Tablescape Tuesday

Hello & welcome to another Tablescape Tuesday! Today I am posting pictures of tables from Christmas past. Some are a few years old & not on par w/ what I do today & some are taken w/ an older "not so good" camera but I thought you'd enjoy seeing them, regardless. I don't set my tables for display, I set them to eat at, so many tables will be odd numbers...sorry. I know that upsets the balance of the table but I just can't bring myself to set a "phantom setting."

This snowbaby table is one of my alltime favories...course like I've said before, my kids tease me, that I say, that every table "is my prettiest", every Christmas "is the best yet!" & every new baby "is the cutest!" *grins* But it really is one of my faves so I thought I'd start w/ it.

The little glass domes over the snowbabies are really just votive holders from some candelabra. I never pass up anything I can pass off as a cloche! The tall, goblets w/ beaded edge bases are Boopie by Anchor Hocking & the wine goblets are Indiana Glass Diamond Point. The china is Wawel in the Royal Kent pattern. I got a whole set of 8 full placesettings (minus teacups) for half off at a thrift store, one year...$20 for the set!

I use that cheap, realllly artificial looking pine garland in a circle under the charger (Lace by JCPenny.com...you've seen them many times) as it lays flat. The red toile dinner plates are Pink Peony (although they are just as red as they can be!) by Churchill (another thrift store find.... I got a set of 4 plates & 4 bowls for $10....dinner plates are $20 a piece @ replacements.com) & the faux "crystal" flatware is from Target.

Probably should have left this next picture out of it but it just shows that everybody has off days. ;o) Not sure what I was going for but it's pretty clear that I didn't achieve it. Uness I was going for so-so w/ really bad lighting! LOL

You'll see a variation of this look on my header. I use the postcards-under-glass "runner" nearly every year, in a tablecape. Love the vintage crocheted tree under the cloche! And the old, faux, drippy candles are pretty cool too.

For this look, I layered a gold charger, the cheap pine garland, clear charger, postcard & glittered snowflake & then, clear dinner plate.

I have had this Johan Havilland Moss Rose china for years. I love it & use it often! Some are vintage plates but some are from Tom Thumb grocery store. A few years ago, Tom Thumb carried them as a promotional "give-away" at their stores. They discontinued them before I had collected them all (was back in the day when I thought I must have 12 of every placesetting...even though my table will only seat 10 max!) so I started buying old ones from eBay to finish the set .

Dessert that night was Eggnog Pots de Creme. Yummm!

The Moss Rose china again, this time paired w/ Georges Briard Victorian Christmas salad plates. The centerpiece is a cranberry hurricane w/ vinatge tree-toppers, set into candlesticks. If I ever repeat this look, I'll use silver candlesticks for a neater appearance. Not sure who the maker of the hobnail goblets are...I think they're vintage but I'm not sure. Guess where I got them? Yep! At a thrift store.

The velvet runner is a curtain panel. The green of the napkin clashes w/ the green of the placemat...I bet that drove me nuts! Why didn't I use some white ones instead?

I found these beveled mirror candle platforms @ Hobby Lobby last year, half off @ $5 a piece! So I bought a bunch to use as chargers. Not sure why I took this pic before the silverware & napkins were placed.

This tree-topper centerpiece is on my coffee table again this year.

I love the tiny ornament placecard holders. Last year, Clifton took his & Stacie's home to use as stocking placecards. He's so cute! He may be a 6'6" football player but he's still so much like his mama that it amazes people.

This is a better view of the Wawel china from my snowbabies table. You can't really make it out but it has beautiful embossed edges.

The velvet flocked runner is from Target, last year. The hobnail cranberry plates were a thrift store find.

The mirrored candle bases used as chargers again.

Love the Christmas toile napkins from Hobby Lobby! The cranberry bowls came from Target, a couple of years ago & the twig placemats are from Garden Ridge. The ruby red goblets are a thrift store find.

Santa & sleigh ornament, glittered trees & faux snow under a cake dome. Did it again this year!

I laid a glitter snowflake on the Lace chargers that I use so often, & then layered a glass plate on top. I again, used cheap pine garland to encircle the charger. I bought the dinner plates @ Hobby Lobby. The bell goblets were a thrift find...I got them years & years ago & still use them often.

This was for a dinner party for the grands. Simple but oh so cute! I used a matelasse bedspread as a tablecloth & a couple of wire snowmen & old porch balustrades, as the centerpiece. I plan on using the snowmen in another tablescape this year but I want to glitter them up, add rhinestone button eyes & a satin scarf first. This 'scape probably could have benefited from a pine spray or 2.

This time I layered the snowflake on a clear charger.

Snowman peep, on a bed of sugar, under a stemless wineglass. We upturned the glasses & drank out of them. Functional & stylish!

I hope you enjoyed seeing my tables from Christmas Past! Before you go, I want to share one more table w/ you. Caeden loves to set tables too & is very proud of this one from last year. He walks around my house, "shopping" for stuff for his tables & puts them together w/ little or no help from his Honey. For this one, he used his tree as a centerpiece (the boys each decorate a little tabletop tree for their room, however they'd like) & some peppermint shot glasses (these are filled w/ m & m's) as "party favors". My only additions to this table were the candy canes hanging off the glasses. I'm so proud of him! I think we have a future participant in our Tablescape Tuesdays! ;o)

To see the other tables, head over to Susan's @ Between Naps on the Porch.