by Helen Kain | May 7, 2023 | Green, Home, Pink and Red, Purple, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes
The lilacs are blooming, the sun is shining, and I’ve just finished tucking a couple of dozen dahlia tubers into the perennial garden. It’s time to get cleaned up and have a mug of tea. The table is already set with Chelsea Porcelain from the Royal...
by Helen Kain | Mar 12, 2023 | Green, Purple, Recent, Spring Tablescapes
Our bedside clock got a jump on us. Maybe it thinks 2023 is a leap year because, unbeknownst to me, it moved itself ahead overnight on Friday. I rose Saturday morning at what I thought was 4:45 am, ridiculously early enough as it was. My decaffeinated brain did not...
by Helen Kain | Nov 27, 2022 | Antique glassware, Christmas, Green, Pink and Red, Purple, Winter Tablescapes
Unusual colours, an odd number of plates—five—snowy scenes and animals wearing spectacles. Ok, not your usual Christmas tableware. But somehow, it all comes together for a joyously zany table. Please meet Eric (or Eloise). I’m not sure which is which. As...
by Helen Kain | Oct 23, 2022 | Black, Fall Tablescapes, Halloween, Orange, Purple, Recent
Longtime readers of Entertablement will know that Halloween is not my favourite holiday. While I love seeing the little ones dressed up in their costumes, the destructive and sinister side of Halloween doesn’t appeal. But plates of animals dressed in costumes?...
by Helen Kain | Aug 21, 2022 | Blue, Green, Purple, Recent, Summer Tablescapes
It’s always a happy day when I discover a previously unknown china pattern. When it involves a modern (and therefore, attainable) replica of a much-loved antique design, it’s even better. Such was the case last autumn when Glenn, Lauren, and I visited...
by Helen Kain | May 22, 2022 | Featured, Marigold & Spencer, Pink and Red, Purple, Spring Tablescapes, White
Spring on the Cape is a long, drawn-out affair with lots of sea mist and chilly mornings. The daffodils last for weeks, and the fruit trees blossom slowly and luxuriantly, carpeting the streets with fallen petals. When the flowering cherry trees hit their peak,...