Girlfriend Party - Christmas Tablescape

Don't just peek through the window!

Come inside.

Everyone is welcome.

This is a dinner for my best girlfriends.

A woman's girlfriends are one of the most

wonderful treasures and why not celebrate

together.

This table was inspired by these cute plates

...girls love....

...and these adorable shoe ornaments.

All appropriate holiday sentiments!

(At least for me!)

They were paired with textured red plates and

sparkling red chargers, organza red napkins

and berry napkin rings made from holiday

floral stems.

Each place setting has a little glass slipper.

The centerpiece is also made up of girls' favorite

items:  roses, candy, chocolates and bling.

We actually had a dinner party last year and

used these place settings.  The girls sat in here

and the guys sat at a "more manly" table

in the kitchen.

It was all girl talk and a fun change from

the norm.  Everyone liked the change.

A fun perspective on this shoe.

I love the red ball on the bottom of these dessert dishes.

A view from above.

These great bubbled red stemmed glasses were

from a Christmas trip to New York years

ago. 

This shoe is fabulous too, love the reflection in

the wood table.

The fun modern dessert dishes mirror the red

stem of the

bubbled goblets. 

This is a lucious table in red with just a hint

of green here and there.

The berries are just the right holiday accent to the

fresh red roses.

Put your sparkly ornaments on display on a red

pedestal and under

a glass dome. 

Beautiful red and white ornaments and crystals hang

from the chandelier above.  It is so easy to decorate

your chandeliers and it adds so much to your table.

We even have some high stepping boots to

add to the whimsy of the table.  It would be

fun to have a small tree filled with shoe and boot

ornaments.

Greenery, crystals, tassels, anything you like can

dress up your chandelier. 

We even captured the blue hour at dusk through

the open plantation shutters.

When you move the chairs away you can see

the round red rug and the sculptured

legs of the dining table.

So glad you came in from the cold and shared

a lovely time with all of your girlfriends.

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our

destiny without leaving some mark on it

 forever." - Francois Muriac

I want to thank all my wonderful blogging girlfriends,

you certainly have left a mark on me forever.  You

give me such wonderful hope in your examples of

marvelous

women, wives, mothers, grandmothers, daughters

and friends.  I brag about you to my husband

all of the time.

I am going to visit many of my girlfriends (and some

guy friends) at

Tablescape Thursdays, Feathered Nest

It's a Wonderful Life

Favorite Things.

Girls love plates - Home Goods/TJMaxx (last year)

Bubble goblets - New York City

Dessert dishes - Target (last year)

Red plates - Wal Mart (few years ago)

Red chargers - ZGallerie (last year but they have them still)

Red pedestal - Home Goods

Napkins - Tuesday Morning

Floral stems - JoAnn Fabrics

Shoe ornaments - Busy Biddy Boutique