.

 

The witches shoes were my only purchased when I attended the Country Living Fair a few weeks back.  I love them and now wish I had picked up two sets.  A woman does have to have her shoe collection don’t ya know.  The picture of the witch was something I posted a few weeks ago. click here  I think she looks like she is probably a “good” witch.

A stack of  yummy pumpkin spice donuts from our local orchard click here in a cloche that just seams to be made to hold donuts.  Of course the donuts are history now but they did look cute for the picture.

  

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween.

I'm participating in Tabletop Tuesday with Marty
and
Tablescape Thursday with Susan