Ouiseau Blue Fruit with Cherry Apple Plum Tart

by Helen Kain | Jul 23, 2020 | Blue, Home, Pink and Red, Recent, Summer Tablescapes

Let’s step into the garden for a cup of tea with a slice of cherry pie. It’s a lovely sunny day. The mild breeze ensures we aren’t too hot. Where would you like to sit? Please choose – the blackberry, strawberry, fig or cherry plate. Lemon or milk...

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

by Helen Kain | Jul 15, 2020 | Blue, Home, Pink and Red, Recent, Summer Tablescapes

I like a good chicken tableware pattern, don’t you? There is something very homey and satisfying about the cluckers. My radar had been up for this Jacques Pepin pattern offered by Sur la Table for some time, and then it went on a very deep discount. Some...

Gourmet Cats Serve a Delicious Breakfast

by Helen Kain | Jun 3, 2020 | Black, Dundee, Gardens and Flowers, Pink and Red

We’re in a feline frame of mind this week at Entertablement. Though we are still a couple of weeks away from the longest day of the year, the sun is bounding over the horizon at about 5 am these days, rousing fur people and humans. Up and at ’em,...

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....

Spring Willow by Kent

by Helen Kain | Apr 23, 2020 | Brown, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes

This china pattern reminded me of a song my daughter Stephanie sang when she just a little mite:   “Spring, spring, spring is in the air I can feel it everywhere And the pussywillows bloom And the pussywillows bloom And the pussywillows bloom in...

A Famille Rose Easter

by Helen Kain | Apr 9, 2020 | Antique china, Antique glassware, Easter, Green, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes, Vintage china

It’s a weird kind of Easter this year, as the Easter Bunny observes social distancing. We will need to hop to it and make do with pretty pictures and virtual gatherings. And some non-virtual chocolate. I set this table a few weeks ago, pre-pandemic, in blissful...