Red Paisley with Robert Sprays
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. I’ve always had mixed feelings about this particular holiday. As a child, I loved making Valentines to give out at school – snub-nosed scissors snipping at lace doilies and red construction...
French Faience Bicycle Plates
Now this set of plates is just plain fun! They were made by HBCM (Hippolyte Boulenger-Criel Montereau) France sometime between 1920 and 1950. They’re colourful, whimsical and humorous – everything I like in tableware. The series (of which I managed to...
The Kendal
The days are definitely getting lighter. We are almost a month beyond the shortest day, and have passed the “dead of winter”, which I recently learned is the point at which there is more of winter behind us than in front of us. All that is very...
Hand Painted Garden Plates with Amethyst Venetian
As we settle in for a major winter blast in New England, it’s heartening to review some pictures I took last spring of a garden-themed table setting. The plates have multiple colours, but it was the amethyst that really jumped out – perfect for lilacs and...
Reviewing the Tables of 2016
A review of 2016 seems in order, before we embark on filling the weeks of 2017 with food and table settings (is there any better way?). The hardest part was choosing which photos to include and which to leave out. It turns out we did a lot of cooking, table setting...Follow Us
