'Sno Time For Tablescapes...

I've been a busy Christmas elf

 for the past few days.

Between teaching school,

shopping, and

decorating,

 I've had time for little else.

The decorating is not quite finished, and frankly, I've made a bit of a mess while doing it.  I tend to decorate the same way that I cook.  I use the Slobinski method.

But...

 I did finish my kitchen

so I decided to show my kitchen table

for Tablescape Thursday. 

It's a snowman table.

I was really excited to decorate the kitchen this year. If you recall, I finally removed my 1980s wall paper. This is the first time that I can go crazy with red and green in my kitchen.

So that's what I did.

I used deep green chargers and some plates that I found at a local discount store a few years ago. We use them for every day during the season.

The dinner plate is just a larger version of the dessert plate with a snow family in the middle.

I didn't want the whole table to be snowmen so I took ideas from the rim of the plate. 

It has candy canes, ornaments,

and little gifts wrapped in red and green.

The candlesticks are made
by surrounding a candle with candy canes
and tying with a bow.

I used 9 of them.

And 

 I decoupaged the coasters

 to mimic the little gifts

 of red and green stripes.

I tried several different types of glasses

and finally settled on more of

that red stem ware

that we used last week. 

The only new things that I bought

 were these red napkins with white snowflakes.

I just  fanned them out with

snowflake napkin rings.

Then, I added these matching mugs

that I  just happened to see at Big Lots.

A big puffy snowman is the center piece during the day.

It will be replaced with small poinsettias

when we're eating.

These little snowmen aren't really place cards...

This is the family table.

We all know perfectly well where we're going to sit.

There's my snowman...
He likes to shovel it in, too.

And that's all I have for now.
I'll probably tweak it and change it for the next few days
since I'm home alone.

But sooner or later,

I need to move on to the dining room.

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