Presents on a Christmas Tablescape

This Presents Tablescape has been about two years in the making. I have had this theme idea for some time but it took a while to gathering everything together. I bought the red cotton tablecloth on Amazon several years ago. It is a true Christmas red and they can be difficult to find. My mother loved using red and green at Christmas time and those colors were so much a part of the holiday season when I was growing up. I love continuing that tradition.

These present shaped appetizer or tidbit sized plates were made in a four piece set by Harry and David in 2007. I found them on the secondary market on Ebay. There were four different designs in the set and I love the bold red and green and white colors. You can still find them from time to time on the secondary market.

When I use a smaller appetizer sized plate on top of the plate stack I often add an extra plate to the plate stack because I think that it creates a plate stack that is more pleasing to the eye because of the size difference. In this case, this simple white plate emphasizes the white color on the appetizer plates. I bought these plain white salad plates at HomeGoods when I started tablescaping several years ago because I knew I would need some simple white plates of various sizes. The back of the plate is marked Gibson Elite bone china.

There is a bit of a glare on these red melamine dinner plates, they are prettier than this photo shows. They were made by Certified International and I bought them at JCPenney online a few months ago. The pattern is called Perlette and they are a heavy melamine. I really like the beaded design around the edge of the plate and it nicely matches the edge of the charger as well.

Hubby bought these chargers at the Dollar Store a couple of years ago and then spray-painted them Kelly Green for me so that I could use them on my Christmas tablescapes. This is such an easy and inexpensive way to find a charger to match your tablescape design.

I bought this frosted white flatware on sale online at Wayfair several years ago, it was made by Cambridge. It is 18/0 so the fork tines are a bit sharper than I would like but I really liked the frosted color. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

I can’t remember where I found these metal red, green and white napkin rings, I have had them for a couple of years, but if you google present napkin ring something similar might pop up. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

The set came with a few different designs.

These red and white glass present place card holders came from Crate and Barrel online a few years ago. I set them on a Oleg Cassini clear glass place card holder. I bought the glass place card holders at HomeGoods several years ago when I first started tablescaping. They are heavy and solid and I really like the simple design. I often use them as a stand for place card holder items. If you read my blog you have seen them several times being used as a stand for something that I am using as a place card holder. To read about the what, where and how of place card holders, please click here.

These hand cut and hand painted red and green glass goblets came from Williams Sonoma online and the pattern is called Wilshire Jewel Cut. I bought them in two sets of four red last year and then two sets of four green this year. Each of the four colored goblets has a different cut design and I matched the designs together on this table setting. 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.

Hubby found this metal present box at an estate sale last year and he painted it Christmas colors for me. I knew I wanted this tablescape to be red, green, and white and so it was easy to choose the colors for this centerpiece.

I decided to add bright red and green salt and pepper sets to this tablescape if I could find them and Amazon came through with these Brighter Barns sets.

How I love using the combination of red and green at Christmas time!

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