The Cottage By The Sea 1940 - A postscript to the story

Here's the original story, with an additional chapter at the end.

Be sure to read the UPDATE at the end of this post!

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This tablescape includes so many of my favorite things and favorite colors.

Vintage Fiesta

Ephemera

Gifts from A Friend

My friend lives "down by the sea" and also collects vintage Fiesta, her name

is Saarin and she recently sent me these sweet carved wooden napkin rings

that look like they were made for this 1940 tablecloth.  The tablecloth was a premium for Dutch Clenaser and the one I have still has the original mailing envelope with the enclosed ad for matching napkins. Sadly the original recipient of the tablecloth didn't send away for the napkins.

And here is how Saarin's table in her cottage down by the sea might have looked in the 1940s. The sweet fruit and veggie napkin rings accompany the vintage Fiesta in six colors.  The individual covered casseroles are Kitchen Kraft also from Homer Laughlin glazed in Fiesta colors.

Saarin's table could easily look this way today, as she uses her vintage Fiesta on a regular basis. Thanks so much for the sweet napkin rings Saarin!

That's where the story ended last summer.

Before the internet, the chances of ever adding the napkins to my collection,

would have been maybe 1 in a million.  But, lookee here!

Neat, nice, nifty napkins to match my tablecloth.

Thanks for joining me again this week here on The Little Round Table.

I'm Such A Copycat

I saw this flower bucket re-furb at All Things Related using graphics

downloaded from Kristine Mckay Designs and remembered some French

flower buckets out in my garden shed.

One was pastel yellow, one pastel blue from Michael's years ago,

another was a nice heavy weight authentic galvenized bucket. Some spray

paint, clear sealer and some glaze gave my mis-matched flower buckets

a whole new lease on life.

I printed out the graphics onto scrapbook paper, sprayed with clear sealer, glued down with instant decoupage, let dry, then glazed with a water based glaze from Lowe's.  When completely dry all the buckets were sealed with a couple coats of clear sealer.

So my group of mismatched, unloved flower buckets are now destined for

center stage holding roses from my garden this summer.

I'm joining:

Voila French Inspiration at The French Cupboard

Originally posted April 17, 2010 for:

Saturday Night Special  at Funky Junk Interiors
Inspiration Friday from At The Picket Fence

Saturday Night Special - $3 Tablecloth

I'm joining in on Saturday Night Special over at Funky Junk Interiors. 

Jump on over and check out all of this week's DIY projects.


(If this looks familiar to some of you, it's probably because it was
previously posted for SNS#20 if I recall correctly.)

This is a tablecloth I did as a test project in preparation for some

future ideas for pillows and wall art. I've been admiring all the vintage grain and feed sacks being used for home decor and on upholstered furniture pieces for a long time now, but most of these pieces are pretty pricey and I'm not sure how long "the look" would keep me entranced. There are some

wonderful pieces over at Three Fine Grains to look at.

So a quick project with a $3 piece of burlap became a test of how I might recreate something similar.  I used a combination of stencils and rubber stamps with some craft paint to turn the burlap into this tablecloth with a little French twist.  I've washed it a couple of times to soften it up and I think this idea could be adapted to just about any fabric or tablecloth that you have around for birthdays, holidays, theme parties.

I have some old picture frames and some art canvas on stretchers which I

will be turning into "feed sack" art now that I've tested the waters. I'll be

back with those in the future, assuming they turn out as I see them in

my mind's eye and I can find my staple gun.


I love mixing the "plain and fancy" together to get this rustic look ...... add a
nice bottle of Champagne to start and I'm on my way to France!

That's a T L R T circling the center ..... The Little Round Table now has a monogram!

This silver butter dish was a wedding gift.

This is a Martha pitcher that I've had for years.

Vera Wang "Infinity" crystal.

This little silver plated bell graced my family's dinner table all the years

I was growing up and most of the plating has worn off over the years.

Thanks for stopping by again this week!

Where Do You Store All Those Dishes? Part 7

Saturday Night Special over at Funky Junk Interiors

It's all about storage and I'm recycling this post from last year when I did a

major overhaul and cleanup of how all my dishes, accessories and linens were stored.  I've tweaked it a little over the past few months, but basically it is still all working really well for me.

Here's the post from a few weeks ago about the tweaking:

Calming The Dish Pantry

It started with a post about my kitchen a few weeks ago on Show and Tell Friday
showing where my vintage Fiesta is now displayed. The vintage Fiesta was in
a glass front display closet in the pantry hall, but that's all changed and other
things are now on the move too.

Original Vintage Fiesta Post

Then I showed you where my "good dishes" now hang out.
Part 1 Post

And a corner cabinet that functions as a kind of transition solution,

when things are moving about. Part 2 Post

Then came the antique pine store fixture that holds a lot of

dinnerware and accessories in the Part 3 Post

       

Next I showed you the first of a pair of glass fronted closets that
are in the pantry hall that leads to the laundry room Part 4 Post

And the second closet was Part 5 Post

Last week I shared where I keep the glassware in Part 6 Post

This week I'm sharing where I store my napkin rings, flatware and tablecloths. This
antique pine cabinet provides a great deal of storage space and makes it easy to
find what I'm looking for.

The majority of the napkin rings are in the repurposed canister boxes I bought

at IKEA years ago, with some of the overflow in the teak stacking boxes
that hold flatware.

Tablecloths that are used daily stacked on the shelves in no particular order.

This cabinet also became a little calmer with the addition of fabric on cafe rods.

Large and seasonal cloths are in this antique dresser.

Thanks for stopping by!

Originally posted for:

Show and Tell Friday over at My Romantic Home