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Happy Christmas season, y’all! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season so far. Can you believe it is just a few weeks until the Big Day is here? I thought I’d share a Christmas tablescape with you all decorated with Santa and a few velvety bows…
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I started this tablescape with a new table runner I found last Christmas season at Ikea. To it I’ve added pine boughs picked up from Lowe’s as they give away greenery for free if you ask for some. Yesterday, the woman working there had just enough for our table!
After layering the branchlets, I tucked in a few ornaments old and new plus a couple of festive picks I had in our Christmas decor stash. The glass eliptical kugle is one of a few Shiny Brite ornaments I was given to keep from my mother via my father’s mother’s Christmas ornaments. They are from the late 1950’s or 1960’s. My mom was really good about giving each of us four children our childhood ornaments plus family ones as we moved out on our own.
I’ve continued that tradition with my own two kids. 🙂
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And of course Santa isn’t all tied up, even though he looks like he is falling over! These green velvet bows, found in late October at Williams-Sonoma (not sponsored) tie up our cheery-red sparkly napkins very well.
They were the inspiration for today’s table setting.
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Here is our Santa reaching out to give you a hearty hug! He sits in his sleigh amid our holiday ornaments handmade and manufactured. 🙂
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Here is Santa’s “backside” sharing the back of his teapot sleigh. I have seen some really cute Fitz & Floyd Santa cookie jars recently on other bloggers’ sites and they are sooo adorable. I wish I could find one. Maybe someday.
This guy is a Fitz & Floyd I picked up in the 1990’s or early 2000’s from Macy’s or Nordrom’s when I was in the Victorian Tea Society group. I was really into all-white then, hence why I chose this Santa over another wearing red.
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I am really loving how velvet is everywhere this year! I didn’t know it was “a thing” until I saw so many holiday posts graced with velvet bows of every size and color. Just lovely and perfect to ring in the season…
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Keeping the table small, I’ve set it for just four to partake. Our daughter may drive up for Christmas and we may cook a small turkey or pick up one already cooked from one of the local bbq restaurants. We had planned to do that for Thanksgiving if we hadn’t visited our daughter in Austin. We also thought about driving up to see our son and grandson, if the weather is good.
I have lovely photos to share from that quick trip to Austin, but that’ll have to be another post.
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Here is Santa’s “backside” sharing the reverse of this teapot. I love the holly and berries wrapping around the teapot base! A few little presents are also back on this side.
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I loved carefully picking out which ornaments should go with Santa this year. The larger candy cane striped fabric balls are from Hobby Lobby found a year or so ago. The little pinned star ornament I made with friends when we lived on base at Camp Pendleton, California back in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s before our children were born.
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Here are a couple of different views of this Christmas table. I love its simplicity and how it mirrors the bright touches of red from the living room’s Christmas tree.
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Turning around the opposite way, you can see how the china hutch from Our Christmas Home Tour from last week ties in with this year’s red and white theme.
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I began with an all-white theme with just crystals, silver and gold ornaments and garlands, plus sparkly white icicle and pearl garlands, but the theme didn’t show up well on camera with the new flocked Christmas tree from King of Christmas. This tree really needed the reds (or another strong color) to make everything pop!
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I hope you have enjoyed this little tablescape tour. It is definitely one of my favorites! Thank you for stopping by today. Feel free to leave a comment and pin any photos you’d like to save for future ideas. This has been fun! 🙂
Big Christmas hugs,
