A Cottage Table with a Berry Tart
Villeroy and Boch are right up there with Gien in terms of high-quality, durable and beautiful tableware. I was introduced to the Cottage pattern through Sophie Winston, from the Domestic Diva series by Krista Davis. Sophie is one of the two fictional Divas...
Cherry Blossom by Tabletops
It will come as a surprise to exactly no one that my love for cherries extends to tableware featuring the scrumptious fruit. But it’s pathetically thin on the ground. You’d think such a cheerful, colourful motif would be easy to find, but not so! I...
A Fitz & Floyd Chateau Tea
You’ve heard of cottage teapots? They usually feature a cosily thatched cottage, complete with a cottage flower garden. Fitz and Floyd upped the elegance a notch with the Chateau Teaset from the mid-1980s. Which I received as a gift when it first came out. Gulp....
Pale Pink Peonies and Royal Stafford Transferware
Our peonies in the Cape run the gamut from snow white with a splash of crimson at the heart through to a vibrant cerise. Some of the earliest bloomers are a delicate shade of pink, some with the palest yellow ruffles near the base of the frou-frou centre. Be still, oh...
Magnificent Magnolias
I adore the flowering trees of April and May, but I’ve always clucked disapprovingly at the incredible mess left behind by the all-too-short-blooming magnolia flower. The pleasure-to-aggravation ratio seems way off. BUT – let’s not look a gift-flower in...Follow Us
