Dragons on a Chinese Year of the Dragon Tablescape

This tablescape celebrates Chinese New Year and The Year of the Dragon. I probably bought this tablecloth at HomeGoods or Amazon.

I bought these dragon salad plates at Williams Sonoma online a few years ago. They came in a set of four with four different designs. I love the vivid graphic colors on these plates.

I knew that I wanted a red charger and a blue dinner plate under the dragon plates but I didn’t have the correct shade of red or blue for either that I liked so I switched to a red dinner plate and a navy blue charger. This red/orange dinner plate came from Pier 1 several years ago. It was part of their Spice Route collection and the color was called Paprika. I use this plate often in the fall. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

This charger is one of my Color Spectrum chargers made by Mikasa, the color is Navy Blue. I bought them a few at a time as I saw them on Ebay several years ago. I have them in several colors. These are actually some of my favorite chargers. I love the strong solid colors and they are heavy and a good quality.

This gold plated flatware was a gift from Hubby a few Christmases ago. I had bought a cheap set of gold flatware several years ago. It was poor quality and the gold started flaking off. You get what you pay for! We found this set on major sale at Macys. It is made by Wallace and is called Mikasa Duchess Gold. It is brighter than this photo shows and it is heavy. I love the design on the handle. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

These red napkins came from HomeGoods a few years ago. They are from Ralph Lauren and they have a brocade type design on them. They are one of my favorite napkins and I bought the matching tablecloth too. I bought these Fennco Styles dragon napkin rings on Amazon. They were silver colored and Hubby painted them dark red and navy blue for me to go with this table setting.

I wanted a dragon place card holder and I couldn’t find any so I bought some toy plastic dragons on Amazon and Hubby painted them for me, problem solved!

The dark blue acrylic goblet on the left came from Pier 1 on sale a couple years ago before our store closed. The red goblets on the right were made by Cristal D’Arques-Durand and the pattern was called Antique Ruby. They are a pressed glass diamond and fan pattern. I think I bought them years ago a few at a time on Ebay until I had a set. They were made between 1990 and 2008. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the goblet colors that I use the most often here.

This colorful dragon figure is one of the reasons why I decided to do a dragon themed tablescape. Hubby brought it back from China many years ago on one of his business trips there. It usually sits on a shelf in the living room. He made a wood stand for it for this tablescape because I wanted it to be a bit taller than it was.

I added a dragon salt and pepper set from Amazon on one side of the center dragon.

On the other side of the center dragon I added this small glass dragon. I have had it for a long time and I can’t remember where it came from. I used to collect small glass animals and it was part of that collection I think.

Ready for the Chinese New Year!

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