What Inspires a Tablescape?

Thanks to Susan for hosting the Tablescape Tuesday. This is my first time to participate.

I should really ask what does not inspire a tablescape!

Everything inspires me...

A child's story book

turned into this poultry-lovers table which was used for a fried chicken dinner.
DH brought me a bright bouquet of supermarket flowers after five months of a Michigan winter. When I noticed that they looked great with a piece of fabric I had recently purchased

this colorful Easter table was born.



A piece of wild animal-like fabric Inspired this peach lustre table, which, I must say, is one of my all-time favorites.


Here's an end-of-summer bouquet from my garden and a 1950's tablecloth with some of my veggie salt/pepper shaker collection in the center of each plate.

A cobalt blue bottle of wine on a hot summer day



inspired me to set a little deck table and dine alfresco on a night I was home alone.

Another hunk of fabric and a 1970's amber glass

inspired me to use this huge green duck that usually resides on top of my family room entertainment center. He was a perfect match to the forest green salad plates.





A pink Christmas tree cried out for these pink & green candy-cane napkins.




A quilt with hearts

was perfect when I needed a Valentine's table


My first bouquet of sunflowers from my own garden


A sunflower/scarecrow tree used during a Thanksgiving season


Sometimes I don't even know what inspired a table. I just start grabbing items and eventually I have a unique table setting.
It's really just so much fun to express your creativity through your tabletop!