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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Midnight Rooster

I wanted to do a table with black/white today, but didn't really know what other color to use until I was deciding on the soup/salad bowls that would go...the Midnight Rooster won out. They are black with a white rooster and green vines.




I started with a very large black dinner plate which is used as a charger...never have used them for dinner as they are so big! In fact I have been using salad plates for dinner plates the past 3-4 years. When I plate them, they look full, but really it is a good sized serving, without going overboard. Doing this has helped me lose some weight that crept up over the last 10 years or so.




The dinner plates are Steubenville Rose Point. The salad plates are my favorites. They are unmarked, but it is obvious they are quite old.



I only have two sets of glassware in black and neither one looked quite right so a teal was chosen to go with the teal in the soup/salad bowl. The glasses are Libbey Gibralter and the color is actually listed as juniper.












The flatware is Oneida's Louisiana. 















Tablecloth-Goodwill
Black dinner plate-Goodwill
White dinner plate-Salvation Army
White salad plate-Goodwill
Black rooster bowl-TJMaxx
Green glassware-Savers
Oneida flatware-Savers
Black candle holders-Have had them for years
Rooster pitcher-TJMaxx or HomeGoods
Polka dotted napkins-Savers
Green napkin rings-Yard sale

Thanks for visiting today. Hope you will come back again, soon.

I will be joining:

Cuisine Kathleen/Let's Dish
The Thrifty Groove/Thrifty Things Friday
The Tablescaper/Seasonal Sundays

Thanks for hosting each week, Kathleen, Diann and Alma!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tureens



I have had a few ask about my tureens...I am guessing it is the white ones that show up each week in my tablescape shots!




When I first started blogging almost 3 years ago I kept seeing white tureens on some of the blogs I was reading. Wanting one badly, I would check the thrift stores weekly without success. All of a sudden I found one, then another and another...you get the picture, I am sure. Each was different so I had to buy every one I found. I have quit buying as I have no place to put any more. 

I saw a beautiful Red Cliff that Debbie of Confessions of a Plate Addict blogged about so of course I wanted one of those, too! I found one on eBay that didn't have the underplate for only $25, actually $24.99...which is far less than any of the others for sale...some up around the $300 price. I bought it hoping I would come across the underplate some day. This tureen is by far my favorite.




Most of the tureens were in the $2.98-$3.98 price range with the exception of the one I bought, which was either $5.98 or $6.98 at Salvation Army in Topeka. After that first one, it seemed like every time I walked into a thrift store there was a white tureen wanting to follow me home!

This is the one that really started my collection and the most expensive of the thrift shop tureens! 




I believe this is the first white tureen I bought...from Goodwill and the plainest. Most of the tureens are by California Pottery. A couple have no markings at all.




The rest of the tureens...









I have several other colored tureens, but will save them for another time.



Thanks for stopping by today.

I will be joining a few parties this week and hope you will too.

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

Thank you ladies for hosting each week!


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Summer Fun



The theme for Kathleen's Let Dish this week is Summer Fun. Unfortunately, summer so far hasn't been much fun here in East/Central Kansas, with the heat and humidity we have had this year. Today is the first that it has been on the cool side. I don't think the temperature even broke 80° and it rained for a little while this morning.

I grabbed some aqua and white dishes to represent water and sand, maybe a pool/kool deck, maybe the the ocean and a sandy beach!

The banana leaf place mat is from World Market, the aqua salad plates from TJMaxx and everything else on the table are thrift store finds.

The dinner plate is Federalist Ironstone, the aqua salad plate is unmarked and the soup bowl is Johnson Bros. Snowhite Regency.




The aqua stemware is Indiana Glass Recollection.




The flatware is Oneida Louisiana stainless. I recently found 5-piece place setting, service for 8 at Savers for about $15 after a 20% discount. The napkins are linen.





The centerpiece is a small aqua and off white speckled tureen with candles. The tureen has no marks on the bottom as to who the maker is, so I am guessing it was someone's ceramic project in the 1970's!



Everyone always like to see the rim shot!






Thank you for taking the time to visit today, hope you enjoyed it and will come back again soon.

I will be joining:

Cuisine Kathleen/Let's Dish
The Thrifty Groove/Thrifty Things Friday
The Tablescaper/Seasonal Sundays

Thank you Kathleen, Diann and Alma for hosting these fun memes each week!


Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Cloud White and Sky Blue

It is still extremely hot here, but relief may be on the way...we are supposed get some much needed rain tonight and then starting Friday the temperatures will drop from 100°+ down into the 80°s. I will believe it when I check the thermometer!




After last week with red and white, I thought, why not blue and white. Yes, I am using the same white damask tablecloth, but everything else is different. I started with the woven placemats/chargers and layered with white. I have used cobalt napkins and seeded/bubble glassware. The flatware has the same 
cobalt along with yellow and green against white.








The flatware is by Gibson, not sure of the pattern. I found 5-piece place settings, service for 8 at Goodwill for $3.99...I couldn't pass this up in a million years! There was also a set of dishes and glassware in the same pattern that I passed on. I am already sorry about that...






The Gibson Regalia dinner plate is being used as a charger today. I have layered a plate with a brownish grey washed rim (from TJMaxx, it just has a B in a shield on the back), a white plate from Pier One for the underplate to the soup bowl which is American Atelier Athena.

















Thanks for taking the time to visit today.

I will join a few parties this week:

Thank you ladies for hosting each week!

Cuisine Kathleen/Let's Dish
The Thrifty Groove/Thrifty Things Friday
The Tablescaper/Seasonal Sundays

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Cherries Jubilee



This week's inspiration came from red/white polka dotted napkins. I bought the dinner plates a year or so ago, stashed them away and forgot about them until I needed something to go with the napkins. I pulled them out and they were the right shade of red...hurray!





The dinner plates are Cherries Jubilee by Sonoma. I paired them with some white Alfred Meakin salad plates and an unmarked red soup bowl. The glassware is clear with a mottled red stem/base.

There are two red with white and two white with red dinner plates.




The centerpiece is a simple white tureen and white candlesticks with cream candles.




Rim shot. The sterling flatware is Oneida Afterglow.










Thanks for taking the time to stop by...it is always appreciated.

I will be joining these parties this week.
Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen
Bunny Jeans Decor
Thrifty Things Friday at The Thrifty Groove
Seasonal Sunday at The Tablescaper
Thank you ladies for hosting each week!