Are You Spooling Me?

Yep!!  I just wrote that dorky headline.  I confess, but I couldn’t pass up using the word spool instead of the word fool.  Because, you see, today’s post features spools – really old, cool, colorful, wooden spools.  And get this – they’re stuffed into a cloche.  It’s a look I love.

 

 

 I just gathered up all of the odd-sized wooden spools from days of yore and put them into my big old cloche that I bought years ago at the Rockcastle River Trading Co. (Read about it here, here, and here.)

 

Then I put one of my silver trays on it and turned it upside down.  I didn’t even bother to polish the tray.  That’s even better because it has a nice oldish patina.

 

The cloche and company have been the dining table centerpiece for a few months now, and to add a fall touch I threw on a little square tablecloth that I bought in Hydra, an island about an hour’s boat ride from Athens, Greece.

 

I have been to Hydra a couple of times.  It was established as an artist colony way back when and is so teeny-tiny that cars/trucks aren’t allowed.  It’s just your feet and donkeys, folks.  But I digress.  When I say I threw the cloth onto the table, that’s what I really did.  I let it drop, and the way it landed is the way it stayed.  It doesn’t look contrived at all – just kind of rumpled and cute.

 

Then I added some rust colored candles to the silver candleholders (they’re polished), and there’s a fall centerpiece.  How simple was that!!!  The colors in the cloth pick up the colors of the spools, and it’s autumn bliss.

 

The best thing about this centerpiece is that I had everything on hand, and the hardest part about it was dealing with the glare when taking photos.

 

I’m feelin’ pretty good about my little cloche creation.

 

I guess I’m too spool for school!!!

 

Take care.

 

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