Summer's Ripening Breath

Talk about vintage, and it's a conversation about a classic.



Terms such as ageless, timeless, and lasting get batted around.


What we are expressing is value. Something worthwhile, and worth preserving.



A quality unsurpassed. And that's how I feel about my vintage china and linens.



Set a vintage table, and you are sitting down to a journey to the past.



The foundation here is a vintage pink Bates coverlet, overlaid with an elegant vintage filet lace tea cloth.



My vintage Royal Winton majolica bee skep pitcher is the centerpiece, with shells rather than flowers.




The vintage squared plates, used here as chargers for creamware bowls, are by Edwin M. Knowles, and say cheery, cheery, COTTAGE.




The buttery tones melt onto the white lace tablecloth with a hint of rose peeking through beneath.



Blue cornflowers balance the pinks in a surprise blooming under the creamy bowls.



This presentation has storybook written all over it.



A white stoneware platter anchors the center grouping.



And you can't have too many plain vanilla bowls!




"This day was only the first of many similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the ripening summer moved onward. He learned to swim and to row, and entered into the joy of running water; and with his ear to the reed stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them."

Kenneth Graham, the River Bank chapter, The Wind in the Willows.

Ciao! for now! And thanks so much for stopping by!

Jacqueline

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