Here are the details from my Thanksgiving tablescape from last year. (You can read more about it here). Keep in mind our gathering was in the afternoon, so I wanted the mood to be casual.

The long table is actually my dinning room table, a banquet table and a card table all pushed together.

Tablecloths: Paper lined tablecloths from VanityFair (the company that makes napkins).

Table Runner: Wrapping paper roll cut in half, I purchased this wrapping paper at Homegoods. They always have a great selection of wrapping paper especially near the holidays.

Floral Vases-These glass bottles are actually recycled Tejava bottles. (The hubby and I went through a Tejava Ice Tea addiction. I save any glass container bottles or jars because I have all these ideas that I will be hosting tons of dinner parties-I can use the different bottles and jars for new tablescapes). Once the flowers where arranged in the glass bottles, I zigzagged the vases down the middle of the runner so when your eye went down the table you could see the alternating flowers.

Flowers: Yellow Roses, Red Carnations and a type of flower, whose name I do not know, that had shades of red and yellow and orange to tie everything together.

Pumpkins: I used a big pumpkin and a smaller pumpkin and spaced them in the middle of the table. These were from our little family outing to the pumpkin patch.

Table-settings: My everyday black dishes with my small square white dishes placed on top for dessert and clear drinking glasses

Place cards: Butcher paper cut into small rectangles hand written names with black marker

Chairs: I alternated my beige upholstered dinning room chairs with clear and chrome chairs from Ikea.

Casual handwritten butcher paper place cards and a wrapping paper runner

The gallery wall was made from handwritten signs on butcher paper and alternating wrapping paper cut to fit the frames.

The chalk wall: We had a wall painted in chalk paint. I wish I would have cleaned the wall a little better, but by this time I was probably worried about not burning something that I was cooking.