How do you decorate your table for Xmas Day lunch/dinner?

[OhCobblers]

i've got a red and gold selection that i've used for the last 5 years but am a tad bored with it.

how do you decorate yours? any ideas for something new??

Christ on a bike, it's just crackers and red napkins here.

Taffycat oooh thank you...

Hully - yours sounds so...erm...tasteful and...subtle...I think I will copy it.

I do plain white everything, with a tiny glass of white and silver baubles in the middle and white and silver crackers, if I can get them. Or white and a tiny bit of gold otherwise. It is a small table and there ar eonly four of us and I want room for lots of food!

glittery tat. 4 yr old in the house. cut up Xmas cards stuck on a long bit of sugar paper makes a nice centre runner. more cards on paper and laminated for Xmas place mats. Candles, probably this year as boy is fascinated but old enough to not touch. with that lot and all the food related bots and bobs the table will be full.

Normal crockery and cutlery as we don't have any "best" .

thanks all!
lots (not all ) of good ideas,
particularly liking silver and green.

can't have too much on though as the wine goblets take priority

I have to say, these lovely table settings in magazines are gorgeous, but they leave no room for the food and wine!

we really do have a train

Hully, I love my mental picture of christmas dinner at castle hully. I only hope you have as much fun as I think you might.

My grandfather often joked we needed a train at christmas, 20 ish of us on one table.