A Look Back to Christmas Past, Part 1

Tomorrow is Dec. 1st, hard to believe.

I am joining my friend The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday, a look at Christmas Past.

Actually, I don’t change my décor that much from year to year.  That’s part of the tradition of Christmas, doing many things the same way from year to year.

The Christmas mantel…

I have a double mantel that dh built when we built this house 12 years ago.

The Precious Moments Nativity always goes there, surrounded by a mixture of faux and fresh greens.  I use oasis for the fresh greens and fresh flowers, and weave lights throughout.

Another tradition is my front porch.

After all, Santa needs a place to sit and cool off after squeezing down the chimney in that hot suit.

Our home would not be complete without a Nativity, and  outside must have one too!

A light in every window to welcome the Christ child’s arrival on the 25th.

I have always wanted to put every Christmas table I have ever done in one place, and tomorrow I hope to do just that!

Thanks for visiting, be sure to check out The  Tablescaper’s  Seasonal Sunday .

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Let's Dish #89

We’ll stay home this year, dh is recuperating and needs his rest.

Thank you for all your prayers and good wishes.
 He is coming along.

We will miss seeing the children and their antics!


Whether your gathering is small…


Or large with many guests and many tables…







Enjoy and count your blessings!  You are amongst mine!


See you next week, when everyone will be into the next holiday!

I will be pulling out the Cmas, not much Tgiving actually got pulled out.


Don’t forget the Dec. 11 challenge.  Find at pic on the net or in a mag or book of a Holiday table.

 Show us the pic, then your version.

Thanks for stopping by, and Gobble, Gobble!

Same rules to link up.  MUST be dish related, a link back to this party, one entry per week, and BLOG name first.

  I did have to delete a few craft posts last week.
No word id permitted, and visit at least 5 other entries.
THANKS!

Let's Dish # 89

1. In The Middle Of Nowhere	2. the French Hutch	3. hidden art of homemaking	4. Pat@Back Porch Musings
5. among the saguaros	6. FABBY: Thanksgiving in the Breakfast Table	7. Home is Where the Boat Is	8. The Dull and the Dutiful
9. The Welcomed Guest	10. Kitty's Kozy Kitchen	11. Table for One	12. Tablescapes by Bev
13. Penny's Vintage Home: Christmas Sand Tart Cookies	14. Giving Thanks	15. Bargain Decorating with Laurie	16. On Crooked Creektt
17. The Tablescaper	18. Christines'sHome& Travel Adventure	19. Purple Chocolat Home & A Giveaway	20. Virginia Retro: Blue Willow ThriftyTablescape
21. Thanksgiving Table	22. suzyq-atthefarmhouse	23. A Toile Tale	24. Confessions of the Obsessed
25. Mere Thoughts	26. Hyacinths for the Soul	27. We Call It Junkin, New Way To Use Vintage Snack Sets	28. Tic Tac Snow table
29. Johnson Bros. Coming for Dinner	30. Linda @ A La Carte	31. Coconut Head's Survival Guide	32. Thanksgiving Table@Crystal grandeur
33. The Gazebo House	34. Got My Reservations|Penny Rugs&Ball Jars

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Thanksgiving Blues~Let’s Dish #88

Good evening, Ladies!  Thank you for all the prayers for my dh.  He is home, 20 lbs lighter and very weak, but getting stronger every day!
I appreciate all your good wishes, those of you who have taken an ambulance ride at 2 a.m. know how very frightening it is.  ICU was the best place for him as he needed transfusions for blood loss, and they took good care of him.  Thanks again to all those in nursing for all you do!
I managed to do a little table today while he was resting.  Not the usual Fall colors, are you all FALLED out?
REMINDER!  DEC. 11th is the next challenge.  You must show us a picture from the web or a magazine, and show us your interpretation of the Holiday  table.
Have you found yours yet?  I have 2 in mind.  I save old Christmas magazines for just that reason. 

I started with a blue and white cloth I have had for years from Villeroy and Boch.
Next came a blue glass charger, then the pierced plates from Horchow.

The glass Bormioli compotes top the stack, they were .99 , a great find!

The napkins are from the WSonoma outlet, and the white pearlized flatware is from Horchow.
I haven’t been out for a week, so I couldn’t get flowers, so a simple glass hurricane surrounded by small white pumpkins and some acorns is the centerpiece.

The blue stems were a great deal from the Pfaltzgraff dollar sale. They are a pretty color blue with a large bubble before the stem starts.

Look closely and you will see the bubble.
The white butter domes are from  Christmas Tree Shops.

A pair of white turkey salt and peppers are also from Christmas Tree Shops.




I hope you are all well into your Thanksgiving preparations!  We won’t be able to celebrate this year,  dh isn’t up to it.  I will miss being with my family, but I am very Thankful for God’s blessings!
Next week, Thanksgiving Eve, I am starting with Christmas.  I know many of you have already started your decorating for the holidays!

Skillet o Rama…
I am still finding lots of uses for those individual skillets I bought.
Macaroni and cheese, hot and bubbly.

Same rules to link up.
Please be sure your entry is TABLE related, not just a craft or a recipe.
BLOG NAME FIRST
BE SURE TO INCLUDE A LINK BACK TO THIS PARTY, so others will get visited.
Be a follower to link up, and one entry per week.
Visit at least 5 others and leave them a comment, and be sure you have no word ID.
Thanks for stopping by!

Let's Dish #88

1. Texas Tea Party Corn-U-Copia	2. Purple Chocolat Home	3. Pat@BPM~Blue and White Table	4. Coconut Head's Survival Guide
5. The Welcomed Guest	6. In The Middle Of Nowhere	7. Confessions of the Obsessed	8. Home is Where the Boat Is
9. Table for One	10. hidden art of homemaking	11. RUE MOUFFETARD: INA AND JEFFREY PLUS TWO......AN INTIMATE THANKSGIVING.	12. All is Amazing
13. Christine's Home and Travel Adventures: European Inspired Tablescape	14. The Tablescaper	15. Tables by Bev Autumn Blue	16. The Painted Apron Thanksgiving Tables, Gobble Gooble!
17. Mid-Atlantic Martha	18. FABBY: Tablescape Ready for Thanksgiving 2013	19. Yellow Rose Arbor	20. Bargain Decorating with Laurie
21. Lines From Linderhof	22. The Magic Hutch	23. My Place to Yours	24. Favorite Fall Tables - A Toile Tale
25. Lulu's Musingsl	26. Tablescape For The Guys.	27. GotMyReservations|Purple Haze Tablescape	28. Thankful Luncheon
29. Dining Delight: Christmas Inspiration	30. We Call It Junkin, Franciscan Autumn TS	31. The Decorative Dreamer	32. A Woodlands Thanksgiving
33. Penny's Vintage Home: Seven Swans a Swimmin' Soup Tureen	34. Quiet Time	35. Alycia Nichols	36. Celebrate with those you love
37. suzyq-atthefarmhouse	38. Thanksgiving Dessert Vignette	39. Thanksgiving Farm Table & Tour Part 1

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Let’s Dish 88

Nothing from me, dh is in ICU , but improving.  Just putting up the link so you can share amongst yourselves.

Thanks for all your good thoughts.

Same rules. Some of you are forgetting to link back to this party. Please remember to do that and put your BLOG name first.

Let's Dish # 88

1. The Happy Wonderer	2. Just a Little Southern Hospitality	3. The Coconut Head's Survival Guide	4. hidden art of homemaking
5. The Tablescaper	6. Confessions of the Obsessed	7. In The Middle Of Nowhere	8. Christmas Open House
9. Rustic & Refind ~ Thanksgiving Table Inspiration	10. Veterans Day This Monday.	11. An Extraordinary Day | Gold & Silver Thanksgiving Table	12. Setting Your Thanksgiving Table
13. FABBY: CHRISTMAS Past Tablescapes	14. All the Pretty Dishes	15. Bargain Decorating with Laurie	16. Pat@Back Porch Musings
17. The Welcomed Guest	18. Kitty's Kozy Kitchen	19. Home is Where the Boat Is	20. Tablescapes by Bev
21. Table for One	22. the Painted Apron	23. Corner of Plaid and Paisley	24. Penny's Vintage Home: Anniversary Dinner
25. Hyacinths for the Soul	26. My Place to Yours	27. A November table	28. Vintage Lace and Roses
29. The HOME GIRL - Pumpkins and Prayer Tablescape	30. A Fresh Thanksgiving Brunch	31. Diann @ The Thrifty Groove	32. Gold Thanksgiving Tablescape

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Thanksgiving is in the Air! Let’s Dish # 87

 

What a week!  DH got sick last Thursday, and I have been a nurse all week.

  Today we again went to the doc, and the news was good.  The tests came back, and it is an infection, and he should be better in a few days.  I will have to fatten him up, he has lost about 6 lbs, so I will be baking him something good this week!

Some individual apple crisps are on the menu, I already peeled the apples.  A big scoop of ice cream will help.

 

Needless to say, Clara Barton didn’t get to do a table.

Here’s to all the nurses out there, you work hard!

 

Time to pull out this pretty Lenox Cake plate, a gift to myself a few years ago.  I know I have shown this before.

 

I love how the bottom is shaped like a pumpkin.

These are shortbread cookies made in nut shaped molds.  You fill them with chocolate or jam. Molds came from King Arthur.

They would be good piled on that pretty plate.

Or maybe this cornucopia pumpkin cake…

As TURKEY TIME draws near, I find myself leaping ahead to Christmas planning.  After this week I realize how illness can throw schedules way out of whack, so I want to try and be prepared early!

SPEAKING OF PLANNING AHEAD, the DECEMBER CHALLENGE WILL BE DEC. 11.

FIND A PICTURE OF a Christmas , or a Hanukkah   HOLIDAY TABLE AND  TRY TO DUPLICATE IT.  It can be from a magazine, book, or Pinterest or a blog.  Be sure to give credit to where it came from.

Show us the original, and your version.  I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

I didn’t do a challenge for Nov.  I know everyone is doing Fall tables, so we will skip this month.

Hope things will settle down this week, lots to catch up on, and I sure hope dh will be well enough to go to the dump!  I hate that job!  :)

Have a wonderful November week, busy times ahead for everyone, it sneaks up quickly!

Same rules to link up.  A dish related entry, link back to this party, no word id, BLOG NAME FIRST and please visit at least 5 entries.

Thanks for stopping by!

Let's Dish 87

1. Beeutiful by Design	2. Christine~New Set of Dishes	3. Pat@Back Porch Musings	4. Tablescapes by Bev
5. Home is Where the Boat Is	6. In The Middle Of Nowhere	7. The Coconut Head's Survival Guide	8. The Welcomed Guest
9. hidden art of homemaking	10. Table for One	11. the Painted Apron	12. Simple Supper to
13. suzyq-atthefarmhouse	14. Just a Little Southern Hospitality	15. Bargaiin Decorating with Laurie	16. My Place to Yours
17. I Believe Its November	18. Got My Reservations| Falling Leaves	19. The Magic Hutch	20. Hyacinths for the Soul
21. A Toile Tale - Halloween Dinner For Two	22. The Tablescaper: Thanksgiving Tables	23. Thanksgiving Tables	24. JBigg
25. FABBY:Fall Dinner and Hot Chocolate	26. Entertaining Women	27. Yellow Rose Arbor, Colorful Autumn	28. Gathering of the Traveling Sisterhood | Lulu's Musings
29. Curtain Queen Creates - The Hunt	30. A belated Happy Halloween	31. Owl Inspired Fall Tablescape	32. Great Gatsby Dinner party

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