A Christmas Vignette

It’s Christmas party time in Blog Land and I am headed over to Rhoda’s at Southern Hospitality for a Christmas Vignette Party and to Deborah’s at Common Ground for some Christmas Vintage Inspiration.
I recently did a little rearranging in our dining room which is to the right of the foyer. This vignette table is at the far end of the room.

This year I am mixing non-Christmas items in with the decorations

I have had this black Oriental serving tray for 20+ years

It has been tucked away upstairs

I used a pair of cream cherubs on the ends of the tray

They have celebrated many Christmas’ with us

The beautiful crown platter is from

the  Marketplace for Laurie Anna’s Vintage Home – a very lucky giveaway win!

More of my pink bottle brush trees are lined up like toy soldiers.

A close up of the cute little mouse in  the vintage arrangement that I bought last week for $3.00

It was in a plastic bowl so I sat it in a pretty white container

One can’t have too many old bottles or seashells

Glass garland and a mercury glass church sit next to them on a vintage silver tray

I dressed up the bottles with vintage glass doorknobs, 

old drawer pulls and tiny silver balls that

Alex transformed into faux mercury glass

See tutorial here.

(***not all silver balls work – she got these at Kroger)

  Cropped  this ‘room’ view photo because “real life”

happened to the dining table surface!!!

P.S. If I am fortunate enough to win these stunning Aidan Gray candlesticks, I will make room for them in my DR vignette.  You should check it out for yourself at Morning T’s beautiful blog…(even if it does lessen my chance to win!) 

Rhonda