Celebrating the New Year in Style: Tabletop

Fantastic tabletop by Michelle Nussbaumer via Veranda Magazine with gorgeous monogrammed napkins and blue and white dinnerware.

image via Veranda

Tabletop

You're hosting guests for a New Year's Eve dinner.  With all of the amazingly gorgeous tabletop images you're constantly seeing on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and blogs, you:

a)  feel excited and inspired by all of the beautiful, creative tablescapes you're constantly seeing

b)  feel pressured and intimidated wondering how you'll ever put together an attractive, festive table

c)  you have everything you need, entertain frequently, and wow your guests every time with your stunning tabletop creations

d)  don't really care about tabletop design

e)  can't wait to start the fun -- how exciting to have the opportunity to create a gorgeous table for your guests to enjoy, but you're missing a few items that would finish your design perfectly.

Breathtaking holiday tabletop with lots of Chinese influenced dinnerware and accessories via Veranda Magazine.

Image via Veranda

Holiday tabletop by Carolyne Roehm via Veranda Magazine

Image via Veranda

Collecting

Carolyne Roehm's beadboard cabinets that house her extensive collection of blue and white porcelain, ceramics and glassware.

Image via A Passion for Blue and White

In the quiz above, my answer would be E. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have cabinets full of everything you could ever need to create a spectacularly memorable dinner table like Carolyne Roehm's above?  I'd have more glassware.  Colored glassware creates such an impact on the table, and I'd love to start collecting some soon.  

Lovely blue and white table by Carolyne Roehm via her beautiful book, A Passion for Blue and White.

Image via A Passion for Blue and White

The blue goblets on Carolyne Roehm's table are exquisite, aren't they?  I definitely want colored goblets, but may begin with tumblers as they're always flexible.  Here are some I'm considering.

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See anything you like?  With these being such a mix between highs and lows, I may need more than one : ).

 

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