How to Make 8 Unusual Place Settings For A Fantasy Tablescape

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As I mentioned in my previous post, our boutique flower shop, Fly Me To The Moon Florists, has set up a mini shop in the new Republic of Couture store at Ridge Hill in Yonkers. You can read more about that here.

Anyway, we created the above tablescape for a special event they were hosting. I promised that I would share individual pictures of the flowers we created for it.

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The theme of our fantasy tablescape was, "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?"

We created individual place settings for various "personalities" both fictional and real. Most of the items we already had or purchased from a thrift shop. I created a different floral arrangement for each one.

Here are the 8 place settings my sister,Susan and I created.I hope they inspire you to make something fanciful for your next event.                  

 

8 Unusual Place Settings   

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1.  Usain Bolt  -  Olympic gold medalist in track and field. We used gold chargers, a green glass plate under a matching green and yellow leaf to accentuate the color theme. We attached bolts to the flatware and spray painted them gold.  A grey "loving cup looking" bowl was also spray painted to hold the flower arrangement.Yellow roses, yarrow, and green trick carnations were some of the flowers used for the "appetizer". An emerald green glass topped off the look.

 

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 2. Audrey Hepburn -  Actress We used "Breakfast At Tiffany's" as the inspiration for this place seting. Tiffany box colored bowl and charger held golden pompoms which mimicked the look of cornflakes. We added bling to the sppon, poured pearls into her creamer, a vintage deviled egg plate and napkin pulled this elegant look together.

 

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 3. Jackie Chan  - Actor, singer acrobat and martial artist A brilliant copper and red plate, purple cloth napkin and miniature black vase holding a single green cymbidium orchid was the centerpiece of this place setting. A ceramic green dog held a pair of copper chopsticks made to look like nunchuks. 

 

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 4. The Invisible Man - Clearly from the movie of the same name. Transparent glass dishes, flatware and a mirrored placemat highlight this see-through place setting. it's plain to see that a simple croton leaf topped with a green succulent and cymbidium orchid complete this look clearly.

 

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 5. Leonardo Da Vinci - Painter, scientist and inventor who loved puzzles and secret codes. A rough-hewn napkin, tin plate, and chalice sat amongst his artifacts - a notebook,a mysterious blue stone and a drawing of a hand finished the look. The planned rustic steak knife wasn't used.

 

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6. Ella Fitzgerald -Jazz singer  I filled this lady-like leopard handbag with a colorful victorian flower arrangement. It's resting on a purple glass plate atop a golden charger. Bakelite style flatware with an ivory napkin topped with a golden embellishment and an antique lace runner are perfect for this First Lady of Jazz.

 

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 7. Amy Winehouse - Singer  Her place setting was a curious mix of edgy with a nod to a 60's sensibility. Her placemat was made of two old records. One was cut into quarters to create the four corners of the placemat. Her flatware was wrapped in barbed wire a top a zebra cloth napkin.  A dusty pink dinner plate held an old-school corsage of calla lilies, heather, thistle and mini-carnations.

 

 

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8. Bruce Wayne (Batman) - Sleek and dark objects were chosen for this place setting. A black plate was placed on a chrome charge that was lit underneath with LED lights.  A grey tweed menswear napkin accompanied the black"leather" handled  flatware made from electrical tape. An elegant black glass goblet with a matching cube vase full of salmon roses made this manly place setting just right.

 

Hope you enjoyed these unusual place settings. We could have used more items that had a stronger link to each guest, but we really wanted the table to be elegant and wanted people to have to ponder a bit..

In many instances, the pictures don't do the settings justice. But what's a girl to do, but try harder the next time.

Which one did you like best?

 

Mimi

 

 

Comments

[オンラインカジノ 評価]

Keep up the excellent work fellow blogger, your difficult work is definitly going to pay off.

[Mimi]

Thanks for your encouraging words. It is hard work, but I love every heavy buckets of water. LOL