In addition to the beauty they add to your holiday table, these place cards enclose a take-home treat for dinner guests.

Use delicious holiday cookies as a wonderful winter centerpiece.

Transform paper into pop-up holiday table decor with this craft.

Cute clay mushrooms add a rustic woodland element to holiday decor.

Dress up a plain potted plant with a touch of sparkling paint and some decorative holiday notions.

Wrapped chocolates are a tasty adornment for your tabletop tree. Plus, these decorations are bite-size treats.

To arrange classic Christmas poinsettias into a distinctive holiday display, horticulturist Lloyd Traven of Pennsylvania's Peace Tree Farm recommends combining them with other seasonal plants.

Miniature trees arranged in a festive centerpiece look lovely on a tabletop or flanking the fireplace.

Personalize regular party horns using a favorite decorative paper for your New Year's Eve celebration.

If you're hosting a Chinese New Year feast, a celebratory table setting will help your guests appreciate Chinese cultural customs.

Create a kid-friendly turkey centerpiece for the Thanksgiving table using seasonal vegetables.

This simple, popcorn-filled paper-bag turkey is a perfect centerpiece for a children's Thanksgiving table. If the popcorn is buttered or cooked in oil, use plastic bags or wax paper to line the paper bags.

Add whimsy to your Thanksgiving table with these fun, customized place mats.

Use turnips in varying sizes for the most interesting display on your fall table.

Give your plates a spectacularly spooky look with this spiderweb craft.

Show dinner guests to their seats with cemetery-themed place cards that double as treat holders.

Create a glowing Halloween scene using clip art and a few basic materials.

Create a Transylvanian scene with "drac-o'-lantern" and tiny winged pals. Run-of-the-mill pushpins turn into devilish red eyes.

Embellish a creepy skull candleholder with glitter for a bone-chilling Halloween look. Add Glittered Snakes for a complete tableau.

This place card holder is easy, fun, and perfect for your Easter table.

Set a sophisticated spring table for the Easter and Mother's Day holidays using classic, durable whiteware serving pieces.

Add a festive touch to the table for Mother's Day or any special occasion with these whimsical place cards.

Arachnophiles will delight in these cute Halloween place cards.

Creating these stenciled napkins and table runners is a quick, easy, and affordable way to dress up your Thanksgiving table.

This clever place setting is made with pomegranates, paper, and toothpicks.

A beautiful antique wooden table with just a simple runner can be describe as "formal rustic." It works both formally and informally, depending on how you dress the table.

For simple, seasonally inspired place cards, try giving fall leaves a sparkling touch by adding your guests' names with a bit of glitter.

When you're entertaining for the holidays, don't forget that children may often want to help. Kids can transform pinecones from the backyard into whimsical turkey place settings. Although it keeps young guests busy and entertained, this project serves another purpose -- a card hung around the neck of each turkey will mark each guest's place at the table.

A napkin and a handwoven sparkling favor echo the cornucopia's shape, while more gilded leaves and acorns festoon the napkin in this beautiful table setting.

Folded around a chocolate bar and presented at each seat, the wrapper serves as a place card. The confection doubles as a take-home treat, which guests will be thankful for long after the real bird is gone.

The only turkey you won't want to gobble up this holiday? One of these fun, fanciful yarn-and-felt creations.

Give your guests a complete -- and seasonal -- sensory experience this holiday season with these simple ideas for decorating a table, using items that are easy to find and affordable.

This project is simple enough for children and can result in an entire Yuletide forest for the mantle or dining table.

You'll always be able to create lovely table decorations with these candle blocks: Each face is drilled with a hole sized to fit a particular type of candle.

These wonderful candles are a fun project that will leave your home beautifully lit and smelling wonderful.

These simple and lovely gift-wrapped coasters are perfect for the holiday table -- and for dinner guests to take home as a party favor.

Although they are traditional fall-decorating fodder, these gourds manage to look surprisingly fresh -- more evocative of modernist ceramics than of paper pilgrim-hat place cards -- when adorning a holiday table.

These classic, seasonally inspired gourd candles will light your table with a subtle glow.

These climbers include flowers made from Sabulosum cone scales, buds from the tamarack tree, and leaves that are really single Norway spruce cone scales. The finished vine can be tightly coiled around a candlestick.

If you're bringing a bottle of wine to the table as a gift, dress it up with these lovely felt tree bottle covers.

Create a lovely Thanksgiving table at a low cost with a charming wheat sheaf centerpiece and napkin ring.

A sparkling centerpiece is a great way to enhance a flower arrangement or candles on your beautifully set table. It's a Good Thing.

Fruit has a long history of being used as an adornment to grace a tabletop: A first-century fresco in Pompeii depicts a lavish table with a fruit centerpiece, and the French later raised this table decoration to a high art. Try using these easy-to-find fruits and nuts to transform your own table.

Pumpkins wear many hats this time of year, appearing in pies and soups as well as in centerpieces. Here's another use: Transform one into a colorful homemade vase, the perfect focal point for a holiday table.

Dahlias are very exuberant and seduce the eye, so it is better to get playful than to try to control their shape in a static arrangement. Use one color as a base, playing with another on top -- it's almost impossible to go wrong and you'll get a gorgeous centerpiece.

Fall branch arrangements are a simple and effective way to bring the colorful fruits and leaves of autumn into the home and onto the holiday table.

Hardy chrysanthemums abound this time of year. For a cheery look that feels in step with the season, try this beautiful mum centerpiece.

This beautiful arrangement is simple to make but looks like it came from the finest florist.

Using carnations to evoke a snow-covered tree, this centerpiece transforms the tabletop into a fanciful winter garden.

An alternative to standard red and green centerpieces, this beautiful basket of pinecones will give your holiday table a distinctive look.