Tablescape Thursday...The Wind in the Willows

Welcome to Tablescape Thursday! Our hostess for this event, Susan at Between Naps on the Porch, is extremely talented, so be sure to check out her blog and the other participants.

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I bought this little Wind in the Willows teapot a while back and thought it would work great in a tablescape/teascape.

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. Toad sat up on end once more, dried his eyes, sipped his tea and munched his toast, and soon began talking freely about himself, and the house he lived in, and his doings there, and how important he was, and what a lot his friends thought of him.

(Excerpt from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame)

My centerpiece is a jar of glass fish floats...

I mixed green lily pad chargers with the white "Gollum" dishes from Big Lots...

Cute froggy napkins I found at T.J. Maxx a while back...

Bees have landed on the flatware...

I mixed in my Red Cliff ironstone sugar and creamer...