Christmas place names

Eight of us for Christmas lunch this year. We soooo need place names otherwise chaos will ensue....ha ha! Well, maybe it's a bit unnecessary but it is Christmas.

We don't really have a theme for our Christmas table, although last year, inspired by mum's crochet doily obsession we went multicoloured. The place names were made by our cousin, Christmas trees with the names on the stars. I pinched them when we were there for dinner. (I did ask first, and I dos wait until we had eaten, I promise).

This year mum and I have made our own place name holders, so now we're going to have to build the rest of the table around them. What do you think?

We stared with the inspiration from a pin on Pinterest. I can't seem to paste a link in here sorry, but safe to say that ours look nothing like them (can you use your imagination to conjure up sparkle and 3D deer?).  I couldn't find any little  3D figures so I bought these from hobbycraft. Don't they look pretty all lined up in an orderly fashion?  

 We also struggled to get wooden pegs. Mum ordered them online in the end, they came all the way from China. Unbelievable really. I bet now we'll see them everywhere - doesn't that always happen?! 

We used the trusty glue gun, and mum glued the shapes onto the pegs while I typed out the names on this typewriter. It belonged to my uncle, and was gifted to me by my Aunty Pat when he sadly passed away. 

I love the font, it seems retro now, and it's bonkers to think that this was standard not so many years ago. 

Here's the finished product, all lined up in their box ready to get out on Christmas Day.

It didn't take long, about half an hour, and although I probably should have been tackling the mountain of ironing, I'm very glad I didn't as this was much more fun...and how satisfying.  Plus I can bask in that smug feeling of being organised in advance.  Well for about 5 minutes anyway, until that ironing pile catches my eye.  Maybe I'll just throw a blanket over it.....

Night night, Tor X