Wrap It Up At William Ashley

 

 One of my favourite things during this Christmas season is walking, even in snowy and freezing weather, along Bloor Street in Toronto to watch the spectacular window displays. One of the best Christmas window display in town is from William Ashley, which is the best source of the finest and most elegant China, Crystal, Silver and Kitchen ware for your dining and cooking needs. This store just shows elegance, first class products and exceptional service. Their table settings are the best and most of all their window displays are just phenomenal every season. They are the only store I know who have created a wreath out of fine China from Wedgwood, Mikasa, Villeroy & Boch, Portmeirion, Royal Doulton, among other fine China brands. This is the place where every Bride in town would dream to have their Wedding Registry. It's also the perfect place to shop for elegant Christmas gifts for family and friends. Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? If so, get ready to wrap them up!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's Christmas Time In The City

Christmas is just a few days away. It's time to prepare the gifts for our family and friends but also our Christmas Feast and table decorations. Here in Toronto, one of my favourite shops for China is at William Ashley China located right on Bloor Street. They decorated their windows with paper cut wreaths in white displaying their adorable China decorations and showcased their Christmas Table designs with their fabulous China, Glassware and Silverware collection all for sale in their fabulous store. Do you ever plan and design your Christmas table? Let us get inspired by William Ashley's spectacular table decorations for this coming Christmas celebration. 

 May you all have a Merry Christmas!

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Joy of the Table

Besides decorating our Christmas tree, one of the things I enjoy during Christmas is setting the table for our family's Christmas Eve Dinner. I get to play by setting our table based on a certain theme. Last year, our theme was red and gold. I used the Nutcracker toy soldiers as Table centrepiece, with matching napkins and a cracker for each guest. This year, our colour theme is Blue, White and Silver.  My table setting revolves around my Blue and White Spode China set, then design around it by adding those pine cones candle holders shown in the above picture from Chapters-Indigo.  I am still building around my table setting plan. I don't have a Centrepiece yet and have not decided on the colour of the napkins yet.  I am sharing with you here some inspirations for a stylish and fun table setting for Christmas Eve Dinner.  

This table from William Ashley is very elegant with no need of a Centrepiece.

This table setting I photographed from one of my favourite shops up North in cottage country, Muskoka Living Interiors. I love the red  mixed with the Brown and White china with one of my favourite flowers, light green Hydrangeas as the centrepiece. This is a very Christmas theme, don't you think?

 This is also an elegant and simple table setting from Muskoka Living Interiors. But instead of gray napkins, I would probably use green and red plaid napkins for a Christmas White, Green and Red colour theme.

I like the simplicity and elegance of this table. White china, with pine cones, some mini candles and fresh pines as centrepiece.
Photo credit: Canadian House & Home.

White and gold and full of nature inspiration from Williams Sonoma.

This is my colour inspiration for this Christmas, White, blue and Silver. Hanging blue balls on a Silver Candelabra with white candles will add some whimsical fun to the table centrepiece. But no jewellery. What do you think? Have you thought about your Christmas Eve Dinner and table setting?  (Photo credit: Canadian House and Home)

For sure, I will use some Blue and White Spode china, some greenery as a Centrepiece then maybe add some pine cones candle holders from the first picture above on the table. Then it's decided now that I will just use white napkins. Hopefully, that will all work out plus all the food, desserts, drinks and joyful company on Christmas Eve.

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William Ashley Store in Toronto

Here we are Christmas shopping in one of my favourite shops in Toronto, William Ashley. This store is  a speciality store that offers products for the Home. Mostly  Dining wares like all the High end brands of China, Silver ware,  Flat ware, Cooking wares, Kitchen wares, Crystal & Porcelain decorations. They carry various brands from all over the World like Wedgewood and Waterford from England, Villeroy and Boch from France and Noritake and Mikasa from Japan.  There are Crystal products from Hungary, England, France, Austria and Silver ware from England, France, Italy, Germany and Austria. Plus there are Cooking wares too like the famous Le Creuset from France, Coffee maker from Krups and many other beautiful products.

William Ashley's Christmas Window showing a Table setting in an Igloo, complete with formal China, Crystal Wine glasses, Crystal candle holders and a Crystal chandelier.

Formal China, Crystal wine glasses and bowls and silver Flatware complete the table setting.



Entrance to the William Ashley store at 55 Bloor St West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

Inside the William Ashley store with the Christmas Table Setting.  Behind are the different sections of  Formal and Casual China collections for selection.

 

Beautiful Christmas table setting.

William Ashley always assemble one of the most artistic and original Christmas windows in the City. Of course, better to use their products as props in the whole production. Notice the Snowmen with some cooking wares as arms, eyes,  nose and plates on their chests. Cute little baking and washing bowls as hats!

"Christmas Tree" China collection by Spode from England.

This China set will be perfect to use for the Christmas Eve dinner with the family.

More of the whimsical Christmas Windows featuring the various products in the William Ashley Store.  To view the 2011 Holiday Gift Guide: www.williamashley.com

Royal Doulton figurines. The store also offers Royal Doulton Formal and Casual China.

 

 

The  Royal Doulton of England Bone China Figurine of William and Catherine, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, during their Royal Wedding Day.  The Figurine comes with the  Certificate of Authenticity.

Here are more Christmas gift ideas that doesn't have to break the bank. Beautiful Piggy banks made by Ritzenhoff. Also showing Beer drinking glasses and Liqueur glasses  designed by Ritzenhoff.

 

 

William Ashley offers a wide selection of Crystal and Silver ware products in the store. They wrap all of  the gifts in their classic Gold wrapping paper and ribbons.

These are the William Ashley Kitchen wares from the classic Le Creuset cooking ware and the Krups Coffeemaker, both from France.

The William Ashley Christmas shopping theme this year is "Picked, Packed and Perfect!"  I hope you have picked and packed your perfect Christmas gift! If not, then try to visit the William Ashley store in Toronto and their other branch in Square One Mall, Mississauga, Ontario. I hope this visit to William Ashley will give you some Christmas gift ideas!

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