TABLESCAPE THURSDAY.............Postcards from the Edge.

My very first Tablescape Thursday hosted by talented tablescaper Susan at http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Yes, that's right folks, Sue still can't figure out links!! Anyhoo, you can go over to Susan's blog and see all the other participants and wonderful table setting ideas....

When I decided to join in on the fun I thought what would be a fun table to put together? Being a "World Renowned Souvenir Junkie"

I'm not talking tasteful classy souvenirs......No, I'm talking tacky stuff.....I'm the grown women at the Statue of Liberty

that buys then wears the green foam crown while touring Miss L.

So I dug out my massive collection of State Plates....Yes, those colorful but toxic dinner plates from the 1950's.......I say massive only because I have all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. and I'm currently working on a second set to leave the daughter in my will.

I also have picked up along the hi-ways and by-ways other souvenir plates like Atlantic City and Coney Island.......

Your probably wondering how I got started collecting these plates......I know what your really thinking. What made her start collecting "cheap crap"......Mom back in the 1950's had a collection. Whenever one of her friends would travel she would have them bring her back a plate. I loved those plates , they were so colorful, so happy......So I was surprised one day when she gave them all away to to local Rummage Sale.....When I started seeing them years and years later at flea markets here in Atlanta I started to buy them all up.......$2.00....$3.00 a piece until I was buying so many that the flea market dealers thought they really had something good and they raised the prices.....I stopped buying, prices went back down. Now that I have bored you with how I ended up here today with my Tablescape of Vintage State Plates I hope you enjoy my design.....

every table setting needs a menu......



A view from above.....


It's not just about Jersey....As you can see I have postcards as well, but that is a New Jersey embroidered napkin in the forefront and inside the basket is the matching placemat....All from http://www.catstudios.com/


I spent every summer at the Jersey shore and we would take a day trip to the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.....so this is one of my favorite plates.....As you can see I have clear glass plates on top of the state plate just in case that paint is toxic......


New York!! another favorite......

I also collect green pitchers and thought they went well with all the other colors...

Closeup of the embroidered placemat....I only have two so that would explain why the whole table isn't set with them.....

We love the Garden State!!!

But, it's not all about New Jersey.....here's a little Delaware thrown in.....

I just found this one recently and love the graphics......

Of course I also had to have the matching Jersey glasses.....Not old and also from Cat Studios.

Here's a pretty one.....some plates are painted nicer then others....Some also come in just one color like green or all blue....They are a bit more expensive.
I hope you enjoyed my first attempt at tablescaping and I look forward to joining in every week until I run out of ideas......

Starting this Friday night I will be having "Weekends in Paris"......for the next 14 weekends I will be posting pictures from all over Paris.....photo's from both myself and the daughter...As alot of you know we spent a summer while daughter studied at the Sorbonne. We came home with 45 rolls of film......no digital camera back then......and I picked the best of the best.....They will be shown in "like" groups.....I am also leaving the best for last. The apartment....and I use the term loosely.....that we lived in....If I showed you pictures of it first you might never come back......So stop back and spend your weekends in the City of Lights!!!