Poinsettias on a Christmas Tablescape

This is the fourth year in a row that I have created a new Poinsettia Christmas tablescape. You can see the other three here, here, and here. I am sentimental about poinsettias at Christmas time because my mother loved them and always decorated with them during the Christmas season later in her life. I have had this poinsettia tablecloth with the matching napkins for several years and I decided that I needed to either use it or donate it. Now that I see it on a tablescape, it is a keeper! It is polyester and it probably came from HomeGoods. I really like the use of black with the red and green. It is a busy pattern and I bet I will get at least one reader telling me that a solid color tablecloth would have looked better. (Yep, I did!) Why people offer unsolicited advice is beyond me. Sometimes I just like busy!

I found these ceramic poinsettia salad plates at HomeGoods several years ago. I like the bright red color and the shape of them.

This black dinner plate was made by 10 Strawberry Street and it was one of the first dinner plates that I bought when I started tablescaping. I knew I would need a basic black dinner plate. The pattern was called Classic Black Porcelain. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

This is a charger that Hubby bought at the Dollar Store for me and I had him spray-paint it a bright Christmas red. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

Pulling this tablescape together was a bit of a struggle this week. I was trying to figure out the flatware and accent color with little luck and my daughter stopped by and in about five minutes suggested gold. Of course she was right. Her design sense is so much better than mine! This gold plated flatware was a gift from Hubby a few Christmases ago. I had bought a cheap set of gold flatware several years ago. It was poor quality and the gold started flaking off. You get what you pay for! We found this set on major sale at Macys. It is made by Wallace and is called Mikasa Duchess Gold. I love the design, a bit fussy but not too fussy. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

This hammered gold colored napkin ring was made by DII and I bought them on Amazon several years ago. I bought the polyester poinsettia napkins with the tablecloth at HomeGoods several years ago.

This gold spiral place card holder probably came from a wedding supply site online. I have had it for a while.

I love these goblets and this is the first time that I have used the red ones on a tablescape. I hadn’t inventoried them and taken photos of them to add to my goblets folder and they are stored in my hutch instead of the garage where I store most of my goblets so I kind of forgot about them! Both goblets came from Williams Sonoma online. The green goblet on the left is prettier than the photo shows, it shows more black in the photo instead of the darkish Kelly Green color that it is actually. I love the etched pine cone design. The pattern is called Christmas Pine Cone Cut and they were selling it in red and green when I bought them a few years ago. They are hand cut and hand painted. The red cut glass goblet on the right came from Williams Sonoma as well last year. The pattern is called Wilshire Jewel Cut. They are hand cut and hand painted and there are four in the set with different hand cut designs on the bowl on each one. 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.

I often use faux poinsettias on my tablescapes but these poinsettias are real. Keep in mind that although poinsettias aren’t poisonous for humans and animals they can cause stomach problems and rashes so be aware. I wanted to put these poinsettias in a gold vase but after a comedy of errors I ended up with a black matte pottery vase that I have had for several years. One definitely has to be flexible when creating tablescapes! I did add a bit of gold with a thin beaded garland scattered around the bottom.

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Christmas Trees on a Christmas Tablescape

This is the second Christmas Tree themed tablescape that I have done. I did a different one two years ago with a few of the same elements but this table setting is different. You can see that tablescape here. This tablecloth came from Amazon a few years ago. If you read my blog you know that my favorite Christmas colors are red and green and I always create one or two tablescapes at Christmas time using those colors. They were my mother’s favorite Christmas colors and using them during the holiday season reminds me of her. I like the small green Christmas trees on this red plaid tablecloth. I often use a red plaid or red gingham tablecloth during the Christmas season.

I had been looking for a Christmas Tree shaped salad plate that I liked for several years and last year I got lucky. Both Target and Michaels were selling this Christmas Tree salad plate. I love the shape, the different colors, and the yellow star on top. The back of the plate says 90 Years of Holiday Magic, Mr. Christmas, 1933 - 2023.

These red dinner plates are made by Fiesta and the color is Scarlet. This pattern and color are actually our every day dishes and I use them often on my Christmas tablescapes. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

Hubby bought these chargers at the Dollar Store last year and spray-painted them Kelly Green for me so that I could use them on my Christmas tablescapes.

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. If you read my blog you have seen this set on many different tablescapes. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I found these Christmas Tree napkin rings on Amazon a couple of years ago. I like the small red balls on them. The green polyester napkins also came from Amazon a few years ago. When I am looking for something for my tablescapes I google whatever it is and something perfect often pops out. I do most of my tablescape shopping online. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

These mercury green tree place card holders came from Pier 1 a few years ago. I love the shiny green color. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I had been looking for a darker green glass goblet for quite a while and I finally decided to buy these green glass goblets on the left several years ago. They are made by Mosser Glass in the U.S.. They are a bit shorter than I usually buy but I love the color. The pattern is called Arlington and the color is Hunter Green. I bought them a few at a time over several months. They are really heavy glass and very good quality. The red goblet on the right is called Fortessa Carousel. I bought them several years ago online but I can’t remember where. 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.

This Christmas Tree cookie jar centerpiece came from Pier 1 online a couple of years ago. I put it on a red drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn to give it a bit more height.

I bought this Mosser Glass Panel Hunter Green salt and pepper set online at Everything Kitchens last year.

I decided to also add a Mosser Glass red salt and pepper set to this tablescape. I bought this set online at The Vermont Country Store a couple of years ago. The Mosser Glass Company was established in 1971 and it is located in Cambridge, Ohio. They sell high quality American made glassware and I love their products. I have a few sets of their goblets and a few cake stands too.

I love mixing red and green together on a tablescape at Christmas time!

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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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