I had so much fun hosting Christmas Eve! I had a few more ideas that I ran out of time for, but I’m really happy with what I did accomplish and now I have a list of ideas for next year.
We decided that it would be fun to have a theme for the food this year. Since we decided while we were shopping at Ikea, Swedish seemed like the way to go. We had meatballs, salmon, marinated cucumbers, and potato pancakes on the menu as our Swedish foods and then we had asparagus, salad and rolls in case the Swedish food was gross. Luckily it was all delish!
I seriously love plates and I probably have more than any one person really needs, but I can’t help myself. 🙂 I don’t quite have enough of these salad plates so I alternated with the plain ones. Hopefully it looked intentional.
I made some napkins out of flannel with my serger. I love that thing. I also bought some red stripped juice glasses at Ikea that we used as wine glasses.
In the end the peppermint topiaries were too much with the stripped table runner, so I put them out on the island with some appetizers. Funny story about the appetizers… We weren’t planning on having any, but then I found these awesome bowls from Crate and Barrel that I was given last year when I was digging out my plates. They are perfect! That and my genetic inability to host an event without having enough food to feed a small army led me back to HEB on Christmas Eve.
I think everything turned out great and I loved the look of the red and white. I think we’ll be sticking with that for a while. 🙂 Bonus, I just realized that I can repurpose a bunch of it for Kate’s second annual Valentine’s Day play group party!