This year’s thanksgiving tablescape went a little untraditional with some jeweled tone touches.
Hi everyone! I’m so glad you’re here visiting my take on our Thanksgiving tablescape this year. Today, I’m joining a group of blogger friends to share inspiration for a Thanksgiving tablescape as well as a family recipe. We hope that it can help you get a start on planning that Thanksgiving dinner especially if you’re in charge of hosting this year.
For my birthday, my husband came home with the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers. After a week of enjoying the pretty flowers, I cut them short and decided to use them for a tablescape. The jewel toned shades of the flowers became my inspiration for this particular table.
I took one of my favorite scarves that has some beautiful hues and just placed it along the center of the table.
I added some vintage brass candlesticks and decorated the table with my DIY painted pumpkins. The vintage looking glassware were bought a while back from Homegoods.
The Dirilyte flatware was an awesome score from a garage sale and totally worth all the polishing. The gold embellished dinner plates were from the Williams and Sonoma outlet.
I love that everything on this tablescape came from things I already owned. Thanksgiving doesn’t always have to be neutral colors or orange and brown.
Now, for the family recipe! Every time I make my double chocolate chip banana bread, it gets devoured.
My youngest, Emmy is always quick to help me in the kitchen because she knows she gets to eat the chocolate chips.
It’s the perfect dessert with some ice cream after a hearty Thanksgiving meal. I also love making this in big batches and taking them to potluck dinners or as a hostess gift. I’ve copied the recipe here again.
Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- 4 ripe bananas
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour (i like to use 1 cup flour and 1/2 cup whole wheat white flour)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips (i prefer dark chocolate chips)
Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl and then slowly add in the dry ingredients. Add the chocolate chips last. Bake at 350 degrees for at least 30 minutes or until the bread bounces back. It’s so perfect right out of the oven. Good luck eating just one piece! Try it for Thanksgiving if you’re looking for something besides pumpkin pie.
Be sure to stop by the rest of the bloghop tour to gain some holiday inspiration. There are some beautiful tablescape ideas you won’t want to miss.
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Hope you all enjoy the tour!
Yuni
Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
Yuni!!! This is just gorgeous! It is absolutely elegant and I love the jewel tones. Breathtaking, my friend! And could Emmy be any cuter? She’s a doll!
Summer, you are the sweetest!! Thank you so much, friend!!
Yuni, I love your post! I think that all the color is just so beautiful! My favorite design trend this year is all the gold and antique brass so I just loved looking at each photo. & your daughter is such a cutie…I miss that age, enjoy. I love anything chocolate , so I can’t wait to try your recipe!! I am honored to have done this tour with you, my friend!
Kellie, you are the best. Thank you so much for the kind words. I’m loving all of the antique brass too and couldn’t pass these up when I found them. Thanks so much again. The blog hop was a blast!
Oh my gosh, where do I even start?! I LOVE THE COLORS!! The pink roses, the glasses, love the gold. Love that you included your little helper. I love chocolate and I love bananas, so this is a must!
Thank you so much, Martha! Yes, she’s always the first one to help me in the kitchen! So glad you like the colors 🙂 I totally went the non-traditional route!
Yuni, this is all so gorgeous! I absolutely love the jewel tones, and that those beautiful flowers were a gift from your husband. It all came together so perfectly, and that chocolate banana bread sounds amazing!
Thanks so much, Stephanie! It was a blast to do the blog hop together!
Yuni! this is all so beautiful. I love all of the jewel tones and gold…so elegant and fresh. The scarf and flowers together make such a gorgeous color combination, and that double choc chip banana bread is calling my name!!
Thanks so much for hosting, Heather! I’m so glad I finally had a chance to share the tablescape. You gotta try the chocolate banana bread. so good!
I’m totally in love with your tablescape. The colors are a breath of fresh air from the typical fall colors. I love the rich jewel tones. Those plates are stunning.. I would love to hunt them down for myself.. Thanks for sharing..
Thank you so much for saying that, Jamala! I appreciate it! I hope you can find them. I know you can get really lucky while thrifting sometimes.
I love your jewel toned table…and your daughter is the sweetest!
Thank you so much, Kim. She is definitely a little light in our home.
What a breathtaking tablescape Yuni!!! Just stunning!!!
Thanks so much, Sam!