Santa will feel right at home..........................

It seems it'll be a white christmas at the Brown Gingham cabin. We have had a little over a foot of snow in the last couple of weeks.and the temps have been freezing. They are predicting a possible snow event, as they are calling it, on Christmas Eve, but they aren't sure...yet. We haven't had a December like this in a very long time. Actually this is Jan/ Feb weather in these parts. Between you and me...since this is the Winter Solstice...I am now looking forward to longer days (yes, even tho it is at a minute a day you do  notice) and that this early weather foretells of a very early spring !!
I have been very slow to decorate this Christmas, I do have touches, but have been very bad about taking pics. I hope to get some shots during my New Year break next week and post so you can visit. Today I wanted to go thru some of my Christmas/Winter dishes I have collected and brought out
I love Christmas dishes and looked for a long time....Spode......Lenox....so beautiful, classic, elegant, but too fancy for a gingham girl. Johnson Brothers transferware a bit more my style....but as with Spode and Lenox a bit pricey. To me Christmas is a time of childlike wonder with big doses of whimsy. So when I found my dishes I knew in an instant they were for us.................................................................................................

                                                                         

This Debbie Mumm's Woodland Santa is a 20-pc placesetting.

I love to mix the pine plate and bowls, after Christmas, with my mochaware and/or these vintage 1940's Pine Bough 20 pc placesetting  that were a Christmas present last year from my parents..................

I had found a cake plate a long time ago and knew it had a whole set that matched it, but never saw it. They found it at our local antique mall. The pine motif goes so well with our cabin in the woods .

Since it is Rednesday Wednesday at Susan's It's A Very Cherry World, I thought I'd link in with my splashes of Christmas red. I  hope you can come with me and see all the other holiday reds.

And, since it is also Tablescape Thursday at Susan's Between Naps On The Porch I thought this post would fit right in too. Tablescapers if all goes as planned I'll have the completed table for Christmas week! Now lets follow the little blue links and check out all the Christmas pretties!