Lazy Lunch On A Lilypad

I'm reposting this tablescape from another time here on The Little Round Table to play along over

at Jenny Matlock's Rainbow Summer School.

This week's color is BLUE!

This vintage Wilendur tablecloth features lotsa lily pads for frogs and such to laze about on, while the dragon flies flit from place to place. Shown with Periwinkle, Chartreuse and Cinnabar Post 86 Fiesta, Vintage Fiesta advertising mug blanks with various colors on the interiors and vintage glassware that was used for the Fiesta Ensemble sets.  The vintage decalled pitcher is Homer Laughlin, one of six different frog decorations done in the early 1900s.

The fish plate is a Chicken of the Sea vintage promotional piece, along with the fish casseroles in their metal frames and the salt and pepper shakers. The little turquoise vintage vase holds Equisetum hyemale - Rough Horsetail and Typha laxmannii - Graceful Cattail, Narrow-leaved European Cattail from the garden.

The wooden carved frog is a noisemaker that I purchased at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show a number of years ago.  It really does a great "Rrribbit" when you run the rod he is holding over the ridges on his back.

Flatware is Deauville, napkins, candle holders and napkin holders are contemporary.

Here are two small plates also from HLC that have the frog decals.

Tropical Yucca for Squares - Susan's Tablescape Thursday

I am so happy to be participating in Susan's Tablescape Thursday, check out all the participants over at Between Naps On The Porch and join the fun.

 
Scarlet and Sunflower Square Post 86 Fiesta, with Shamrock salad plates on a vintage tablecloth and an arrangement from the garden.  Cityscape flatware, vintage glassware.

Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' are the red, with Tanacetum vulgare - Curly Tansy, Yucca gloriosa - Spanish Dagger, and Polystichum minutum - Western Sword Fern.

Change of glassware to contemporary from Home Goods, but I ended up going with the vintage afterall.

Mexicana in the Morning

Mexicana paired with Fiesta Ensemble glassware and

some south of the border go-alongs.

Ivan Bartlett and The Bartlett Pear

The California Bartlett Pear
The famed Bartlett pear originated in Berkshire, England in the late 17th century, by a schoolmaster named John Stair. Stair sold a few of his pear tree cuttings to a Mr. Williams, who further refined it and renamed it after himself. The "Williams" pear, which is still used to make the legendary pear brandy "Poire William", crossed the Atlantic with the Quakers who adapted it to the table.

The pleasing Quaker pear found fame and fortune in 1812, through the good offices of nurseryman Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who unaware of its true name, distributed it under his own name. Ever since, the pear has been known as the Bartlett- at least on this side of the Atlantic. The "Bartlett" went West next, in the covered wagons of the settlers and prospectors headed for the California Gold Rush. Thus, at the turn of the 20th century, it finally found the ideal climate in which to flourish.

And then there is Ivan Bartlett of tablecloth fame. Persimmon, Ivory and Chocolate Post 86 Fiesta, Fiestaware 2000 mugs and dinner plate in Persimmon, vintage Fiesta Ensemble glassware, Cityscape flatware.

The Original Six Plus Spinach Salad

That should really read "The Original Four Plus Spinach Salad", since I only used Cobalt, Light Green, Yellow and Red. Perfect weather here in Northern California for a light dinner and some beautiful dishes.

Our spinach salad consists of baby spinach with an old fashioned bacon/balsamic vinegar/fresh lemon juice/garlic dressing. Bacon bits, freshly grated parmesan cheese, and sliced hard boiled eggs are added before the salad is dressed. Additional toppings like diced onions, pine nuts, and chopped peppers, plus extra dressing is served on the relish tray in the center of the table.  Add a wine spritzer and some sour dough bread and I'm in heaven.

The Dishes: Vintage chop plates used as chargers, dinner plates, and Tricolator bowls are the perfect size for the salad. The large chop plate holds a Manhattan Relish Tray for additional toppings for the salad. Oil and vinegar from the vintage Pyrex containers. Salt & Pepper and mustard served from the Royal Chrome Condiment Set. The little votives are in vintage glasses that match the glasses used in the vintage Fiesta Ensemble sets. Glassware from Home Goods, napkins from Bed Bath Beyond and the cute napkin rings came from eBay.

The little Made in Japan wall pocket holds Lantana, Salvia, Verbena, and Geraniums from my garden.

HLC Nautilus Early America

This set of Early America came complete except for the cream and sugar which friends found for me a few months after I found the set. I have it paired with vintage Red Stripe Fiesta, George and Martha from the '39 World's Fair, and glassware from a vintage Fiesta Ensemble set. There are also some early HLC stoneware and OvenServe pieces pictured.

The cloth is made from red plaid pantry cloth, napkins from novelty old map fabric, flatware is Dansk.