Author Archives: cathyboettner

I created a winter wonderland for this table. I started with the navy runner with the embroidered snowflakes and topped that with artificial greenery, glass icicles, and glittery leaf pics. I added a blizzard of laser cut metal, porcelain, wood, glass bead, and plastic snowflakes. I topped it all with a tinsel and glass ballContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Eight”

This fun Frosty table decoration starts with a navy blue runner embroidered with a line of snowflakes. I added a large glass snowman ornament, glittery metal tree, and two small snowmen. I surrounded them with artificial greenery that I added glass icicle ornaments to, and topped it all with some tinsel and glass garland fromContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Seven”

The theme for this table is the Nutcracker Suite with the extra large wooden nutcracker, large metal Christmas tree and sugar plums. I used the navy woven vinyl runner for this table, artificial greenery, wooden bead garland and extra large pine cones to anchor the ends of the runner. The place settings consist of whiteContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Six”

This is my seasons greetings from the seashore table. I started the look with a navy woven vinyl table runner topped with a large rustic glass and steel lantern, two aqua glass and metal lanterns, and two small black metal and glass lanterns. (Lanterns are another of my go-to items when creating a tablescape–they addContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Five”

This is my Hark the Herald Angels Sing table. Again, I have used the two white runners with the silver leaves. I have topped those with white porcelain angels and two of the angels have containers built into them which I filled with silver bead garland. (By the way, I found all these angels atContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Four”

For this table I pulled out all my crystal candle sticks and dramatic white tapers and created a dazzling silver and gold themed table. Here I used a pair of 72″ white table runners covered with a silver leaf pattern, artificial greenery, gold berry picks, and Christopher Radko “shiny brite” garland with blues, silvers, andContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Three”

For this Toyland table design, I looked through the sweet toys that used to line the shelf in Chris’s childhood room and selected these items, along with my own childhood teddy bear. I used candle holders that are not meant for holiday decorating, but echo the colors of the toys and the wooden bead garland.Continue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day Two”

I gave myself a challenge to come up with 12 different table settings for the holidays, with 12 really different looks. I didn’t buy anything for this project–I only used what I had on hand. On the first day of Christmas, I completed the table decorations that I have already shared with you. I completedContinue reading “The 12 Days of Holiday Tables–Day One”

As I have already mentioned, our house was tan inside and out when we bought it, and definitely didn’t look like a house that belonged on the water. We did a lot of work when we first bought it to get rid of the tan on the inside and then in 2018, we did someContinue reading “Before and After Shots”