Our Christmas Table Setting 2024
I love Christmas, and a Christmas with all the trimmings is just what I enjoy. Therefore Christmas luncheon had on the back terrace in beautiful weather this year, is a classic affair. Antique Edwardian salon chairs, Royal Albert "Val d'Or" tableware, crystal glasses, Sheffield cutlery, antique silverware and my grandmother's napkin rings, antique linen, embroidered napery, and festive Christmas crackers.
However, it is my floral centrepiece that I enjoy most about my table setting every Christmas. This year my florist supplied me with creamy pink and magenta roses. The asparagus fern comes from my garden, as I like to create my own centrepieces.
So why pink? Pink isn't exactly the first colour that springs to mind when you think of Christmas. A few weeks before Christmas 2022, a very dear Flickr friend of mine in America sent me a wonderful Christmas parcel full of lots of lovely presents, including a set of six Sheffield Steel knives from the early 1950s with porcelain handles painted in pink and hand decorated and gilded. She hoped that they might look good on my Christmas table, which they would have since the floral arrangement I made for my centrepiece that year also consisted of pink roses. What my friend did not count on was the backlog of Christmas parcels in the post. Sadly, they did not arrive until after New Year 2023. However they did make it to my Christmas table setting last year and again this year, so I ordered roses to match them especially from my florist. The knives were remarked upon favourably by all the diners at my table this Christmas Day luncheon. This same friend sent me the cake slice to match the knives last year, and it arrived before Christmas, so I was able to use it to slice and serve my Christmas plum pudding, and I used it again this year.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day and are enjoying the time between here and New Year's Eve.
Our Christmas Table Setting 2024
I love Christmas, and a Christmas with all the trimmings is just what I enjoy. Therefore Christmas luncheon had on the back terrace in beautiful weather this year, is a classic affair. Antique Edwardian salon chairs, Royal Albert "Val d'Or" tableware, crystal glasses, Sheffield cutlery, antique silverware and my grandmother's napkin rings, antique linen, embroidered napery, and festive Christmas crackers.
However, it is my floral centrepiece that I enjoy most about my table setting every Christmas. This year my florist supplied me with creamy pink and magenta roses. The asparagus fern comes from my garden, as I like to create my own centrepieces.
So why pink? Pink isn't exactly the first colour that springs to mind when you think of Christmas. A few weeks before Christmas 2022, a very dear Flickr friend of mine in America sent me a wonderful Christmas parcel full of lots of lovely presents, including a set of six Sheffield Steel knives from the early 1950s with porcelain handles painted in pink and hand decorated and gilded. She hoped that they might look good on my Christmas table, which they would have since the floral arrangement I made for my centrepiece that year also consisted of pink roses. What my friend did not count on was the backlog of Christmas parcels in the post. Sadly, they did not arrive until after New Year 2023. However they did make it to my Christmas table setting last year and again this year, so I ordered roses to match them especially from my florist. The knives were remarked upon favourably by all the diners at my table this Christmas Day luncheon. This same friend sent me the cake slice to match the knives last year, and it arrived before Christmas, so I was able to use it to slice and serve my Christmas plum pudding, and I used it again this year.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day and are enjoying the time between here and New Year's Eve.