Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and to a decorate for Christmas with me.
Today, I'm going to show you how I'm decorating our table for Christmas this year. I have gone
all out on the decorations, and I'm so excited to show you how I'm going to be dressing the table,
but I'm also going to show you a few hacks on how you can do a few DIYs to do your table at home.
And I'm also going to show you how I'm going to do the kids' table because this is clearly
not the most kid-friendly decorations, but I have some really good ideas for a kids' table as well.
So yeah, if you're new to my channel, I would love you to consider subscribing just by clicking the
little red button below. And with all that said, let me show you our Christmas table.
So, the main decoration that you'll notice on our Christmas table is a big garland down the
center of it. This is a new decoration for us this year. I basically saw that the lady
who did our Christmas porch decorations also makes this artificial garland, so I decided to
get one. And the beauty of it being artificial is that I can get it out every year and reuse
it every Christmas. So, we went the full length of the table because she said that is the trend,
to go the full length, but you could actually go shorter if you wanted to have people eating on
the ends of your table or just having six adults. I decided not to get a tablecloth, but I did get
a hessian runner to put the garland on. And if you follow me on Instagram, then you will know
that I actually ordered a 10-meter runner rather than a 10-foot runner, so I've cut it and I've got
extra for the years to come. But I think it is quite nice. And then I also put these fluffy...
These are actually fluffy rugs. They were 10 pounds each. And I saw someone on Instagram
do this for their Christmas table, and I thought it looked so beautiful,
but she actually put them on every other chair. At first, I only ordered three and then I tried
it on our table and actually it didn't look great. I don't know if it's just our chairs.
She had these beautiful wooden chairs that looked really nice. But I kind of thought
I would get six, so I've got one for each chair and it just like, it makes it feel really cozy,
very Christmassy. I feel like it really did transform the whole table.
I've also put a battery pack of fairy lights into the garland. Just a little wire one
just to give it a bit more twinkle. And I got these tall candle glasses on Amazon. I got a
pack of three that were all different sizes and just kind of put them into the garland with a
candle in it. I think it really makes it just nice and twinkly. And when it is actually dark,
it will be glowy. And because here in England it gets dark at like 4:00 PM, so it will probably
be nice to have that on Christmas day. I also wanted to show you a very simple
Christmas DIY, if you haven't sorted out a table centerpiece yet. You could literally wait for
all of your guests to walk in the door and then take your Christmas wreath off of the front door,
put it in the center of your table and then add some candles, and voila! You have a beautiful
centerpiece. And you could use one big candle or literally whatever you have. I'm just using the
glass candle holders that I have. And you could leave it like that,
because normally your Christmas wreath is very beautiful anyway. But if you wanted to add some
bulbuls or a battery pack of fairy lights, that would also work really well. And this is also a
good option if you want to have more space on your table for food. So yeah, I thought
I would share with you that very simple hack. In terms of plate settings, we actually went for
these gold charger plates rather than a placemats. I think they're so
gorgeous and they were actually £1 from Wilko's. And then I've just got a weight plate on top. And
then for the serviettes, we've actually tied a knot in this red serviette, which was super
simple to do, and then added a little bit of rosemary, which we just cut from the garden.
So instead of Christmas crackers this year, we've actually made our own little DIY table favors,
which are so simple to do. All you have to do is get a square gift wrap and then fold in both sides
and then fold the top down. And I use a little bit of double-sided tape to secure it. Then we
just tied up a little gold bow from ribbon that we already had. And I printed out these little label
templates on our printer and just wrote everyone's name. And inside, we've just put some lint balls,
but you could put some sweets. You could also print off some little jokes, a Christmas hat, if
you really wanted to. We just thought it was a bit nicer and more personal than a Christmas cracker.
Next up, I'm going to show you how we're going to be decorating the kids' table. Some of my
favorite memories as a kid were sitting at the kids' table on Christmas day with my cousins,
away from the adults and feeling really grown up. So, we're going to do the same thing. And we also
don't have a room on the main table for the kids. And also sometimes when the kids are on the main
table, because they don't last very long, they eat really quickly then they leave and then there's
like big gaps on the table. So, it's quite nice if they're like four years and up or five years
and up to have a little separate section for them. So, a really cool idea that you can do is just use
some gift wrap to put over a kid's table. You can either secure it with some set of tape or
staples, but I'm literally just going to lay it over it. Then it doesn't matter if they ruin it,
if they draw on it. It's no big deal it's just some wrapping paper. Then, I've also just got
their normal plates that they do use. I got this on Amazon. I actually get so many questions about
them because they've got that edge on them. But that edge is also a little bit annoying
when it comes to the dishwasher. Anyway... Hi guys, it's voiceover Emily here. You're
not going to believe it. As I was filming this, I don't know what happened, but my microphone
just completely stopped working. So I thought I will just talk you through rather than re-filming
because I've literally put everything away. But as you saw, I just put some little Christmas pudding
Poundland serviettes on the plates. And then I have these red cups, like leftover partyware
with stripey straws from Poundland and I've just secured a little Christmas ribbon around
it to make it a bit more Christmassy. And then I got some kid's crackers for them,
so I'm going to put one of those on each plate as well. And then I'm also going to do some coloring.
You can get Christmas placemats that you can print out with little activities on it. I'm
just putting some Christmas coloring out with some pens or you could do some tabletop games as well.
So, just a few little things for them to do. And there's probably stuff in the crackers as well.
And I've just tied the pens with a little Christmas ribbon. And that is it.
I also wanted to show you these paper stars that Fraser made at school.
We're hanging them from the top of the conservatory and they're really effective.
But yeah, that is pretty much the kids' table and the main table. I hope you really enjoyed
this video. I'm so sorry about some of the audio. Honestly, technology sometimes
is such a headache, but I still wanted to get this video out for you guys tonight.
But yeah, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.