by Helen Kain | Jun 28, 2026 | Blue, Home, Recent, Summer Tablescapes
Cape Cod Calling! Deborah Sears, Juliska, and an Imaginary World We’d All Like to Inhabit Some collections you admire. Others you collect. And then there are those rare collections that quietly become old friends. Enter Juliska’s Country Estate. As America...
by Helen Kain | Jun 11, 2026 | Blue, Home, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes
The peonies got a little ahead of me this year. I barely managed to get the bushes at the front trussed up into their constraining corsets in time. I was just congratulating myself on the timely intervention when I noticed that the neglected bush at the back of our...
by Helen Kain | Jun 4, 2026 | Green, Home, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes
Certain tablecloths set the entire mood for a table. This cheerful strawberry print from April Cornell immediately transported me to summer gardens, berry patches, and baskets filled with freshly picked fruit. With its charming vintage feel, clusters of ripe...
by Helen Kain | May 28, 2026 | Amber, Cobalt, Home, Pink and Red, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, Yellow
I had intended to wait. The Royal Doulton Anemone plates had only recently arrived, tucked into my luggage on a recent trip back from England. I had discovered them months earlier on eBay while searching for a Royal Doulton series ware pattern I might have overlooked....
by Helen Kain | May 7, 2026 | Afternoon Tea, Blue, Home, Recent, White
There are moments in life when one looks at an elaborate cake decorating technique and thinks, “How difficult could that possibly be?” These moments are almost always followed by several hours of intense concentration, a light dusting of icing sugar over every...
by Helen Kain | Apr 9, 2026 | Green, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes, White, Yellow
They’re here. At first, it is a single, tentative chirp. Then another. And then, quite suddenly, a full choir seems to convene just outside the bedroom window at an hour that can only be described as optimistic. It is, apparently, spring. The birds have...
