It’s Thanksgiving weekend, our favourite Holiday. The weather is a little cooler, the warm autumn sunlight is coming through the windows, the roast is sizzling away in the oven, and the house smells like all the delicious food we will be eating. It has been a long time since I have spent the whole weekend at my parents’ place but this weekend, I have been over making not one but two Thanksgiving dinners with Mom. Why two? Because we couldn’t decide between prime rib and turkey, so we didn’t.
Last year it felt like we were scrambling to make Thanksgivings happen. This year it has been really relaxed. On Saturday we roasted our Turkey, made the mashed potatoes and dressing. Sunday, we made apple crisp, roasted sweet potatoes, the prime rib and Yorkshire pudding. Then today we will be having the turkey and dressing, and we won’t have to make anything except for the gravy. It’s a lot of work but making it together and over the course of three days is a lot easier.
With the food all sorted we just needed to figure out what we were doing for our table setting. Luckily Mom knew exactly what she wanted to base our setting around, a set of vintage Mikasa dinner plates. The autumnal colours in these plates were the perfect starting point for our setting this year.
We paired the dinnerware with a rust tablecloth and our horn cutlery we have used once before back in 2020 for Thanksgiving, the year before we started blogging. The table napkins we used are one of our favorite’s. A fantastic set designed by Vera Neumann, a popular textile artist who started her business in the 1940’s and peaked in the 70’s. She was very successful and designed textiles for scarves, apparel, home linens, dishes, wallpaper, and umbrellas. Her career was fascinating, and we highly recommend that you look up her other works, she really was a phenomenal artist.
We chose studio pottery for our water and wine glasses and kept the clay theme going with a set of triangular votives, made by Pike Designs, an Alberta pottery studio. For the vase we chose a West German jug and finished it off with a candle holder also made in West Germany. All the pottery worked well with the striking designs of the dinnerware and table napkins allowing them to shine.
Mom and I enjoyed putting together this earthy table setting for this years Thanksgiving dinner. We hope you enjoy this table setting as much as we do, and that you were able to have a wonderful Thanksgiving long weekend!
