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Table Setting for Easter – Let the Food and Dishes Work Together

March 23, 2010
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 |  Entertaining

Easter colors of yellow and green, pink and blue are enough to get your table setting ideas flowing. Add in the motifs, such as baby chicks and eggs, bunnies and spring flowers, and you can get your Easter tabletop and entertaining plan off to a great start. And then there’s the food. Since I met […]

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Rose china patterns: Valentine charm and ideas for setting a lovely table

January 8, 2010
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 |  Collections

Many vintage china patterns are based on the perennial garden favorite flower, roses. No surprise, roses are romantic and feminine. Many of the dinnerware designs that use this motif have a soft, pastel color scheme. Make roses your theme for mix and match table setting and the possibilities are enormous. Whether you are planning an […]

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About Diary of a Dishie

I keep adding to my vintage dinnerware collection, and I hope you will enjoy seeing what I find, and how I use it.

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My dishie antennae perk up when I see pieces of Mikasa’s Mediterrania line in my shopping travels. The patterns are so retro. Many of them show the best of modern style from the 1970s. The shapes are simple and sleek. The colors and motifs just work for me. I think Blue Bird is probably my […]

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