Holly on a Christmas Tablescape

I bought this Holly themed tablecloth at HomeGoods a few years ago but this is the first time that I have used it on a Christmas Tablescape. I love the graphics on the tablecloth. This Holly theme would be a good theme for a tablescape after Christmas is over and you need ideas for January and Winter tablescapes. The tablecloth is polyester and the only problem with polyester tablecloths and napkins is how slippery they are. I store them in stacks on shelves and it is such a pain when something slips out especially when it is a stack of many napkins that all fall on the floor and have to be folded again.

I have been slowly gathering holly themed items, sometimes gathering specific themed items takes a long time. I started planning for this tablescape last Christmas. I found these holly salad plates at Pottery Barn online a few years ago after doing a google search for holly salad plates. They are a heavy ceramic material. I like the darker forest green color, the holly design, and the red berry accents.

These red stoneware dinner plates were sold by Better Homes and Gardens. I have had them for a few years and I don’t remember where I bought them online. They are a heavier stoneware and I chose them to go with the heavier dark green holly salad plates on the plate stack. I like the scalloped edge. I have several different red dinner plates and each set is a different kind of design. I probably should stop buying red dinner plates!

These chargers were made by Mikasa and the pattern was called Color Spectrum. The color of this charger is Hunter Green. I have this charger in several different colors and I really love the size, design and shape. They were discontinued but I bought them all on Ebay a few at a time over the years as I found them.

This flatware set was made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern was called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale many years ago. There are similar frosted patterns available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. I bought this pattern in a few other colors as well. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware sets here.

I have had these red cotton napkins for a long time. I am not sure where they came from but I love the bright red color. I found these vintage metal holly napkin rings on Ebay a few years ago. They had some paint loss but I knew I wanted the green color to be a darker green so I bought them. Hubby spray-painted them for me. When you are looking at vintage items remember that you can sometimes repaint them especially if they are metal.

To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I found these vintage holly and white place card holders with red candles on Etsy a few years ago. They were in the original box with a price tag from Maas Brothers. Maas Brothers was a store started by two brothers in Tampa, Florida in 1886. The brand ended in 1991 when the company was taken over by another company. I suspect these place card holders were sold between the 1960’s and the 1980’s. There is a space to write the guest’s name and it can be erased so that the place card holder can be used again. The original candles were included, I can’t believe that they weren’t broken at some point. I love finding vintage napkin rings and place card holders because they are different from those that are sold today. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

I used my red Waterford Marquis Brookside goblets on this table setting. I bought them at HomeGoods several years ago. Hubby and I were in there and I suddenly saw a few and quickly found twelve and bought them all! If you read the tablescapes section on my blog you have seen this red goblet on many tablescapes. I think if I were starting a tablescaping hobby, a set of red goblets would be one of my first purchases. They can be used several times a year. The green cut glass goblet on the right came from Williams Sonoma a few years ago. The pattern is called Christmas Pine Cone Cut and they were selling it in red and green when I bought them. They are hand cut and hand painted and I really love the pine cone design. They are a prettier brighter green color than these photos show.

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 struggled a bit with a centerpiece for this Holly Tablescape. I finally ended up with this red glass bowl filled with decoupage holly ornaments from At Home online with a red and green glass pillar candle holder on each side. I found this ruby red glass serving bowl on Ebay last year but it wasn’t identified. I used Google Images and I was actually able to identify it as made by New Martinsville/Viking between 1926 and 1970. The pattern was called Janice.

These Blenko Monticello Poinsettia Vases came from Monticello Shop online several years ago. They were handblown and they were a Christmas present from Hubby. I put a white pillar candle in each one.

I love the color combination of green and red together at Christmas time and if you read my blog you see that color combination often on some of my Christmas Tablescapes.

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