Setting a Christmas Table with Pottery Barn Reindeer Plates
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen…but do you recall the most red-nosed reindeer of all? Da-da-dum-dum…and so on.
Years ago when Pottery Barn first came out with their reindeer dinnerware I fell head over heels in love with the dashing plates (ha! a reindeer pun!). I was not, however, in love with the price tag. For several years I have been collecting these plates via eBay, one at a time, waiting for the right character and a low enough price. I finally have all 8 reindeer and am just waiting to find the Rudolph platter for the right discount. (I imagine that price won’t show up until after Christmas is over, and I am perfectly okay with that; I can wait.) Over the weekend I decided to pull out those reindeer plates and see what Christmas-y place settings I could come up with.
I am so pleased with how this all turned out! The red and white peppermint napkins are from Pier 1 (this year, currently on sale!), and the centerpiece is just a serving dish from IKEA filled with dollar store ornaments…meaning, they were $1.00 for a dozen five or six years ago.
I found these little reindeer place card holders on eBay over the summer, I think they are just so darling! And, um, my Photoshop skills are still on the amateur end, so this is the only place card pic I populated with a name. Meh, just keeping it real over here!
The red Fiestaware chargers were a wedding present, I love how festive they look with those stripey napkins.
Is this reindeer Donner? Or Donder? I always thought it was the latter, but Pottery Barn clearly goes the other way.
I love how Christmas-y this looks! The fun reindeer plates and darling stripey nakins make me want to turn up the Christmas tunes and bake some gingerbread! And now, for a list of what I pulled:
Red charger, Fiestaware
White Dinner Plates, Pottery Barn Catering Set
Reindeer Plates, Pottery Barn, collected via eBay
Glass goblets, Pier 1 (super old)
Peppermint stripe napkins, Pier 1
Silver napkin rings, Macy’s
Flatware, Target (super old)
Reindeer place card holders, eBay
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I’m in awe of all of the different plates/place settings you have! And you’re super cute with these tablescapes!
Thank you! It’s been really fun to go through all those boxes. Some of them haven’t been opened in at least ten years (!!) and I have completely forgotten a lot of what I had. That’s what happens when storage space is plentiful and out of the way, I suppose. You hoard. I mean, collect. :)
xox
Love this. I don’t even care what the food would be. Just love the settings. And to pull it all together is amazing. I could take each element separately and have no idea what to do with it, but you have combined them in fantastic ways.
Well thank you! It’s been a long-standing (but, apparently, secret?) collecting habit of mine. I finally started pulling everything out and putting it in one place…it’s amazing what I found! :)
xox
I commented on this earlier, but I don’t see it? I think your blogs hate me :( My parents always had us eat on the nice dishes in the formal dining room on Sundays growing up as well. I think they wanted to be able to use the china more than twice a year, and they figured we’d not know how treat it and not break it if we weren’t exposed to it regularly. Something like that. I love it. And I love what you’ve done with this table. You’ve got a great eye!
This is seriously so adorable, love these place settings!