A simple tablescape to create the holiday mood at your table.

This red, white, and blue table is a cinch to do-it-yourself. Enlist your kids to help cut out stars for the plates and table; they will enjoy making the carnation “ice cream cones” for the centerpieces, too.

Here is a clever, yet inexpensive table setting you can put together for the Christmas holidays.

Festive collections of colored glass baubles and bottles can do double duty to adorn your holiday table.

This patriotic table looks anything but like it was designed with a budget in mind. It is a clever assortment of red, white, and blue-decorated elements you can pick up at a craft store and pull right from your pantry; the only splurge is a few blue hydrangeas from a florist or supermarket, but you could substitute red and white flowers from your garden, too.

For a spooky-licious party, turn squash and gourds into scary apparitions, fill small cauldrons with candies, and light up the table with ghostly paper bag votives. Spidery characters fill in the table, along with fun mix-and-match dishes and napkins.

This rustic centerpiece is a combination of vintage and natural, depicting simple sophistication.

Bring natural elements inside to set a table that chirps of spring. Hoping for blue sky and bursts of foliage, this tablescape celebrates the season by pulling the outdoors in.

Our mothers always make special efforts for us - why not do the same for them? Pick out the prettiest lemons and carve them to hold flowers at each place setting, then arrange lemons whole in simple white dishes with forget-me-not blooms.

What better place for butterflies to thrive than in grassy spaces with snapdragons to light on? Wheat grass into sections, burlap, and scattered flowers and butterflies are a beautiful way to handle spring fever.

Easter eggs sit in a nest of fluffy white carnations for the centerpiece and at each place, paper grass strips are formed into nests that hold tiny colored eggs and bird-shaped place cards.

Clean lines of simple glassware and decanters lighten a fall table of deep colors, old‑fashioned dishes and fall berries.

If you are wrapping packages for Christmas, you already have everything you need to decorate your holiday table.

Your formal occasion deserves a beautiful table, and this sophisticated grouping of flowers and glass is the picture of understated elegance.

Children will love this whimsical, rainbow-hued table of Santa’s sugar-coated forest and jars of their favorite sweets. Search home décor stores for miniatures trees and elves in candy colors, and surround them with apothecary jars filled with seasonal treats.

Use the beauty of seasonal fruits and plants to add fall colors to your table.