Kathleen, your table setting is absolutely beautiful! I love the dishes and the black stems. The touches of yellow are perfect -- the lemons and hurricane are a great touch. Congrats! You did (better than) good.

Yum, yum, the dinner makes me hungry.

Love your new goodies, and your dinner looks scrumptious!

kathleen, love your tablesetting and the yellow looks very nice and summery.

Your dinner looks very yummy! Any leftovers for us? :)

Kathleen, I LOVE your black, white & yellow tablesetting. That is one of my favorite color combinations. And of course I love your black "chalice" (that's what DH calls them). I am so jealous that our Pier 1 didn't have the beautiful stuff you bought and can't wait to see the rest of your new eye-candy. And your dinner looks delicious. Like Lee said, "You did good!" I now have a new inspiration pic!!!

Kathleen, you found some very pretty new dishes. I'd really like a closer look at the black and white ones--looks like fancy circles but I can't tell exactly. Your white dishes sure coordinate well with so many other dishes, don't they?

I really love your fruit plates--so colorful. You know the candle you already have could go well with them--just change out the lemons to pears and it would be a perfect match. Even your yellow placemats work. Lots of possibilities.

Food looks yummy. For your photography of it, don't you need to add a sprig of green, or a curled slice of fruit? You know, those fancy touches like those cooking shows do. And for it, guess you don't even need to show a whole place setting (their loss), but just a solid background that really makes the plate and the food "pop" in the picture. Can you tell I've watched too many cooking shows? LOL

Glad you are having fun. Can't wait for the rest of your goodies for this week.

Luvs

Luvs, I am working on the clarity. I got some tips from the ladies on the cooking forum, and this was much clearer than my previous efforts. It is still the prob of taking the pic and the food getting cold!! I'll keep trying. My shrimp had the pop of broc and the color with the lemon, but it was BLURRY! Like I said, I should serve cold dinners, then ther would be NO problem!

Kathleen said Like I said, I should serve cold dinners, then ther would be NO problem!

Err, you might want to rethink that. I doubt your DH would agree! ;-)

kathleen, are those real lemons? It's hard to tell. I was looking at some plastic ones in Walmart and they looked pretty realistic. They had both limes & lemons.

You have that right, Lee!
Mary, they are from the dollar store!