I love the wonderful breakfast plates with the words around the rim...I found them at TJMaxx. The cup saucer and bowl are seperate, but I thought they mixed well together, some have cows and some have pigs, I believe there is another chicken one, just not sure...It was just the right setting for the wonderful little red egg cups, so perfect for this time of year. The egg cups came eight in a box and are from Steinmart..
The silver cow and chicken should be accompanied by a pig, but I looked and looked and could not find the pig, I will continue my search at the Ross stores till I find him, have you ever had that happen to you..so frustrating, oh well...sometimes it is the search that is the adventure...
I remember my parents began collecting Avon bottles when they became very popular and very valuable years and years ago...they must have collected hundreds...well needless to say, they devalued quickly. You can only imagine cases of all types of Avon bottles( in unopened in their original boxes) everywhere. I remember saying to her, "wow what a waste, all those Avon bottles and they never became valuable again." she just said "no it wasn't a waste, cause we had such a good time hunting them, then after finally finding the one we wanted, it was fun negotiating the price and then it was wonderful adding it to our collection". Well, I guess thats the heart of a collector....Isn't that what it is all about...
The plates say, sausage, ham, tomatoes, eggs... The bread plates say marmalade and buttered toast.....I think they look so french farm.......
The milk bottles are from ebay...I saw Cat Cora,( one of my favotite Chefs) use milk bottles for one of her presentations. She put them on a long white plate with some cookies for dessert. She made a Lousiana milk punch in the bottle and it was served with a straw. Wow it was just so darned cute...Well that was quite a quest to recreate that....I found the small bottles on line, very inexpensive. Then I found a sleeve of the paper lids, so cheap. I stenciled the word milk on the front of each bottle using glass paint. The instructions said not to use to heavy or it would peel off, I would like to find a stamp of a cow head and use the glass paint and put that above the word milk....what do you think....I may have to make the milk work a darker red...they are fun....
You can see the picture of the little pigs on this cup......
I love the bloody mary glasses, they are from my niece Deana, they were going into a garage sale and I thought, these look like great bloody mary glasses, or beer glasses, not too big not too small... Thanks Deana......
The pie plate and dome are from Pier 1, I have had for several years and is so handy for all kinds of occasions...
I love the buttered toast plate...
The bowl for the apples is from Marshals I purchased a couple of years ago and use for so many different things.
The napkin rings are from my sister Bobbie. I had seen them on someones blog and thought they were just so cute and they looked like they were silver...That is the day I went to my sister's house looking for the tureen....you remember the tureen from a couple of postings back. Right there on her counter was a bag of napkin rings and she said "oh you can have these, I pulled them out of the cupboard for you" who would have thought, it was the same ones on the blog that morning...wow
I use this little tree all over the house to bring a little sunshine....
Silverware is from Ross and it was 7.00 for a service for 4....good deal ........see the cute cows..
Now cute pigs...
You can really see the milk tab tops in this picture..... don't ya just love um..
Cows, Cows, Cows...
As you all know I do love layering and playing in the dishes....
As you all know I do love layering and playing in the dishes....
I am getting hungry now...
I've gotta get some celery stalks for my bloody mary and I will be all set....
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