Welcome to the 122nd Tablescape Thursday!
Christmas is almost upon us. My son and his sweetie arrived today and we haven’t stopped talking, yet. So much catching up to do. I know you are just as busy at your home, so I’m keeping the pics to a minimum this evening. Tonight’s tablescape is one of the tablesettings we’ll enjoy over the next few days. The centerpiece is Colonial Williamsburg inspired and super easy to make. I’ve made this centerpiece for previous Christmas tablescapes and I’ve had several requests to post a tutorial showing how it’s made. I will get that tutorial up either this weekend or for Metamorphosis Monday. Hope you enjoy this holiday table setting!
Table is set with Lenox, Holiday china, a china with a pretty holly wreath design.
Found these cute little ornament place cards at a local home/gift shop.
Red Christmas napkins are part of the Martha Stewart line.
Since we normally have a yummy champagne punch during the holidays, I decided to place the Waterford, 12 Days of Christmas crystal on the table for this tablescape. Check out the recipe for the punch in this post: Delicious Champagne Punch for Christmas or New Year’s Eve
Each year I love to make Colonial Williamsburg Holly and Fruit Tree for Christmas.
It makes a wonderful centerpiece for our holiday dinner or can be used as a decoration anywhere in the home.
This year I tied an organdy ribbon around the top of the pineapple that tops off this centerpiece.
You’ll find a full tutorial showing how to make a Colonial Williamsbury style apple/fruit tree in this tutorial: Colonial Williamsburg Apple Tree Centerpiece Tutorial
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Looking forward to viewing your beautiful tablescapes!
Resources: Chargers: Neiman Marcus or Horchow, years ago Dinnerware: Lenox, Holiday Stemware: Iced Beverage: Waterford, Araglin pattern; Champagne Flutes: Waterford, 12 Days of Christmas; Goblet: Waterford, Crimson Hock in the Lismore pattern Flatware: Towle, King Richard Holly Napkins: Martha Stewart, from a few years ago Place Card Holders: Raz, found at the White Rabbit, a local store Knife Rests: Gift from a friend Ruby Flash Salt Cellars: found years ago on eBay Apple Tree: Created with grocery store apples/pineapple, and magnolia, holly and nandina from my yard Candles are provided by Colonial Candle 
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What a beautiful, elegant setting Susan, as always. I'm sure you will enjoy every moment with your family! Thank you so much for so graciously hosting every week. Merry Christmas to you!!
Wowza! What a beautiful centerpiece! Well done!
Susan –
Wishing you and yours a happy holiday from The Little Round Table.
Candy
Susan, Your tablescape is beautiful. We visited Colonial Williamsburg last weekend and I saw apples and pineapples in many of the decorations. Thanks so much for hosting.
Merry Christmas,
Sherry
Dear Susan,
Elegantly exquisite! Made of fresh fruit. I can almost imagine the aroma as you enter the room. Enjoy your sweet family and have a wonderful Christmas celebration!
Thank you for hosting this inspiring party throughout the year!
Fondly,
Pat
Happy holidays Susan!
Another fabulous setting in one of my favorite room of yours. I love the centerpiece. Very creative and elegant. Wishing you and your loved ones a very joyous season.
Hey, Ssuan, Merry Christmas, what a pretty table for the season. Just beautiful & those reds are perfect for your DR.
Since I posted my DR last week & actually had the table set for a dinner, I'm sharing that post this week in your party.
Love your centerpiece! I hope you & your family have a wonderful Christmas holiday!
Beautiful as always. Araglin is my pattern, thought I noticed it. My sister has the Lenox salad plates. I saw them at Marshalls yesterday. $12.99 each. Love your centerpiece.
Merry Christmas, Susan! I love when you do that centerpiece. Some day I'll try one… Using my Lenox Holiday for Christmas breakfast. 🙂
Your table is very beautiful. Wish I was there to see it in person. Have a Merry Christmas
Hi Susan, and Merry Christmas. I'm having so much fun looking at all these tablescapes. They just keep getting better from year to year. I look at my first tablescape pictures and laugh and cringe…hahaha….aspirin bottles in the background. How funny. These pictures have been magazine quality….yours are amazing. Love your dining room, it is elegant and perfect for the Christmas season.
Merry Christmas,
Debbie
Soooo gorgeous and festive! I really love your fruit centerpiece! Wow!!!
So very pretty! Merry Christmas!
Sherry
Susan, as always a beautiful and elegant table. Your china plays well off your beautiful red walls. From our home to yours wishing you and yours Happy Holidays!
hugs ~lynne~
Merry Christmas Susan, son and sweetie!
Your centerpiece is lovely and boy does your dining room shine! Just beautiful and so very Christmasy (is that word? I think not! but you know what I mean!) I can't wait for the pineapple centerpiece tutorial! You do everything so well!
Mary
Love the centerpiece, I think I have the same form downstairs. I'm always a sucker for anything Williamsburg. Your magnolia leaves look wonderful, sure wish I had them here but we depend on greens and holly when doing this type of centerpiece, your's looks much nicer and certainly more authentic. Thanks so much for sharing all your beautiful tables this year. Merry Christmas.
I LOVE Colonial Williamsburg! I have been there several times, and sometimes I think I was born too late!! 🙂 I have the apple cone(in 2 sizes) from Williamsburg and I make them every year. (I also put a candle in every window and I wreath in every window!) Last year I bought a faux apple cone from Colonial Williamsburg's online website. It's very realistic looking, and I can put it out for a much longer time since the fruit won't go bad. Your table is just gorgeous….thanks for sharing it!
Beautiful, especially with your red dining room walls. I really love it because I have my moms Lenox AND my waterford pattern in Araglin too!
Merry Christmas!
Susan, your table is stunning. I love the centerpiece, so pretty. Your china and crystal are lovely. I hope you and all your family have a very Blessed Christmas. Hugs, Marty
Merry Christmas, Susan! I've been looking forward to this one, knowing you'd make it spectacular for your special guests. You exceeded my very high expectations! I love the centerpiece and can't wait to see your tutorial!
I thought I'd be satisfied with just the Lenox Holiday salad plates, but you've gone and given me china envy! 😉 I might just have to go for more!
Thank you for hosting yet another year of fun and inspiration. Here's to you, Susan. Cheers!
Fondly,
Bill
What a lovely table to prepare for your son and his sweetie. I know they just love it.
I wanted to say how much I love you and our blogging times together. You have helped me so much with all the computer things I didn't understand.
Plus, you have inspired me so much and I now set a much prettier (tho it is always so informal) table since you have taught me so much.
Have a wonderful, blessed and FUN Christmas.
xo bj
Beautiful, as always, Susan! Enjoy visiting with your family and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
Just beautiful! So festive and ready for the holidays!
Your Lenox Holiday tablescape is a wonderful celebration of a classic pattern. Thanks for this Christmas Tablescape Thursday!
Merry Christmas,
Daphne
Beautiful tablescape! My daughter has the Lenox Holiday china and I've always loved it!
Thanks for hosting weekly so we can play with our dishes!
Have a wonderful Christmas with your family!
Katherine
Susan, Your table scape is so elegant and beautiful!!
Merry Christmas Susan. You are so sweet and your table is beautiful. I had to join you all for the fun.
How pretty — there's nothing more beautiful than Christmas in Williamsburg! Enjoy your time with your family and Merry Christmas!
I would love to see the tutorial too. I remember this one! Absolutely beautiful have fun visiting. We are so lucky that the married live close (at least for now!) Have a very Merry Christmas dear.
Such a Gorgeous table! Everything just POPS with the dramatic RED. LOVE IT! and your centerpiece is PERFECT and SO Welcoming!
Have a wonderful Holiday season… Donna
This table is simply gorgeous, and I LOVE the centerpiece. I love that pattern of china anyway, and you have it displayed so beautifully.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Susan!!
Your table is perfect once again. I love the pineapple centerpiece. Welcome! Thanks again for hosting a fun party. Merry Christmas to you and yours and many blessings in the coming year.
Absolutely stunning Susan! Thanks for being such a wonderful hostess this year!
Have a very Happy Holiday!!
Best wishes!
Sherri:)
Totally enjoyed the post. Thank you for such inspirational posts!
Oh my goodness, that is gorgeous. I would feel positively giddy to dine at such a gorgeous table!
Susan…
Your table is just lovely!! That is my favorite Christmas china pattern. Everything looks gorgeous and inviting.
Have a very Merry Christmas with your family. I know every minute will be special!
Looking forward to TT in 2011. Thank you so much for hosting!
Tess
This is beautiful. Love the centerpiece. Have a Merry Christmas! Liz
Your tablescape is so beautiful and elegant. I'm joining Tablescape Thursday for the first time 🙂
Your table is beautiful with the classic Holiday by Lenox. You also have created a fabulous centerpiece to go with it. I just wrote a post on all the different Christmas plates and of course Holiday was featured.
Have a very Merry Christmas Susan! ~Delores
Elegant, and so pretty for Christmas. Thanks for hosting week after week. Have a wonderful holiday with your family.
Merry Christmas
Sue
Oh what a "Merry Christmas" dinner this is going to be at your house, Susan, with your son home & joining you at the lovely table!!! Everything is just beautiful on your gorgeous wood dining room set. I have serious Waterford envy!!
I used the same china for my tables this year but I think I like yours better on those beautiful white chargers. Gives them a totally different look!
Have a WONDERFUL Holiday & a HEALTHY New Year, Honey! Thank you for all you do to keep TT up & running week after week. You're the BEST!!
Hugs,
Rett
Dear Susan,
your table is again breath taking. I loved to see the Lennox china on Bills table and on yours it is still wonderfull. That is such a elegant pattern. Love the center piece. Really all so gorgeous in that gorgeous room.
Have a blessed Christmas time.
Greetings, Johanna
What a gorgeous setting.Love the Lennox. Good idea to make a natural centerpiece. Thanks for hosting ! Happy Holidays to you and your family. Hugs
Isn't nandina just great?!? We are fortunate to have had a "bumper crop" this year. "Nelly Stevens" has been prolific, too. Happy Decorating! franki
Love the centerpiece! Such a beautiful job you did! Thanks again for hosting and have a Merry Christmas!
Beautiful table. Love the elegance of the Lenox. I'm using mine this year too!
Enjoy having your son home. We all know, it's goes way too quickly.
– The Tablescaper
Your table just says Merry Christmas!!! My first time linking up ever…anywhere! What better time of year to have so much fun seeing everyone's creativity.
I love this tablescape! The centerpiece is great with apples and a pineapple – I love using natural and edible elements to decorate! And the ornament placecards are so cute too! Great ideas! Happy Holidays!
I really can't contribute to Tablescape Thursday… but do really like it. But if you would like to add the link for your linky party onto my Wicked Sweet Wednesday Link Party…that would be great.
I just started it …and it is open to most any posts including link parties.
Thanks!
That is such a beautiful , classic pattern, and you have set a wonderful stage for it. It would be a pleasure to dine there!
Thank you so much for hosting our weekly show and tell! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I love it… especially since I have the exact same Lenox china and Araglin iced beverage glasses! Looks beautiful with the chargers!
Your table is a sight to behold! May you create many precious memories while seated around it.
Be merry and bright!
Thanks again for hosting another FAB link party Susan!! Merry Christmas!
😀 Lynda
Just dropping by today to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New 2011!
Thank you for the uplifting and beautiful posts which you provide on a regular basis. They really do bring sunshine to a dreary day.
Happy Holidays from Sally Lee by the Sea!
Your table is absolutely gorgeous. I get so much inspiration when I come here Susan. Love the centerpiece, very unique. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
absolutely stunning.
May I come to dinner?
🙂
Oh, Susan, once again your tablescape is simply stunning and so inspiring! How blessed your family is to sit there with you. Every detail is lovely, and the entire picture is just breathtaking.
May you all be blessed with a wonderful Christmastide!
Merry Christmas Susan!!,
Your table is so pretty!! I loooove your centerpeice:))
Happy Tablescape Thursday!
Blessings to you and your family!
Kay Ellen
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas! I'm so glad we've met in blogland! xo
Christmas Blessings to you and your family, From my mountain to yours Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria
Hello Susan
so much fun and ideas learning your posts are. its simply gorgeous… love it
May your holiday season be blessed with peace, love and joy.
Sending you my heart full wishes,
With joy which never ends
A very Merry Christmas
And
Happy New Year
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Farah
Gorgeous, Susan! You knocked yourself out on this one, and I love it!
XO,
Sheila 🙂
I really like the ornament name holders. Those would be so easy to replicate with some sand and thin wire. Hmmmmm.
I love the tablescape and have moved the chagers to the top of my wish list.
Your gorgeous Christmas tablescape has such a definite 'Southern' elegance. The Williamsburg topiary is always perfection…the epitomy of refinement. You've made tablescaping a wonderful treat and adventure for so many. Thank you for the opportunity and for sharing your absolutely magnificent dining room and table design. Happy New Year! Cherry Kay
Love this tablescape and have the Lenox and Waterford already.
Would love instructions on the centerpiece.
Thanks,
Barbara
Thanks, Barbara!