setting a holiday table

this year i'm going for a non traditional festive look for my christmas table.

 i want it to look like your italian granny, a sugar plum fairy and cabana magazine birthed it. 

like so..

a little jewel, a little kitsch, a lot of juxtaposing patterns, some murano perhaps. why does no one use finger bowls anymore? i say clean your fingers like a dowager. and what about place cards? let's do that too. 

here's how:

 

set of 8 colorful vintage cordials (finger bowls all day) (unless you drink cordial) (DO YOU drink CORDIAL?!) (should I be drinking cordial??!!!)

hand blown glasses - set of 6 (would be great as votives too)

antique petite trophies - set of 7 (i don't even know what you'd do with these? fill them with candy? fake snow? salt cellar? i just know they are adorable and festive.)

vintage eiffel tower placecard/menu holders - set of 6

green dessert plates - set of 5 (these have been hugely marked down)

moroccan elephant tea glasses (also great votives)

moroccan red tea glasses - set of 6

 

the cool thing is you may already have some of this stuff. or you know an old lady who does. 

the trick is to mix it like boss. 

images via instagram: margherita missoni, rebecca gardner and cabana magazine

in other news...

we have snow! it will last 1 hour but still! SNOW. and i made soup and there's plenty of wine. what more could you ask for?

* i wrote this post on thursday and forgot to publish it. because dumb. 

* also we still have snow. lots of it. 

the feels

1. my coffee situation sucks. my shattered chemex (it was bound to happen sooner or later) means using my old bialetti which has lost it's rubber ring and spews coffee water all over my stove every goddamn day and the coffee itself pours murky and gray. why haven't i bought a new chemex you ask? or a new bialetti? bc i am still looking for the mercedes of coffee makers. i have no clue what the fuck that is though. everyone has a different opinion on the matter and what i need to do is find a research lab where all the coffee makers on earth come out and make coffee for me and then i can decide. does that seem like a TALL order? but i also haven't bought one because life in general feels so overwhelming lately that even the simple task of buying a coffee maker feels equivalent to buying a house.

2. 2 cats = i clean the litter box a lot. which i gotta tell you is my least favorite thing about cats.

3. i use a lot of paper towels. not for cleaning poop. just in general and i feel like i am singlehandedly destroying our planet. 

4. my boobs hurt 20 days out of the month. my period makes no sense anymore. 

5. i need a rug pad but would rather buy every ouai product. 

6. my kid had a meltdown because i moved the christmas tree to another spot this year. saying it was better in the other spot and how there's no room to move. i told her "no ma'am" this is where it was staying and to go to her room. screaming and "you're stupid" were involved so please don't think i sent her to her room for voicing her opinion. but she never listens and goes to her room so i have to walk with authority (read fast walking with deliberate clomping) and almost fall on my padless rug en route to show her that i, in fact, am the boss. also i think she was right about the tree.

7. i just painted our sitting room this color and it's amazing. but now i want new art, a new lampshade, new pillows etc... first world problems. i get it. i'll post pics as soon as i get the room situated with all the christmas. 

8. it's true what they say, the neck is the first thing to go. my advice to you: strap on a neck brace for every moment you aren't in public. it's too late for me. save yourself. 

9. i want kim kardashian's perfume and i feel i need an intervention. 

10. i find myself tuning out important issues like the current state of EVERYTHING because it's just too much. but i don't feel like this is the right choice and then i feel disconnected and i fall down the rabbit hole of social media to numb the pain only the funny thing is social media makes me feel inferior and sad and gives me major FOMO. i just don't know what to do.

11. you = read a book. me = what book?

12. seriously though i can't wrap my head around why donald trump is still president and sometimes, SOMETIMES i think there are these other, REAL people in power that are pulling the strings and he is just there to cause a distraction. like maybe there is an alien war going on in space and the real leaders need us to focus on our "fake" president and the "fake" feud with that other "fake" leader kim jong un so that we don't see the aliens. 

i am sorry for not talking to you guys more.