Tabletop
I got a few hours of "me time" this weekend. Is it crazy that I used it to haul out my china and have a little tabletop shoot?
Probably.
Crazier still that I left the house midstream to buy flowers? Or that I realized when I was ready to snap the pics that my camera battery was dead?
So lo and behold, bad phone pics of a lunch for no one.
Why? Partly because I got some new plates. You know how I was talking last week about mixing sets? Our china is the Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Mega, largely because my husband lived in Copenhagen for a year and has been to the factory, but also because they are so gorgeous, and who doesn't love an updated classic? Here's the deal, though: at $100 a plate, we had to choose wisely. So we chose dinner plates and salad plates and mixed in a less expensive pattern from the same company, like these little covered bowls.
And we mix in some vintage, like these white china lotus bowls (fun fact: I have three sets in three sizes. One I bought myself, one my mother picked up for me at a vintage shop, and one belonged to my husband's grandmother. None knew about the others)
Throw in Dave's grandmother's delicate silver, waterford water goblets to honor my Irish heritage, collected-over-the-years pieces like the shell napkin rings, and some Nate for Target clearance sale vases, and you've got yourself a real high-low eclectic personal mix.
But I digress. None of our bowls is really an appropriate soup bowl, so when I saw these blue and white japanese-inspired bowls at West Elm on sale for about $2 a piece? I bought ten.
When Dave and the girls came home, we had "fancy lunch," albeit on a modified china set up.
Probably.
Crazier still that I left the house midstream to buy flowers? Or that I realized when I was ready to snap the pics that my camera battery was dead?
So lo and behold, bad phone pics of a lunch for no one.
Why? Partly because I got some new plates. You know how I was talking last week about mixing sets? Our china is the Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Mega, largely because my husband lived in Copenhagen for a year and has been to the factory, but also because they are so gorgeous, and who doesn't love an updated classic? Here's the deal, though: at $100 a plate, we had to choose wisely. So we chose dinner plates and salad plates and mixed in a less expensive pattern from the same company, like these little covered bowls.
When Dave and the girls came home, we had "fancy lunch," albeit on a modified china set up.