table setting for Christmas

This week end I did a table setting rehearsal, I know it sounds a little silly, but I will be at work on Christmas eve while everybody else will be home and I am counting on them to set the table for dinner!
And because we will 6 instead of our usual 4, it takes some preparation: I only have 4 red napkins and 4 deer plates with silver rims! I know, right, real drama here... So I had to be a little creative.

For place holder, I am using a pine cone and a German glass glittered initials  that I made during my workshop with Ms Mustard Seed.

So I am using 2 different sets of napkins: the red ones I purchased during my trip at Lucketts and a set of toile ones from Pottery Barn, alternating for each plate setting. 

I have collected over the years various PB reindeer dessert plates  (underneath there are just plain white plates and a plastic silver charger),  so the adults can have the silver trims ones and the kids just plain ones,  same reindeer but much larger (and dishwasher/microwave friendly!)

For the centerpiece, I wanted something natural but easy to remove, after all we need space for food! So I cut some branches from the Christmas tree and holy bushes from the backyard (before all the red fruits are eaten by the squirrels....) and put it together with a little lantern.

Hopefully I left enough directions for my family to reset it, otherwise...well more champagne will be required, not that it is a bad thing!
Happy day!