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Posted: Oct 21 2005 at 1:11pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Here's tile a tabletop info.

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Posted: Oct 21 2005 at 5:44pm | IP Logged Quote Natalia
jenngm67 wrote:
. We have a very small table from IKEA .


The table we eat at every day is a frosted glass table with a metal frame that we got at IKEA last year. It is pretty enough that I could use it without placemats or tablecloths but like somebody mentioned I grew up with tablecloths and not having something on the table feels strange to me. The last two days we haven't used anything and I liked not having to clean all those placemats.
I am still thinking about having some nice inexpensive tablecloths though. Next time I go shopping I'll look for some. Maybe I'll give vinyl a try...

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Posted: Oct 21 2005 at 9:47pm | IP Logged Quote Wendi DeGrandpr
jenngm67 wrote:
Wendi, I love this idea.


I have to give credit where credit is due - this was NOT my idea - I got it from the CCM list quite awhile ago and it just works for us.

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Ok at our house we don't use either tableclothes or placemats, but use both for special occasions - Christmas, Easter, baptisms, First Communions, etc. along with the best China.

We are notoriously bad for spills and stains. Our Christmas dinner is Jumbo Shells - bad idea, but too late now. Our beautiful clothes are horribly stained with tomatoe sauce. We also do a lot of stir fry - and I just never could get grease stains out. The worst culprits, though is the lamb and sparkling grape juice we have on Holy Thursday (moved to Wednessday for time purposes so we have a sedar on Wednessday and Mass on Thursday of Holy Week) and the Easter goodies from Easter morning. Now I try to hide the worst stains with decorations.

A tablecloth for everyday would be a disaster here. The vinyl backed ones were easy to clean - but my dc are so into water play that it was easy for water to get under the table and we actually had mildew growing on the actual table - no more vinyl for us - plus the toddler liked trying to cut holes in it. It was Ok when we were using a piece of lumber cut out for a bunkbed as our table top, but not now.

I love the decopage holy card idea - that is a possibility for our old table (not the antique one we got at a garage sale - no one wanted this wonderfully long table with leaves that actually slide under the table itself.

Hey the decopage idea might keep toddler occupied for hours on a school day. He loves playing with glue and keeps finding and getting into my bottles of the stuff. I could just put him, the table and all the cards on the deck and see what happened, right? Am I a little lazy?
But that might get this glue bug out of his system!

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I use either/or depending on the mood I am in at the time. I have matching cloth napkins for each. All my friends think I am nuts not to use paper and vinyl. But I also grew up with them on the table for each meal. I don't switch them out for each meal so we alway sit at our "assigned" places to use our napkins throughout the day.

Interesting bit of trivia - Napkin rings used to be different for each place setting (not a matched set of four) so that each family member knew what napkin ring was his/hers and knew what napkin he/she had to use for the next meal.

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Interesting bit of trivia - Napkin rings used to be different for each place setting (not a matched set of four) so that each family member knew what napkin ring was his/hers and knew what napkin he/she had to use for the next meal.Charlene


Cool! That makes sense!
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Interesting bit of trivia - Napkin rings used to be different for each place setting (not a matched set of four) so that each family member knew what napkin ring was his/hers and knew what napkin he/she had to use for the next meal.


My mother did that with our family (7 kids) for the longest time. She was trying to conserve on waste. She used terry cloth finger towels as table napkins in different colors and also different colored napkin rings. The finger towels are more absorbent and substantial than regular napkins.

We had a rotation of two or three napkins...reuse them a night or two unless we had really messy dinner. For awhile, we had assigned colors of both napkins and rings. Then as the kids got older we cross stitched names on sets of similar colored cloths, so we had matching napkins. And since the family had grown, there wasn't a range of different colors for napkin rings...so the name on the napkin helped out.

Wow, you just triggered a really happy memory for me. I just loved my blue-green napkin ring matched to a light pink napkin.

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