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.

Black and White and Red All Over - Spring

Originally posted April 28, 2010

Prior Black and White and Red All Over Posts:

Valentine's Day

Halloween

This vintage tablecloth design by Victory K and B is called "Leaves"

and  also appeared in another colorway for Easter: Royal Rabbits Hold Annual Luncheon

Here it is shown in Red with Black, White and Scarlet Post86 Fiesta.

The striped salad plates, teapot, canister and flatware are from Home Goods.

The stemware is vintage crystal in a very deep burgandy that looks

black except in very bright light.

The roses are 'Iceberg'

The votives came from Michael's.

Cups and saucers are 'Medallion' by Rosenthal.

Christmas Geese by Vera

This vintage tablecloth seems out of character for Vera's tablecloths, but it is indeed a Vera with the typical Christmas geese so popular in the '80s.  I've never made a Christmas goose, perhaps this is the year to give it a try!

Hunter green chargers, White Post 86 Fiesta dinner plates, Scarlet Fiesta salad plates.  Candy cane glassware is from Pfaltzgraff, flatware from Home Goods, salt and pepper and peppermint bowl from Pier 1.  The cake stand is Fitz and Floyd, napkins from Tuesday Morning.

How To Cook My Goose - A Recipe For Disaster In The Making

After doing some research on the roasting of a goose, I think I will wait for a less visible dinner party to make my first goose.  It would take 4 geese to feed our Christmas dinner crowd! Apparently the bigger the goose the less likely you will end up with a tender result.  Small 8-12 pound geese are the recommended size to roast. So I will have to wait to "cook my goose" ....have you ever wondered where that expression came from? I will admit that at this early hour of the morning I can just about taste the wonderful dark full flavored goose that is in my future.  And apple plus plum stuffing or sausage stuffing ..... sounds like heaven! There is a goose in my future, just not for Christmas dinner this year.  Have a merry old time whatever you serve up on your table.