A Romantically, Musically Inclined Tablescape

Toile de Jouy, music, the Violin, English transferware, sentimental inherited items, poetry, antique linens, roses and lace...some of my favorite things are all gathered here for a Valentines Day table.  All of these things, to me, create an alluring table filled with romance, nostalgia, and love of music and family.

I hope they bring some of the same feelings to you.

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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

~Ronald Reagan~

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

~Maya Angelou~

If music be the food of love, play on.

~William Shakespeare~ 

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

~Robert Frost~

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

~Plato~

  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

~Henry David Thoreau~

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

~Napoleon Bonaparte~ 

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

~Lao Tzu~

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

~Martin Luther~ 

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

~Soren Keirkegaard~

I call architecture frozen music.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~Victor Hugo~

 

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

~Pope John Paul II~

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

 I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

~William Wordsworth~

 There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

~Pythagoras~

Music can change the world because it can change people.

~Bono~

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

~Martin Luther~

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~Ludwig van Beethoven~

Music is what feelings sound like

~Author unknown~

You are the music while the music lasts

~T. S. Eliot~

 

Tablescape Sources:

Sheet Music: At each place setting I displayed an antique, hand written piece of sheet music sent me by a wonderful Etsy shop, La Pomme.  These came from a music school in Aigues Mortes, in the South of France.  They all date to the very early 1900's.  

Toile fabric:  Either Schumacher or Waverly.  This is a large remnant, at least 15 years old, left from some custom draperies. 

Red Transferware Plates:  My Shop, www.nancysdailydish.net

Creamware Plates: Crown Ducal

Flatware: Barenthal, France 

Violin:  Ashton's ;-)

Wine Hocks: Waterford Clarendon

Tumblers: Indiana Glass, Ruby Flash, Kings Crown Thumbprint

Pink Damask Napkins: vintage and found at a yard sale

Beige cocktail napkins: Cayman Islands gift shop...long time ago

Pink Lace under centerpiece:  Kalyn's...it's a vest, all scrunched up.

Heart Confetti: Walmart

Silver Heart Shaped Bowls: Inherited from my Great Aunt and Uncle.

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