by Helen Kain | Jun 15, 2018 | By Colour, Green, Home, Purple, Recent, Summer Tablescapes, White
Vegetables make wonderfully colourful centrepieces, with or without inspirational plates to go with them. Vegetable Garden by Williams Sonoma appeared briefly in 2001 and was shuffled off this mortal coil quickly thereafter. I was lucky enough to find this set of...
by Helen Kain | Jun 5, 2018 | By Colour, Green, Mother's Day, Purple, Spring Tablescapes, White
Tea time! Let’s take a break from all that gardening, shall we? Around our place we’ve shifted 13 cubic yards of mulch over the last week and the muscles know it…groan. Ooops, may need to dust off the jeans before flopping down on the...
by Helen Kain | May 31, 2018 | Green, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes, Terracotta, White, Yellow
Old Staffordshire “Ningpo” by Johnson Brothers is a fabulous example vintage china at its most romantic. Information on the pattern is a bit scarce, but I gather its heyday was the 1930s. Something to brighten that time of austerity, certainly. The...
by Helen Kain | May 24, 2018 | Black & White, Blue, Brown, Green, Pink & Red, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes, Terracotta, White, Yellow
What fun! London, New York, Paris and Venice are certainly among my favourite cities to visit. Without leaving home, even! Even more so when our whirlwind adventure includes vintage luggage. It’s hard to remember which came first in the inspiration. The Rosanna...
by Helen Kain | May 21, 2018 | Green, Purple, Spring Tablescapes
The 1950s gave us some gems in tableware, and Wakefield by Johnson Brothers is one of them. It made its debut in 1952 and sung its swan song in 1965, just as the rocking 60’s really got going. A cheerful floral chintz pattern on a creamy white background, it...
by Helen Kain | May 1, 2018 | Blue, Featured, Green, Pink & Red, Spring Tablescapes
There is something so elegant about chinoiserie whether on a fabric, or in this case, a set of plates by Pottery Barn. The soft shade of rose in the pagoda and on the flowers with the counterpoints of vivid teal on the edging and in the foliage is both soothing and...
