What if your fall tableware color scheme calls for light colors, instead of bold ones? Your lovely pale theme can work just as well for fall, using vintage dinnerware in light colors. Soft and delicate dinnerware colors will keep your table setting clean and crisp. Monochromatic color schemes built around white, off-white and gray convey [...]

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Choose your fall dinnerware colors from a palette of traditional favorites, and you’ll easily create a harmonious table setting For example, just this little Tracy Porter egg cup can provide lots of color inspiration. Three main colors to draw from as a focal point: a rich, warm terra cotta in the brown to orange range, [...]

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October may be Cookie Month, but to my mind, it’s just the start of the holiday baking season. Time to make the list of cookie recipients, ingredients to stock up on, and the dinnerware and china needed to serve these treats. Who is on your cookie list? Time to Plan for Cookie Baking Get out [...]

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When I’m out hunting for dinnerware, I find wonderful things that I’ve never seen, such as this Dudson china soup, salad or pasta bowl. Dudson is made in England, and available in the US, including products designed for the restaurant and hotel tableware industries. The name was new to me when I found these large [...]

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While they take longer to make than quick breads, yeast-raised breads are versatile and delicious. Great to eat by themselves, with soup, stew, or another meal – homemade breads can help you save money and eat healthier. Baking bread is also a great way to express your creativity in the kitchen. Yeast is a living [...]

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Glass accessories like goblets, cake plates, salt and pepper shakers or jam jars are guaranteed to light up your table setting ideas. The shine and transparent qualities of glass are often complementary to your china dinnerware sets. Glass has been used since Roman times due to its beauty, transparency and color possibilities. In Medieval Venice, [...]

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Dinnerware sets include various plate sizes for various uses, taking their names from the foods they are commonly used to serve. Bread, salad or dinner plates are just some of the possibilities. Names for different sizes vary between manufacturers, or even within the product lines of a single manufacturer over time. Diameter alone will not [...]

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Setting your holiday table can be a snap when you choose red and green as your color scheme. So many of us grew up with bright red and green as the holiday decor at home, in shops and at school. These colors will bring back happy Christmas memories from times gone past. Start with the [...]

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Okay, OOAK – one of a kind – might be a bit obscure. But not if you’re into vintage dinnerware and china, and love to use those unusual pieces, as well as just looking at them. It is not necessary to have a complete set of matching tableware to have a great time setting the [...]

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Orange and black, the traditional Halloween colors for decorations and tableware, have been joined in more recent years by purple and lime green. Halloween is second only to Christmas as the most-decorated-for holiday, so it’s not surprising that dishes and dinnerware dedicated specifically for October 31 are becoming easier to find. Some of your vintage [...]

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