I’ll Have A Blue Christmas (Without You) - COVID Christmas 2020

 

 COVID has left us all feeling a little blue.

Vintage Anchor Hocking white milk glass platters served as chargers. Wired ribbon was woven through the platter’s open border pattern.

Place settings featured Fiesta in periwinkle and lapis. The salad plates feature the snowflake decal - an exclusive from Macy’s.

Goblets were pastel blue bubble glass.

A Slice of Summer

Watermelons make such a fun summer-themed table!

This place setting consists of a watermelon placemat, a Fiesta flamingo dinner plate, a Fiesta scarlet luncheon plate, a Fiesta juniper salad plate, and a watermelon slice appetizer plate I got at an area gift shop.  The coffee cup is from Cracker Barrel and flatware is from Oneida.

This place setting uses a lemongrass luncheon plate in place of the scarlet used in the previous picture.  The placemat was rectangular-shaped when I purchased it.  There was a yellow border around the watermelon.  As the placemats are vinyl, I was able to cut the yellow border off and was left with a watermelon slice shaped placemat.

Large watermelon platter

These pieces have the Cracker Barrel logo on them.  I got them at a rummage sale.

More Cracker Barrel pieces

Close up of checkered table square.  It anchors the centerpiece and marries the reds and pinks on the table together.

This tray came from a party supply store.

 I put ivy in the large watermelon pitcher.

Back of centerpiece

Napkins were placed inside the coffee cups.  When I checked my (paper) napkin stash, I discovered three different kinds of watermelon napkins.  I really love watermelons!

Fresh raw green beans and veggie dip

Of course, we had watermelon!

Watermelon on watermelon platter

Note fabric watermelon coaster under glass in background

Broccoli and Cauliflower in scarlet bowl

Fresh buns(!) on scarlet platter

Green bean casserole made from fresh beans from our garden

Watermelon salt and pepper shakers

Pretty Pink Poppies and Peonies

How's that for some fun alliteration?

I wait all year for my peonies for bloom.

I found these pretty poppy plates at a local gift shop last summer and thought they'd look good with Fiesta's new color release for 2012 - flamingo.

Lemongrass, flamingo and black Fiesta pieces blend in the place settings of this floral-themed table.

 

 I found this table square on ebay.

Love the contrast of the lemongrass and flamingo with the black!

Lemongrass Fiesta mini disk pitcher on white milk glass Old Colony dessert plate by Anchor Hocking and Fiesta flamingo luncheon plate

Close up of flowered table square

 

As the table square was too small to cover the table, I layered it over a large,white textured tablecloth.

Christmas Eve 2012

Here's another Christmas table setting.  Our school had a snow day so I took the opportunity to do a practice table setting for Christmas Eve.

My Lenox tablecloth was too short to use on the table so I layered a dark green poinsettia-patterned tablecloth under it.  I turned the smaller tablecloth sideways so that it lays across the middle of the table.

 Fiesta plates and bowls in juniper and cinnabar complement the tablecloth colors

Lenox cardinal napkin rings

Cape Cod by Avon accent/serving pieces mix nicely with the cinnabar and juniper Fiestaware pieces.

Pretty cardinal

This cute little chickadee adorns the hem of the tablecloth.

Another tablecloth close up showing the cardinal design

Avon Cape Cod cruet

Love the evergreen tree candle!  I don't want to burn it, but suppose I shouldn't keep saving it.

Here's the real thing - our Christmas Eve 2012 tablescape.

There were 9 diners so I added place settings, and I removed a few of the accessories on the table to make room for the food.

The napkins are accordion folded before putting them into the napkin rings.  Then they are fanned out.

I think they look like flowers (or bird wings).

First Snow

I created this tablescape in honor of the first snowstorm of the season (Caesar).  The storm was a near miss in my town, but we still got to enjoy the sub-zero windchills which followed the storm front.

I've had this snowflake tablecloth for years.  I use periwinkle and cobalt blue Fiesta dinnerware with the tablecloth. 

White milk glass dessert plates accent periwinkle blue dinner plates, cobalt berry bowls and periwinkle bouillon cups

Bird's eye view

Ritz makes snowflake-shaped crackers during the holiday season.

Snowmen stand guard atop a cake plate.

White snowflake plates from Blessings, Unlimited, are a new addition to my plate collection.

"True Gift"

He loves winter "this much"!