festive forests??

I wanted christmassy name cards but something a little more exciting than a boring piece of paper at the top of the place setting. Found some green card and made a mini forest equipped with useful personalised stars on each little tree.

When trying to find a suitable place to plant the mini trees at the appropriate place setting i bowed to the need to conserve food-serving space...

.....lets not get our priorities mixed up here

....this dinner is about mountains of food and every possible area of table space will definitely be required!!!!

...so i popped each one into the bulb of the red wine glass and love love *LOVED* how they almost looked like a little christmas snow globe!!

SuperD's little tree was roughly uprooted about 2 seconds after this photo was taken, as it was in danger of being submerged in a deep red italian flood.....but luckily they looked just as cute on the table!!