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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Dish Flowers
Wildflowers in Winter's week 4 theme (dishes or other decorations made by you or someone else that you have in your home) left me wondering what I could show. I have lots of floral dishes, but not specifically wildflowers. So I was wondering...until I read Jodi's entry. Her teapot led me to my spring tea mug. Not wildflowers, but wild flowers.
This mug looks so springy to me that I rarely use it except in spring. Do you change the decorations in your house according to season? My great-grandmother had a large collection of pretty dishes and glassware, too many to display all at once, so she rotated them. The cup and saucer below belonged to her, and actually does have a wildflower decoration - violets. (Note to photographer: you should have focused on the back of the cup so people could see the violets.)
I have a collection of sorts, too. Early-mid 20th century Japanese lustreware. These are 2 of the wilder pieces.
My first real set of dishes also has a flower theme. They could be wildflowers, I suppose. And bringing us back to tea, on a plate from that set I've placed 2 of my favorite flower-scented teas - Jasmine Pearls and an Osmanthus-scented Oolong.
Now I'm headed off to visit Elizabeth Joy and see the flowers other Wildflowers in Winter participants have in their houses.
Labels: off-topic, wildflowers
8 Comments:
I enjoyed your interpretation of wild flowers. ;-)
Isn't it fun to treasure hunt for dishes that fit the theme. You have a great variety of styles..
http://happywonderer.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/wildflowers-in-winter-week-4/
I love all of your items, but my favorite is your spring tea mug.
What a great collection! Thank you for sharing! My favorites are the Japanese pieces, but I like them all. Your Wild Flowers have me laughing. Fun!
Love the Japanese lustreware urn. Yur teacup looks lovely, I can imagine the flowers in focus.
All: Thanks for the comments! Some of those dishes spend way too much time in the cupboard, so they appreciated the opportunity to get out and mingle ;-)
Love that mug in the first pic, very art niveau-y and very pretty too. Wouldn't mind a cuppa of one of those teas either. ;-)
Yes, I used to change things in my previous house when the seasons changed. In spring I would put up yellow/white/blue curtains, rolled out the blue chinese carpet and put a lot of cushions in blue/white and yellow in my livingroom. In autumn I would put up red curtains, the red carpet and cushions, vases and other stuff. It made me very much aware of the seasons and was a lot of fun too. My livingroom looked new every time I changed it all.
Yolanda Elizabet: I really like the idea of seasonally changing the decor, but I don't ever seem to be able to manage it. Except maybe the tea mugs. I can't imagine how my great-grandmother found the time.
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