Autumn in The Garden

I thought I would join Leigh of http://lbratina.blogspot.com/ for Thrifty Thursday. My contribution is my centerpiece below. Please visit Leigh for more interesting thrifty finds.

Lots of tables in Blogland are busy today because Susan of http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ is hosting another tablescaping event. Be sure you visit her after coming from here and check out all the fun creations out there.

It's fall and pretty soon it will be too cold to eat outdoors so I decided to do one on the deck table today. Might as well make the most of the weather. I hardly ever use this table because it is too far from the kitchen but it has a pretty view.

Do you see my vegetable garden in the background? I could not keep the fire on the candles burning because the wind was blowing.


How do you like my parrot flower?

I used my everyday dinner plates and I mixed 2 types of salad plates, this is one of them.

Here is the other. It is shaped like a flower. I layered them with smaller leaf plates.

The part of the deck where the table is sitting will be the site of the future jacuzzi.

I used a faux Japanese maple tree for my centerpiece. I bought it from Pier 1 last year after fall for $3.99. It was on clearance from over $30. That would qualify it for Thrifty Thursday, right?

My flatware has brown and cream bone handles. Do you see the droplets of rain on the knife. It was starting to drizzle while I was setting the table that's why we had to eat inside the house.

a birdie salt and pepper shaker from TJ Maxx

Bird napkin holders from Z Gallerie.

I bought the dragonfly placecard holders from Longwood Plantation shop after we toured the antebellum mansion last year.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my tablescape. Thanks to all for coming and to Susan and Leigh for being such gracious hostesses. Now let's go see the rests!