Ice on a Piney Stick Table

It's been a freezing week here in the piney stick forest as we thaw from the Great Ice Storm Adventure of 2011.

School has yet to resume since so many folks are still out of power.

And yes, I eventually lost mine as well.

It was no fun whatsoever. 

What it was, however,

was the inspiration

for our first tablescape of the year.

Now, this is not a snowstorm tablescape. If you recall, we never saw any snow down here in south Georgia. All I ever got was ice crackling all over the piney stick forest.

So we removed those smirking cloche skaters and set an ice storm  table.

We started with a shimmery silver overlay left over from the niece's Great Wedding Adventure of 2009. Then, we  layered it with silver and tons of cut glass. 

You know,  to look all icy.

 The place setting started with a silver charger which belongs to the sister. The rest belongs to the Duchess. The icy inspiration piece was the  salad plate from The Duchess's collection of Fostoria.

She's been collecting it since her Great Wedding Adventure of 1957.
  

The Fostoria is topped with yet more silver...

And finally with these crystal berry bowls. 

They came from my grandmother. 

I have no clue how long they've been around.

Next, we added the piney stick forest. 

We started with sprigs of  iced pines in every bowl. 

This is faux pine, of course. 

We just dusted it with a little white paint

and silver glitter. 

It's supposed to look like the porcupines 

from Monday's post.

 

We had planned to use these for place cards, 

but we couldn't think of an invisible person

goofy enough to come to 

a frozen table in a piney stick forest.

We iced more pines for the centerpiece 

and put them in more Fostoria.

We scattered more pines around the table.

Those are fallen pines.

You know, like the ones all over my lawn right now.

This cut crystal stemware is a recent purchase. 

It came from Belk this past season.

We can't remember the name of it, though.

We used an icy crystal coaster 

and scattered faux ice everywhere.

Icy cut glass salt and pepper shakers...

A cream and sugar set from that Fostoria collection.

And the tiniest pop of silvery blue in the napkins

because,  well, 

it was the closet thing we could find to silver linen around here.

Those are not snowflakes in the napkin rings.

They are ice crystals.

Just go along folks.

So there you have it...

Ice on  the Piney Stick Forest 
 

If we were successful, you should
shiver just looking at it...

So we lit a few candles.

Which doesn't help, does it?
Now, it just looks like
  ice on a piney stick forest...

without electricity.

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Sharing this with the Porch People
I hope they all remembered to wear their jackets.