Tablescape Thursday

It's been over a month since I posted a tablescape! Can you believe it? I have been enjoying checking out everyone's TT posts each week, whenever I get some time. Don't want to miss those amazing table settings! Hopefully when the kids start back to school in a few weeks I can find a little more time for projects and tablescapes. I put this one together last Tuesday, fully intending to post it, but I never found the time to post it for last week's TT. Somehow I've found some time and energy to post it in time for this week, so here goes...

My inspiration for this tablescape began with the butterfly plates. They are made by Mud Pie and just happened to have four different butterfly colors. I believe I bought them for $1.99 each at TJ.

A closer view of the place setting. I finally decided to buy some bamboo flatware, but then couldn't find it for the longest time. I snapped it up as soon as I saw some--and it is the darker colored handle that I wanted! I layered the butterfly plates over my Paula Deen dot plates and Lenox Butterfly Meadow Monarch plates (I have been waiting for close to 6 months to use them but couldn't come up with the right setting!).

To keep things simple, I placed three of my green dollar tree candle plates on top of silver candlesticks. I cut some white phlox from my flower bed and placed it in a slim glass vase. Quick, simple, and pretty.

I originally didn't want flatware like this because I prefer good stainless, but for the price it was a great deal and will work with many different styles.

Here's the yellow butterfly plate. The green placemats were a Stein Mart find on clearance.

Love the blue color in this one!

Lastly, the green butterfly.What a pretty shade of green!

Here's a closer look at the Lenox plate, which acts like a charger here.I normally don't pay very much for my plates, so $7.99 was a splurge. That's still cheaper than the sale price anywhere else.

I showed you these before many months ago; they were a steal at Dillard's last spring. They incorporate the colors from the butterfly plates well.

Here's Paula's message on the bottom of the dot plate. Don't you love her, ya'll? Forgot to re-orient this photo--sorry!

Another look down the table. The glasses are crystal and were another TJ or Ross find.

A full view of the table. Click on it to enlarge the photo. Too bad I couldn't incorporate the red roses my DH brought home for me into the table (you can see a tiny bit of them in the left corner of the shot).

Hope you enjoyed this week's table. There are lots more waiting for you over at our bloggy hostess Susan's blog, so be sure to meander over there!

Happy Decorating,

Linda