Pink china the obsession continues...will you join me for breakfast?

Will you join me for petit dejjeuner by the French doors?

Love Disarmed --I am besotted by this silver! Venus is beautiful holding cupid.


Myott plates and pink depression glass fruit cups

J'adore Katherine Houston ceramics


I treasure my letters from my friends especially ones from Becky!

My waterford jam pot and Love Disarmed sugar tongs! Tres elegant , non?

Just breakfast for one unless you care to join me?

I got the demi tasse cups locally

This post is also linking with Susan's blog Between Naps on the Porch for Table scape Thursday my first time! Link here: http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Check out her blog for pretty tables

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Is there a 12 Step Program for the china obsessed? I should be the first to join. I love collecting, using, displaying and searching for pretty pink china. So here is my latest "find" Myott pink Staffordshire. This patterns comes in other colors but I had to find the PINK. My silver is Reed and Barton Love Disarmed. If anyone sees any for sale let me know by leaving a comment or emailing me. I still need pieces to do place settings for eight.

I just ordered some of these dinner plates on Amazon and now I found the demitasse cups in a local antique shop. They were inexpensive so I bought them. Fun to use my new plates for the first time.

Well, the matching plates arrived and I was alone and set up a little breakfast table in the master bedroom where I can eat and read my mail. How I love to read a personal letter from a friend. I love to watch the birds from the bedroom.

Have a Pink day!

China obsession

My post of the other day made me think of some of the china patterns I love and want to begin collecting. the photos are of a French line called Marie Daage and I cant find it in USA. Does anyone know who sells it here? I love the Asian feel to the art on them and of course j'adore the colors!!

I have emailed the company many times no response. If you know a retailer please let me know via the comment section. Merci

Have a PINK day!

Mad for Monograms

I think it is a "Southern thing" but we sure love to monogram things in the South.

I love my monogram. I copied Marie Antoinette's --if she loved it who am I not to love it too?

So now I look for ways to use this lovely piece of artwork. I have it on stationery and on linen. Next will be to use it on an iron gate I am going to have made for the garden. I can see those pretty curved letters in the center of black iron work and it will be a grand entrance to my tiny walled garden.

I also will be monograming the backs of my formal silver flatware pattern. So I will set the table French-style with the backs facing upwards--better to see my pretty monogram. I saw the MA monogram on a doorknob in Versailles.

This photo of the monogram came from the wonderful book The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Boyer and Halard. That book is one of my favorite books ever. Leave it to the French to take an everyday object and make it so lovely. The artists of that time also incorporated the Queen's dog on a chair arm!! Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all have items made to order in that manner? Bliss.

Of course my Petit Trianon china by Raynaud comes with it on several of the pieces if you ask for it when you order.

Other ideas rolling around in my thoughts are using it on the top of an anniversary cake and making a boxwood monogram for the garden-- that would be so fun- It would take awhile for it to fill in I'd use the tiny leaf slow growing boxwood-- I want to explore this further.

Monograms are fun especially now with all the new printing and laser techniques- I will have to dream about these applications some more.