MacKenzie-Child's Nutcracker Table

You all know my love of MacKenzie-Child's, so 

I decided to set a magical table in the kitchen featuring 

Courtly Check and Christmas red.

This curved glass window creates a wonderful view of 

the mountains that are right outside. 

One of the focal pieces of the table is my 

gorgeous MC nutcracker.  He stands tall 

and watches over the table.  

The other focal piece is my favorite Courtly Check piece, 

the triple tiered serving dish!  I have a thing for tiered servers 

and cake platters, and have way too many of them, but I 

fell in love with this piece from the moment I saw it on 

blogs. 

The last item in the centerpiece decor is a fun box 

on a pedestal that I made a few years ago with my 

craft group.  Everything is placed on a mirrored tray 

in the center of the table. 

I just love how whimsical he is.  

The table is dressed with a black and white checked sequin 

tablecloth.  

The stack begins with my favorite wooden chargers, 

gold beaded glass plates to match the gold edges of 

the tiered tray, a scalloped MC plate and topped with 

candy cane plates.  

I have a few sets of red flatware, but these are so bright 

red and match the runners, that I just had to use them. 

A Christmas tree napkin fold is so easy, and I had 

guests wondering how to do them.  I quickly showed 

them, but told them to look it up on youtube if they 

didn't remember.  

These ruby stemmed glasses just scream Christmas.

I used runners to tie bows around the chairs, and 

hung gold wreaths on the back with a pin.

The chandelier is draped in a red and gold 

garland with additional ornaments hanging from it. 

did you see the hidden Mickey?

A peek at the table from the chandy!

Those who know me, know we love hand dipped chocolates 

at this time of year, and I have had four sessions.  My number 

one dipper, my oldest daughter, has been sick with her 

pregnancy, so I was only going to do a small session by 

myself.  Then my youngest son called for a private dipping 

session.  Then my SIL called for a session - hers ended up 

being massive, and finally I had to redip some of the family 

favorites, because so many had been eaten at parties.  

It seems like all we have been doing is parties, but that is 

half of the fun of Christmas - opening the house to lots 

of people and sharing in the Christmas joy!

Thanks for visiting our Christmas home today!  I hope 

you enjoyed seeing the MC checks as much as I do.

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Love Your Creativity

Christmas Tree Napkin Tutorial

These cute Christmas tree napkin

folds are so easy and would be 

perfect for your holiday table.

Start with a square ironed napkin.

Mine had a design just on one side

so I folded the design inside to make

it show on the outside of the tree.

Fold in half twice to end up with a square.

Start with the folded point at the top

and the open edges toward you, then

fold up each layer of the edges

leaving about a little less than half an inch of

the layer before it exposed.

This is what it looks like with all

of the layers folded towards the top.

Now flip it over with all of the folded

layers underneath and the point at 

the top.

At the bottom edge, fold in one side to the

middle making a point.  This point towards

you will be your top of your Christmas tree.

Fold in the other side to the center.

 Flip it over once more so that it looks like this.

Now starting with the top layer,

the one farthest from you, fold

the top layer up to make the top point

of your tree.  On the next layer fold it

under.

On the third layer, fold the point up

and tuck it under the second layer.

On the fourth and final layer, fold it under.

Then take the remaining napkin at the bottom and fold

it under to create the triangle shape of the tree.

If desired stitch a bell or

small ornament at the top of the tree.

These really added some fun to my

table that I posted last time.  I even showed

my dinner guests how to fold the napkins.

I will be sharing this at 

Metamorphosis Monday