Sailing Due North

by Helen Kain | Jul 6, 2020 | Blue, Home, Recent, Summer Tablescapes, Yellow

After several weeks in dry dock, the good ship Entertablement is set to sail once more. The captain of the ship has been holed up in her cabin finishing The Book, and my gum, it’s done! The last recipe has been recorded and the final setting has been described....

Blue Birds of Spring

by Helen Kain | May 20, 2020 | Blue, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, White

The sweetest of flowers have arrived: white lilacs and lilies of the valley. Utter heaven. Their exquisite blossoms are as delicate as their scents. Not yet being blessed with blooms from our newly-planted-last-year white lilac bush, I have to content myself with...

Eau de Nil with Lilacs

by Helen Kain | May 6, 2020 | Antique china, Antique glassware, Blue, Purple, Spring Tablescapes

Hooray for May and Mother’s Day! To celebrate, I thought a dose of soft pastels and fragrant lilacs was in order. Don’t let their lowly name, “common” lilacs, fool you. Their scent is divine.  I paired them with antique Royal Worcester...

Blooming Hydrangea and Garden Terrace

by Helen Kain | Apr 29, 2020 | Blue, Green, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes, White, Yellow

It may be rushing the seasons a bit, but today we are featuring a table with hydrangeas—lush, full, colourful hydrangeas with an exuberantly blooming garden in the background. Blue hydrangea is the consistent feature on this set of mixed salad plates by Portmeirion....

A French Menu

by Helen Kain | Apr 1, 2020 | Amber, Blue, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes, Vintage glassware

Let’s go to France this week and see the tulips.  Wait … that’s wrong … tulips are Holland. And they’re supposed to come in the spring. But these tulips arrived last summer, at Trader Joe’s. It’s a mixed-up world right...

Dancing Daffodils

by Helen Kain | Mar 25, 2020 | Blue, Spring Tablescapes, Yellow

Flower focus. That’s my quick cure for the jumpy jitters. And as it’s March, daffodils are the flower of choice while hunkered down in solitary confinement proscribed isolation. Happily, daffodils are readily available at the grocery store, so we can comply with...