Poinsettias on the Christmas Tablescape

December 20, 2020 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This tablescape started out as one theme, then changed to another theme, and finally ended up here. (The other two themes will be coming soon.) My mother loved poinsettias and when I see them I always think of her. I did a poinsettia themed Christmas tablescape with a different look five years ago and I will repeat that one next Christmas because the photos were too dark and I wasn’t blogging then. I love combining red and green at Christmas time. The green tablecloth came from Amazon recently. I added my green Circle Depression Glass cream and sugar and salt and pepper to this photo to balance things out a bit better.

I have had these red poinsettia salad plates for several years. Not sure where they came from but it was probably Ebay. They were made by Andrea by Sadek. I love the color and detail on these plates and the way they pop against the green dinner plate.

I added my green Shamrock Fiesta dinner plate to this table setting. This is one of my favorite green plates, I just love the bright green color.

These are new to me red chargers that I just bought online. They are resin and light weight. I saw them online on Instagram on the vintagejunktionla page. She has a 30,000 square foot warehouse full of antiques and collectibles in Los Angeles and she ships! The minute we can safely shop, I am there! I like the design around the rim.

This flatware was made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern was called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale a few years ago. There are similar patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. This flatware set is seeing a lot of action on my tablescapes right now!

I’ve had these flannel napkins for years, I love this colorful plaid. They probably came from Pier 1 or HomeGoods. The poinsettia napkin rings were made by Lenox and I bought them on Ebay several years ago.

I can’t remember where I bought these poinsettia place card holders. I know it was online somewhere.

I used these same goblets on last week’s Rudolph tablescape, you can see them on that table here. The green glass goblets come from The Vermont Country Store online. They are made by Mosser in the U.S. and the pattern is Georgia. They are really heavy glass and very good quality. I have bought a few at a time over the years. I also have them in cobalt blue. I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets for this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago.

I seldom use real flowers on my tablescapes but this centerpiece has real poinsettias. They are sitting in a red and green handblown Blenko Monticello Poinsettia Vase from Monticello Shop online, an early Christmas present from Hubby. The vase is sitting on one of my vintage poinsettia Christmas hankies.

I clearly needed to snip some threads off! Lol!

The vase is more true red than this photo shows.

There is something about red and green that makes everything look so Christmassy!

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Rudolph on the Christmas Tablescape

December 13, 2020 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I had been thinking about trying to create a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tablescape for a while. I decided to try and find a Rudolph centerpiece and if I could find one, I would then look for everything else. I found the centerpiece fairly quickly and the tablescape was on its way. I bought the green tablecloth on Amazon a few years ago. I wanted a Christmassy green color and this one was perfect.

I found these Rudolph salad plates on Ebay and I bought them one at a time a a few years ago as I saw them. They were made by New Seasons and the plate was illustrated by Sue DiCicco. I love this version of Rudolph. I was trying to figure out what other colors should be on the table and I was fixated on the blue background color on this plate but I wanted the table to be Christmas colors and more blue just wasn’t working for me with the centerpiece colors. I was talking to my daughter about it and she suggested a green tablecloth and a red charger and that worked perfectly.

I added my green Shamrock Fiesta dinner plate to the plate stack. This is one of my favorite green plates, I just love the bright green color.

I haven’t used this red charger much and when Hubby was pulling things for this table for me he brought this one in instead of the one I have used several times and I decided to use this one instead. The pattern was Ruby Berry and Thread and they were made by Juliska. Several years ago I bought these chargers a few at a time over several months from various places online until I had the number I needed. I like the simple design on the rim and it is a bit larger than some of the chargers I have.

This flatware was made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern was called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale a few years ago. There are similar patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. I used this same flatware on my Gingerbread People tablescape. You can see it here.

These plastic Rudolph napkin rings are actually Christmas ornaments that I found online at Target a few years ago. An ornament napkin ring would be a fun party favor for your dinner guests. The Christmas napkins probably came from HomeGoods, they were designed and signed by Vera. Vera Neumann designed many fabrics for home use for many years in the 1960’s and 1970’s and her work is being reproduced now. Some people collect her older designs.

I love these Rudolph place card holders! They were made by a British company, Ginger Ray. I bought them online somewhere a few years ago but I can’t find the order so I am not sure where I found them.

The green glass goblets come from The Vermont Country Store online. They are made by Mosser in the U.S. and the pattern is Georgia. They are really heavy glass and very good quality. I have bought a few at a time over the years. I also have them in cobalt blue. I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets for this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. Hubby and I were there and I suddenly saw a few and quickly found twelve and bought them all! I buy dishes in sets of 12 usually since there are 11 of us now when we are all together. If you read the tablescapes section on my blog you have seen this red goblet on several tablescapes.

I found this Rudolph cookie jar at Mercari online. He has such a sweet face! He’s called Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys and the design was copyrighted by The Rudolph Company in 2001. Rudolph is sitting on a red Rhodes stoneware drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn. I bought these stands in a few colors several years ago to use when I need to add height to a centerpiece. Under the stand is one of my vintage Christmas hankies with Santa and his reindeer. This is a smaller hankie, probably made in the 1940’s or 1950’s, and they were usually made for children. About 30 years ago I started collecting holiday hankies after I found one in my mother’s things and I have a few hundred of them. They were a dollar or two and something fun to look for on a mom’s day out at antique malls because you didn’t see them that often and they don’t take up any space. Then Ebay arrived and suddenly there were hundreds of them right there and the demand for them raised the prices considerably so I stopped collecting them. Some of the signed and special design hankies can sell for over $50 each now, crazy!

I added my two sets of scarlet Fiesta salt and peppers to fill the table space a bit. They remind my of Rudolph’s red nose!

I have always had a soft spot for Rudolph. I’m glad he ended up on a tablescape this season!

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Gingerbread People on the Christmas Tablescape

December 06, 2020 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

I did a another Christmas tablescape with a gingerbread house centerpiece, you can see that one here. I love decorating with gingerbread at Christmas so I started looking for a salad plate with gingerbread people a few years ago and I finally found this one. The red gingham tablecloth is one of my favorites. It is heavy cotton and I bought it at Sur La Table several years ago.

I started my gingerbread people salad plate search online by googling gingerbread salad plate. There were many out there but it took a while to find these. I found one at Mercari online and then checked Ebay and got lucky and found the other five there. They were made by temp-tations by Tara. I love cute happy gingerbread people and these are just that. I knew I had dinner plates and chargers that would match so I quickly bought them all before someone else could!

The dinner plate is made by Fiesta and the color is Lemongrass. I think I bought them at Macy’s several years ago.

This plate stack has an extra plate because I wanted to mix the colors a certain way. This red stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn. I love this plate, I also have it in a pale blue and a sage green. The pattern is called Cambria. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility. I use it as a charger more than I do as a dinner plate. It is often in use on my Christmas tablescapes, 4th of July tablescapes, and for Valentine’s Day.

These chargers were made by Mikasa and the pattern was Color Spectrum, this one in Hunter Green. I have several different colors of this charger and I really love the size, design and shape. They were all discontinued but I bought them all on Ebay a few at a time over the years. It is actually a prettier hunter green than this photo shows.

This flatware is made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern is called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale a few years ago. There are similar patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles.

I found these metal gingerbread napkin rings online at Mercari as well. The lemongrass green napkins were made by Fiesta, I can’t remember where I bought them. They match the dinner plates. I have had the red napkins for a long time, not sure where they came from.

I found the gingerbread boy and girl place card holders at Hobby Lobby online a few years ago. There is just something so festive and cheerful about gingerbread people!

I think next Christmas I will do a candy themed table! I did one several years ago but the photos are too dark.

I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets for this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen this goblet on several tablescapes. I bought the green spiral goblets at Pier 1 several years ago. I really like the design of both of these goblets and the colors are perfect for this table setting.

I added some gingerbread salt and pepper sets to fill in some space on the table. I found both sets on Ebay several years ago. I often add small salt and pepper sets to a themed table for more fun.

I knew I wanted a cookie jar as the centerpiece on this table and so I googled gingerbread cookie jar and looked at many of them before I found this one online at Mercari a few years ago. It was originally bought at T J Maxx and it was made by Potter’s Studio. I love the icing and the bow design, and the happy face! I scattered a felt ball garland around the bottom that I found on Amazon, they remind me of gum drops and they match the buttons on the gingerbread man. The gingerbread man is sitting on a red Rhodes stoneware drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn. I bought these stands in a few colors several years ago to use when I need to add height to a centerpiece.

I have a great ginger spice shaped cookie recipe, definitely need to serve them with this tablescape!

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A Christmas Tablescape with Ornaments

November 29, 2020 by Beth Wilson in Tablescapes

This tablescape was two years in the making. I bought the centerpiece bowl on sale a few years ago and then looked for ornament salad plates that were the right colors to match it for a few years until I found these. I bought the green tablecloth on Amazon a few years ago . I have several green tablecloths but I wanted this Christmassy green color and Amazon had just the right shade. I added my Depression Glass Circle pattern cream and sugar and salt and pepper set to fill in the empty spaces on the table a bit. I thought about adding small ornaments there but I decided they would make the table too busy looking. The Believe sign on the hutch came from Grandin Road online a few years ago.

I wanted the colors on the salad plates to match the centerpiece colors and it took me a few years years to find these salad plates. I looked at many different plates with ornaments on them but none of them had the right colors. These plates originally came from Crate and Barrel several years ago. As soon as I saw them on Ebay, I knew they would be a good match. I love the whimsy of the ornament designs.

I added an extra plate to this plate stack because I wanted to alternate the red and green colors. This Fiesta salad plate is part of our every day dishes set. The color is scarlet. They came from Macy’s several years ago.

The dinner plates are made by Fiesta and the color is shamrock. I bought them at Macy’s a few years ago.

This stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn. I love this plate, I also have it in a pale blue and a sage green. The pattern is called Cambria. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility. I use it as a charger more than I do as a dinner plate. It is often in use on my Christmas tablescapes, 4th of July tablescapes, and for Valentine’s Day.

This Milano Red flatware is Ginkgo International LePrix. I have had this set for several years. Not sure where I bought it. I use it several times a year on tablescapes. I also bought the set in black and I use that set often too.

I was so lucky to find these napkins with an ornaments design on Etsy a fewyears ago. I looked for a long time and they are a perfect match for the centerpiece and the colors on this table. Meg at ME2Designs on Etsy has made me many sets of napkins over the past few years and I am so glad that I found her! Sometimes I tell her what subject I am looking for and she sends me photos of samples of fabric to choose from! I bought the ornament napkin rings on Ebay a few years ago. They were burgundy with a raised beige snowflake design but I knew Hubby could paint them for me. I was looking for a simple design because of the busy pattern on the napkins and they are perfect.

They can be used as place card holders as well.

I found these ornament place card holders/napkin rings on Ebay a few years ago. They were made by Mud Pie in 2010. The colors are perfect for this table, I got lucky!

I am using my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets again on this table. If you read my blog, you have seen these goblets several times. I think if I were starting a tablescaping hobby, a set of red goblets would be one of my first purchases. They can be used several times a year. I bought these goblets years ago at HomeGoods. I bought a set because I love the fact that they are a bit taller than other goblets and the design goes well with everything. The green goblets came from Pier 1 several years ago, I use them several times a year. I like how tall they are and the simple spiral design.

Grandin Road online had this Ornament Serving Bowl with a ladle in their catalog for a couple of years. I bought it a few years ago on sale. I love the Christmassy colors and the peppermint ladle. It will probably sit out somewhere during part of the holiday season just for decoration. The first time I saw it I knew it would make a wonderful centerpiece for a Christmas tablescape. It just took me a few years to pull it all together! I bought the Kurt Adler garland to scatter around it on Amazon a few years ago to add a bit more interest and match the peppermint pattern.

You can see one of the other ornament designs on the salad plates here.

This salad plate has another slightly different ornament design. I love the red and green colors on this Christmas tablescape and how everything ties together.

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