Red, White, and Blue for Two

Election Day has always been a big holiday around our house.

Super Dad stayed home,

and the whole family descended on the polling place

 at 7:00 AM

making a red, white, and blue

spectacle of ourselves

before heading to school.

Later,

we would gather around

 a patriotic table

to wait for results. 

Not this year.

This year we had an empty nest

and early voting.

It's not nearly as fun.

So this week's tablescape is an 

election night table

 for two

We wanted the table to be red, white, and blue

without looking too much like the 4th of July.

We started with hand painted blue chargers

then sandwiched

red and blue Wedgewood

between everyday white stoneware called

 Tanglewood.

The Wedgewood
was a gift
 from some British friends.

The red ones are part of a commemorative set

 of Georgia history plates

 made in Coventry, England.  

This one
shows the story of Nancy Hart capturing
 a group of  Tories
by distracting them with a heavy meal
and snatching their muskets.

The blue Wedgewood has scenes of child's play.

This one is called 

See Saw.

We couldn't decide between red and blue stemware

so we used both. 

We've used the cobalt ones before. They just came from Walmart. The red ones were on sale recently at Belk. Among the three of us, we now have enough to feed a Christmas crowd.

Our table is bipartisan.

Decoupaged coasters for elephants...

And for donkeys...

Why, there's even a little tea partying

going on

with this little butter spreader.

The bread plate is from an antique set of Blue Willow.

For our centerpiece,

 we filled a transferware pitcher

 with carnations and ivy.

We gathered blue and white napkins

with napkin rings featuring Uncle Sam.

 Uncle Sam  showed up on the table again 

in the form of a nutcracker from the Duchess's collection.

He usually guards her patriotic tree.

I'll be yakking all about that...

Adding some red, white, and blue candles,

and we're just about done.

And there you have it.

An election night table... 

... the first meal in months

not interrupted by 

the telephone.

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