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Saturday, May 26, 2012

This Winner Will Have Dinner Or Breakfast!

I am really ashamed of myself for taking so long to do this post. I won a giveaway from Susan at http://savoringtimeinthekitchen.blogspot.com/ sponsored by Eggland's Best way back in March. If you aren't fortunate enough to have a local source for fresh eggs these are the best eggs I have found in the grocery stores...plus I ♥ the cartons! The gift package included an apron, bag, huge bowl, egg shaped cutting board, coffee mug, whisk, spatula, dough scraper, coupons for eggs and a soft toy egg.







Susan also added her own special touch to the giveaway, a cookbook...Easy Breakfast and Brunch. I have tried a few recipes that were hits. There is a cinnamon raisin nut bread recipe that Howard has been begging me to make...guess that will be next on the list!

If you haven't perused Susan's blog, I would invite you to do so, her photography skills are amazing.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Orange Rooster

This week I decided to use my favorite rooster dishes, the pattern is Orange Rooster. I bought them at TJMaxx several years ago (on sale for $2 each), but could only find 3 dinner plates. I finally found the 4th on e-Bay not long ago for $6.

I chose a green tablecloth and rattan chargers. The table is quite colorful with yellows, greens and lots of orange.




The soup bowl is perfect for a large green salad.

I debated on using green stemware, but in the end I had to use the orange stemware, of course. It is Noritake Perspective. They were found at small antique mall in Topeka last year.


The yellow and orange napkins are from World Market and I have had them for quite awhile. I bought them in all the colors they had...blue, green, red, black, orange and these yellow ones. They probably get used more than any other ones I own! The flatware is Oneida's Afterglow sterling.


The very simple place setting, just a dinner plate and bowl for salad.
 




The centerpiece consists of the few flowers that have survived from Mother's Day and a rooster pitcher. I tried to keep everything simple due to the busy pattern and colors of the dishes!




Thanks for visiting this week, hope you will come back next time.

I will be joining a few parties this week and hope you will join me:

Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen
Wednesdays Bunny Hop Party at Bunny Jeans Decor
Centerpiece Wednesday at The Style Sisters
Thrifty Things Friday at The Thrifty Groove
Seasonal Sunday at The Tablescaper
Thank you ladies for hosting each week!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Post Mother's Day Luncheon

This week the inspiration for my table came from flowers my daughter Erin gave me for Mother's Day...they are mostly purples, whites and pinks. I decided to do a simple luncheon table with purple, white and green.



I have used purple and white toile placemats and matching napkins.





The purple dinner plate is by Gibson and the floral salad plate just has some numbers and made in Italy on the backside.
The green iced tea/lemonade/water glass are some I picked up at Goodwill for 37¢ each on senior discount day.
The flatware is, once again, Oneida's Afterglow.
The metal candle holders were found at Savers for almost nothing, I think it was $2.99 for the pair.










Thanks for stopping by, hope you will come around the next time. I will be joining these parties:

Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen
Wednesdays Bunny Hop Party at Bunny Jeans Decor
Centerpiece Wednesday at The Style Sisters
Thrifty Things Friday at The Thrifty Groove
Seasonal Sunday at The Tablescaper
Thank you ladies for hosting each week!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Mother's Day Table 2012

Finally after more than 2 weeks without a computer I am back! Now I have to learn how to use Windows 7. I am very computer illiterate so it may take a long time before I feel comfortable.

This week's tablecloth reminded me of my mother, who loved all colors.

I found it at Savers for $3.99...someone appliqued the flowers and then did quite a bit of embroidery, too. It has a couple shades of blues, greens, yellows, and pink along with a very thin border of brown around the whole thing. I noticed that I forgot to iron out the wrinkles...my girlfriends didn't mention it when we had lunch yesterday! They are mothers that I volunteer with at the local thrift store.








I used lots of pink, dishes, glassware and napkins, plus the centerpiece! The napkins are hemstitched linen. The flatware is Oneida Afterglow.
I used the pink stemware for iced tea and the green for wine. I don't know either maker or pattern. If anyone knows what the green pattern is, I would love to hear from you. They are my favorite of all the stemware I own. I think they may be something from the 1930's, but really have nothing to go on.

I used white Gibson Regalia for chargers. The pink dinner plates are Goebel Meridian, the salad plate is Alfred Meakin (haven't looked up the pattern), and the soup bowls are Nurumi Pink Scroll. The little pink flower shaped dish was for the mini cupcakes we had for dessert. I am sure you have seen most of these dishes at one time or another, but not all together.




The rim shot.

The centerpiece was a tureen filled with the most wonderful scented peonies. I found the tureen (lid and ladle not shown) at Savers for $5.99...I did not buy it the first time I saw it, but when it still sitting on the shelf 10 days later I knew it was meant to come home with me!




I have used the green metal candlesticks before...I just love the height of them.








This is some of my peonies. I would love to thin them out, but am so afraid they won't blossom again...they are touchy when transplanted I have heard.




Thanks for taking the time to visit, hope you come back the next time, too. I will be joining these parties this week.

Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen
Thrifty Things Friday at The Thrifty Groove
Seasonal Sunday at The Tablescaper

Thank you ladies for hosting each week!