I love playing with all of my dishes. It's fun to mix and match things and create new arrangements and pairings for different menus and meals. We're having a couple of friends over on Sunday for dinner and I started thinking about what I would use. It's interesting to combine both vintage and new pieces in a variety of styles--especially if it can be made to seem seamless.
For Sunday, I'm starting with the lovely, small Noritake plates with the silver rims I found a while back at Goodwill. The second course will be on the small Metlox plates paired with tiny white sauce bowls from Crate and Barrel. (I am simply obsessed with all of the little bowls and plates they sell--I want them all!) The soup course will be in white bowls from C&B that remind me of baroque pearls when placed on top of a Metlox plate. The main course will be on a Metlox plate and dessert will be in the sherberts I bought when I was shopping at the Salvation Army in Conway, AR before judging the 2004 Miss Arkansas USA Pageant. Coffee, of course, will be in the colorful new service I found a few weeks back at St. David's Next-to-New.
Tune into bigYELLOWbowl next week to see the menu I created that inspired these dishes.