by Helen Kain | Jul 7, 2024 | Blue, Green, Summer Tablescapes, White, Yellow
Growing up in the country, we kids loved riding in the back of my Dad’s pickup truck on sunny summer days, arms flung around the multiple dogs that invariably accompanied us. Unheard of in today’s safety-conscious society, during the ’60s, we rattled...
by Helen Kain | Jun 19, 2024 | Green, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes
A delicate reticulated border lends an air of gracious fragility to these Schumann Fruit Plates, which celebrate old-fashioned fruits. The company that created them, Schumann, was founded by Christian Heinrich Schumann and a financial backer, Franz Ferdinand Riess, in...
by Helen Kain | Jun 11, 2024 | Green, Summer Tablescapes, White, Yellow
June has been a little chillier than anticipated. While I’m thrilled about the extended life of the peonies, I’m not quite ready to embrace the salad-based meals so enjoyable on a sweltering hot summer day. Soup is the answer. Light, filling and full of...
by Helen Kain | Jun 5, 2024 | Blue, Summer Tablescapes, White
It’s that heavenly, all-too-short time of year when the air is filled with the intoxicating fragrance of billowing ballerina peony petals. It’s always a dilemma. Pick them or leave them? I’m lucky enough to have room for several different varieties...
by Helen Kain | Feb 25, 2024 | Easter, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes
Brunch is a wonderful meal—especially a getting-close-to-Easter brunch with chickens and rabbits from Pistoulet by Pfalzgraff. The pattern is based on the book “The Secrets of Pistoulet” by Jana Kolpen and evokes the colours of Southern France. The dinner...
by Helen Kain | Sep 3, 2023 | Brown, Pink and Red, Summer Tablescapes, Test
Hydrangeas had a rough go of it this year on Cape Cod—a severe late spring frost killed off the buds, leaving us largely bloomless. I was filled with joy when a few meagre stems made it through, and I was eager to make the most of them. Enter the bud vase. I trimmed...
