Easy Holiday Settings

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. It is not too late too spice up your holiday table. The folks at Bon Appetit have rounded up their favorite picks for tablecloths, plates, flatware, glasses and centerpieces that are affordable and can be easily incorporated into any holiday setting.

Contributing editor Dede Wilson visits The Saturday Early Show to offer a traditional and a more modern setting and demonstrate how to incorporate new items with the basic ones you already have.

The following are the items featured on the show:

Tablecloth
It has a beautiful shade of green and an intricate double row of hemstitching. It serves as an elegant neutral backdrop for many different styles of dinnerware and makes an excellent choice for all sorts of occasions, from casual buffets to formal dinners. There are napkins to go with it. Price: $102
Availability: Williams-Sonoma

Runner
This runner is embroidered with patterns of oak leaves and acorns. Place it over a solid tablecloth or use it alone to complement a wood tabletop. The embroidery is a trend in table top right now, taking its cues from fashion. The tablecloth and runner creates the look of a rich textured table.
Price: $72
Availability: Williams-Sonoma

Plates
Most people have white plates so add a woven basket-weave charger to provide more depth. Layering white plates with a natural color and texture adds richness to the table.
Price: $16
Availability: Williams-Sonoma

Taupe Grapeleaf Salad Plate
Price: $20
Availability: Williams-Sonoma

"Au Naturel" Dinner Plate
Price: $14
Availability: Pottery Barn

Pewter flatware
Pewter is a huge trend right now. Pewter flatware is a great alternative to stainless steel and is cheaper than silver. It has a rich color and a matte shine that adds another texture and dimension to the table setting. This flatware has a real antique look to it.
Price: $92
Availability: Williams-Sonoma

Glasses
Wilson recommends pairing a clear wine glass with a colored water glass. She suggests a clear wine glass so that you can appreciate the color of the wine. Using a colored water glass is a good opportunity to add color to the table.
Spiegelau Wine glass
Price: $10
Availability: Pottery Barn

"Grande Goblet Amber" Water glass
Price: $12
Availability: Pottery Barn

Centerpiece
Using fruits and vegetables to create a festive centerpiece is a very popular trend right now. The centerpieces should be low enough so they do not interfere with the vision across the table so people can have a conversation in a relaxed manner. Make sure you don't have a scented centerpiece. If you use flowers, the scent should not be too strong or the smell will over power the smell of the food. To create this centerpiece, use yellow and dusty peach roses, white ornamental kale, green grapes, artichokes, camellia leaf, and lemon leaf.

Tablecloth
For a modern look add more color. Orange is not necessarily a traditional color for a table cloth, however, it is a fall color so use this color in a modern way.
Price: $40
Availability: Crate and Barrel

Leather placemats
These leather placemats are fun because they are not in your typical material for a place setting.
Price: $13
Availability: Crate and Barrel

Plates
These are traditional plates with a modern design. They are square, which is a very popular trend right now.
Price: White Square Dinner Plate, $7; and Glass Square Salad Plate, $6.
Availability: Crate and Barrel

Flatware
This flatware is in a shiny stainless steel; however, the design has squared off edges that make it look more modern.
"Absolu" Flatware
Price: $76
Availability: Williams Sonoma

Glasses
These glasses have a round circumference, but a squared off bottom with a thin stem.
Price: $10
Availability: Crate and Barrel

Centerpiece
To create this centerpiece use persimmons, votive candles, bitter sweet, white hydrangea, and lemon leaf.
Footed Wood Tray
Price: $19
Availability: Pottery Barn