The phrase ‘Christmas tablescape’ has emerged from Pinterest, along with ‘Christmas mantelscapes.’
This Christmas tablescape is on the piano in the hall. It looks so effective because there’s a strong repeated theme throughout – silver birch, pussy willow and berries.
A Christmas tablescape isn’t always about decorating a dining table. It’s a Christmas still life, on a coffee table, a hall table, or even the top of a piano or bookcase.
Faversham florist, Charlotte May, of Lotty’s Flowers, has decorated Denise and Adrian Riggs’ house with tablescapes and a mantelscape. Denise started it off by collecting her favourite ideas on Pinterest, to show Charlotte, and she also specified the colour theme, which was white.
The same theme echoed on the mantelpiece or ‘mantelscape’ as Pinterest would call it…
Denise wanted to be able to re-use some elements, such as stars and fake berries, from year to year. Others are fresh – such as the holly, eucalpytus and pussy willow – and can be varied to create different effects in other years.
A new way with holly
The red berries in this vase are holly branches stripped of their leaves. You can buy them like this in florists’ or you could, possibly, strip your own holly branches of leaves.
The branches are in a clear glass vase with ‘water pearls’ at the base.
Water pearls are tiny dehydrated beads which swell when you drop them into water. They have a silky, slippery texture, when fully expanded. Use them with water in clear glass vases to hydrate fresh flowers or twigs.You can buy them at a florist – Lotty’s Flowers sells them, for example. You can also buy them as ‘water beads’ online from Amazon (where I’m an affiliate so if you buy, I may get a small fee but it won’t affect the price you pay.) Water beads are also available in a range of colours.
Water pearls re-hydrating
The practical side of a Christmas tablescape
If you put a Christmas tablescape on a side table or a coffee table, the arrangement may be moved around by people using the table. So Charlotte used trays to anchor the display (see below). When arranging the objects, think in triangles – an overall triangle shape usually works well in still life.
Coffee table ‘Christmas tablescape’ on trays – keeps it all together.
By the way, if you like the white birch twig tea light holder, you can adapt the techniques in this Jam Jar Christmas post to make it yourself.
I love the pussy willow twig wreath. Check out this post on how to make a twig wreath for tips.
Charlotte May does wedding flowers as well as floral decorations for homes, and her florist shop in Faversham is a delight.
Lotty’s Flowers in Faversham
Join me on #vlogmas…
‘Vlogmas’ is a YouTube challenge. I’m joining the challenge by uploading a short Christmas or winter gardening video every day to YouTube, so do please come and cheer me on. My aim is to find people with inspiring ideas and tips, and then to film them. I’d love to hear all comments and suggestions. You can watch ‘#vlogmas 3 – what to do with your lawn moss for Christmas’ below, and subscribe to The Middlesized Garden YouTube channel to follow along. Thank you!
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