TABLESCAPE THURSDAY Something Different

I've come across this totally stunning dining room

in an old townhome in New Orleans. 

I've been in one long ago which had the skylight, exactly like this one - only it retracted!  Seeing this beautiful, but empty space, made me long to decorate it with beautiful flowers, china, crystal & silver as if it were my own. 

and because Joni at Cote de Texas wrote about hanging fixtures today it made it even more wonderful,

so, if you will please indulge my fantasy....

imagine the full length floor-to-ceiling window to the right, which most certainly overlook the beautiful patio area filled with lush green tropical plants, and possibly a splashing water fountain mounted on the opposing brick wall

Then, imagine many of these beautiful containers on the table 

mixed with these beautiful candles & curly willow

and the chairs slip-covered in gray/silver shimmering silk

I love the lucite ones, but not for tonight's dinner...I think

we need a more intimate & cozy look...because it's an evening

dinner party...

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so, maybe this Arte Italica Charger

which I happen to own in beautiful inlaid silver

I dreamed of these so much that my husband's daughter & son

gave 8 of them to me for Christmas many years ago.

with this beautiful Versace Arabesque Dinner Plate

& the William Yeoward Avington Magenta Salad Plate

the magenta plate will fit exactly inside the gold border of the Versace

                                                                                          

&, of course we needed crystal, so I've chosen these

Varga Art Crystal Raspberry Red Wine

 & William Yeoward "Orleans" Water Goblet

THEN, I realized we would need a big canvas for the left wall

and I just knew it had to be this one:

All of you should be completely amazed I would NOT decorate my own table today...but

please understand what I've been doing instead.  My daughter (who's a spa developer) is

working in another city on a huge project and MOM has been trying to keep her 4 dogs and

sell her house at the same time.  We just accomplished this on Sunday!!

So, now all I have to do is get her huge house packed up and shipped off, along with

her husband and the dogs.

so we shall all celebrate with a lovely champagne served off a silver tray

in various vintage crystal stems

and the hostess wore this nice little New Orleans-appropriate Oscar de la Renta gown

Splenderosa's Tourmaline Earrings

Thank you for allowing me to join all of you talented ladies in this adventure each week, it's so much fun seeing what everyone can come up with each week.  I promise next week when we pack up my daughter, I'll find my own crystal, china & silver and do something special for all of us.  And, I'll be looking forward to doing so.

And be sure to visit Susan at Between Naps on the Porch

http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

who started this Thursday event

Thank you for stopping by.....

just me, Marsha