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

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