Hello sweet friends. It is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is a little over two weeks away! Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday because it redirects our focus from daily clutter, daily challenges, daily distractions, and daily busy-ness…to remembering that everyday living, Jesus understands. And, that is a fact I am truly grateful for!
I dug into the archives to bring you ideas and inspiration for your Thanksgiving tables. No matter the number of beautiful faces that will surround your table, whether two or twenty, why not make your tablescape pretty and inviting?
“I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.”
Psalm 69:30
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A harvest table is a wonderful way to celebrate Thanksgiving!
A table runner of natural elements is easy to assemble, anyone can do this by gathering autumn fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Think outside the box what you might forage from your garden, yard, or woods.
Wicker chargers add more texture and complement the vintage Johnson Brothers “Harvest Time” dishware.
Since my beloved Mother passed away, we have hosted Thanksgiving at our home. She was the best Southern cook, and her dressing is famous among our relatives and friends.
Tip: A stack of leaf plates with a pumpkin on top is a simple addition to your tabletop. You don’t have to have special plates, just stack white salad plates with a small orange pumpkin.
You will most often see the same dishes in my tablescapes, but used in a different way…a different charger, tablecloth, napkin, etc. Mix it up, that is what makes tablescaping fun!
This table was set on the patio with a view of the autumn garden. There have been many Thanksgivings that were warm enough to eat outside!
Will you be home for Thanksgiving this year or be traveling out of town? I never remember celebrating Thanksgiving anywhere but my parents’ home or ours.
A trio of velvet pumpkins that were placed in an Italian tray were used as the centerpiece on this scaled-down tablescape.
Gold chargers, gold rimmed dinner plates, and gold flatware add an elegant look to the table! Pumpkin napkin rings hold vintage napkins.
I found the exquisite silk table runner years ago on a trip to the Greek Isles. The needlework artistry is so beautiful!
Why not a blue and white Thanksgiving tablescape with a touch of pumpkin?
Tip: Use an heirloom pumpkin and surround it with a cotton boll wreath or a grapevine one for a lovely but easy centerpiece!
How many remember my red dining room? I miss it during the Christmas season!
Feathers, flowers, and pumpkins for this tablescape!
What a nice gift to give your guests a bouquet of take away flowers! They don’t have to be elaborate…just a few mums in a small mason jar.
My favorite Spode “woodland” dinner plates are most often seen on autumn tables resting atop feather placemats. The dinner plates and placemats are almost twenty years old, but they always make several appearances during the autumn season.
I so hope you saw an idea that you might incorporate on your Thanksgiving table or feel inspired to pull out your dishes and set a welcoming table. Thank you for your visits and gracious comments. Wishing you a lovely week!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Thank you for the beautiful round and harvest of table inspiration Pam! I love the new cool color of your dining walls but agree the red was the perfect backdrop for Christmas. Happy Tuesday ♥
Good morning Mary. Happy Tuesday to you as well!
Your decorations are absolutely beautiful and laid out like a artist painting. Love your table layout. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much Linda. Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Good Morning Pam! Each and every table is full of love and inspiration . Thank you for such a lovely round up of Thanksgiving ideas. It will be here before we know it.
Happy Tuesday!
Good morning, Nancy. Have a wonderful day!
Good morning Pam! So many beautiful tables, it is impossible to choose! I do love blue&white combined with pumpkin. This is the time of year I start pulling out my recipe box where my mother wrote down all her Thanksgiving recipes for me…that box full of cards is a precious treasure for me.
Roxanne, what a blessing to have that precious treasure from you mother. Have a lovely Tuesday!
This table is lovely. I always love to see your beautiful tablescapes and am sure that they bring pleasure to you and to all of those who grace your table.
We are quarantined currently as my sweetie was tested and found to be with covid. It’s impossible to think we are safe from this pandemic .only God in His infinite wisdom knows the outcome. Our prayers are for all people everywhere to turn to God and asked for His help to get through this. Remembering where we celebrated past Thanksgivings brought back the memory of going to my grandmothers home. We sang “Over The River and Through the Woods” as we made the 10 mile trip. Her home was small but her heart was big. And there was always room for one more.
Alice, is your husband still doing ok with the virus? Praying for both of you. Thanks for sharing about your grandmother’s big heart, sounds just like my Mama!
He is doing very well. I had another test Monday and it was positive for covid. I am doing well and feeling well so far but we understand the virus can come on slowly and progress.
Oh Alice, I am so sorry to read that you tested positive. Praying for both of you and sending my love. Please keep me posted.🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pam, what inspiration from your beautiful tables. They are all so beautifully done. Blessings to you and your family during this season of Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving season and thank you Dianne!
Good morning, Pam. All your tablescapes are beautiful. It is too hard to select a favorite. Thanksgiving will probably be different for so many of us this year. But the special day never fails to remind us of what is truly important. I know your day will be lovely. Happy day, sweet friend.🧡
Thanks so much, Sandra. Our Thanksgiving is scaled down as far as family members. It is certainly hard not to have everyone together. Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving season, sweet friend 🧡
So much beauty here! I LOVE the natural elements runner and the pumpkin with the cotton wrapped around it. I always leave here feeling inspired and comforted. Thank you, sweet friend!
Thank you dear Cheryl. Wishing you a wonderful season of Thanksgiving!
Lovely, Pam, so nice to be able to set a table outside in the fall. We have spent Thanksgiving day by ourselves for years now, and it is fun to watch the parades in our pjs, have a nice breakfast, then a special meal later in the day. I will miss our annual Saturday event with our friends this year. But with luck, we will be able to go back to normal next year.
Your Thanksgiving sounds nice and peaceful. Enjoy this season, Carole!
I always love revisiting your beautiful tables Pam! I am a firm believer that Thanksgiving should be celebrated at home, if not in your own, then the home of a family member or special friend…one year I remember having Thanksgiving at a restaurant in Carmel CA with my parents, it was awful!! The restaurant was lovely and scenic and cozy, but it wasn’t mom’s turkey and all the special foods and memories were missing, we all hated it! Our celebrations have changed over the years, but no matter where we are, there is always good home cooked food and a pretty table! I know you are looking forward to filling your beautiful dining room with family and food!
Jenna
Jenna, home-cooked food and a pretty table with family all around is perfect!
Fabulous tablescapes…I am thankful for your virtual friendship!Thanks for sharing such inspiration!
How sweet you are Maristella. I am thankful for our friendship, sweet lady!
Good morning, Pam! I agree wholeheartedly with your opening paragraph. You have shared so many gorgeous ideas with us for our Thanksgiving table. I especially love the beautiful natural table runner. Dear friend, may your holiday season be filled with peace and blessings.
Thank you Shannon. Wishing you a beautiful Thanksgiving season sweet friend!
Pam, A beautiful Thanksgiving roundup! Your stemware is always so colorful and dainty. Your runner from Greece is gorgeous! This was another enjoyable post to read. Please give your sweet Daddy a hug from us and thank him for his service tommorow since he is a veteran. Enjoy your afternoon! Clara❤️
Thank you Clara for remembering my Daddy and I will pass along your thanks and hugs! Wishing you a food evening ♥️
I recall the “harvest runner” being one of your most appealing and colorful settings ever… what a wonderful example to model
for Thanksgiving. And why not? you have simplified it for us, bless you. Reaching out to all in prayer during this COVID time
and asking protective energies and His healing mercies upon us. Much gratitude to your dear Dad for his example and service to our Nation. Just love that cotton boll wreath; where can one obtain one?
Thank you Mary and I will pass along your gratitude to my Daddy. I bought the cotton boll wreath locally. I will check to see if they have any more.
What a collection of beauty, Pam. They’re all so lovely. I envy you your outdoor table. We’ll be on our own this year, which isn’t all that unusual for us, though usually it is with friends. I will be watching our weather. I’d like to try to pull off a Thanksgiving driveway happy hour just to toast to our (so far) good health and well being with two other couples. Outside, masks, apart. Not as good at sitting together at the table, but maybe good enough. Now I’m getting ideas from your post for an outside centerpiece!
Thank you Jeanie, I so hope you can have a driveway celebration with your friends. That would be fun!
One is prettier than the next! I am a nut for dried hydrangeas. Have a great week.
Thanks so much Katie! Wishing you a great week!
I love dried hydrangeas! All of your ideas are so pretty! It’s hard to choose a favorite! And I absolutely love the woodland dinner plates.
Thanks so much Michelle. Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving season!
Wonderful inspirations! Love it all Pam. We always have Thanksgiving dinner at my FIL home so I never host at my home. But I sure have enjoyed my Fall setting this season, I am already thinking about Christmas tablescape! LOL! Oh my! You always inspire me so. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
It is hard not to think about Christmas settings. Thank you Cindy!
Pam thank you so much for sharing your beautiful and inspiring post.
HAPPY ,BLESSED THANKSGIVING
Marilyn ,Joan and Marion
Thank you Marion, Joan, and Marilyn! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Wow, this week has flown and I have forgotten so many things!
I could spend a long time looking back over this post. You have a special gift for tablescaping and encouragement.
I like to cherish November and Thanksgiving. Your round up was fun and always sparks ideas. Of course, I have more ideas than energy and time!
What a fun table scape & such a delightful backdrop!
Blessings sweet friend,
Jennifer
Thanks Jennifer, I am so glad you enjoyed!
Pam, oh my goodness. What a lovely cornucopia of fall and Thanksgiving tables! It would be hard to pick a favorite, but I love love the natural runner – its beautiful. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful creativity!
Oh, the beauty of fruit, gourds, flowers, pumpkins, fine tableware. I’m relishing my time at your table this evening, Pam!
Pam, loved this round up! Needed the inspiration and tiny push to get mine ready. Have a wonderful weekend!
Pam, thanks for sharing such lovely ideas. I don’t yet know how we are going to handle Thanksgiving this year. But hope and gratitude will be on the menu!
Pam, your settings are beautiful. As you know, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but it will be very different this year. Our 65 family members will not be coming to celebrate with us in Raleigh due to COVID. This will be only one of three years that our family has not gathered with us, most years in Raleigh, in thirty-six years. Our current plan is that Mike, MoMo, Drew and I will go to Tara’s, assuming we all stay healthy enough to do so. I will be taking enough turkey plates for our celebration there! Uncle Barry has had a recent serious health diagnosis, and we are not sure at this point if he will be be able to or want to travel, and if not, if we stay behind to be with him. Just like the rest of this time, there is so much unknown. I am trying to be content in the present and not worry about even the next day. Staying healthy and content is my focus. I hope that all of you stay safe, and have a wonderful holiday.
Such N abundance of beauty.your table are gorgeous and so inspiring to so many. Love the dried hydrangeas. Your gardens are heavenly. Thanks Pam for always sharing your lovely tables at Love Your Creativity.
Thank you Linda. Always a pleasure to share!
You always have such wonderful ideas. This year more than ever I need to set a lovely Thanksgiving table–thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks so much for joining the Grace at Home party at Imparting Grace. I’m featuring you this week!
Thank you Richella, I always look forward to the Grace at Home Party!
I love this roundup of gorgeous Thanksgiving table settings! Thank you so much for sharing it with us at Farmhouse Friday!
My pleasure, thank you Michelle!