This year our Christmas table was going to be it's usual simple self.
Red table cloth, red and gold decorations with little flecks of green on the napkin rings. These beautiful embroidered napkin "rings" were a gift from a friend f mine who lives in Singapore. I love them and look forward to using them each year.
Our house ended up being so full and busy and wonderful on Christmas day, that the table was only partially laid whenmy parents arrived.
We finished it with the cutlery and quickly sat down to eat. I didn't get a chance to take any nice pics.
We managed to snap a few after our main course, once peace was once more in residence (and we couldn't move from the table!)
It is nice to plan and read magazines, dream over what your "dream" christmas table would look like.
My dream Christmas table is slightly mismatched, very loud and busy. Stuffed with our favourite foods and all of our family. These are the most important parts, anything else are just a bonus if they happen.
I wouldn't change any of it for the world.
If you would like to share words or pictures about your Christmas table, maybe you would like to head on over and share at nice day at Rosie's. She is hosting a lovely giveaway x
2 comments:
The table looked fantastic..but better then that, the family sitting around it...enjoying a wonderful holiday meal, looks even better.
Happy new year.
Hey I did my festive table this year at night in my jammies, before yet another house visit for the doctor for our poor wee ill boy!
It did not go as smoothly as it has done for the past 7 years of having a home to run .....
I forgot to bring my table runner in the shipment - so I quickly whipped the single sheets from the spare beds and gave them an iron, I forgot to bring my fancy napkin rings, so I made some and entwined lovely coloured christmas baubles onto them, I gave my sister my favourite sparkly (old and used but loved very much) christmas candles before I moved and forgot to buy more since I arrived so I hunted around and placed with thought(chucked) on a heap of mismatched candles, tealights, candle sticks anything I could grab, I found a couple of mirrored plates and stuck them on for good measure then raided round the house pinching baubles from all over the place ...... finally at 11.35 I went up to my neighbours house and got her husband to go outside in the dark with a torch and we cut lots of branches from their fir trees and I scurried off home to just smother my poor table and mantlepiece with wonderful greenery with little goldeny brown cones on them! The effect was absolutely gorgeous! I forgot to take any pictures but it really looked like it belonged in a magazine ..... then it was filled with my labour of love "my first ever home cooked christmas dinner" there was not a spare space to be seen! We were stuffed, poor Joe was ill but I was happy ...... well as I happy as I could be sitting on a towel in a state of half dress, I had managed to throw on my lovely christmas black dress, but never managed the tights or shoes, so with bare legs, a drying tan, frizzy hair and no makeup or jewellery, I sat in amongst the chaos! (But I did have hair free legs, I had managed the tan and I was actually showered and clean - no mean feat for anyone when you've had a sick baby for the last 3 days! So I was overjoyed!)
My table slowly but surely over the next 5 days got filled with so much crap, we sat at it for so many meals, it had so many spills and stains and was the scene for so many memories, I tried daily to clear a bit at a time and only this morning did I eventually manage to put it back to normal!
....... But I think, I possibly, might, there could be a chance that have just have survived my first family christmas with a toddler!!!
Happy New Year! xxx
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