Hello new week! And hello my friends!! Yep Halloween is over...and I'm talkin Christmas! Sorry, I just can't help myself! I start pulling out my Christmas inspiration as soon as October hits...and then just wait til Halloween is over so I can start using it. I thought today we'd ease into things a bit by talking table settings...because these ideas could all be used for Thanksgiving as well, with a little tweaking of details...
Start with those beautiful white dishes, for a great base to your table setting...
Add in some vintage silverware if you have it...
Select some beautiful cloth napkins and embellish for the holiday...
For all of us buttons lovers, I just adore this idea...
Add in your candle lighting...I always love the sparkle that silver or mercury glass adds to the table...
Swags of fresh herbs around the room or on the backs of chairs work well for just about any holiday. I often still have rosemary, thyme, and sage growing in my garden at Thanksgiving, if it hasn't gotten too cold, and these work perfectly...
Then add in whatever bits of loveliness you'd like to create the mood you're trying to acheive...
pine cones...
vintage ornaments...
flowers...
a place card for each person with a poem on it...
And there you have it!
As long as we're talking parties, I just had to throw this picture in too. Is it not the best looking "bar" you've ever see?! Love, love, love this...
Well I guess this little blog is turning into a decorating blog. Oh well, I guess I have to go with what my interests are...
As far as Halloween goes, the bumble bee, the construction worker, and the angel all had a fun filled day of trick-or-treating, even though it was freezing here and you could barely make out what their costumes were because I made them wear their winter coats...and snow pants...yep snow pants...like I said, it was freezing here!
Happy week everyone, can't wait to visit you...
{images: 1-uthuset, 2,6-8 jeanne d' arc living, 3-5, 10 country living, 9 gruvgatan13.se}
Tracey
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91 comments:
I'm totally with ya here Tracey, bring on the Christmas inspiration!!!
oooh, I'm just itching to pull out all the Christmas decor! If the cold weather we've been having produces snow, I'll be a goner!
I usually wait till the day after thanskgiving but the last couple of years I've been hard put to wait even that long. I LOVE Christmas!
Jill
Oh I am with you too!!!! We are re-doing a room in our house(reveal tomorrow)and I don;t care,a little bit of Christmas is going in!!!!! Hope you had a great weekend,talk to you soon,Chrissy
Hi Tracey... beautiful, as always... yes, I love that bar! And the little buttons on the napkins are perfect! Bisous... Julie Marie
Gorgeous! Love photo 6...and the armoire is unreal! Speaking of Christmas, I have to check your site to see if the ornaments are available yet...I love those! ~mary~
Oh I know how you feel! I am so excited for Christmas too. I love the look of mercury glass, and I have been seeing a ton of it at all the stores. Happy decorating,
Gretchen
What a beautiful post! I love Christmas, and love doing white and silver..but the herb idea is something new I want to try!
girl, i've got Christmas on the brain, too!! last night i drifted off to sleep with visions of mercury glass, twinkling white lights, german glass glitter, and snowglobes! you've got some lovely inspiration photos here...as always!
It is a little scary to me that Christamas is upon us! This year went so fast! The white and silver is very soothing tho'.
I love the button napkin rings-~Nancy
I am so with you...all my fall pumpkins are gone..my fall decorations. I am so thinking Christmas!!! I will not decorate yet but getting ready with ideas...Christmas is one time I go all out!!!! Your ideas are lovely! I have all my Christmas past magazines out it a huge stack to go through..I am so excited I can't sit still! xoxoxo
Wow...you really know how to set a table! Simply stunning:)
Simple beautiful! As is everything you do.
I'm not going to buy anything new this year- I have entirely too many collections already! But I can combine some of your ideas with things I already have. Can't wait to see what else you're going to treat us to!
Such beauty! It all made me smile. :)
Gorgeous! I LOVE that bar! I have Christmas on the brain, too!
Have a wonderful day!
xo,
Adrienne
I really love this post. I am looking forward to Christmas now too!
Carolyn
i always skip thanksgiving decorations. i usually have my christmas ones up the weekend before thanksgiving. crazy, i know. i love white dishes. i might have to overhaul mine. i am ready for new.
Oh yes! I'm all ready for Christmas stuff too. ;) Beautiful photos here! Speaking of buttons, have you seen the adorable button garland at Ballard Designs?!! I LOVE it!
what a gorgeous table!!!!
What beautiful pictures! I really love the embellished napkins - great inspiration.
hi Tracey........
I am coming to realize a few things:
1) I love white
2) I really like coming to your online journal......
and I think we are going to have to get together!
Christmas is the most WONDERFUL time of the year! without a doubt!
However.....i LOVE LOVE LOVE Thanksgiving - and Fall, and to me, Christmas means the end of fall....(duh...!) so - while I am DROOLING over these photos, I'm storing them away for just one more month while I savor the flavor of FALL!!!
Of course, I love all these photos - I LOVE YOUR BLOG!
xoxo
I just drooled on the keyboard...
Oh, yes, right before Thanksgiving is our settlement... as I unpack, I'm decorating for Christmas too!!
Yippee!! I am soooooo ready for the holiday's. Beautiful pictures oozing with inspiration!!
xo,
LuLu
Swoon...drool! Oh my Tracey what a beautiful setting! I just love the old silver that you have tied with the twine...gorgeous!
And how clever is the button cards for napkin holders...heck it's all so clever and beautiful!!
I'm off now to get a tissue, I seem to be drooling all over myself!!
Thanks for the lovely inspirations!!!!!
Love and hugs,
Karyn
GORGEOUS!!! Whoo Hoo Halloween is over - bring out the glitter and sparkle of Christmas!!! (Can you tell I'm absolutely with you on Christmas decorating? LOL)
Ski Pants - I am jealous - it's on the warm side here in the Heart O' Texas!!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
;-) robelyn
Bonjour! Really enjoyed this post - reminds me of how my mother loved Christmas and starting pulling out the decorations in October! I love a gorgeously set table. The silver candlelabra is beautiful! Happy decorating!
gorgeous!
Such gorgeous images Tracey! Beautiful post ♥
All the white and mercury glass, such a beautiful, classic look!
Debra
Be still my heart! I just LOVE all these images and would love to recreate each and every one!! So gorgeous!! Thank you for sharing!!
Blessings~
Such lovely photos! I'm ready for Christmas too! LOVE the silver chargers....so pretty! Happy week!
Smiles,
Rachel
Hi Tracey, I can't wait to get to the Christmas decor as well! After visiting you, I am really inspired and excited to get to it!
Hugs,
June
Oh my goodness beautiful!
your post is appropriate as I am working on a Christmas story for a magazine right now - well, I'm taking a break from it and blogging, but in five minutes, I'll be back at it. Really pretty.
Great Inspiration. I am in need of new ideas for the holiday and I love this style. So beautiful!
Hi Tracey,
Everything looks so beautiful, thank you for sharing all these gorgeous images.
Stay warm and have a great week
Hugs
Carolyn
Oh yes, let's do Christmas!!! Whooohoo.
glad you had a fun Halloween!
I need all the inspiration I can get. Bring on the Christmas decorations I say. I'm so late in getting my shop done! I need an elf or two!
xx..C
You posted this at 4:17am? You crack me up! Weren't we talking about that one time, about the ridiculous times you and I are putting up posts? Well, once again you've put together a stunning assemblage of images that make the rest of us dream and drool!
Love ya!
Anne
I want that bar! Love it
Smiles!
Michelle
Bonjour! I love your blog!!!
Thanks for commenting! I thought you were being sarcastic at first but I do fool a lot of people with my little pseudonym and picture, so I'm so glad you figured it out! :)
Hooray for Christmas! My Aunt's having us for Thanksgiving, so I'll have to send her some ideas ;)
Please say "hi" to everyone for me!
Love and Prayers,
Dolores
Tracey...LOVE all this inspiration!!
You have such an incredible eye, my dear. I'm in love with your beautiful blog...
Our Halloween was rather warm, but wet. Very wet. The kids still had fun, and we adults splish-sploshed behind them, thankful we'd had a glass of wine with dinner...
-maria
Thanks for visiting my blog. I love your style of decorating, your blog inspires me. The colors are just wonderful. Yes, I do love that bar. I could use one of those
Blessings~Cheryl
Lovely pics! Forget Thanksgiving this year!!!
Love the first picture...vintage silver plate under white ironstone plate. Delightful!! And the armoire made into a bar....fabulous! Thanks for sharing decorating ideas. I love this time of year...all the holidays and we also have two birthdays and an anniversary between now and New Year's Eve. Fun!!
What beautiful ideas! I like the notion of decorating with herbs!
Hi Tracey
I'll take a vodka gimlet dirty please from that fabulous bar! Love the mirror in it also. Your post on Holiday settings is fabulous, and you just can't go wrong with white dishes
Have a great week
Blessings
Rebecca
Tracey,
I love it all, especially the silverware! I was lucky enough to find a set recently with our monogram already on them.....love the old stuff!
Beautiful holiday photos. I will definately be using many of your ideas. I love your talent for decorating and happy that you're sharing. Here's to the holidays!
Your post is stunning Tracey! Your plates and silverware are faboulous and your way of decorating the table is very elegant and sophisticated!
A source of inspiration!!!
Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
Vale
Beautiful and romantic!
The photos are just lovely...the combination of the white, silver and green are so fresh and inviting....so very different than my casa, but I LOVE it! I am with you...I am in the holiday spirit!
Smiles, Nancy
Not ready for the Christmas decor yet since I have some projects I want to do still. I love those silver chargers! Now I got to be on the look out for some of those! Grrrr!
i'm all over it!
gorgeous! i always have so many people that it's hard to do things exactly the way i want to. some wonderful ideas, i love the little bunches of herbs and that bar is fabulous! hope all is well!
Tracey....simply beautiful here at French Larkspur! Thank you for all this inspiration...I agree bring on the holidays!
xo,
annie
Love the swags and that armoire made into a bar!
J'adore the very first photo of the table setting with lights and like you, luv, luv, luv the armoire ala bar too! Soon, I'll be ready for Christmas :-)
-marie
I just wanted to let you know, I passed an award on to you. You can visit Happy Nester for more details.
I just LOVE Christmas but I can't start thinking of it yet Tracey....it's just a little bit too early....but I don't mind looking at your beautiful pictures (Jeanne d'arc being my favourite look). XXXX
Hi Tracey...
Oh how I LOVE your blog...it's jam packed full of the most delicious eye candy....better than a magazine for good ideas and lovely photos.
Blessings,
Spencer
The idea of poetry as place cards is just adorable...beautiful settings, xv.
Gorgeous! And hurray for other people posting about Christmas!
wow~ I'm the 65th comment! You totally rock....seriously though your blog is my favorite. It's just serene wonderfulness the whole way through... every post....
Thanks btw for the nice comment about my latest venture....so glad to be done w/ slipcovers! Now on to more fun stuff like pillows? or ??? :-)
Shellagh
Tracey, I love it all every single photo every single design....This year I will decorate with white china and your suggestions at each place setting....
Last year the girls loved it, but the guys just didn't get it! What do you recommend for the guys place settings?
xo Julie
Autumn is beautiful...but there is something magical about Christmas...thanks for the yuletide preview...it made me smile! Thanks!
Smiles and Happy thoughts sent your way!
Wow!! those white dishes are soo pretty! I love the idea of natural greenery as well.. too bad mine will be frozen..lol..
glad everyone had a fun time on Halloween..
XO
~Christine
Bring on the Christmas talk. I'm ready for it! Swags of fresh herbs. Mmmmmmmmmmmm
Best. Bar. Ever!!!
Hi Tracey! So good to be back. Missed yall~
Hi: I just notice that this post had 71 comments. How do you do it? How do you answer every comment? You are amazing. You are the second person who mentioned that Christmas should go up now. I think you are right. I am going to do it. Blessings to you, Martha
Tracey what beautiful ideas for our Christmas table decor...I love that you share your decorating ideas and everything else too, it makes your blog...YOU :) I have those white dishes in the first picture and have been looking for another set or companion sets for the last 2 years...I got them at HomeGoods a while back...love, love them :) I can decorate more for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Holloween colors...as hard as I tried...just didn't seem to work in my house :) Thank you as always for sharing. Besos, Rose
I am so with you Tracey ~ I have a file full of pictures and cannot wait to use them! I am in the mood for all things Christmas ~ everything except for the snow and cold!
absolutely beautiful! Just like all your posts! Thanks for coming by my blog and saying such sweet things!
xo
kara
beautiful pictures! (Do I always say that? It's true!) I'm feeling some inspiration. :)
Thank you for your comment today...I'm sorry for your family's loss. There are definitely good and bad days (sometimes it's more like moments). I don't know where I'd be without faith and family. Lots of love to you and yours.
xo
Love the armoire bar and the buttons on cards. They are one of my favorite things to bring home from Paris.
Hi Tracey,
thank you so much for visiting my blog. Reading your comments is a real pleasure. I visited your blog now several times, but never had the time to leave some dear words. But after I saw your latest post I had to... what can I say, just marvellous! I love all your decoration inspirations. What perfect silver cuttlery and the beautiful dishes... gorgeous. I would like to link yor blog. Is that ok for you? Wish you a good time reading the JD Magazin :0) best wishes, Mira
I adore your inspirational photos, Tracey. So beautiful, elegant, simple and serene. I'm really loving that mercury glass mixed with greenery. Hmmm, maybe I will have to be on the lookout for some mercury glass before Christmas...
Christmas has never looked so beautiful! Leigh
Ah...I've put on my super duper Xray
bifocals .. as I know my eyes are getting bad...but finally found the place to leave you a comment...on and about your sweet,
soft, luscious , beautifully pnotographed and ever so well done blog.
Come and visit me when you have a minute... (I have just joined your blog, as I do not wish to miss a thing.)
Rose
http://delightfulclutter.blogspot.com/
What good ideas! And that neutral white in all the photos is such a perfect backdrop.
too lovely for words! the button napkin rings are FAB. thank you for giving us inspiration.
Your posts couldn't be more beautiful or inspiring! thank you so much.
wow! that's sooo pretty! I would love to set a table like that!
I just couldnt help myself either, I got out my glass baubles over the weekend. I am making a christmas hanging branch, with a coastal theme of course.
Hey T! Long time no comment...I love Christmas! Its the one holiday I actually really do decorate for! Hope all is well!
~J~
Such inspiration...love the bar...and I don't even drink.
Goodness! You need some readers LOL. How have I overlooked you?
I met you at Firefly Hill...hello :) Love your style :) I'm all over silver and white linens (OLD only whew that was close...)
Oh my! Vintage white linens and silverware; mercury glass, cloth napkins and white tapers - breathtaking!
This is one of the most lovely christmas settings I have ever seen. I got married last december...if I did it again THIS December, this blog would be my inspiration for the tables.
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