Two a Days....For the Holidays

During Football season in the South you hear about

Two-A-Days where the players will practice twice

a day to get in all of their workouts before the
weather gets too hot.

Well...it's defiantly not hot here anymore,

but, apparently I have a lot of Christmas dishes and need to

use two sets a week to get it all in.

 I missed the first week of December since we were

out of town, so today I played catch up!
It is cold and nasty outside today and Austin is home
sick so what a better way to spend the day...
playing with dishes...and a little decorating.

I found these cute melamine plates at

Wal-Mart this year and thought they would be good

to use for Breakfast with Santa...

 

 

The Dinner plates are cute red and white candy cane striped

     and the salad plates are random candy canes and peppermint candies

.

 

They even had two different styles of glasses that matched

the salad plates.  I could not decide between the ones

with stems and the tumblers so I got them both. 

The flatware is Cambridge...a little set I picked up at Ross

a while back that has just been sitting in the cabinet waiting

for the holidays to roll around.

The place mats are from Tuesday Morning.

When I saw Santa with his head stuck in the chimney,

I laughed out loud!  That is about how I feel

during the hectic holiday season.

I grabbed a bunch of Holiday colored flowers

from the grocery store and arranged them in my

Pfaltzgraff Heritage water pitcher and

we were good to go.

Here is a shot of the tumbler that

matched the plates...and the cute candy cane reusable straws

that I found at the Dollar Tree.

I also decided to set the Dining Room table

for the holidays as well.

This year my mother bought me a set of

new dishes for Christmas.

(insert happy dance)

They are Mikasa's Platinum Crown.

Both sets of my formal china have a gold band around them

and I wanted something with a silver band and these fit the bill

perfectly.  Thanks to a great sale at Macy's they fit right onto

my Christmas List.

 Since they are giving Snow in the forecast here tomorrow
(which is totally insane!!! I do still live in the South, Right?)

I thought a sparkly, snowy table was in order.
Snow...icicles...silver...sparkly...

Mercury glass is everywhere this year

so I was so excited when I found these sets of Mercury Glass trees.
 I actually bought these last summer at Costco.
 The set of three mercury glass trees

was only $11 so I had to buy two sets!

I used my mirrored place mats and I promise that I really did

iron the table cloth, but you sure can't tell from this picture.

The napkin rings are not rings at all...

they were Christmas Ornaments!

I used the hanging cord to gather the napkin and just set them on top

of the place settings.

The Silver Lantern came from Old Time Pottery

and the Mercury Glass candle sticks came from TJMaxx. 

 

I used my Gorham "Cherrywood" crystal

and my Oneida "King James" silverplate to finish out the table.

I was going to light the candles and take a picture of the

soft glow, but I could not find a match to save my life!

I guess we have hidden things from Jackson so well

that we can't find them ourselves! 

 So the tables are set,

won't you join us?

I even took my table decorating to the ceiling.

I had decided earlier that I wanted to decorate my light fixtures this year.

I had woven the garland around, but that was as far as I had gotten.

I picked up a few little sparkly glass snowflake looking ornaments and

silver icicles, after weaving some ribbon and attempting to make

some bows, I think I am done.

I'll be joining the fun at

Tablescape Thursday

make sure to check out all of the other beautiful

tables that everyone has put together for the holidays!

I am off to try and finish the Christmas decorating

around the house and get the mess cleaned up that it has left

behind...