Elves on a Christmas Tablescape

This Elves tablescape has been over a year in the making. I bought the napkin rings last year and then spent months looking for everything else. The tablecloth came from Spoonflower online a few months ago. My favorite Christmas colors to decorate with are a true Christmas Red and Kelly Green so I was looking for those colors.

These elf shoe appetizer plates were made by Boston Warehouse and they are marked 2005. I bought them on Ebay last year. There are three different color designs. I love the gold bells and all the stripes and polka dots!

This dinner plate was made by Fiesta and the color is Shamrock. It is one of my favorite green dinner plates, I love the bright green color. Unfortunately this color has been discontinued but you may still be able to find them on the secondary market. I love the design of this dinner plate, I have it in other colors as well. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

This charger came from the Dollar Store last year and Hubby spray-painted it red for me. I love this bright red color. I can’t remember what the original color was. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

This Milano Red flatware is Ginkgo International LePrix. I have had this set for years but it is still for sale. Not sure where I bought it. I now have it in other colors as well. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found these cute plastic elf napkin rings on Etsy last year. I bought three boy elves and three girl elves. I found the green napkins on Amazon a few years ago.

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It was a struggle to find an elf place card holder and I finally settled on this elf toy. It is actually a small car with wheels. I just set them on a Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holder. I bought the place card holders at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They are heavy and solid and I really like the simple design. I often use them as a stand for place card items. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

The green goblet on the left came from Macy’s a few years ago. The pattern is Qualia Glass Meridian. I like the height and the beautiful green color. I think the red glass goblet on the right came from Crate and Barrel a few years ago. I had been looking for some simple red goblets and grabbed these when I saw them online. Now I wish I had ordered more of them. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

When we travel out of state we always seem to eat at Cracker Barrel a few times. I love their gift shop area and when I discovered that they have an online store I was really happy. From time to time I check their web store and I discovered this elf cookie jar a few months ago. I had been looking for some kind of elf centerpiece for a year and I quickly bought it! I set it on a red drink dispenser stand that I bought at Pottery Barn several years ago to give it a bit more height.

When I saw the matching elf salt and pepper set I bought them as well. They remind me of the pixie figures that were popular in the 50’s.

I found this three piece elf set online at Walmart. I bought two sets, one for each side of the centerpiece. I like their cute little faces and the bright colors.

It can’t be Christmas without a few elves wandering around!

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More Turkeys on a Thanksgiving Tablescape

I decided to do just one more Thanksgiving tablescape before I moved on to Christmas. I found this burnt orange polyester leaves tablecloth on Amazon several years ago. I really liked it and it was a great price so I bought it in three other fall colors. You can see the gold one on a gold Thanksgiving tablescape that I did a few years ago here.

When I saw these earthenware turkey salad plates at Sur La Table online a few years ago, I really liked them and so I bought them. The colors are different from many of the turkey plates that I have seen before. There was a matching dinner plate but I didn’t buy it because that design didn’t go all around the plate and the salad plate would have covered most of it. Kind of a waste of money I thought.

This dinner plate came from Pottery Barn several years ago. It is part of their Cambria stoneware dinnerware and the color is turquoise. This plate is large enough that it could be used as a charger as well. I like plates that have that versatility. I ended up buying this plate in a few other colors over the years. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here. I didn’t add a charger to this tablescape because I didn’t have one that matched everything on the table well enough. You don’t always need to add a charger to your table setting.

I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair several years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than I would like but I really liked the frosted color. Wayfair has really good sales on flatware sometimes. Frosted flatware is really popular right now and a Google search will turn up several patterns and colors. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here. You can see the raised design on the tablecloth in this photo. The thread design shines a bit.

This turkey napkin ring is one of my favorite napkin rings. It was one of the first napkin rings that I bought when I started tablescaping several years ago. The bottom says, “j. willfred, a division of the Charles Sadek Import Company, Inc.”. I bought them online but I can’t remember where. I bought these cotton Aspen Organic Spice Orange napkins at Crate and Barrel online last year. I wanted to have some napkins to match the goblets on this tablescape. I really like this deep rich color and it photographs well on this tablescape. They are almost a perfect match for the color of this tablecloth.

I found these Department 56 ceramic turkey place card holders on Mercari last year. I have a few other sets of turkey place card holders but these were colorful and it’s difficult to find turkeys so I grabbed them.

This burnt orange goblet on the left, in the photos, looks like it is a shade of purple but it a really pretty burnt orange color. I found them at HomeGoods a few years ago. They had six and I grabbed them fast! When I see a goblet in an unusual color that I know I can use, I buy them! The goblet on the right is a light blue color. I have this goblet in glass or plastic in several different colors. I bought them online several years ago but I can’t remember where.

I found these faux fall flowers at Hobby Lobby on sale a few years ago. I set them in a large white pottery vase, one of a pair of identical white pottery vases that I inherited from my mother. She received them as a wedding present in 1938.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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A Brown and White Thanksgiving Tablescape

I have had these brown and white turkey dinner plates for a while and when I found the white turkey tureen a few years ago I knew it was time to pull a table setting together.

I didn’t have a brown tablecloth but I found one on Amazon. I really wanted a table setting with only two colors this time.

Sorry about the glare on the plate, to get enough light I have to deal with the reflection of the light. These dinner plates were made by Spode and the pattern is called Celebration. I think I bought them at HomeGoods a few years ago. I like the profile of this large turkey and the flower border.

The white charger is one of the first charger sets I bought when I started tablescaping. The pattern is Antique Beaded and I bought them at Williams Sonoma several years ago. I use this charger constantly in my table settings. If you look back through my blog at my tablescapes, you will see it often. A simple white charger is a great first purchase if you want to create more interest in your table settings.

It’s difficult to see on top of the brown tablecloth but this flatware is a smoky brown color. The camera makes them look much darker in color than they really are. The handles are some kind of plastic material. They are marked SR Showroom Italy. I bought them online somewhere several years ago but I can’t remember where. They are really large and well made.

The clear goblet on the right is my wedding crystal, the pattern is Lismore made by Waterford. I also have sherbets, candlesticks and some serving pieces in this pattern. The pattern was released in 1952 and it is still in production. I love it. The brown goblet on the left was made by Lenox between 1966 and 1985. It was called Antique Brown. I bought them on Ebay several years ago.

The brown napkins probably came from World Market several years ago. They almost match the tablecloth, close enough. I was looking for a white turkey napkin ring and found these on Ebay a few years ago.

The brown metal turkey place card holder can also be a napkin ring. You can’t see the ring behind the turkey. I have had them for several years. I think they came from Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn. The white salt and pepper set came from Pottery Barn a few years ago. I already had the leaf tea light candle holders, not sure where I found them.

This white turkey tureen came from Pottery Barn a few years ago. I had been looking for a large white soup tureen for a while but nothing was quite right. When I saw this one I decided he needed a good home with us. I like the fact that he comes with a matching ladle.

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A Witch's Night Halloween Party

My daughter and her partner hosted a witch-themed Girl’s Night. They set the scene with decorations they had, and more that they borrowed from me. My daughter Sara is very creative and they enjoy hosting gatherings for their friends. I love this display on their front porch that welcomed their guests. They really know how to create a party atmosphere! The Witch’s Lair sign came from Michaels and the giant cauldron came from Party City. The skeletons are hung from the rafters (one has blown around) and they are wearing costumes. They ran out of costume material, and so one skeleton is wearing a black vinyl tablecloth that they fashioned into a dress. One also had a broken leg, that as you can see, made a convenient stew!

My daughter designed the invitation using witch themed graphics on Canva and they printed them at home onto a clouded gold sparkle invitation package she got at Michael’s.

Many of the decorations were purchased this year at Michael’s as part of the Ashland collection. The sign on the front door set the mood for what was to come.

The living room was decorated with lots of candles and witchy accents. They borrowed the long black iron candle holder from me and filled it with a dozen lit tea candles. I have had it for a long time and I can’t remember where it came from. It comes apart into two sections. I had the spider web candles and candle holders stored for a long time, so I am glad they were finally able to use them! I don’t remember where they came from. The gnarly black plastic tree comes in dozens of pieces so it can be easily stored in a small box. I found it online somewhere years ago. They wrapped one of my Halloween tablecloths around the base. I have thought about using the tree as a centerpiece on a Halloween tablescape sometime, but it is almost too large for that. The black and white striped pumpkin on the chest came from Grandin Road a few years ago.

This table in the entryway greeted the guests. They found the light up witch poster at Michaels. They borrowed the electronic Halloween lantern from me and it has a switch to turn on so that it flickers like a candle is inside. I found the lantern at Roger’s Gardens in Corona Del Mar, California a few years ago. Roger’s Gardens is a wonderful nursery and gift shop and they decorate large spaces at Halloween and Christmas with all kinds of fantastic decorations. Even if you don’t buy anything it is a great place to visit! People often take holiday photos there. As soon as I saw this lantern I knew it would be a perfect centerpiece for a Halloween tablescape and I used it on a Halloween tablescape a few years ago. You can see that tablescape here. The white skull that I found at HomeGoods is sitting on a black pedestal stand that I bought at Grandin Road several years ago. They came in a set of three, all different heights, and my daughter always uses them to place things at different heights in her designs. The bats on the wall came from Amazon.

When you entered the dining room, one wall was covered with this wonderful witch’s lair backdrop that they found on Amazon. It is made of thin vinyl and it made the perfect background for photos!

The party hostesses, Sara on the left, and Elizabeth on the right. Sara’s witch hat came from Michael’s and her spiderweb wrap came from Party City.

This seance table scene was in the center of the room and featured a giant marble-looking skull (probably from HomeGoods) and Luminara brand electronic candles. They got the limited edition Ouija board at a Spirit Halloween store. These stores pop up in Southern California in vacant stores during the Halloween season.

They set up an apothecary on a low shelf in the family room using antiques, and an assortment of items they borrowed from me including lots of lighted candles and bottles of potions. The Old Salem Apothecary sign came from Michaels. I can’t remember where I found the skull years ago but it was brown and white and a friend painted and changed the brown to black. It looks so much better now.

This corner included a Raven’s wood sign (Michael’s) and a black velvet pumpkin with skeleton hands that came from Party City.

Last year Hubby downloaded and printed similar bottle labels to these that I attached to random bottles. I am looking forward to setting an apothecary-themed tablescape next Halloween!

I purchased this darling witch’s hat centerpiece at Roger’s Gardens a few years ago, and my daughter loved it and made it the focal point of the buffet.

They purchased the raven snow globe at Marshall’s last year and one of the vintage looking books came from JoAnn’s.

They found many of their paper goods, including these cocktail napkins, at HomeGoods.

Even the kitchen and bathroom were decorated!

They decorated their buffet and large tables to use as serving areas for food. They borrowed one of my Halloween tablecloths (Amazon) and a few candle holders. They found the Be a Witch plaque at Michaels. The black raven was one of a set of two I found at Grandin Road online this fall. Look for a Raven themed tablescape next Halloween! They draped several areas with black netting fabric from Party City and it really added to the witchy vibe.

My daughter affixed candy eyeballs with frosting to meringues purchased at Trader Joe’s. Many of the goodies came from our local bakery.

Many of their friends really enjoyed escaping out for a night of fun. One of my daughter’s childhood best friends dressed as Wednesday Addams and brought gorgeous handmade cookies that she decorates and sells!

My daughter is still close to her childhood friends and I love seeing them all together as adults.

From what I hear, everyone had a fantastic time!