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.