Cornucopia Collection Centerpiece

The cornucopia is a classic Thanksgiving accessory. It needs to be used for the holiday that celebrates bounty, harvest, and thankfulness. If you just happened to have 5 of them in your house (like I do!), why not use them all to create a bountifully beautiful centerpiece for Thanksgiving? You can do this with any collection you have, too!

Three to five items that are different sizes can be an interesting foundation for a unique centerpiece. I’m using 2 large grapevine cornucopias with natural texture, along with 3 vintage pottery cornucopias.

To begin, anchor your arrangement, on a foundational element. Use a different texture than your collection for interest. I am using a vintage, galvanized tray to add metal texture to the pottery and the other natural elements I’ll be using.

As you can see, the cornucopias are facing out all around the table, so there will be interest for everyone seated. I added the decorative corn first so the husks wouldn’t stick out too far and their natural texture would be a base for everything else.

Now to fill up the cornucopias with bounty!

My plan was to use my newest church sale dishes, Friendly Village by Johnson Brothers. The rich colors and cozy scenes just seem perfect for a chilly, already snow-covered Thanksgiving. Using the same colors that are featured on your dishes is a great way to coordinate your centerpiece with the whole tablescape.

These transferware-type dishes feature brown, along with rusty reds, golds, greens, and even a little bit of light blue. Everlasting, sugared fruit seemed the perfect, colorful choice for a bountiful Thanksgiving centerpiece and more unusual (and longer lasting and cheaper) than flowers.

Place all the elements you’re planning on using nearby so you can see what you have available for styling. To add to the everlasting sugared fruit, I’m using a mix of fall and winter elements: dried grasses, winter evergreens and pinecone sprays.

Having all your textures nearby will help to keep the arrangement balanced and make sure you don’t use everything up on one side.

Before getting too far into your arranging, decide how you want to add light to your centerpiece. Strings of battery-powered lights can add ambiance when worked into a centerpiece, but for this table, brass candlesticks and good old fashioned pillar candles seemed fitting. I tucked them in before I started arranging the other elements. The candles add that touch of aqua blue seen in the dishes, too.

Begin by adding a layer of evergreens to the cornucopia collection centerpiece. Then arrange the fruit, starting with the grapes and then the rounder, chubbier fruit. Lastly, insert the pinecone sprays and the grasses for extra texture.

It’s amazing how easy it is to style by just adding layers like this. Make sure you’re arranging all around the centerpiece so your guests on every side can be happy with their view! You can see how each cornucopia has a sampling of all the textural elements.

A bountifully beautiful Thanksgiving centerpiece! It celebrates the harvest by featuring fruit, along with the fun vintage and textural cornucopia collection. It echos the colors in the dishes, which will harmonize the whole table setting.

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