Welcome to the 849th Tablescape Thursday! Happy New Year! I hope 2025 is off to a wonderful start for you and your family! Over the years I’ve shared several beautiful table settings from Warren. Recently, I heard from Warren who said, “Traditionally, I have set my “Candy Cane” tablescape for our big family celebration on Christmas Eve. This year, I wanted to step out of the box and use a different color scheme; I settled on peacock blue. As usual, this tablescape is a bit of “smoke and mirrors” created using inexpensive items, which I had on hand; a variety of family heirlooms; and 3 new items (total cost of $79.)”
“I found the peacock table runners on Amazon. They were on sale for $8/runner on Black Friday.”
“The runner was a little short for my table so I bought 2 and overlapped them in the middle of the table. The overlap is covered by the centerpiece. ($16)”
“The main focus of the centerpiece is the large candle, which I decoupaged with peacock images. The candle is set on an inverted cut glass bowl, which covers two sets of white string lights. The cut glass bowl makes the light sparkle – really nice effect.”
Warren modified the centerpiece later for a slightly different look for this table setting. Beautiful!
“Two sets of chargers were purchased on Amazon ($40). The tablecloth is unhemmed fabric I found in a salvage store. ($23). The Hutschenreuther gilded plates were given to me by my sister’s family after her death many years ago. The peacock plates are really smoke and mirrors. The peacocks at the center of the plates are pictures of the peacock image on the table runners. I manipulated the pictures in order to obtain appropriately sized circular pictures. These circular pictures were placed at the center of each plate and held in place by two-sided tape. Colorless and transparent glass dinner plates were placed over the peacock pictures. These glass plates were used for the food. The glass plates also serve to protect the underlying gilded plates.”
“The cut glass bowl belonged to my mother. The gold napkins are of unknown origin but, based on their condition, they were probably passed down from my grandmother.”
“I had to place the napkins under the plates to avoid overcrowding the table. This meant I could not use my beautiful peacock napkin rings as napkin rings. Accordingly, I used them as ornaments on the candelabras. The other tableware and candles were collected over the years (HomeGoods, The Christmas Tree Shop, eBay, etc.)”
Warren ended his email by saying, “Well, that is my Christmas Eve tablescape. My wife, Kathie, loves it and that makes my heart beat a little faster.” ❤️
Thanks so much to Warren for sharing this beautiful table setting! I really love all the special details and could envision it for a New Year’s Eve dinner celebration, as well! Looking forward to the beautiful table settings linked below for this week’s Tablescape Thursday!
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Totally ❤️ this as I’m a fan of “peacock colors & peacocks!!” KUDOS!!! franki
Stunning. Just stunning. And for me to say that is really something, because I’m not a big fan of those blue colors.
Warren set an absolutely magnificent table. He use of the peacock is spo inventive and impressive. Top notch table setting. Thanks for sharing.
What a gorgeous tablescape! Warren, you outdid yourself! The idea of lights under a crystal bowl is genius! I’ll remember that one for sure. I LOVE the colors and how you creatively duplicated the peacock images for each placesetting. The gold banded goblets are gorgeous too. Just a fun and lovely table all around.
Kathie’s not the only one who loves it, Warren. That is a beautiful, striking tablescape. And you clever man – at first I thought, Warren has a second set of peacock dinnerware?! (Because I remember your other Peacock tablescape.) But no, you used smoke and mirrors, as you said. Very clever.
The combination of that beautiful blue with the gold is just fabulous. Thanks for sharing that. You did a great job. I hope you all had a lovely time.
Happy 2025! Why not a start to the new year with a fabulous peacock or two? In one part of Houston, Peacocks roam freely. Love the peacock fun bits on the candelabra and jewel tone colors. Great table to share a conversation and some good eats! The mix of blue and gold looks regal. Warren, did you take a photo of the peacock? Then print on paper?
Yes, I took a photo of the peacock on the runner.
I love the peacock colors and my favorite piece is the decoupaged candle. Really clever and a very nice image. I never decoupaged a candle, only a wood piece. If you don’t mind sharing the how-tos and where you found such a pretty image? Thanks for the eye candy. Teresa