Christmas Salt and Pepper Shakers

Replace your everyday salt & pepper shakers for Christmas salt & pepper shakers and you'll add instant yuletide cheer to your dining table! I especially love using this technique in our breakfast nook where we eat most of our casual meals. It recognizes the important seasons of our lives and adds visual variety to our dining space.

I have lots of little nieces and nephews who visit and they always run to the table to see what pair of salt and pepper shakers that I've put out on the kitchen table today. Figurine collecting is one of my passions and I consider salt and pepper shakers as a form of figurine. In my mind they are functional art that adds beauty to their task.

Some of my Christmas themes as salt & pepper shakers are - Mr. and Mrs. Claus, Kissing Snowmen and Snowwomen, Reindeer, Christmas trees, elves, and who could forget Charlie Brown and his Christmas Tree!

Santa Claus with his white beard and red Christmas suit is one of my favorite Christmas images to include in my home decor. I have lots of Santa figurines and a variety of Santa salt & pepper shakers.

Designers have included Santa in all of his favorite tasks. You might find him standing beside a Christmas tree, kissing Mrs. Claus or even driving a train full of gifts. You can use these different themes to give these Christmas salt and pepper shakers as gifts. I love giving newlyweds kissing salt and pepper shakers. If you've got a Lenox china collector in your circle of freinds and family, then they'll love receiving the Lenox Christmas Santa with his tree salt and pepper shakers. And that favorite uncle of yours that you neve know what to give, if he loves trains, then he'll love the Santa train salt and pepper shakers.

Many couples are choosing to get married over the Christmas holidays. Aside from being romantic, it's a practical consideration as well. Many family members are already taking time off from work and traveling to the area, so they only have one travel expense. If this is the case in your family and you're hosting a rehearsal dinner or wedding brunch, have some fun with kissing salt and pepper shakers with a Christmas theme. They can easily become part of the table decorations .

You can group the kissing salt and pepper shakers together and put a big red heart trimmed with green in the center for an easy and inexpensive centerpiece. You can also set the kissing salt and pepper shakers beside each place setting and have them hold the name card. These romantic Christmas salt and pepper shakers make wonderful keepsake party favors. Everyone will think of the fun wedding and their family when they pull out these salt and pepper shakers for many years to come.

As you can see looking to the right and checking out the Gingerbead salt and pepper shakers, you'll find a set of salt and pepper shakers for eveyone's budget. Obviously if you go with a brand like Lenox, then you'll pay more. But that doesn't mean that Lenox is any cuter or adorable than the lesser priced one.

These gingerbread boys and girls show here are delicious looking. If you love to make gingerbread men cookies and have the kids decorate them, then it would be great fun to include gingerbread decor in your kitchen decor.

Charlie Brown and His Christmas Tree Salt and Pepper Shakers

If your a Charlie Brown fan then you'll want to include Peanuts in your Christmas decorations. Pairing him with his Christmas tree is the perfect way to do this!