by Helen Kain | Aug 31, 2022 | Amber, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Green, Orange, Recent, Terracotta, Thanksgiving
The sunflowers are out in the grocery stores, a sure sign that summer’s end approacheth. Soon the trees will don their brilliant fall colours, and we will reach for a jacket before embarking on our morning walk. Spode’s Harvest figural leaf plates...
by Helen Kain | Sep 25, 2021 | Blue, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Thanksgiving, Yellow
The beguilingly days of fall are with us, with just a touch of crispness in the air. I’m not quite ready to go the complete fall Monty, though. I still have a foot in the summery shades of blue and white, but some brown and white transferware helps bridge...
by Helen Kain | Nov 23, 2020 | Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Green, Grey and Pewter, Tea, Vintage china
Have a cuppa? It’s the British cure for whatever ails you and seems particularly apropos in this hustle-bustle week. Whether navigating Thanksgiving preparations, Christmas arrangements, Zooming or Google meeting, it seems everyone is a bit … ahem, testy....
by Helen Kain | Oct 21, 2020 | Amber, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Terracotta, White
As long-time readers of the Entertablement Blog know, I’m a big hydrangea fan. While I favour the big, floppy mopheads in all of their glorious colours, I also have a soft spot for the cone-shaped Pee Gee variety. The prolific paniculata really comes into its...
by Helen Kain | Sep 30, 2020 | Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Orange, Pink and Red, Purple
I’ve never been a big dahlia fan. They’re a pain in the butt to grow. The magnificent flowers come from quite unprepossessing tubers that need to be hauled in and out of the ground each year. Tulips and daffodil bulbs survive (and even thrive) on the cold...
by Helen Kain | Apr 1, 2020 | Amber, Blue, Brown, Fall Tablescapes, Featured, Spring Tablescapes, Summer Tablescapes, Vintage glassware
Let’s go to France this week and see the tulips. Wait … that’s wrong … tulips are Holland. And they’re supposed to come in the spring. But these tulips arrived last summer, at Trader Joe’s. It’s a mixed-up world right...