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...

A Coral and Pewter Table with Country Estate by Juliska

by Helen Kain | Feb 26, 2020 | Black, Orange, Terracotta, Winter Tablescapes

Winter is treating us to a blast of icy cold weather for the next few days. It’s time for some warming counter-measures: flame-coloured parrot tulips to warm the cockles of the even the most frozen heart (or fingers). The inspiration for this table bubbled up...

You’re in Clover with Victoria & Albert

by Helen Kain | Jan 30, 2020 | Blue, Green, Orange, Spring Tablescapes

January is making a gracious exit here in the Great Canadian North, and I for one am very thankful. Only one more month of winter to go (she says, somewhat defiantly). Yup – spring begins on March 1, according to the widely accepted meteorological definition of...

Happy Thanksgiving with Pilgrim’s Progress

by Helen Kain | Nov 28, 2019 | Amber, Blue, Fall Tablescapes, Grey and Pewter, Pink and Red, Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all!  I thought I’d share the pictures from our family Thanksgiving celebration earlier this year. Canadian Thanksgiving is held on the second Monday of October, which is Columbus Day in the US. We held ours even earlier, as Glenn and...

A Vibrant Fall Table with Mason’s Game Bird Green

by Helen Kain | Nov 14, 2019 | Amber, Antique glassware, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Green, Thanksgiving, Vintage china

It wouldn’t be fall without a Game Bird table. Especially one that features ducks. Mallard ducks. Enter Mason’s Game Birds. In green, as opposed to the polychrome version, which is also lovely, and easier to lay your hands on. But for this table,...

Harvest Pumpkin by Williams Sonoma

by Helen Kain | Nov 3, 2019 | Amber, Black, Fall Tablescapes, Green, Orange, Terracotta, White, Yellow

Adjusting to a six-hour time change and weather whiplash has left me a bit discombobulated. A little over a week ago I was scarfing down pasta in Rome in blissful mid 70s temperatures. Monday of this week saw me boarding a flight to Omaha (for my “real...