This table was set for a soup party – the perfect repast for a chilly October evening. Three different homemade soups were served: cream potato, vegetable and beef, and Julia Child’s Soup in a Pumpkin which is a creamy cheese and onion soup cooked and served inside a pumpkin!
The table cloth is a rusty orange and in the center we bunched up a piece of sheer fabric that’s black with a bat pattern. Each place setting included a variety of bowls stacked on top of a salad plate for antipasto and a variety of country breads and baguettes. Favors were made by filling ice cream cones with mints and eerie sayings and quotes that we printed out on parchment. Orange and yellow tissue paper and white floral tape were used to wrap the cones to look like candy corns.
The cauldron is a plastic planter with a small fountain mister inside. We ran the wire up through the split in the table and filled in with pumpkins, gourds, apples, pears, and pomegranates. Lots of vines and fall leaf garlands were draped all around.
One of the guests commented, “Only at your house would we be invited for dinner and find a smoldering cauldron on the dining room table!” Someone else asked, “Could you pass the butter? If you can find it in all the weeds!”
