A Fresh Blue and Pink Tablescape For a Beautiful Spring

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Welcome to the Blue and Pink Tablescape! It’s part of the Spring Tablescape Blog Hop hosted by Rita from Panoply, featuring 16 different spring tablescapes. That’s a whole lot of inspiration all in one place!

My offering for our hop is this blue and pink tablescape. I’ve been continuing my little love affair with blue – specifically this lovely pattern in the tablecloth – for quite a few weeks now, and I don’t see any sign of it slowing down anytime soon!

Pink Spring Flowers for the Blue and Pink Tablescape

One of the first things to bloom in our Pacific Northwest yard is the pink camellia bush. It’s really more like a tree – this thing is huge! I first see the soft pink blossoms appear on the house-side of the bush, just where I can see them out my office window.

And within a few days, the bush is packed full! I got this whole pile of them just standing in one place and clipping for less than 5 minutes!

Metal basket full of pink camellia branches

They say “Spring is Coming” more than almost any other flower to me! So I decided they’d be perfect for the Spring Tablescape hop table.

I made a simple garland of them, just by laying them in a line down the middle of the table. (Most flowers will last several hours out of water, so just enough time for a dinner party. But if you want to keep your garland loger, you can get little clear water tubes to put each stem in.)

Closeup of pink camellia garland centerpiece

Just to make it more interesting, and because I love candlelight in almost any situation, I added some silver candlesticks to the centerpiece too.

Closeup of a fresh camellia garland centerpiece in a Blue and pink tablescape

Closeup of vintage silver candlesticks with pink camellia branches in a blue and pink tablescape

The Foundation of the Blue and Pink Tablescape

The foundation for our blue and pink tablescape is, of course, this gorgeous blue tablecloth. It’s from Williams Sonoma in the Bluebell pattern designed by Morris & Co. I just love it, and maybe surprisingly, it goes with so many different styles of tablescape.

Closeup of Bluebell tablecloth in a formal table setting

For instance, I used it here A Vibrant Blue Tablescape for Beautiful Valentine Romance for a totally different look.

The Place Setting

The place setting itself is so pretty! We’ve been serving from the kitchen so much more often these days, so I end up not putting the plates on the table. The downside to that of course, is that I don’t get to show off my beautiful china as much before dinner.

But the upside is that I get to show off my beautiful chargers more! These vintage looking silver chargers are not only one of my favorite pieces, but they’re one of Mantel and Table readers’ favorites too! People always ask me where I got them, so of course, they’re linked in the Boutique below.

Besides being beautiful, they’re really light weight and so easy to clean. And they set off the napkins in a lovely way!

Which brings us to the napkins. These are April Cornell’s La Vie En Rose, but unfortunately, they don’t make them any more. You can very occasionally find them on Etsy or another online shop, but if not, I’ve linked a similar style below. Anything pink and floral would give you this same look.

The napkin rings are ones I’ve used many times before, beacuse they’re so pretty and so fun! They’re re-purposed spoon handles!

Closeup of a decorated silver charger plate and floral napkin in a table setting

The Rest of the Blue and Pink Tablescape

Then of course, we have the flatware and glassware. These are also pieces that I use really often. (I was going to say all the time, but I sometimes do break out and use something different. Not very often, but sometimes!)

The water glasses are lovely cut crystal (which you can use for highballs too, if you drink those,) and some of the wine glasses are the Riedel Bordeaux shape that are my favorites.

Closeup of water and wine glasses on a set table

On this table, I acutally set two different wine glass types – they have different shapes, which do actually change the way the wine smells and tastes. (There’s science behind this, but I still wasn’t convinced until I did some blind taste tests. It’s really fascinating!)

I often set one Bordeaux and one Pinot shaped glass for each couple, so we can see what happens in the different glasses. Pretty fun, and also pretty on the table!

The flatware is the pattern my mom put in my hopechest when I was 15, and I’ve been adding to it ever since.

Closeup of Silver forks in a table setting

The Final Touch

I always think it’s so nice to bring a little touch of the table into the rest of the room, if you can. Since there was no shortage of beautiful pink camellias, I put another bunch into a blue vase on the buffet where we could see it during dinner.

Plus, I just love a reflection of the table in the buffet mirror! (Even if it is totally fuzzy!)

Pink camellias in a blue vase with mirror reflecting a tablescape

And that pretty much wraps it up with this springtime blue and pink tablescape! Here’s an overhead shot to give us the whole view!

Thanks so much for sharing it with me! And be sure to visit the rest of the beautiful tables on the hop after the Boutique and Pin sections!

Barbara’s Boutique

Click on the pictures of the pieces I used in this post. If the exact item isn’t available any more, I chose a similar option.

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