Gingerbread People on the Christmas Tablescape

I did a another Christmas tablescape with a gingerbread house centerpiece, you can see that one here. I love decorating with gingerbread at Christmas so I started looking for a salad plate with gingerbread people a few years ago and I finally found this one. The red gingham tablecloth is one of my favorites. It is heavy cotton and I bought it at Sur La Table several years ago.

I started my gingerbread people salad plate search online by googling gingerbread salad plate. There were many out there but it took a while to find these. I found one at Mercari online and then checked Ebay and got lucky and found the other five there. They were made by temp-tations by Tara. I love cute happy gingerbread people and these are just that. I knew I had dinner plates and chargers that would match so I quickly bought them all before someone else could!

The dinner plate is made by Fiesta and the color is Lemongrass. I think I bought them at Macy’s several years ago.

This plate stack has an extra plate because I wanted to mix the colors a certain way. This red stoneware charger or dinner plate came from Pottery Barn. I love this plate, I also have it in a pale blue and a sage green. The pattern is called Cambria. It is the perfect size to be either a dinner plate or a charger plate, I love plates that have that kind of versatility. I use it as a charger more than I do as a dinner plate. It is often in use on my Christmas tablescapes, 4th of July tablescapes, and for Valentine’s Day.

These chargers were made by Mikasa and the pattern was Color Spectrum, this one in Hunter Green. I have several different colors of this charger and I really love the size, design and shape. They were all discontinued but I bought them all on Ebay a few at a time over the years. It is actually a prettier hunter green than this photo shows.

This flatware is made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern is called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale a few years ago. There are similar patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles.

I found these metal gingerbread napkin rings online at Mercari as well. The lemongrass green napkins were made by Fiesta, I can’t remember where I bought them. They match the dinner plates. I have had the red napkins for a long time, not sure where they came from.

I found the gingerbread boy and girl place card holders at Hobby Lobby online a few years ago. There is just something so festive and cheerful about gingerbread people!

I think next Christmas I will do a candy themed table! I did one several years ago but the photos are too dark.

I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets for this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. If you read my blog you have seen this goblet on several tablescapes. I bought the green spiral goblets at Pier 1 several years ago. I really like the design of both of these goblets and the colors are perfect for this table setting.

I added some gingerbread salt and pepper sets to fill in some space on the table. I found both sets on Ebay several years ago. I often add small salt and pepper sets to a themed table for more fun.

I knew I wanted a cookie jar as the centerpiece on this table and so I googled gingerbread cookie jar and looked at many of them before I found this one online at Mercari a few years ago. It was originally bought at T J Maxx and it was made by Potter’s Studio. I love the icing and the bow design, and the happy face! I scattered a felt ball garland around the bottom that I found on Amazon, they remind me of gum drops and they match the buttons on the gingerbread man. The gingerbread man is sitting on a red Rhodes stoneware drink dispenser stand from Pottery Barn. I bought these stands in a few colors several years ago to use when I need to add height to a centerpiece.

I have a great ginger spice shaped cookie recipe, definitely need to serve them with this tablescape!

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