by Helen Kain | May 20, 2020 | Blue, Home, 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...
by Helen Kain | May 6, 2020 | Antique china, Antique glassware, Blue, Home, Purple, Recent, 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...
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....
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...
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...
by Helen Kain | Mar 12, 2020 | Blue, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes
Well, I think we could all do with a bit of cheering up. Enter Pembroke by Aynsley. According to the Replacements’ website, “Founded in 1775, John Aynsley & Sons China is one of the most influential companies in the British tableware industry....
