Autumn
Every new season for me includes pulling and rotating some of my collections. I wanted to use this beautiful harvest garland as a centerpiece on the dining room table.
This colorful dried garland is perfect for using during the autumn season. The garland was gifted to me by my sweet sister. The botanicals included in the garland are blue lavender, Mexican sage, achillea, golden yarrow and orange safflowers. Herbs include marjoram, thyme sage, bayleaves and pepper berries. The scent is heavenly, I wish you could smell the herbs!
I decided to add a few fresh flowers and plants to the centerpiece, a vase of flowers with similar colors and small terra-cotta potted flowering plants.
Baby boos and a few faux flowers round out the centerpiece with a few other Quimper pieces.
My favorite Quimper faience border is used on these decorative plates,
Ajonc and Bruyere (also know as gorse and heather).
These flowering plants are native to the British Isles and Western Europe. Some plates have one figure, a bretonne (woman) or a man (breton) and some have a couple. I’ve enjoyed collecting these plates over the years.
My favorite piece, this platter with a musician, I found displayed on a hutch at the Quimper boutique in Paris. I am sad to say this shop is no longer there.
A Quimper vase and kerosene oil lamp
Canadian Maple Leaves
A souvenir from the QCI meeting I attended in Seattle and British Columbia
The wreath has the some of the same colors as the garland. It's not dried but faux flowers and herbs. It looks remarkably like the real ones. I've had it for years, found at the Pierre Deux shop at Miami Circle in Atlanta. Sadly, those shops went out of business in 2011
Thank you if you are still here, a lot of photos! I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my treasured Quimper plates in this table setting. I think the colors found in the plates are lovely alongside the colors in the garland. I hope you will leave a comment, it's the only way I know you stopped by.
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