Easy Thanksgiving Tablescape and Centerpiece with Faux Antlers
How to Make an Easy and Beautiful Thanksgiving Centerpiece and Tablescape
Thanksgiving is such a wonderful holiday. A day of the year set aside to count our blessings. When I think of Thanksgiving my mind goes to pictures I had seen when I was a child of the Horn of Plenty and a feeling of abundance. 
As much as I truly love to entertain, I have never done a tablescape or an ornate centerpiece. That seems odd, doesn't it? I've set the table with beautiful dinnerware and flowers but I've never really gone all out.
To be honest, I was totally intimidated by the entire process but once I started to look at pictures on Pinterest I realized that you just have to let yourself go...have a theme, stick with it but throw caution to the wind and keep adding to it and that's what I did with my very first tablescape and centerpiece created especially for Thanksgiving and to share with you!
I started with a basket from Michaels, flowers, flowers, flowers (all faux) from Michaels and Pat Catan's, florist foam, wire, and floral picks.
When I purchased the faux flowers I thought I had gone overboard and bought far too many but when all was said and done, I used them ALL! 
To start I placed a table runner on my table to anchor everything. Mine was a paisley fabric round tablecloth I found on clearance at Walmart. I simply folded the tablecloth to a runner configuration. I plan on cutting off the excess and making napkins with it but that's another post 😉 
Next, I added salvaged pieces of pallet wood to the center of the table and placed my centerpiece on top of it.
Now, in days gone by I would have stopped there but not this time. I added some plastic antlers (Halloween department at Walmart - $3.18!). Next, I added small pumpkins and decorative gourds around the base of the centerpiece.
I placed my kitchen Rosemary plant to the left of the centerpiece along with a pomegranate. Behind that I placed a wooden bowl of fresh pears...and continued...
I placed a faux hydrangea into a small metal urn and placed that next to one of my placesettings.
The placesettings are all Pioneer Woman dishes and silverware (from Walmart). I added some plaid napkins (clearance item from Target)....
I placed a few of the sprays of leaves left from my centerpiece into my gilded honeycomb pitcher and placed a mercury glass mason jar with a candle in it next to that. 
Asymmetry did NOT rule here...I pulled and decorated from items I had around my house and just kept adding to create a one-of-a-kind, lush and inviting setting. 
I hope you enjoyed my first venture into creating a tablescape. Be sure to check out the other beautiful tablescapes and centerpieces created for Thanksgiving by my friends below:
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What a beautiful table you styled Mary Beth! You've definitely got the knack! Awesome idea to make a runner and napkins from a table cloth too. I'll have to remember that next time I find a pretty one on sale like you did.
Thanks so much, Therese 🙂
this is so pretty, you would never know you haven't set it before, I love that basket with all the pretty colors surrounding it! Pinned :)XO
Thank you, Kristin! I had so much fun doing it. xo
What a beautiful color scheme, Mary Beth! Great job with the photos!!
Thank you so much, Jennifer!
Very pretty, Mary Beth! I like that you use traditional colors in your table décor.
Thank you, Paula!
So beautiful Mary Beth! I love that large basket.. the pops of blue and the plaid... so gorgeous all put together.
Thank you, Maryann! 🙂
Mary Beth, your colors are gorgeous! Such an inviting table....perfect!
Thank you so much, Bonnie!
This is just beautiful, I bought that same basket!! Such a great idea. I love it!
Thank you, Amanda! I love that basket - I'm not sure what I'll do with it after Thanksgiving but I may put it in my craft room.
I love all the gorgeous colors and textures MB especially the antlers that you tucked under the pumpkin. You have a wonderful eye! Pinning!
You are so sweet, Malia! Thank you xoxo