Simple Supper in the Kitchen, St. Nick Style

One week!

Ho Ho Ho! It's getting so close to Christmas that my panic attacks
are beginning to be accompanied by cravings for candy canes and egg nog.


I'm late climbing on board for Tablescape Thursday; Howard is working from home today and needs the computer much of the time. What nerve! I'm sneaking in a quick look at a table set for two, in our kitchen.

This old oak table usually lives in the conservatory, next to the kitchen, but there's a big Frasier Fir Christmas tree cluttering up that corner.




Do you move furniture all over the place at the holidays, and keep forgetting that you did so, and keep trying to put your coffee cup down on a table that is no longer where it ought to be?

No, I never do that.

Want to take a chance at pot luck for a simple supper this evening?

Then take a seat, right here:

Holiday flatware, a gift from my sister many Christmases ago. Gold plated, with holly and berries.


Note the close up, below, and the missing holly and berries.


Moral of the story: don't put these in the dishwasher.
Lesson learned.

A new tablecloth from T.J.Maxx, bought yesterday.

A holly napkin made 40 years ago by my Mom.

The red plates are my bargains from October -- 50 red fiesta-type dinner plates by Oneida, for 20 dollars, total. We are having about 40 people for a Christmas buffet on Sunday, so these plates will be put to good use.

And, a stomach's-eye-view of your place setting:

Last night I took some glass cylinder containers and turned them into the decor for the sideboard in the dining room, which will hold the drinks and hot rum punch on Sunday:

I'm thinking it is probably safe to have lit candles in glass containers
filled with flammable potpourri, right?

Eh, we'll pour the rum punch over them if they catch fire.
The rum will have had its alcohol burned off by then. Probably.

Everyone needs a Santa with a snow-globe-belly.
I've had mine since childhood -- he was in my stocking one Christmas morning.

Okay, enough playing with dishes -- time to get to work!

Cookies and breads and Norwegian Christmas dishes need to be baked and cooked and pickled.

Many thanks to Susan, the hostess of Tablescape Thursday, at her beautiful Between Naps On The Porch blog. Go there for SO many more table settings, and enjoy! -- Cass