by Helen Kain | Oct 23, 2024 | Afternoon Tea, Antique glassware, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Green, Terracotta
It’s game bird season, at least in plate form. Over fifteen years ago, this antique Limoges game bird set flew in from Country Dining Room Antiques. It comprises two sets of six different birds surrounded by gilded depictions of leaves and pine cones. The...
by Helen Kain | Sep 1, 2024 | Amber, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Green, Orange, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes, Terracotta
It’s Labour Day weekend, the last gasp of summer for many North Americans. Goodbye, flip-flops, shorts and popsicles. Hello, cosy sweaters, leather jackets, apples, pumpkins, and toasted nuts. Yum, yum. Indian, a vintage pattern (1912) by Royal Doulton, captures...
by Helen Kain | Mar 10, 2024 | Brown, Easter, Green, Orange, Spring Tablescapes, White
Now, who is that peeking out from behind the carrots? Oh my! It’s a fluffle of bunnies who have come to enjoy a veritable feast of greenery and vegetables. Perhaps they wanted to visit with their Bunny Toile friends on plates by Jay Willfred. This charming...
by Helen Kain | Nov 5, 2023 | Black, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Green, Orange, Thanksgiving
Here is one turkey looking forward to Thanksgiving—Fitz and Floyd’s Omnibus Turkey Tureen is taking centre stage. He joins Woodland Wild Turkey dinner plates by Johnson Brothers and Wildwood Leaves salad plates from Pier 1. We have lots of wild turkeys in the...
by Helen Kain | Sep 29, 2023 | Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Orange, Thanksgiving
The week leading up to our early Canadian Thanksgiving celebration incorporated the usual preparations. I always wonder why I’m tired the day after the dinner. (Hmmmm—why might that be?) Monday: track down fresh turkey. Learn that none are to be had locally, and...
by Helen Kain | Sep 3, 2023 | Brown, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes, Test
Hydrangeas had a rough go of it this year on Cape Cod—a severe late spring frost killed off the buds, leaving us largely bloomless. I was filled with joy when a few meagre stems made it through, and I was eager to make the most of them. Enter the bud vase. I trimmed...
