Day 14/366

After the dinner party.

My Other Blue & White.

Influenza has seen me laying low this past week.  Never-the-less, this morning I thought I'd share my other blue and white dinner setting with you.  It is also a Johnson Brothers setting and my aim is to mix and match with my newer Mother's Day gift when we have extended family for lunch.  With both services I now have enough to serve thirty two adults!  It has, as yet, never come to this but more than once it's been at the high end of twenty.  Still, with the increasing chance of more grandchildren and sons/daughters - in - law, it could be on the books!!!

I like to be prepared...

One morning, many years ago, as a playgroup mum and host, I served my playgroup mums morning tea in teacups and saucers.  This was NOT the done thing, usually mugs sufficed.

I got lots of compliments that morning.  One mum in particular commented how she felt very pampered drinking her tea from a proper teacup - with a saucer to boot!

I particularly like this dinner service because each piece, like my newer setting, is differently decorated.

I am linking this post to Tea Cup Tuesday with Terri at Artful Affirmations. 

Better Late Than Never!

I thought it was about time I show cased my Mother's Day gift.  Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May here in Australia.

My family banded together to buy me this beautiful Devon Cottage dinner set by Johnson Brothers. (Times two!)

Isn't it beautiful?  I adore blue and white in the kitchen and for dining.  This is the sort of dinner set that can be added to and added to.  I'm secretly hoping that next Christmas I will receive a salad bowl or serving platter.  Fingers crossed (again).
I can also mix and match it with my previous dinner set in blue and white, also by Johnson Brothers and called Portland.
Oh, and I love my tea served in a cup with a saucer, black, no sweetener! 


I have linked this post to Artful Affirmations Tea Cup Tuesday.