Beneath the Live Oak Trees

This week, we had the notion to set up a table

beneath the Spanish moss

on our state tree,

the Live Oak.

Since all I have to offer at my place is a piney stick forest, we headed out to the farm. And since we couldn’t rightly theme an entire tablescape around Spanish moss, we decided to go with an oak theme instead.

It had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that

 The Sister had these nifty acorn plates.

Really…

Or this leafy tablecloth.
 Just pretend those are all oak leaves, OK?

For our centerpiece, we used a combination of leftovers from bouquets that I bought for the girls and weeds from the side of the road. Autumn is starting to be kind of pretty here.

We stuck them in what the Sister and I call

The Old Oaken Bucket.

We dubbed it decades ago after singing the song of the same name in elementary school. It’s one of my favorite treasures from the Duchess’s collection.  She used to let us play with it. We lugged The Old Oaken Bucket all over the prairie in our Poke Bonnet Days.

Now, according to The Duchess,

it’s actually a sugar bucket

and not made of oak at all.

But tablescaping is a democracy

and not a monarchy…

So The Old Oaken Bucket it is.

with Spanish moss spilling over the sides.

Our invisible guests this week are a couple of blognuts who were crazy enough to create their own Words on Wheels nicknames.  You know who you are.

Be careful what you ask for friends…

The next thing you know,

you're hanging out on a table

with the rest of the nuts

in Debbie Land.

Just sayin'...

We made the place cards from wooden fake-orns from Hobby Lobby. They’re attached to equally fake oak leaves.  We have to go with the fake stuff here. You see, Georgia oak leaves look nothing like that at all...

And our acorns are about the size of an English pea.

We used this Cambria Brown stemware that the Sister bought at Tuesday Morning. I would mention that they remind me of the color of sap... but I don't want to detour down Maple Drive.

 

Old Oaken Flatware…

Napkins and rings
 with acorns and oak leaves

A leaf candle set on an old brown insulator
and a few squirrels on the table
 to help with nut control…

And our Live Oak Table is just about complete.

And there you have it...

Spanish moss,

Live Oaks, and

and an ever expanding
 bunch of nuts.

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Sharing this with The Porch People
for Tablescape Thursday.