How have you laid your table?

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Merry Christmas Eve all!

My rectangular table for 8 so far has:

⭐️ Disposable grey and white snowflake pattern tablecloth (for ease!)
⭐️ Grey placemats and coasters
⭐️ 2 x poinsettias with glitter
⭐️ Red Napkins for each guest folded into Christmas trees with silver stars positioned at the top

What have you got in yours??

I have a cat and a dog who can jump on the table...

I like to live on the edge 😉

Lovely!

I'd come down to absolute carnage

The oldest cat CBA anymore, but the younger two would cause absolute mayhem! The dog sleeps upstairs so he'd be safe!

We have a cat and dog but they're too old for shenanigans

For you.

Beautiful, lovely centrepiece 💓

Love the pine cone idea. Will borrow for next year. Beautiful table.

It’s got some candlesticks and candles on it but they’ll be gone tomorrow - it’s not an issue of Good Housekeeping or whatever those aspirational magazines are called, it’s going to be crammed full of serving dishes tomorrow to feed us, no space for foliage, candles or charger plates (whatever the fuck they are)…
So currently only candles!

No that is one job that someone else can do . No way am I doing that .

eggsackly!

Mine currently has leftover Chinese takeaway all over it. 😬

My rectangular table for 6 currently has:

Several rolls of half-used wrapping paper
Scissors
Sticky tape
Pen
Two carrier bags
Tabby cat

Nothing yet as we have a cat

Not even thought about it. Am I bad?

Here is mine!

Put my mats out and cat immediately sat on the table 🤷‍♀️

Here's mine too.

All ready for tomorrow. Just the additional leaf to add for the serving dishes.

@Danniotley

I love those trees & gold mats

Mine has a cat asleep on it...😹

Mine has felt snowflake mats which I will
Put my grandmas silver plate mats on top of tomorrow. And a quilted runner my mum made. Then I will just use our usual stuff for everything else and a cracker each. No tablecloth as I bought a habitat one in the sake last January and didn't check the measurements....too short for my table!!

All I can hear now is Victoria Wood, 'bend me over backwards on the hostess trolley' !

I bought these crackers that you’re supposed to put your own gift in. So naturally we have our dog has bookmarks. And yes I was getting these printed out today and yes I feel like a loon. The rest of the table is plain. But the crackers. The crackers are good.

Lighting isn’t good but silver charger plates with napkins and crackers.
My mum’s table cloth that she bought back from Damascus in the 1970s, it never did lay flat!

“charger plates (whatever the fuck they are)” just for you @TheChosenTwo
They are just shaped place mats.

Its not. Tomorrow I will fling a white tablecloth over it, I think I have some Christmas disposable napkins, then cutlery and crackers. I might put a few red candles on as well - I bought a box a few years ago for Christmas.