For an informal meal or formal you can set your table with style by assembling together Hazelnuts and Roses or Tassels and Pearls. Both of these are easy to put together and both require a grapevine tree, which you can purchase at your local florist shop.

The rest of the supplies you will either have at home or purchase at a flower shop as well

Lets start with the centerpiece with Hazelnuts, Roses, bits of broken copper, Christmas balls that will add sparkle to your centerpiece.

Start by covering a 3-foot-tall Styrofoam cone with sheet moss, by using a low-melt hot glue to secure the moss to the cone. Push the spiral grapevine tree down over the cone. Stretch it if necessary so that it hugs the cone tightly. Use greening pins or make U-shaped pins from florist’s wire, to secure the top of the tree to the top of the cone.

Using pan-melt glue (available from crafts stores), dip the hazelnuts into the glue and attach them to the cone, filling all spaces between the grapevine spirals.

Spray with Glossy Woodtone or with any shiny, amber tinted varnish.

Insert elaeagnus or other curving twigs to create a more interesting outline. Dip twig ends in glue and inset them into the Styrofoam, working ends in between the hazelnuts.

Using a low-melt hot-glue gun or pan-melt glue, apply the dried roses and bits of dried hydrangea to the grapevine, clustering the flowers to form bouquets. Break Christmas balls into shards and hot-glue them among the bouquets to add sparkle. Lightly spray small bunches of plastic grapes with gold paint and glue or wire them to the grapevine below the bouquets.

For roping, spray heavy cotton drapery cord with gold paint, tie it into a bow, and pin it to the top of the tree. Use hot glue to hold the curves in place. Spray a plastic cherub gold and hot-glue it to a florist’s pick, insert it into the top of the cone.

To protect dried flowers from softening in humid conditions, spray the entire tree with several coats of satin-finish polyurethane.

Now how would you like a centerpiece that has an eclectic look, a tad contemporary, then this ones definitely your choice. It wears tassels, pearls, with bouquets of dyed burgundy galax leaves, dried yarrow, and dried orange slices for a bold, warm color.

Start by making a base for the tree by covering a 1-inch-thick piece of Styrofoam with sheet moss. Paint an 18-inch dowel rod gold and push it into the center of the Styrofoam. Center the grapevine tree over the dowel rod and wire the top of the tree to the dowel rod. Push branches of curly willow through the top of the tree into the Styrofoam base.

Starting at the top of the tree, attach pearls and gold-bead garland to the grapevine making deep loops and wiring them in place with fine gold wire (available from crafts stores).

Hot-glue white drapery tassels at each point where the beads are caught up.

To assemble bouquets, with metallic gold ribbon, make package-topper bows. Hot-glue dried yarrow in the center of each bow and glue over the tassel cord. Attach dried orange slices and dyed galax leaves behind and around the bouquets, using a hot-glue gun.

At the top of the tree, glue galax leaves where curly willow emerges from the grapevine tree. On the front of the tree, glue a tassel and bouquet. At the sides, glue dried orange slices.

If you place either one of these on you dinning room table first make sure you are using a table cloth or protect your table with a cloth or tray. There is a chance that the centerpiece could scratch the finish of your table.