Friday, September 17, 2010

Fall tablescape for around 10 bucks



I hosted a dinner party (mommy night) for my friends tonight & did this little fall tablescape. Let me just start off with a little disclaimer...first, this 'looked' better in my head than it turned out in reality. Second, I got the supplies and even did a trial run on our dining table which is a small square shape. Well, I made a sort of last minute decision to put one of the leaves in the table to make it bigger (even though there was only going to be 4 of us) so that we would have plenty of room & not feel cramped. Well, once I got everything on the 'bigger' table, I noticed the scale was a little off & the candlesticks/candles looked a little small for the table. Of course, I wasn't going to go buy all new stuff, so I just left it but I was sad that my table didn't look as good as I hoped. :( Anyway, its perfect for a small table, though. And I got most of the stuff from the Dollar Tree (love that place!) I already had the fall dishes and cloth napkins, but I bought the faux leaves (3 packs), candlesticks & candles at the dollar tree and the little pumpkins were 2/$1 at the grocery store.


I wanted to 'dress up' my plain old dollar candles, so I used a little raffia and some faux leaves to give them a little fall touch :)
Is this not the cutest little white pumpkin you have even seen? I love the twisty little vine :)
My table might not have been what I wanted, but my party went great and I had a blast with my friends! I made a yummy, easy taco soup. I think I am going to post the recipe since it is a wonderful fall dish and did I mention it was easy?

Linking up to this awesome party!

12 comments:

  1. I thought your table and home looked great and very festive :)

    I swear we need to go shopping together so I can start decorating my house... I suck unless it's Christmas LOL

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  2. so so pretty. It all looks wonderful.
    ~Tana

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  3. I think it looks great - no disclaimers needed!

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  4. Your tablescape came out just gorgeous! Lovely details. We all love The Dollar Tree, don't we? ;o) Thanks so much for sharing.

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  5. I think the table decorations turned out great:)

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  6. Very lovely and now I want taco soup! It is the perfect fall food! Thanks for joining the party~happy weekend!

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  7. Isnt it amazing what we can do with Dollar Tree goodies? Love that place! and I love your tablescape! Great job!

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  8. Thank you guys! Yes Jen, Dollar Tree is filled with 'treasures!' What would we do without it? :)

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  9. What a warm and inviting autumn table! It looks fantastic. The little white pumpkins are such a great (and easy) thing to do, but they add alot to the table.

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