Welcome to the 900th Tablescape Thursday! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! I hope you are having a great one! I plan to celebrate into January because it feels like it has all gone by way too fast. For our Christmas Eve dinner last night, we used this table setting that I put together several weeks ago.
I couldn’t bring myself to change it since it’s a kitty-themed table, and this year has definitely been all about the kittens I adopted back in early October. (See that table setting here: Christmas Kitty Themed Table Setting.)
For our Christmas Eve dinner, we had Lasagna that I made following an old church cookbook recipe here: Best Lasagna Ever! The lasagna was served with a really yummy Italian salad that I made following a recipe I found here: Mega Italian Salad. We also had garlic and non-garlic toasted Italian bread, along with a favorite red wine. For dessert, I served up four desserts purchased from Dorothy Lane Market: Apple Pie/Ice Cream, Pumpkin Pie, Cheesecake, and a Fruit Tart. DLM desserts are always sooo good! I rarely drink hot coffee, but I do occasionaly like it with dessert. I picked up my son’s favorite Grogg coffee from the Boston Stoker, which has a location inside Dorothy Lane. It was perfect with our desserts! Today, my son and DIL are hosting Christmas dinner, so looking forward to that!
Since it’s Christmas morning and I’m feeling a little nostalgic, here’s a previous Christmas table setting that reminds me of some of the gifts little ones may have found under the tree in years gone by. Hope you enjoy this table setting. Merry Christmas!
I put together a whimsical centerpiece with toys and collectibles, most of which I’ve had for many years. The nutcracker was a gift from my son many years ago. The Teddy Bear was a favorite of his when he was little. ♥ I think this table would be a fun one for both adults and children.
Remember the Cabbage Dolls from the 1980s? I think they look a little different now, although I haven’t checked them out in ages.
Our holiday truck that’s bringing home the tree is driven by these two characters. Ha! They were a find in Target a few years back. I stopped by there a week ago and it was wiped out! People are doing their Christmas decorating and shopping earlier every year–have you noticed that? Truthfully, I kinda like that because it just gives us more time to enjoy it all, but ya gotta get into the shops early if you want to find anything new for your Christmas or holiday decor.
For this table I’m using my Villeroy & Boch Toy’s Delight salad plates.
This charming pattern is currently on sale here: Villeroy & Boch Toy’s Delight Sale.
I’ve paired it with my favorite plaid/tartan dinner plates and beautiful pine/berry chargers collected a few years back.
Toy’s Delight is available in both a green border and a red border, a border that’s filled with whimsical toys. For my centerpiece, I used a few of the same toys found in the Toy’s Delight salad plates—like the doll and the nutcracker.
You may recognize this tartan design since it’s the same one I have in my winter bedding. After all these years, I still love it just as much as the day I first saw it.
These beautiful pine/berry chargers were available here: Berry Chargers. I don’t believe they are still available.
Reindeer napkin rings keep the whimsy going in this toy fantasy table setting. I think those are from Pier 1 back in the day, as were the green and red sheer napkin covers.
A few photos from late last night with the tree lit up.
Merry Christmas, dear Friends!
Looking forward to all the wonderful table settings linked for this week’s Tablescape Thursday!
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Merry Christmas to you and your family
Thanks, Barbara! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas…Happy New Year!
Susan,
I always love to read your posts, and I always feel a little nostalgic on Christmas day as well. We are not getting together until Saturday, because my two granddaughters have to work until tomorrow. My grandson and his fiancee did get to spend time with her family last night. Everyone will be here on Saturday, thankfully!
Your two homes are just beautiful, and I have ordered many items you have suggested, too. It just makes my day to receive an email from you, especially today. Thank you for being such a great long-distance friend to all of us who subscribe to Between Naps on the Porch.
Christmas blessings to you and your family! MCC
Thanks so much for those kind words, MCC. I know you must have a wonderful weekend with family visiting. That’s the best part of Christmas! Hope 2026 is the best year ever for you and your family!
I’m not much of a cook ,especially if a recipe has more than a few ingredients, but I’m definitely going to try the lasagna recipe. It looks scrumptious!
Your holiday table setttings are beautiful!
May your Christmas be joyful.
I had to laugh. After all these years, I can admit to not liking to cook. After three ingredients, my eyes glaze over. Probably why I am not the best cook.
Maybe because I didn’t come a big family.
I’m not the best cook either…thank goodness for recipes! I can follow a recipe but not great on the fly. lol
It is tasty! Hope you enjoy it, Bonnie. Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Susan! Your tables look so festive!
You refer to your kitties and didn’t include even one photo of them! There won’t ever be too many kitty pictures, you know. We’re already in love with them. My seal point Persian w/ beautiful blue eyes developed kidney failure after 18 years and I miss him so, but I’m too old to get another cat. I’d like to live vicariously through your adorable kitties!
Thanks, Renee! I’ll do better! lol Oh, my heart breaks to hear that. I lost three kitties to kidney failure during the time my son was growing up. They lived to be 16, 17, and 18 years old. I wish they could live forever. My son/DIL are in love with these two babies and have promised to take them if anything happens to me. I’m hoping they outlive me!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thanks, Ellen…I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Happy New Year to you and your family!
Merry Christmas! What pretty tablescapes. I especially like the nostalgic one with toys since I’m very sentimental. I like incorporating so many family pieces in our Christmas decor. I like the tartan bedding, too.
It is ALL so lovely…”PEACE & BLESSINGS to YOU & YOURS!!” ❤️
franki & Merle
Love your blog – really makes my day! I add my wish for a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Safe 2026 to all.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Love the plates with kittens.
My daughter and I were talking about lasagna last night and how much it costs to make it from scratch lately and is it cost effective for two people? After all the years of not liking the casing on Italian Sausage, my Publix sells it “bulk” without the casing, like ground beef. Today I was trying to remember the recipe for ratatouille. We love eggplant; including eggplant lasagna.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas dinner with the family and Santa is good to you.
Merry Christmas, Susan! I love the truck, especially when lit and what a great idea to add the driver and passenger. Not sure about having so many eyes watching my table manners, lol! You had a well planned Christmas eve dinner I should say! Looking forward to your New Year’s eve plans.
Merry Christmas to you & your family. My tablescape choice this year was a toss up between “retro” or monochromatic. I went with monochromatic & will do retro next year since I have some things acquired from my parents, including a tablecloth that my mother would use at Christmastime. Your Cabbage Patch doll looks like a real collectible because it appears to have been made with material on the face. Mine is made of plastic. But you’re right, it’s all sentimental & brings back such good memories.
Merry Christmas Susan, I also made lasagna last night for dinner. I used a recipe in a cookbook from Carmine’s a longtime favorite restaurant in NYC. I always put my Christmas tree up late. My birthday is the first week of the new year so my parents left the tree up until then. I followed suit with my first Christmas tree
and still do that. I hope that you enjoyed the day with your family.
Merry Christmas to you and your family! I hope you have a wonderful day.
Loving all of the plaid, Susan! Cute kitties, too! Wow, 900 Tablescape Thursdays!! What a feat! Many blessings and happy holidays to you!
Love the tables and the feline-themed one must have been a big hit! Did Santa visit your house for the kids too?
What beautiful tables – past and present. Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas with your family…wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season and a New Year filled with peace and good health!
Susan, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! I agree, this year went by too fast and I am leaving the tree up til at least the 2nd of January. 🙂 Have fun with more celebrating this weekend to make the season last!
Hope you had a fabulous Christmas. May your new year be peaceful, happy and healthy. And CONGRATS on your 900th tablescape thursday. That really is something in which to be proud, Susan. Well done.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but most of the links aren’t working, saying I need to have a ‘Go Daddy’ account?
I don’t know what would cause that, never heard of that before. Julie, try rebooting your computer and see if that stops it.