What do you have on your dining table?

[IHateFlies]

I don't mean all the clutter and nonsense but when it's nice and clean, what do you have in the centre? Mine is lovely and clean right now and I have a vase and unlit candle but it looks a bit dull.
If you can post actual links or give me suggestions, I'd be very grateful

Round melamine placemats, a carved wooden fruit bowl full of decorated eggs that I collect and an amaryllis in flower at the moment. See also, random bits of Lego, children's books and comics and abandoned plates like the flipping Marie Celeste when it has not been cleared up! Also maybe a condiments bottle or two

Daffodils every single week they are available. Then flowers from the garden until autumn.

https://www.sansomreed.com/collections/candle-holders/products/thomas-candle-holder-black

I have this and decorate the base with relevant (usually fake) foliage, although it is currently covered with a selection of colourful eggs ready for lunch tomorrow. I sometimes use battery candles and sometimes real in suitable hues.

I'd like to see the dragon too!

On ours we currently have a large purple glass vase with some orange faux stems (both from Homesense). I usually put a little Easter tree there but I'm not feeling like it this year as one of our DDogs had to be PTS on Thursday 😪

My husband and I now eat on trays in front of the telly.
My dining table has a delicately floral tablecloth in a Provence style in blues and turquoises but there is a large collection of houseplants on it as it's the only room that's bright.

Vase with silk flowers.

A pile of laundry and a beautiful bowl with unripe bananas in it.🍌

@LibertyLily wow! That’s gorgeous.

I want to see the dragon.

Ours is currently covered in crap but usually it’s just a fruit bowl.

@LibertyLily also, I’m sorry for your loss.

Bunch of daffodils in a tin can cuz I don't have a small vase.

A cat on a cushion usually. It's her favourite lookout point - direct line of sight to the kitchen and front and back windows so she knows what's going on in her hood.
And a laptop.

usually a seasonal plant /flowers currently a jug with daffodils in

The table in the kitchen always has a colourful vase with either real flowers or these from Amaranthine Blooms. The table in the dining room gets used on average twice a year (one of those times being tomorrow) so it will be whatever DS has scattered over it.

Nothing on the dining room table

Two cats. Only one of which is ours 🤷‍♀️.
When he was younger a black lab puppy too.

Nothing.
It gets used every day for all meals, baking, toddler craft, ad hoc work desk, so I like it empty to use without clearing.

Tablecloth, Easter runner, tall vase full of pastel eggs.

Usually it’s just a tablecloth and a rose bowl.

This morning, unfortunately a cat poo (long haired cats - don’t ask).

Usually a big red bowl with fruit in it.

We just have a small four seater table in the kitchen.
It's usually got nothing on but today it has a vase of daffodils and an Easter card ds made at school.

A padded sweaty Betty gym bag that I bought to use for MYSELF but irresistible cat adopted it and sleeps on it on the dining table. He won’t budge. Both bag and cat are now permanently there through all our meals.

I bought a new bag.

Thanks to wfh loads of junk like laptops and paperwork one end then we sit the other end!
No separate home office!

Both tables have a vase and flowers. There is not supposed to be anything else, but the kitchen table often has placemats that have not been put away.

My family do a seasonal decorative bowl type thing so colourful fir cones in autumn, festive bows in winter, decorative colourful eggs & flowers in spring... that kind of thing.

Thank you @Reinventinganna

A vase of tulips.