Holly on a Christmas Tablescape

I bought this Holly themed tablecloth at HomeGoods a few years ago but this is the first time that I have used it on a Christmas Tablescape. I love the graphics on the tablecloth. This Holly theme would be a good theme for a tablescape after Christmas is over and you need ideas for January and Winter tablescapes. The tablecloth is polyester and the only problem with polyester tablecloths and napkins is how slippery they are. I store them in stacks on shelves and it is such a pain when something slips out especially when it is a stack of many napkins that all fall on the floor and have to be folded again.

I have been slowly gathering holly themed items, sometimes gathering specific themed items takes a long time. I started planning for this tablescape last Christmas. I found these holly salad plates at Pottery Barn online a few years ago after doing a google search for holly salad plates. They are a heavy ceramic material. I like the darker forest green color, the holly design, and the red berry accents.

These red stoneware dinner plates were sold by Better Homes and Gardens. I have had them for a few years and I don’t remember where I bought them online. They are a heavier stoneware and I chose them to go with the heavier dark green holly salad plates on the plate stack. I like the scalloped edge. I have several different red dinner plates and each set is a different kind of design. I probably should stop buying red dinner plates!

These chargers were made by Mikasa and the pattern was called Color Spectrum. The color of this charger is Hunter Green. I have this charger in several different colors and I really love the size, design and shape. They were discontinued but I bought them all on Ebay a few at a time over the years as I found them.

This flatware set 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 many years ago. There are similar frosted patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. I bought this pattern in a few other colors as well. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware sets here.

I have had these red cotton napkins for a long time. I am not sure where they came from but I love the bright red color. I found these vintage metal holly napkin rings on Ebay a few years ago. They had some paint loss but I knew I wanted the green color to be a darker green so I bought them. Hubby spray-painted them for me. When you are looking at vintage items remember that you can sometimes repaint them especially if they are metal.

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I found these vintage holly and white place card holders with red candles on Etsy a few years ago. They were in the original box with a price tag from Maas Brothers. Maas Brothers was a store started by two brothers in Tampa, Florida in 1886. The brand ended in 1991 when the company was taken over by another company. I suspect these place card holders were sold between the 1960’s and the 1980’s. There is a space to write the guest’s name and it can be erased so that the place card holder can be used again. The original candles were included, I can’t believe that they weren’t broken at some point. I love finding vintage napkin rings and place card holders because they are different from those that are sold today. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets on this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. Hubby and I were in there and I suddenly saw a few and quickly found twelve and bought them all! If you read the tablescapes section on my blog you have seen this red goblet on many tablescapes. 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. The green cut glass goblet on the right came from Williams Sonoma a few years ago. The pattern is called Christmas Pine Cone Cut and they were selling it in red and green when I bought them. They are hand cut and hand painted and I really love the pine cone design. They are a prettier brighter green color than these photos show.

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 struggled a bit with a centerpiece for this Holly Tablescape. I finally ended up with this red glass bowl filled with decoupage holly ornaments from At Home online with a red and green glass pillar candle holder on each side. I found this ruby red glass serving bowl on Ebay last year but it wasn’t identified. I used Google Images and I was actually able to identify it as made by New Martinsville/Viking between 1926 and 1970. The pattern was called Janice.

These Blenko Monticello Poinsettia Vases came from Monticello Shop online several years ago. They were handblown and they were a Christmas present from Hubby. I put a white pillar candle in each one.

I love the color combination of green and red together at Christmas time and if you read my blog you see that color combination often on some of my Christmas Tablescapes.

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Reindeer on a Christmas Tablescape

I have been thinking about a Reindeer Christmas Tablescape for a few years but it didn’t all come together until this year. I found this Ralph Lauren red tablecloth with a paisley design at HomeGoods several years ago. I can’t remember but this might be the first time that I have used it on a tablescape.

After we found the reindeer for the centerpiece I started looking for some salad plates with reindeer on them. I found several designs but I didn’t like any of them until I found these salad plates at Williams Sonoma online. They are part of their ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Dinnerware Collection. I love the gold accents and the reindeer design.

I found these glossy white dinner plates at HomeGoods several years ago. They were made by Lenox and the pattern was called Opal Innocence Carved. I like the spiral design because it matches the spirals on the tablecloth and on the salad plates. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

I found these gold chargers at Crate and Barrel a few years ago. Crate and Barrel never disappoints me, their products are well made and of great quality.

This gold plated flatware set was a gift from Hubby a couple of years 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 the pattern is called Mikasa Duchess Gold. I love the design on the handle, it’s interesting but not too fussy. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

When I found the Ralph Lauren red tablecloth at HomeGoods I also bought the matching napkins. I really love the rich red color. I found these gold colored reindeer napkin rings online at Servette Home. I really like the antlers and I knew that these gold reindeer napkin rings would be perfect on this Reindeer Christmas Tablescape. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I have had these gold metal reindeer place card holders for several years. I can’t remember where I found them. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I think the red glass goblet on the left came from Crate and Barrel a few years ago. I had been looking for some simple red goblets and I grabbed these when I saw them online. I only bought six and I wished I had bought more but this week Hubby found six other red glass goblets at HomeGoods that are so similar you can’t tell the difference. I found the gold goblet a few years ago on Amazon. They were made by PG. 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 tablescape wouldn’t have been created this Christmas if Hubby hadn’t gone to HomeGoods with me last month and found one of these reindeers that I missed when I was walking around the store. When he showed it to me I immediately thought of a Reindeer tablescape and we bought it. (I think he was sorry that he had shown it to me!) It is just labeled CR on the bottom. I told him that we needed two and he found another one later. I added a Santa that I found at HomeGoods to the centerpiece as well.

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Gingerbread on a Christmas Tablescape

Ok, I have to admit that this is one of my favorite tablescapes that I have created this year. Unfortunately the photos don’t do it justice. I had been seeing brown gingerbread items everywhere including at Pottery Barn. I was not interested because I already have a wonderful and colorful gingerbread house cookie jar and the brown just didn’t interest me. But then I was browsing through Spoonflower online looking for a Christmas tablecloth and I suddenly saw this Swedish Gingerbread tablecloth and I fell in love with it! I immediately checked Pottery Barn online to see if they still had the gingerbread plates that I had seen a few weeks before and they did so I was off to the races!

I just had to show a photo of this tablecloth so you can see all of the design. I think it is darling! Spoonflower tablecloths are not cheap but I use them over and over again, the fabric is heavy, the graphics are wonderful, and they are well made.

This small gingerbread house appetizer plate came from Pottery Barn online. They sold them last year in a set of four. The color is not accurate here, the brown on the plates is a softer lighter brown color. I think they are so cute!

Because the tablecloth is so busy I wanted blocks of white on the table to break up the busyness. This is one of my basic white dinner plates and I use it when I need a simple white plate. These dinner plates were made by Ralph Lauren and I found them at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. The back is labeled Ralph Lauren Club Porcelain. You definitely need a simple white dinner plate for your tablescaping collection. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

If you read my blog you have seen this white charger many times. When I need a white charger it is one of the first ones that I try on the plate stack. It is my Antique Beaded charger from William Sonoma that I bought many years ago. The beaded edge just happens to match the design on this tablecloth.

I was going to add an accent color to this tablescape and I often use the flatware color as an accent color but as I set this table I realized that I just wanted the design to be brown and white so I am using my frosted white flatware. I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair several years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 instead of 18/10 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. Just google frosted flatware and the color you are looking for and something will probably pop out somewhere online. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I had three different design ideas for napkin rings for this tablescape but I ended up with this one and I really like the way it looks on the table setting. The simple white polyester napkins probably came from Amazon or the TableclothsFactory site online. I have had them for a while. I usually like to buy napkins that are about twenty inches by twenty inches but these are a bit smaller. This napkin ring is actually part of a felt gingerbread house garland that I found on Etsy and took apart. I attached the gingerbread house temporarily with masking tape to a ceramic white napkin ring that I already had. The brown is a perfect match for the brown on this tablecloth although the photos don’t exactly show that. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I just love these cute little gingerbread house place card holders that I bought at Pottery Barn last year. The brown color is actually closer in tone to the brown on the tablecloth. It looks darker in this photo. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I knew that I wanted to use two simple white goblets on this tablescape because of the busy tablecloth and I am really glad that I had twelve of these white goblets in my tablescaping collection so I could use them on this table setting. I found these white goblets at Walmart online a few years ago. They were made by Artland and the pattern is called Veranda. 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.

By the time that I decided I was going to pull together this tablescape and I went back to the Pottery Barn site to buy the gingerbread house dishes that I had seen there, the largest of the matching three gingerbread houses that they had was sold out. When they have something really cute for sale it always seems to sell out. When I am looking for something to use as a centerpiece I usually want it to be about 12 inches tall and about that size wide so that it shows better on my large table and the gingerbread houses that they had left were smaller than that. So I did my usual google search to see what else I could find to use as a centerpiece and this Martha Stewart cookie jar popped up on Mercari. I think it actually was made by the same company as the Pottery Barn ones because it looks very similar (and it was cheaper!). I crossed my fingers that the brown color would match what I already had and it did! To make it a bit taller I set it on a wood stand that probably came from Michael’s a few years ago. It was natural wood but Hubby painted it white for me. It was the perfect size for this Gingerbread House tablescape.

When I was searching for a gingerbread house centerpiece I kept seeing this darling Santa and Mrs. Claus gingerbread couple but it was way more money than I wanted to spend. A few days later it popped up on Mercari and because Mercari sells used items it was much cheaper and I grabbed it! I think their faces are so cute!

This Martha Stewart Gingerbread Houses salt and pepper set popped up at JCPenney online a few years ago. It matches the centerpiece!

I did two other Gingerbread themed tablescapes for Christmas, one last year, and one in 2020. They are all different and you can see the others here and here but I really like this one too!

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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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