This year was different. I feel like the holidays came and went so fast, while our tree decided to drop needles at record speed. The result? I took down Christmas. On the 28th (the horror!).
It's a sigh of relief, to be honest. I'm ready to clean up and de-clutter and move on to next year. I'm ready for it!
So since it's usually practically spring when I have to replace my Christmas decor with something else, I had to be creative with my table. So I decided to go with a New Years theme, using, of course, what I had around the house - and a few new things I got as gifts (the candlesticks from Ikea and the cake plate).
Not the best centerpiece ever... but it does the trick! |
If I were having a party (which, I'm not, go figure) I would serve cocktails and tapas. (And the books were appropriately colored in silver and purple!) |
Isn't the cake stand beautiful?? |
No New Years is complete without a disco ball or three! |
A little sparkle for the cold winter |
My "Christmas" table setting isn't really very Christmasy--it's blue and silver, along with some pinecones...so I usually just leave it up until spring. Sometimes, I only swap out the pinecones for something more appropriate for the season, but leave everything else the same.
ReplyDeleteIt's so festive! Love the disco balls. Totally makes me wanna pop a bottle of bubbly and toast the new year.
ReplyDeleteChristmas has left the building at the Woodwards. I'm usually over it by the 26th, too. Sentimentality was never my strong suit. ;)
I might just be in love with those baby disco balls. Will you ask them to run away with me?
ReplyDeleteWe're always on vacation until around the 3rd, coming back to a messy house (trying to pack, load & choose which new toys to take(!), enjoy Christmas Day, etc. is always crazy!), lots of pine needles & Christmas decorations, and real life- makes this particular time period very hard. Yet we still do it every year. So, to answer your question- my house is not decorated, and we're still in major purging/cleaning mode... yet at the moment, I'm in the "tackle my reader" mode. Back to cleaning tomorrow:).
ReplyDeleteI love your table!