Entertaining and Parties

Make Some Easy Coastal Napkin Rings

The other day I did my first LIVE on Facebook teaching everyone how to make a Coastal Christmas Wreath. In the video I also showed everyone my dining room and how to make some easy coastal napkin rings! These really are the easiest napkin rings ever and you are going to love them!

Supplies needed for Easy Coastal Napkin Rings

Very little supplies are needed to make these beachy napkin rings! I love crafts that are quick and easy but look like you have spend some time putting it together. These napkin rings would be so perfect for a winter beachy wedding. Really you could use the napkin rings in the summer as well just don’t add the springs of pine or red berries.

  • Cotton Piping 1″ thick cut into 14″ long pieces
  • Small sea shells
  • Sprigs of faux pine
  • Faux red berries
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Glue Sticks

Simple Assembly of Coastal Christmas Napkin Rings

It seriously doesn’t get any easier than folding one side over the other to create a loop and adding a little dab of hot glue to hold it together! Just make sure you leave an opening big enough to pull a napkin through. Once you have the loop created, add a small sea shell right over where the piping crosses over with some hot glue. At this point you could leave them plain and simple to use any time of year but if you want the Christmas look, add a sprig of pine underneath the sea shell and one little red berry.

Adding Napkins to the Coastal Christmas Napkin Rings

Here is where you can use the skills you probably learned in kindergarten! Accordion folding! Take a square napkin and create 1″ pleats by accordion folding the napkin back and forth. Once it is folded into one long piece fold it in half and feed through the opening of the napkin ring. Lay it on a plate and play with it little bit so that the folds spread out nicely. It kind of mimics the scalloped edge of a sea shell and looks so pretty!

Coastal Christmas Place card holder

Also on the video I showed a super cute way to use a sea shell as a place card holder for your guests! I used my circuit to create cursive cutouts of each guests names! I hadn’t done that in a while and I had forgotten how simple it is to do that. If you are familiar with Cricut here is a mini tutorial for you. Type out the name on your canvas, the letters will not be connected to each other. Highlight the entire word and hit ungroup. Highlight one letter at a time to slide each letter to touch each other. Next, select all, tap group and then weld. The letters become one word all connected so that when you cut it out it is in one piece! IT IS SO BRILLIANT!

Complete Coastal Christmas Tablescape

Using more the cotton piping I took another 3 yards and knotted it every so often and used it in my centerpiece. I also added white and natural wood bead garland and fresh greenery.

I just cannot tell you how much I love this dining room! It is heaven since we change the paint from blue to white and added shiplap. Plus we enlarged this dining table by adding a wood planked top.

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Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!

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