Welcome to Christmas Dinner~ A Dining Room Visit

My Texas Cottage is

ready for Christmas dinner.

 

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Welcome to a little tour of my dining room.

 

This year the decorations are

red, silver, gold and white

against my black furniture and hutch.

Along with natural elements from nature.

Evergreens, holly, berries and pine cones.

 

 

Each chair is accented with wide gold ribbon

and a bough of evergreen, berries and pine cones.

 

The place settings are

a layering of

Royal English Plates

Winterberry

and Spode with

gold charges

 

 

The Stainless is Reed and Barton.

 

 

The goblets are vintage treasures

from my family who

worked in the glass factories

of Pennsylvania.

I love them and the gorgeous red color.

But more importantly, I love how hard they worked

in those early years of the 30's and 40's.

These glasses are a symbol of their

talent and skill,

love and determination in hard times.

 

Each glass is sitting on a gorgeous vintage embroidered

coaster. A gift from a dear friend.

Thank you so much!

 

The napkins are black and white checked, a little

unexpected but

compliment the black furniture.

 

The napkin rings are the ones I shared

with the tutorial in a previous post several days ago.

 

 

Above the table I hung glass crystals mixed

with berry garland.

I enjoy this year round.

 

Our newest addition is this hanging candle holder

my dear guy found when we were

antiquing.

It is from an old Victorian home.

Inside I use a timer faux candle.

 

It times on each evening lasting 5 hours on

and 19 hours off, coming on at the same time each evening.

These are a designers dream. If you have not tried them,

I highly recommend them.

No soot and danger of candles forgotten to extinguish.

I use these and the real flame style faux luminaries

throughout our home.

They can be purchased on line

at flameless candles.com

 

 

Across the room is one of my

favorite treasures.

A Barley Twist buffet.

 

This and the above cabinet are

pieces I hand painted several years ago

when I redesigned this room.

 

 

 

This framed card sits beautifully here

and

is a special hand created design

from Diane of 1Card Creator.

She sent it to me last year and I framed it to use in this room.

Love it Diane.

The pic does not do it justice as the details are

incredible.

She is an outstanding talent with cards.

My hand painted hutch is nearly 40 years old

and I love to change it for all the season and holidays.

Do you remember when I painted this

a couple years ago?

 

On each side

I have a vintage arched window

backed with vintage curtain lace

and black velvet and gold stockings hung on each

filled with natural greens and pine cones.

 

In the corner is a pedestal table that holds a French Pitcher

filled with greens, berries and holly,

a special gift from my dear friend Ann, from Ann's Finds.

 

 

 

 

Inside and on the open buffet,  are a few vintage pieces.

 

Framed angels,

a couple of my favorite graphics from

The Graphics Fairy.

The gorgeous crocheted piece

is a beloved treasure hand created

by my talented grandmother

in the 40's.

 

 

Mother of pearl kissing angels,

hand created over 30 years ago

by my mother.

She painted the eyelashes so pretty.

Ice candle holders

a gift from

my Swedish exchange student  daughter

when she was in high school 20 years ago.

I have a set of three.

Thank you sweet girl~

 

Spode cup and saucer.

 

This tea pot was a special

gift 35 years ago

from my secret pal at church for Christmas.

It has moved with me many times

and still like new.

It is truly very special to me.

 

 

 

And of course

 my tall skinny tree in the front window.

I placed our very large tree in the living room parlor this year

by the rock fireplace.

This skinny tree gives more room to get around the table.

I'll come back to share a few ornaments

on this tree next time.

It holds red, silver, gold and white ornaments

along with vintage keepsakes.

 

Till then,

Enjoy a special December evening.

Thank you for stopping by.

 

Celestina Marie

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