Not only do I love setting the Thanksgiving table, but also the serving buffet table. Recipes with cranberries from The Northwoods of Wisconsin are the perfect Thanksgiving dishes.
Thanks so much for joining me at White Arrows Home for a peak into Thanksgiving. I’m joining a group of talented bloggers hosted by Chloe of Celebrate & Decorate for this Thanksgiving Tablescape Blog Hop.
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If you are coming over from Our Crafty Mom welcome to The Northwoods of Wisconsin and our lakeside log cabin home, we call Camp Paradise.
When I picture a Thanksgiving dinner it always has lots of people gathered around the table eating family style from bowls being passed around. In reality we’ve never had Thanksgiving that way. Whomever in my family has hosted over the years we always fill our plates buffet style and then sit down.Once everyone is sitting we say grace and begin to eat. Everyone refills their plates by going back to the buffet area.
So when setting the table for Thanksgiving, I also think about the counter, island or table that will serve as the buffet and how it will be decorated.
My starting off point for the decor this year was a beautiful set of dishes I found when thrifting with my mom and my friend Carolyn. We were at a St. Vincent DePaul shop and my mom called me over knowing I would instantly fall in love with these red and white dishes. They had scalloped edges and a pretty pattern. Even though it wasn’t a full set the $40 price tag made it an easy decision. Then when I got to the checkout it ended up being half off! I got all of it for $20!
It’s the perfect pattern to mix and match with my other china patterns.
I used a vintage cranberry box in the center of the table.
Manitowish Waters, the town just north of Mincoqua and part of the Lakeland area, has many cranberry farms. My friend, Becca’s family owns and operates one of them and I’ve been lucky enough to visit during harvest a few times.
I love including local foods into our menus and it works especially well for the cranberries during Thanksgiving. Here are a few delicious cranberry recipes to try.
Cranberry Recipes
Cranberry Apple Cider Sangria
Cranberry Brie Bites
Millionaire Cranberry Salad
White Chocolate Cranberry Blondies
Cranberry Apple Sausage Stuffing
Now back to the table. You can find more of my favorite cranberry recipes in this Pinterest Board.
he black and red buffalo plaid tablecloth I found at Walmart was the perfect soft compliment to the table. My table is too long for most tablecloths I find in the store, so I often buy two or get creative. I decide to “scrunch” this one up and use it as a runner.
I love mixing reds and oranges in the Fall. For my next layer I added my orange leaf and berry garland.
Then I stuck in some green pumpkins on picks.
I always like to have a touch of plaid so I wove this wired organge, brown and cream plaid ribbon through. The wired edges let me bend it and get it to look like it was flowing through the centerpiece.
I also added in some birch bark pumpkins I found last year at Hobby Lobby. One of the things I love about Hobby Lobby is that their items are often redone a few years in a row. So if you decide you loved a dish or placemat or other item the year before and want more, it most likely will be back again. I always love to have at least 10-12 of any dish or placesetting pieces. Even though we are a family of six, there are often visitors to join us.
I added my rustic turkey to the table on top of a wooden cake stand.
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We always do buffet style for dinner parties and Thanksgiving too Kristin, and great idea to make sure you decorate the buffet table too! I love the new bargain plates you found, wow, what a great price! Your centerpiece runner is just the way I like them, full of lots of different elements and things to entertain the eye, and the reds and oranges are wonderful. Thank you for all the cranberry recipes, nothing says Thanksgiving better than cranberries!! I know you will have a special and wonderful time at your beautiful cabin home, Camp Paradise!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment! I am very excited for the holiday season this year and very excited about the plates too! Hope you have a wonderful season!
I couldn’t get the link for the recipes to work. Please advise.
Thanks, I’m looking forward to the Cranberry Blondies recipe.
Kristin, I have dish envy that you found those incredible dishes for $20!!!! My most favorite picture of you now is the one of you standing in the cranberry bog! Love this post. We too serve up from the buffet (kitchen island) and then sit down in the dining room. However, I have never decorated the kitchen island as the buffet. We are generally frantically putting all the items out for serving and at that point, I just want to get out of the kitchen. But you are right….it should be a lovely setting. Your post is inspiring me for this Thanksgiving! Thank you for sharing.
Im so glad to hear that! You are so kind! Thank you for supporting and leaving such a kind comment on the blog! I hope you have a wonderful and magical season!
I’m so jealous of those plates! Your table centerpiece looks so fun and I know y’all will enjoy it. Plus, I can hardly wait to try out some of those recipes!
I can’t wait to use the plates! Let me know how you like the recipes they are definitely going to be frequently made in our house this season!
What a great deal on the red dishes! You must have danced out of the store:)
As a large family, we were able to celebrate Thanksgiving at my aunt josephine’s house. She had a kitchen, dining area, family room built in the 1950s. The kitchen table was added to with saw horses and planks and sat about 30 of us. It was so much fun and I really miss all the people that sat at that table – but the memories are wonderful!
have a nice Thanksgiving.
RR
I really did 😉 Wow that sounds so magical! Such a wonderful and touching memory! Hope you have a great thanksgiving!
Kristin,
I loved the tablescape ideas and I love cranberries!
Rachel
Thank you so much Rachel! Wishing you a wonderful season!
KRistin, wow, you made me hungry!! Those cranberry recipes are divine, and I had to pin a couple. That photo of you in the midst of the cranberry harvest is an excellent shot – so perfect for advertising your friend’s farm! Your dish steal – I mean deal – had to be a happy moment! Love how you mixed all the reds and oranges, and combined your signature plaids. A very fun way to throw down a party, even if it does end up just being your own clan. I love buffet style, that’s how we’ve always done it too, and it allows some play with the center of the table like you’ve done here. Happy Thanksgiving season to you!
Thank you so much this comment is so kind! I cannot wait dig into those recipes too! Wishing you a wonderful season!
Kristin, I love your cranberry and orange color scheme! How fabulous is that cranberry crate and having a friend with a cranberry farm?! What a great picture of you up to your hips in cranberries. Your centerpiece is really special and perfectly compliments your dish find. Several years ago, I found my harvest gold with leaf and vine relief edges in a similar way. Bordallo Pinheiro service for 8 for $20. Paper products would cost nearly that much. Wishing a most happy, and healthy holiday with your family.
It is so fun! Thank you so much for this wonderful comment! Wishing you a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season to you and your family as well!
So very nice
Thank you!
Kristin, I am swooning over those pretty dishes! What a find! We serve our Thanksgiving dinner buffet style, too. We say grace by joining hands around the buffet and then fill our plates. Your centerpiece is gorgeous, and the food sounds scrumptious! I hope that you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Kristin, thanks so much for the recipes…I love cranberries. We always have buffet style for holidays or Sunday lunches. What a great deal you got on the dishes, and they will mix in with most holidays. I had never seen a Cranberry bog until a few years ago on Nantucket. I love that photo of you, that looks like it could have been used for a billboard! Wishing you a most blessed Thanksgiving season!
Thank you so much! You are so kind! WIshing you a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season as well!
Love your cranberries dishes. What a steal. I never find anything that great. Those cranberry recipe look so tasty. Thanks for sharing. I love the photo of you standing in the cranberries. reminds me of that commercial. buffet style is the best. A pleasure joining you Kristin on this fun Thanksgiving blog hop. Blessings
Im sure you will find something great soon! Putting those good vibes out there for you! Thank you so much for your kind comment and stopping by the blog! wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
I WILL BE GOINGBACK TO YOUR CRANBERRY BOARD. WHAT A FIND, THE RED DISHES! LOVE THEM
So glad to hear that! SO excited about the plates too! Hope you have a great thanksgiving!
We usually have a large crowd so we do buffet style too! This year it will be just the four of us. Those dishes are gorgeous and I love all the rich fall colors you used. Such a cute centerpiece and those cranberry recipes look amazing! Great hopping with you again!
Shelley
Thank you so much! Always great hopping with you! Hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving!
Kristin, couldn’t we go thrifting together? Wow…Those beautiful dishes are a lucky find. And for that price. Wisconsin is a great place to “rescue” sets of beautiful dinnerware that end up in thrift stores. Definitely, they need to find a good home, right? And this set is a beautiful match for your lovely home. Matched up with the plaid runner and all of the fall decor, they speak a cozy and inviting Fall tablescape. It looks like fun to visit a cranberry bog. My brother and sister-in-law always attend Cranberry Fest near Warren, Wisconsin. It is everything cranberry! Have a great thanksgiving.
I would love to! I have heard wonderful things about the Cranberry Fest! Thank you so much for this lovely comment, wishing you a wonderful thanksgiving as well!
What a beautiful tablescape! The dishes are an amazing find! I love how warm and welcoming everything is and the cranberry apple cider sounds so good. Wishing you a blessed Thanksgiving!
Thank you so much! Wishing you a wonderful thanksgiving and holiday season as well!
Oh, Kristin, I am just like you! I, too, imagine the table laden with platters and bowls abundant with the food of the holiday meal. We, also serve buffet style, keeping hot dishes hot on hot plates or in crockpots. I always say I am going to style a buffet table like you have done, and I never have! Your display of the plates and all of the styling you have done for them is perfect, the cranberry carton, the plaid throw, the pumpkins…all of it! Bravo! That photo of you in the cranberry bog is so funny. I would be afraid I was going to fall and my waders fill with water and cranberries! Thank you dear friend for joining us once again!
Haha definitely a rational fear! Thank you so much for having me, and for this lovely comment! Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
Kristin, What a deal on your Crown Ducal Bristol pink transferware! I have some pieces that belonged to my hubby’s grandmother that I cherish. Love the cute pic of you in the cranberry bog! So happy to be hopping with you again and join you at the table. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!
So glad to be hopping with you! Thank you so much for this kind comment! Happy thanksgiving to you!
Kristin what a great find on the Crown ducal bristol pink transfer ware….oh how I adore transfer ware. Your rustic table is perfect and I love your home in the woods. We “pass” the heaping bowls of food much like a Norman Rockwell picture. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family.
Hey Kristen!
This is one wonderful, colorful, beautiful, vibrant post! Love, love, the mix of colors, the richness, the joy, the fun!
We do a buffet for Thanksgiving and for many sunday dinners too. So easy and that way everyone is able to pick and choose exactly what they want.
Darling photo of you! These cranberry recipes look oh so good. Pinned and I will be giving them a whirl all throughout all of the Holidays.
Happy Thanksgivng!!!
Jemma
Thank you so much! This is such a sweet comment, I appreciate the pin as well! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season Jemma!
kristin I enjoy your cabin in the woods so much. I am so envious. We have lived in thee mountains of New mexico and I so enjoyed it. Love your rustic tablwscape…so clever. this is the second comment…..I hope it goes through..
So fun Kristin! I love cranberries, and those recipes sound fabulous! Can’t wait to try some this year!
Thank you so much! can’t wait to hear about which ones you try! Happy holidays to you!
I love those beautiful dishes Kristin! And that picture of you with your glass of wine surrounded by cranberries is the best.
Thank you so much Kim! The cranberry bog was really a fun time!
In Canada we always had our family Thanksgiving dinners buffet style as well. I love your tablescape, the decorations are so pretty. the cranberry recipes all look delicious too – and how fun to see the the photo of you at your friend’s cranberry farm. Thank you for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Link Party Community. I’m featuring this post at the party this week. Hope to ‘see’ you there! Take care, stay well, and I wish you a wonderful week!
Thank you so much for the feature, I greatly appreciate it! Hope you have a wonderful week and holiday season!
Kristin,
what a great post. Love all of your table ideas and cranberry recipes. you look great in the cranberry patch.
congratulations,
you are being featured at Over the moon linky party. i hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2020/11/over-moon-linky-party_8.html
hugs,
bev
Thank you so much for the feature, it is greatly appreciated and I love your party! Hope you have a wonderful week Bev and holiday season!
Kristin, those dishes were a major score! They look great with your plaid tablecloth. Your rustic turkey is perfect for the style of your home. We eat buffet style too, but everything is spread out on the kitchen island…I’ll have to make more of an effort to decorate the island necxt time we host a crowd. Thanks for sharing all of the yummy cranberry recipes. That’s a great pic of you in the cranberry bog! It was fun hopping with you again. Happy Thanksgiving!
I am so excited about the dishes for this holiday season, thank you so much for this kind comment! It is always great hopping with you Rebecca! Happy thanksgiving to you!