More Dining Room Decor

I have several tables in the dining room that are great for decorating, the tea cart, a side table, and the bombe table.

Tea Cart

Of course I've been tweaking everything, trying to get it like I want. Above is the first try on decorating the tea cart. Below shows it with the changes I made.

You can see in the photo before this one, that I've added ornaments to the 3-tiered tray. Much better, I think with the addition of green.

I moved the chair I recently painted to a corner in the dining room, to hold this lantern.

I bought these picks and ribbon at Dollar Tree for a total of $3.00. It was an easy project to make this to attach to the lantern.

Later, I moved the lantern to the bottom of the hall tree, and brought in this antique egg basket full of Christmas decor.

The holly table cloth over the back of the chair is from GW.

So there you have the other decor in the dining room for this holiday season.

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