A number of you commented on my tea centerpiece when I showed
you my "curious" table (that you can see here),
so here's a closer look.
I have had this three-tiered stand for about 30 years. I bought it at a darling
shop called Oak Tree Furniture on Historic Main Street in St. Charles. I
mourned for weeks when that shop closed more than a dozen years ago. My mother
and I used to visit it often, and when I spied this at the center of one of
their lavishly decorated tables, I knew I had to have it. It has served me well
over the years, largely holding greenery and grapes. But, lately, I've been
using it as not only a centerpiece, but also a part of the meal. If you have
one of those very popular galvanized metal three-tiered stands, you might
consider this as well. I love it when a centerpiece does double duty.
Consider using it as an appetizer tray. You can showcase some of your favorite
dishes, and fill them with fruits, nuts, cubes of cheese, small, hot baked
appetizers, and use the lower level for small bottles of wine.
You can also use it as a salad tray, serving people a beautiful bed of freshly
torn lettuce, and allowing them to choose their toppers from what you feature
on your stand. You can use croutons, nuts, sunflower seeds, dried fruit, bacon
crumbles, cubes of ham, shredded cheese, whatever you can dream up, you can put
on your tray.
For holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, or Christmas, where
sweets are always featured, use it as a sweet tray. For Valentine’s Day, you
can fill bowls with flowers, conversation hearts, chocolate candies, and
heart-shaped cookies. Candy is in abundance at Easter time, so imagine how cute
this would look filled with pastel colored vessels overflowing with jellybeans,
chocolate eggs, malted milk eggs, or your homemade options.
The tray could be filled with spooky fun for Halloween. Use
colors like black, brown, orange, and amber as your vessels, and fill them with
all sorts of Halloween candy. The kids and your family will go crazy. At
Christmas time, picture greenery, berries, small bowls of Christmas cookies
(snowball are particularly popular), holiday candy, anything colorful and
delicious. Now, if you don't have a three-tiered tray, my guess is you're going
to be running out to buy one. Click below if you don't have one. They are so
much fun to play around with.
Mine here is tea themed. It features sugar cubes of white and Demerara sugars, teabags in a variety of flavors, some squares of Ghirardelli chocolate (that
taste so good with tea), some almond cookies, bowls to hold the goodies, cups
for drinking tea, and a small bottle of spiced rum to warm up the tea as well
as the insides of anyone who consumes it.
I hope you enjoyed looking at my tea tray. Let me know what you do with yours
if you have one, or what you plan to do with one if it's in your future.
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