12 Days of Christmas: Decorating Our China Hutch for the Holidays (Day 4)

Well, friends, I never shared how our china hutch looked for fall… Just never got there as I was busy working in the garden, or I was trying to find new homes for half of the stuff which used to live in my craft room (a lot of donations were made!). I am working on the ancestry of my father, too. However, I am happily back to creating ethereal spaces in our dining and living rooms!

Let’s visit the Christmas china hutch…

Here is how the china hutch looked this fall. It was pretty!

All of that “stuff” was taking up precious headspace in my brain ~ trying to figure out: Do I keep this? Do I sell it? Give it away? Have you been clearing out spaces in your home? It was stressful, ugh! Crazy how that is.

Still more to go through, but I am happily back to creating pretty spaces in our dining and living rooms!

Our little squirrel is back enjoying some pinecone tea while listening to angels sweetly singing Christmas carols.

Layering in the pinkish-red transferware found nine years ago now down at an antique mall in Frisco is always a favorite to set in the china hutch for a wintertime Christmas display, as it this Christmas teapot someone gave me.

This summer, while sorting things in the Craft Room, I came across a bunch of beautiful cards kept from Christmases past. Several grace our Christmas hutch this year.

The Christmas cards’ richness adds to the setting with a favorite silver tray used as a backdrop.

I apologize about the changing light in these photographs. Our dining room doesn’t receive much light in the wintertime, so turning on the chandelier and/or the kitchen lights adds different hues to the light when it comes to filming. 😉

I had to reshoot a number of photographs as I just couldn’t get good lighting. Many of my photographs were just too dark and had to be tossed. These photographs are from this second shooting but they are really yellowed.

I am beginning to think that maybe the digital card has yellowed somehow as the reshoot photographs were also yellowed. Or maybe I have a setting accidentally turned on on the camera.

These do look like they were taken in the 1970’s on Technicolor film. 😉

Whether we tea in sepia tones, or in brighter hues, the Christmas hutch looks lovely!

Third time is a charm and the photographs took on a nicer hue with the colors photographing just right.

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Back to our wintery Christmas china hutch tour

On the right side of the hutch, we have a collection of winter scenes.

Fanciful tea cups and wintery dessert plates wait their turn to serve on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on the shelf below.

Santa keeps watch for the Baby Jesus…

And our Christmas teapot also stands at the ready!

Please feel free to pin any of these images, thank you!!

A final look at our china hutch in its Christmas finery. I am so glad our adult kids will be here right after Christmas! It will be nice to share this pretty scene with them and our grandson, who will be driving in, too.

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Happy Christmas & Hannukah, dear friends,