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Macro Mondays. Tableware
This is part of a tiny tea set my mother bought for my daughters when they were very young. It's a Beatrice Potter set.
dinner time. time for food. for laughter. for togetherness.
but at the same time it's a time of pressure. of unfillable expectations. of disappointment.
we put so much effort in making christmas dinner very special but very often we end up not really enjoying the moment.
I hope you had a wonderful christmas and could enjoy the time with your loved ones without any struggles!
Graz I 2022
If it hadn't been so big I could have used it for MM a few weeks ago. This is the window display of a nice local restaurant. It was warm and cosy and the food excellent
I love Christmas, and a Christmas with all the trimmings is just what I enjoy. Therefore Christmas luncheon had on the back terrace in beautiful weather this year, is a classic affair. Antique Edwardian salon chairs, Royal Albert "Val d'Or" tableware, crystal glasses, Sheffield cutlery, antique silverware and my grandmother's napkin rings, antique linen, embroidered napery, and festive Christmas crackers.
However, it is my floral centrepiece that I enjoy most about my table setting every Christmas. This year my florist supplied me with creamy pink and magenta roses. The asparagus fern comes from my garden, as I like to create my own centrepieces.
So why pink? Pink isn't exactly the first colour that springs to mind when you think of Christmas. A few weeks before Christmas 2022, a very dear Flickr friend of mine in America sent me a wonderful Christmas parcel full of lots of lovely presents, including a set of six Sheffield Steel knives from the early 1950s with porcelain handles painted in pink and hand decorated and gilded. She hoped that they might look good on my Christmas table, which they would have since the floral arrangement I made for my centrepiece that year also consisted of pink roses. What my friend did not count on was the backlog of Christmas parcels in the post. Sadly, they did not arrive until after New Year 2023. However they did make it to my Christmas table setting last year and again this year, so I ordered roses to match them especially from my florist. The knives were remarked upon favourably by all the diners at my table this Christmas Day luncheon. This same friend sent me the cake slice to match the knives last year, and it arrived before Christmas, so I was able to use it to slice and serve my Christmas plum pudding, and I used it again this year.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day and are enjoying the time between here and New Year's Eve.
A little shop in Yanaka Ginza that sells bowls, plates and cups. We were able to find some sake cups we liked.
At Scaddabush Restaurant
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Happy Crazy Tuesday
Theme is: Tableware. So I decided to do something a little different. I break these out on sushi nights when I make home made sushi rolls.
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I present to you the content of our vintage cupboard with in it some of the tableware I kept from my Mum and granny. The white and blue service I personally love the most and use them for special occasions (when it comes to our daily coffee and tea we prefer to drink from bigger mugs that not necessarily match with each other ). The brown one is from England, and we use the correspondent plates that are kept in another part of the cupboard on a day to day basis. On top, in front to the left two valuable sets - a set of fine China Paragon teacups appointed to H.M. the queen and H.M. queen mary in pink and baby blue. Love them! To the far left a pair of cups with golden elements and dark blue from a German porcelain manufacturer (I mean to sell them one day). In the bottom some more collector's items and seasonal stuff. I have more whole sets, but they are stashed away in boxes.