Poinsettias on a Christmas Tablescape

This is the fourth year in a row that I have created a new Poinsettia Christmas tablescape. You can see the other three here, here, and here. I am sentimental about poinsettias at Christmas time because my mother loved them and always decorated with them during the Christmas season later in her life. I have had this poinsettia tablecloth with the matching napkins for several years and I decided that I needed to either use it or donate it. Now that I see it on a tablescape, it is a keeper! It is polyester and it probably came from HomeGoods. I really like the use of black with the red and green. It is a busy pattern and I bet I will get at least one reader telling me that a solid color tablecloth would have looked better. (Yep, I did!) Why people offer unsolicited advice is beyond me. Sometimes I just like busy!

I found these ceramic poinsettia salad plates at HomeGoods several years ago. I like the bright red color and the shape of them.

This black dinner plate was made by 10 Strawberry Street and it was one of the first dinner plates that I bought when I started tablescaping. I knew I would need a basic black dinner plate. The pattern was called Classic Black Porcelain. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.

This is a charger that Hubby bought at the Dollar Store for me and I had him spray-paint it a bright Christmas red. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers, please click here.

Pulling this tablescape together was a bit of a struggle this week. I was trying to figure out the flatware and accent color with little luck and my daughter stopped by and in about five minutes suggested gold. Of course she was right. Her design sense is so much better than mine! 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. I love the design, a bit fussy but not too fussy. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

This hammered gold colored napkin ring was made by DII and I bought them on Amazon several years ago. I bought the polyester poinsettia napkins with the tablecloth at HomeGoods several years ago.

This gold spiral place card holder probably came from a wedding supply site online. I have had it for a while.

I love these goblets and this is the first time that I have used the red ones on a tablescape. I hadn’t inventoried them and taken photos of them to add to my goblets folder and they are stored in my hutch instead of the garage where I store most of my goblets so I kind of forgot about them! Both goblets came from Williams Sonoma online. The green goblet on the left is prettier than the photo shows, it shows more black in the photo instead of the darkish Kelly Green color that it is actually. I love the etched pine cone design. The pattern is called Christmas Pine Cone Cut and they were selling it in red and green when I bought them a few years ago. They are hand cut and hand painted. The red cut glass goblet on the right came from Williams Sonoma as well last year. The pattern is called Wilshire Jewel Cut. They are hand cut and hand painted and there are four in the set with different hand cut designs on the bowl on each one. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

I often use faux poinsettias on my tablescapes but these poinsettias are real. Keep in mind that although poinsettias aren’t poisonous for humans and animals they can cause stomach problems and rashes so be aware. I wanted to put these poinsettias in a gold vase but after a comedy of errors I ended up with a black matte pottery vase that I have had for several years. One definitely has to be flexible when creating tablescapes! I did add a bit of gold with a thin beaded garland scattered around the bottom.

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