Vintage Lace and Roses

Most of my blogger friends love anything

Vintage!

A few weeks back I was the lucky winner of a giveaway at

Courtney's French Country Cottage 

The awesome gift was six, five piece place settings of Mikasa's Vintage Lace.

Thank you Courtney and Mikasa!

Here is my interpretation of "Vintage Lace" and Roses.

"Vintage Lace" is paired with Wallace's Waltz Of Spring,  featuring a single sculptured rose on each handle. I chose this pattern when I was in high school. Do any of you remember the practice that tied in with major department stores?

A lovely  Alençon Lace Style French Lace tablecloth.

A garden style bouquet with roses.

Let's see how many vintage items I can mix and match with my beautiful gift!

Granny Waltzes To Blue Danube

It's about time I delivered!

On the promise to do a tablescape

to match my birthday flowers.

Well they almost expired before I could get my act together.

I had to do a little tweaking here and there, managing to keep a semblance of the original bouquet together.

Blue Danube's Blue Onion

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 OK, you noticed! I was playing around with my watermark. 

Now it's everywhere! As if anyone wanted my pics.

I'm Falling All Over The Place!!!

When I realized a party was going on

I just had to get in on it!!

It's sweltering in Savannah right now so

I just checked my ReallyAgedMind

and came up some Autumn Days of Memory.

Welcome, come in. Please!

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A LITTLE TWEAK HERE, A LITTLE TWEAK THERE!

A week or so after the Fourth of July,

I put the patriotic decor away until September.

After all the fireworks 

I wanted to cool things down a little! 

Honestly it didn't work because it was 101 degrees

here today. Not sure about the index.

Red White And Blue!

A Table For Four For The Fourth!

 First try at a rim shot. 

Thrifty Vintage Finds

New Tablescaping Finds!

I am so excited about this pretty set of dishes!

You are very likely to see these turn up in a Tablescape in the near future.

My Daughter who lives in Illinois is always on the lookout for dishes, for her addicted mother. You might say she feeds my addiction. She recently found this delicately beautiful set at one of her favorite haunts.
The dishes are Taylor Smith Taylor and the pattern is "Celeste".

The Taylor, Smith & Taylor Pottery was founded in 1899 by C. A. Smith and Col. John N. Taylor, using the facilities of the Taylor, Smith & Lee Pottery.   TS&T began operations as a nine-kiln pottery employing approximately 50 people.  In the early days of production only local clays were used.  Later, TS&T bought clay from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida.  TST´s plant was the largest and most automated in the United States.  More than 50,000 dozen pieces were produced per week by the firm´s 500 employees.
In 1903 the Taylor interests were purchased by W. L. Smith and his son.  The firm remained under the Smith ownership and management until early 1973 when the plant was purchased by Anchor Hocking Corporation to become the foundation of its Pottery Division.
For many years both earthenware and fine china bodies were used.  The Lu Ray Pastels was one of TS&T most popular lines.  The china body was discontinued in the early 1970´s.  TS&T closed in 1981.
Source: Robbins Nest Replacement Service

This china is whiter than in this pic.
It is a clean white with little grey/silver swirls and blue dots as stylized flowers and platinum trim.

Isn't this the sweetest little cup and saucer. Kinda of prissy, I think!
The six piece place settings will be very versatile.

This is the basic place setting.

 It appears this was originally a service for twelve. Some of the cups are missing and one has a small chip. I will use that one if necessary.  Do you ever do that? Discretely use the chipped or imperfect dish?
There are twelve dinner plates and fifty-five pieces in all.
The price was $28.00 total. Thrifty deal, don't you think? Kim is a great little shopper. Her mama taught her well.

If you are not already doing this, use cheapo paper plates for dish protectors. Works great, costs less and if you break the dishes you can eat out of the paper plates. No Waste!
Recently I purchased this beautiful stemware through Ebay.

I was looking for something delicate and etched. I took a chance on these because the pictures on Ebay showed up as being very cloudy. After some messaging with the seller I decided to take a chance. I think they are awesome!

Because I was still antsy, I purchased the water goblets, white wines and cordials. I passed on the tall sherbet/champagnes. My mistake. 

The water goblets and the wines have a flower, wispy leaf stem and little round dots/berries. I think they match the china beautifully. The cordials are a little different pattern.

The seller didn't know the pattern nor did I. I sent a photo to Replacements Ltd. and they sent me the name of the maker, pattern and price list. I did GOOD! I bought eight each of the water goblets and wines for $5.00 each and the cordials were seven for $5.99. This seller's shipping was nominal. Less than gas for a day of thrifting.
The manufacturer is Arcadia Export-Import and the pattern is "Orlean". This pattern was discontinued in 1951. Some information says it is German and some sources listed Hungary.
Replacements lists the water goblet at more than three times what I paid.

I have some other vintage goodies around the house, including me. I will use those to create a "Thrifty Vintage Tablescape" coming soon. 
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IS IT SPRING OR WHAT!!

Disclosure!! I have no idea why I have this enormous space between the end of this post and comment link!! I have tried to correct through editing. It only gets worse. If anyone has the answer to this dilemma PLEASE HELP!!

 I KNOW SOME OF YOU, IN OTHER AREAS,  ARE STILL LOOKING FOR SPRING.

I AM GETTING CABIN FEVER BUT AT LEAST SPRING HAS ARRIVED IN SAVANNAH!

WITH MY "SWEET OLD BOB'S" HELP,  I WAS ABLE TO BRING SPRINGTIME INSIDE.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY DISHES AND ACCESSORIES TO AND FRO WHILE USING A WALKER.  I ASKED BOB TO BRING WHAT I NEEDED TO THE TABLE.  HE WAS SO SWEET AND CUTE "TOTING" DISHES. 

I will be using the kitchen table for awhile. It requires less dishes and is easier to navigate. You can see that Bob has already brought some dishes to the table. He is shaking his head but he keeps bringing "stuff" to the table. 

THE TABLE IS AN ANTIQUE,  FROM AN INN,  IN ENGLAND.  IT IS NARROWER THAN MOST TABLES.

The table is rubbed every couple of months with teak oil. There are two additional 12 inch draw extensions.

My Daughter, in Illinois, brought these dishes to me in March. She found them in a thrift shop in southern Illinois.

She brought me the little pure white dishes but I won't be using them today. I will be using the turquoise and white. This was a set of 59 pieces that she purchased for $25.00. YES! For all of them.

THE STACKING PROCESS

This placemat is really turquoise as you will notice later.

This beautiful pattern is "Petal Lane" by Taylor-Smith-Taylor and the pattern is from the 50's. It is a soft white with a silver rim, delicate turquoise flowers with touches of pink. My first kitchen was turquoise...stove, oven, sink. The whole shabang!

 A generous sized soup/salad/pasta bowl 

I am in love with the cup and saucer. Isn't it the cutest thing?

Today I am adding this fruit/berry bowl to hold another piece.

I mentioned this sherbet in my cupboard post HERE.

I purchased these with S and H Green Stamps in 1963. There wasn't a lot of money for dishes in those days.

Doesn't this say spring to you?  I love it. The napkins are a silver weave fabric and the silver is antique sterling introduced in 1902 by International Silversmiths. Pattern is Stratford. It is long since discontinued.

This pattern features carnations and exquisite detail on front and back. My skills and camera don't properly capture the detail.

Salad fork. Couldn't get good pic. Too much reflection.

Fruit spoon. Sorry about the pics. Pics don't do this silver justice.

I absolutely love this cup and saucer.

The orchid is a gift from a friend, this week. I hope my brown thumb doesn't kill it. Any tips for keeping orchids alive are appreciated.

I love the color inside the gravy boat and the detail on the ladle.

You can see the round tipped knife. That spot on the blade is not there. The blades are plate. You have seen the goblet before, it was thrifted.

It is so lovely now. My fingers are crossed.

The votives are from Dollar Tree

A small peek of the salt and pepper shakers and relish tray. Don't know where their closeups went.

I HOPE SPRING HAS ARRIVED WHERE YOU LIVE.

I ENJOYED SHARING SPRING IN MY KITCHEN.

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