woodland with tartan plaid theme

Hi everybody I hope your week has been good, can you believe we are down to the wire here for Christmas wow has this just flown by this year or what.? 

 I picked this woodland theme last year but had to wait to this year to complete the set of dishes from Better Homes and Gardens from Walmart.I purchased them last year after Christmas and they were half off

 I've had this family of deer for years and loved how each place setting matched the wildlife. Here the family of deer nestles down among the trees

I never thought to mix and match different plaids together until Susan from Between Naps on the Porch shared with all of us in her post about her new plaid bedding.I made the table runner with a red plaid and found this warm blue plaid at a craft fair for a dollar.I think they look ok side by side

 this little guy is peaking out from under the tree boughs and this little bird is nesting close to all.

Even the racoon wants to come                                                                                   out and play

 See the little cardinal in it's birdhouse it matches the cardinal in two of the plates. the trees match the plate with the barn. even the napkin rings have tartan in them.the burlap napkins and the rustic chargers all enhance the woodland theme.

This was the last plate in the collection and I had to wait till this year to get it. but while at Walmart I grabbed this snowy white owl ornament to go with  the owl plate.They are a beautiful set of dishes I am so glad I got them 

 I found this beautiful rustic Christmas tree cake stand at a craft show and knew it had to be included in my woodland theme.Isn't it perfect? I can never have to many cake stands

My new red goblets  so sparkly and festive. I layered the plates on red chargers and then laid them on the reed chargers 

Here is a closeup of this wonderful plate.Even the color was perfect like fresh creme and it had a plaid bow attached which I didn't get a picture of.

 Well the animals are all snuggled down with the soft snow falling around them, the table is set all woodsy and warm. these little skates were too cute in their own tartan plaid. well I hope you enjoyed this walk in the woods with me.I loved putting all the rustic elements together.My husband and I rescued wildlife and rehabilitated many animals back into the wild including several baby raccoons. So this table had special meaning for me. I love how the animals are such a part of this tablescape and the plates were awesome.I have to try and find just the right plaid napkins next year to go with this table.Wishing everyone a wonderful week filled with Joy and anticipation of Christmas to come. 

 I'll be linking up I'm participating in Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch

with Between Naps on the porch, Table it link Party#31,Confessions of a Plate Addict and Funky Junk Interiors and any other ones that I can figure out. can anyone tell me why you need a permalink when trying to connect to other links? have a great week thinking warmly of all of you Susie

Dec Challenge

Oh I am so excited Kathleen from Cuisine Kathleen has issued another challenge and I couldn't wait for Dec to get here so I could post this.

The challenge is to recreate a design we found somewhere else like Pinterest or a catalog or anywhere we could find one. I had just gotten this book in the mail from Better Homes and Gardens and knew I wanted to create this for my take on the challenge.I have never done this so I hope this is ok and acceptable.Oops just noticed forgot the candycanes

I got the clear plates at Dollar Tree and followed the directions in the book it was fun creating the border out of silver chenille stems. then you had to cover the plate in paper dots and tissue paper. You can't eat on these they are just for showing off and the total cost for four plates was under $6.00 I made the place holders in different colors but stayed with the overall colors of RED and Green I love these colors for Christmas and as you can tell my whole house boosts this color pattern.

 I found this adorable tree pattern material at Walmart and knew that Christmas trees was my theme. I got to pull out my absolute best ever favorite cake plate the one with Red shoes on it, layered another cake plate and topped both of these in a Star cake plate creating in effect a tree for the centerpiece.I had the napkins and loved how the Dots are everywhere from the plates to the goblets to the cake stands.the polka dots in the napkins pick up the dots from the fabric.Aren't the colors beautiful together?  

 Here is a little red dotted cake stand holding the Christmas tree salt n pepper shakers

I used two sets of chargers one red the other silver and made the glassware from Dollar tree also exactly like in the pictures.I pulled all  (well not all can't leave the rest of the house bare now can I )Christmas trees I had everywhere for more red and green color on the table

See the tiny dotted ornaments here? and I even found a site on Pinterest that showed how to make your own straws

See I told you I loved the red and green theme trust me I have tried using other colors but always get drawn back to the red and greens

I added some feather trees I have in red and white I guess I need to find a green one too. I splurged on these red dotted Goblets  from Home Goods I would never normally buy something like this but figured I didn't own any and I could always use them for Valentine's Day,so you are going to see them alot here for Christmas I want to get as much use out of them as I can.

This has been one of the funnest(is that a word) of a tablescape yet I Love the colors of Christmas.

Isn't this a gem of a little stand something about charms hanging from a cake stand that makes me go crazy

I was going to enlarge this pic until I saw the water spots on the fork Yikes how the camera can see stuff that our eyes don't or am I just getting to old?Anyway these napkin rings are lenox Christmas trees I got in my great haul at Goodwill last Christmas. unopened brand new they were 75% off for a total for 6 for1,29 LENOX are they kidding me here?Well you know I grabbed them up so fast

A little sparkle and bling added

I added little presents on each plate aren't Christmas trees supposed to have presents with them?

Here are pics of the whole table but once I posted I didn't know how to change the angle so you have to tilt your head Sorry

oops did it again

Well looky here you didn't have to get a crink in your neck for this one

Well I hope I passed the challenge boy did I have fun with this one but that's why we do this right? Thank you Kathleen for issuing us this magnificent challenge.I can't wait to see what everybody comes up. I bet the creative juices and minds will be flowing like crazy.I am Giving everyone out there in blogland  warm joyous and loving wishes for Christmas. Hope you all are safe and get to treasure this time with loved ones. I am joining Cuisine Kathleen,Between Naps on the Porch,And Just the Scoop.Come and join up its lots of fun. What is the next challenge you are going to come up with for us Kathleen? Susie