by Helen Kain | Jul 29, 2023 | Blue, Brown, Recent, Summer Tablescapes, White, Yellow
It’s high summer on the Cape with sweltering days and warm nights—prime time for enjoying the beach. We have a ten to fourteen-foot tide, and I dearly love to take a walk at low tide on the hard, packed sand, with my feet immersed in the swirling waves as they...
by Helen Kain | Jul 23, 2023 | Black, Recent, Summer Tablescapes, White
It’s the height of summer, so today, I thought we might go to the seaside and explore what we might have seen in the late 19th century. Victorian bathing beauties! They are leaving their beach huts and venturing into the sea. Oops! She might have ventured a bit...
by Helen Kain | Jun 3, 2023 | Antique glassware, Pink and Red, Recent, Summer Tablescapes, White, Yellow
The much-awaited peonies are blooming, and it’s time to celebrate. The soft pink shades go with almost anything; this year, I’ve settled on a sage green palette with peachy-coloured true Depression glass, produced from 1928 to 1940 and aptly named June...
by Helen Kain | May 13, 2023 | Blue, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, White
I feared for the Lilies of the Valley when we elected to plant a fledgling pink dogwood tree in the middle of the patch last year. I needn’t have worried, apparently. We had a bumper crop. Despite their delicate appearance, they are one tough plant. Mrs Alice...
by Helen Kain | Mar 25, 2023 | Blue, Easter, Pink and Red, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, White
The Easter Bunny approacheth. And we’re ready to give him a great big welcome. With iced sugar cookies, baskets of treats and a whole fluffle of bunnies. Bunny Hollow by Fitz and Floyd was manufactured from 1989 to 1993. I’ve had the covered bowls for...
by Helen Kain | Feb 25, 2023 | Green, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, St. Patrick's Day, White
We’re coming up to the end of February, and spring beckons. The days are noticeably lighter and warm(ish) enough to tempt me outside to set a bright spring table. With St Patrick’s Day around the corner, I wanted to try my hand at a suitably seasonal but...