Blue & Brown Mix & Match

Inspired by my blue and brown quilt, I set out to play with my blue and brown dishes all together at one time.

I am usually a dish collection kind of gal when it comes to dishes, but I have to say that experimenting with mixing the colors together was very fun! The following [...]

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What goes on my fall table?

Good day, everyone – I have been taking it a little more slowly this week. I made myself play a bit – and that means, I got to play with my dishes. I broke out my Spode Woodland for the autumn, and handed my husband his special Woodland Jumbo Mug for his [...]

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Confession of a dishaholic (part 2)

If you let a dish-aholic start collecting a set of blue and white dishes,
Confession #1: She will have to have other blue and white dishes to go with those she started out, and sink her love deeper and deeper and yet even deeper in the blue and white pile of dishes there are out [...]

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Tablecapes of Christmases past

Hello everyone, can you believe it’s Thursday,  and that July is already almost over? That means Christmas is swiftly approaching, and that goose had better be getting fat. I am showing for this week’s Tablescapes some Christmas tablesettings I have done in the past.

My Christmas pieces are still quite [...]

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Setting a tea table when I am half asleep…

I always have a little celebration when I fulfill a harsh quilt deadline before I jump right into the next deadline looming in the horizon, just to break the monotony of things. This time, I would like to celebrate the completion of one of my magazine quilts with my kind bloggy friends with [...]

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A dishaholic’s dress-up party!

My tablescape this week is a “pretend” one using pieces that are normally eye candies and aren’t used at the table.  But that certainly does not mean these pieces can’t appear on the table for a “dress-up” party, does it?  So, here it is, with the trinket trays doubling as individual salad bowl, and bread [...]

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Cream Soup for One Tablescape

I set a cream soup tray for one since I was dining by myself:

I absolutely loved the shape of the cream soup bowl.  The handles make me want to sit up a little straighter and mind my table manners a little better.  Here, the cream soup bowl is sitting on a cream soup stand, which [...]

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Setting the table just because…

… I felt like doing so, even though I was only serving roast beef, green beans and homemade rolls for dinner:

Peeling off the layers:

The rose sprigs are Baby Blanket from Jackson Perkins.  They are groundcover roses that have vigorously blossomed this year:

The centerpiece was quickly assembled from my Italian brass pheasants on a framed picture [...]

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A Flowery Wedding Tablescape

I had the privilege to help plan the tablescape for a wedding reception, and enjoyed it tremendously.
The guests “checked in” by referring to the seating chart that indicated at which table they were seated:
[See the feather quilting design?! Can you guess who is the mastermind of the design?! ]

[Silver chargers topped with menu [...]

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Setting the table for simple pleasures

Setting the table is one of my most enjoyed simple pleasures of life:

On a particular afternoon, I started setting the table for the company of my family — another simple pleasure:

I used my “Simple Pleasures” quilt to dress up the table:

Nothing too fancy, I just used my Spode Blue Italian, mixed in with a [...]

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