"His own heart laughed, and that was quite good enough for him."
This Christmas, I took inspiration from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, designed a Victorian themed decor accented by literary details throughout a merlot and rosé color scheme. Old books, vintage silver, fresh roses and poinsettias, and handmade papercraft embellished the decor.
For Christmas dinner, we had Devonshire Crab Soup (delicious!), Annapolis crab cakes, Chebe rolls, and a fresh salad with baby arugula, sliced strawberries, and homemade balsamic dressing.
Natural-colored tapers in a vintage silver
candelabra paid homage to the Victorian theme.
Handmade place cards
Dimming the room's ceiling light made candlelight the
main attraction. A photo frame quoting A Christmas
Carol emphasized the Dickensian theme.
Lush, multi-layered decor.
"Old Marley was dead: to begin with."
~ First line of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Merlot-colored lace overlays were the perfect
Victorian touches on the side buffet and the dinner table.
Fresh red roses in a cranberry glass pitcher stood
alongside the poinsettias.
Handmade collage wall art, featuring a photograph of
my great-grandmother Doris Stillman Frazier at
the age of eighteen. So glamorous.
More handmade collage wall art. I raided fashion,
decorating, and bridal magazines for the flower photos,
and used scrapbooking papers and embellishments for
everything else. I had fun drawing the elaborate ink
borders on the red card stock.