Christmas Tablescape

So here we are, the day before Christmas. Everything that can be done, is done. All that is left is church services later this afternoon then meeting Mr. B for our traditional dinner out for Chinese food (he has to work today). When we get home we will watch, repeatedly, A Christmas Story and then head to bed to await Santa's arrival. Christmas morning we will awaken and Linda will make some sticky buns while I pour our traditional mimosas.  We will eat, drink and open presents together.  I will hope to get to face time with Peanut & Sweetpea sometime during the day. Then, the final hurrah of the holiday, dinner.  Prime rib, roasted red potatoes, roasted asparagus and homemade rolls. We will sit at the formal table that I have set for our Christmas feast.

A bright red holiday table cloth is set using the same gold chargers I used for the Cookies With Santa Table earlier. 

I then layered my great-grandmother's Epiag china dinner plate and topped the plate stack off with a holly green salad plate from Hobby Lobby.

In keeping with the red & gold theme that started with the mantel and continued to the china cabinet I also used my vintage, hope chest gold plated flatware.

Estate sale white and gold trimmed napkins are finished off with red berry napkin rings.

Green wine goblets from the Dollar Tree are at each place setting. 

The pallet wood centerpiece that Mr. B made for me is filled with greens, ornaments and candles.

Gold and while candles are strategically placed around the table.

From our table to yours, we wish you the Merriest of Christmas!

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Cookies With Santa Tablescape

Before I set a more formal table for our Christmas dinner I wanted to set a fun table.  

Then I remembered this bottle I had purchased at the Christmas Tree Shop when I was visiting my son in CT last year and a fun table was born!  A table set for children, anticipating a special visit with Santa before he got too busy. Cookies With Santa!

I started with a gold charger, then layered a white dinner plate and topped it off with a dessert plate I had purchased several years ago on clearance from the grocery store.

A wagon full of toys from Santa!

A each place setting is a gold tin sleigh filled with candy treats.  I found the sleighs just a few weeks ago when I took my MIL to a great shop just a few miles from home.  They were only $1.95 each and I had to have them!

They seem to be vintage and are made even sweeter with the candy added!

The centerpiece is a red tray I have had for years and is filled with ornaments, the milk bottle just for Santa and cookies, of course!

One of my favorite nutcrackers stands guard over the treats until Santa arrives. 

A gilded reindeer rests peaceful on the red and gold table runner we found while out shopping.  My MIL, an enabler just like her son, said I had to have it!  Just like with her son, I don't argue with such sound advice! Now, I have two enablers in my home LOL!

I had purchased the clear milk bottle glasses several years ago at IKEA and just knew they were the perfect fit for this table.

Thrift store Santa napkin rings hold the napkin that will be needed to remove cookie crumbs and milk mustaches from the children's faces. 

A fun table set for the young ones to gather at with the big man in red as they tell him their wishes of what they'd like to find under the tree on Christmas morning. 

I always share my tables with

Kathleen at Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen

Susan at Between Naps On The Porch Tablescape Thursday

Christine at Rustic & Refined

and

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life Table Top Tuesday

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Christmas Table Setting

Now that we have a larger dining room and I can leave the dining table fully extended, I am always on the lookout for new tablecloths.  Recently I was at Target doing some Christmas shopping and saw this beautiful red tablecloth with embossed snowflakes in the right size and knew it would be perfect for a Christmas table setting.

In fact, you can see I loved it so much, I didn't even bother to iron it before I threw it on the table. You know me, patience is not my strong suit LOL. It was the perfect canvass for a more formal holiday tablescape.

The sparkly silver "chargers" you may remember from my New Year's Eve Table

The dinner plate is our everyday white Corelle and the square bowl was a clearance find at IKEA. I've used the napkins before and they were purchased from Boscovs online clearance section a few years ago.  The red felt snowflake napkins rings were purchased for .99 from World Market and mimic the ones in the tablecloth.

I had seen the centerpiece at Michael's and noticed it was 50% off.  I walked away but, while standing in line to pay for my other purchases, I couldn't get it out of my head and left the long line and went back and grabbed it.  I am so glad I did!

I don't think it screams Christmas, do you? Just by changing the candles, I believe I can use it all winter!

I just love the frosty branches, fruit and pinecones.

Yes, I am glad I listened to my heart and bought it!

I polished up my favorite vintage Rogers silverplate flatware.

And of course, my Godinger Shannon crystal goblets had to be used on this table.

The red, white and silver just pop and sparkle on the table.

So formal and yet, so casual too.

You can see some peeks at some of my other Christmas decor and I will be sharing it all later. I hope to see you again then!

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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Blog Hop - Mantels & Tablescapes

I’m thrilled to be teaming up with Kathy from Life On Lakeshore Drive, Doreen of House Honeys and Tammy from One More Time Events to bring you…

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This week we are featuring Mantels & Tablescapes
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Kathe from

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Hi friends!

This week I am sharing our 

Christmas mantel & tablescape decor

This year, I went with a predominate red & white

theme in the dining room.

I started the table with a plain white table cloth.

I made the runner using red & white polka dotted 

wrapping paper I bought, on sale, from Hobby lobby.

I used a simple red charger and

layered a white thrift store Johnson's Bros dinner plate

and topped it off with a fun polka dotted

square salad plate, bought on clearance,

from Hobby Lobby.
(Love how they match the wrapping paper perfectly!)

Bright red napkins were folded to mimic

the Santa hats on each chair

and I simply added a cotton ball at the top.

I then placed the flatware in each napkin.

The snowflake stems came from Dollar Tree several years ago.

The little snowflake votives are from Yankee Candle.

For the centerpiece I used some

icy candle sticks from Kohl's,

added some epsom salts for snow,

and topped them off with a 

polka dotted ornament.

I also used my favorite mirror, added some red glittered ribbon to white 

candles and placed them all in the center of the table.

The mantle in the living room is more traditional.

Mr. B is in charge of the tree decor in this room

and he likes a warm comfy feel.

The mantel set up didn't change much

from last year's decor.

One thing I did add was the banner I made.

I started with some burlap looking scrapbooking paper,

clear snowflakes from the Dollar Tree,

gold paper doilies from Michael's, a scalloped circle punch,

glitter and ribbon.

I wound up not using the hole punch, the gold rope

or the gold glitter LOL.

Every have that happen?  

You start with one thing in mind but, 

once you get started it all changes?

I printed out my letters in a fun font,

watered down some glue,

painted on the glue to my letters

and covered them in glitter.

I started with gold glitter and realized it wouldn't show up very well

so, I switched to red glitter.

 After cutting the doilies to size,

I hot glued all of the pieces together

and hot glued them to the ribbon.

I also glued a piece of rick rack to the back of the ribbon

in order to hang the banner, using Command hooks.

 Even Mr. B was pleased at how it really added

that extra something to our mantel!

Now, it's your turn!

We can't wait to see your Christmas mantels and tablescapes! 

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