Natural Holiday Tablescape

Tablescapes add such a nice, warming touch to your home during the holidays. This year I decided to go with simple natural elements (greenery, fruit, and nuts) that are really pretty when gathered together. Best of all, it was really simple and inexpensive to create.

I gathered some pine tree and Oregon Grape greenery that resembles holly leaves for the “foundation” of the tablescape. I placed some of the greenery in a vintage vessel for the center of the tablescape and then laid down a bed of the remaining greenery down the center of the table on either side of the vessel. Then I simply layered in large and mini apples, oranges that I studded with cloves, pinecones, cinnamon sticks that I had on hand, nuts in the shell, and some star anise.

The natural elements seem especially fitting this year. Not too fancy or fussy, just pretty in a simple, hand-gathered sort of way.

IT'S ME, SERENA!

I bounced through the first years of my life in a hippie gypsy wagon, hand-built by my father, wandering the back roads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. My family eventually settled into a tiny cabin in the woods on property that was once inhabited by Native American Indians.

I spent my childhood days searching for arrowheads, teaching myself to sew on a treadle sewing machine and to bake in a wood-burning stove, with no running water, refrigeration, or electricity in our home. My family lived frugally and early on, inspired by my parent’s thriftiness and style, I gained a knack for thrifty creativity and turning ordinary objects into something useful. And I dreamed of the home I would create for my own family someday.

Now I’m married to my husband, Colin, and our children are all grown. After 24 years of producing The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair, I'm spending time visiting other markets around the world. You can watch episodes of Serena Goes to Market here.

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