Judith, just visited your blog for the rest of your "pink lunch" pics. Just beautiful! Pink & white outside just looks so serene and peaceful (helped by your great photography too!). Ms. Bunny fits right in and looks like very good company! You are so right about not being able to find pink dishes very often. I am always on the look out and haven't had any luck so far. Easter probably is the best time to be looking though I didn't find any this year. Your quilted placemats are lovely and do they match the cushion/pillow on your chair? The S&P birds are adorable as is the bunny creamer. The hatboxes are such a great idea to add height and they look so pretty so you don't have to cover them with another cloth. Another great setting! I'm also sad that your vacation is over...have so enjoyed your postings this week!

DD

I have been peeking in this forum for a few days now and really like what I am finding!! I really love your pink tablescapes!

Love your blog as well. Can you tell me how you get such a nice layout? I have a thyroid blog, but it is just the standard Blogger one they let you choose from. I'd like to start another one someday - but would like it to be a little more exciting. lol Thanks for any info.

Judith...visited your blog...Wow Girl!! love ALL your tablescapes...and as DD said...your photography is outstanding. I too love the use of white dishes as a background for whatever else you want to add to them. They are so versatile, and elegant as you've shown. I want to kick myself, the other day I was in Marshalls, and saw your cabbage dishes..and yes they were resonable, and I passed them up. I was gift shopping, and didn't want to get something for ME.. :( Now I'm sorry.
Well...I enjoyed seeing your blog and reading all your wonderful advice.
Thanks again
PS ... seems like you had a nice relaxing vacation..
Jane

Welcome,Lydia During the off-season, we play with dishes and tablescapes and shopping finds so this Forum is staying interesting. The gals here, and Jim, are absolutely wonderful and FUN. When the Holidays get near, then this place REALLY comes alive! I copied a lot of photos from here, and other places that were interesting, and made an Inspiration Album for all of us to have the photos handy and they wouldn't disappear.
Please check it out and see all the creativity on this Forum. I made 9 sub albums to find stuff easier. And if you follow the Photobucket link to my main page, you will see another album link from the gals here on Table Settings.
Loads of eye candy.
Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: Inspiration Album

DD, thank you, yes the cushions and placematt match, I purchased them approx 2 months ago at Marshalls, I just could not pass up PINK! (I'm sad my vacation is over too!)

lydia1959, thank you and WELCOME, you will find lots and lots of talented people here, it is a very friendly and loving group of people! My Blog is from www.blogspot.com
You just select at the top to "Create Blog" and go from there. Actually my blog is VERY Plain compaired to other bloggers, I am not very computer techie, so all the cool stuff just goes over my head. Alot of people like Typepad too. BlogSpot is free....I think Typepad has a fee charge of some amount????? But don't let that stop you from posting here with pictures or not, we all got to start somewhere LOL

Ah, Jane, I know what you mean, I have done that myself, and sure enough wish I had bought them when I had seen them. the good thing about those dishes are, they pop up all thru the year, in TJ MAX, Marshalls, and Ross stores, so there is still hope! :)

Karen, thanks for adding that link to the album, there is certainly lots of eyecandy and inspiration there, thanks for doing that for everyone!!!

Thanks Judithva!

Purplemoon - Great ideas! Thanks!!

Hope to pop in here more often. This is a wonderful forum!

Well I guess we now know what a "hare" in the food means when it comes to Judith! LOL

BTW - Was lunch Welsh Rabbit. ;-)

Great pic!

Jim

Jim, LOL, hmmm I have never actually eaten a rabbit...but I will admit to cursing at them and promising them a "quick end to their life" for eating the flowers in my garden (hungry little critters), I won't even mention squirrels.... grrrrrrr

And deer! They ate my vegetable plants and some flowers. I declare this venison month!!
Very pretty, J., how come you didn't invite Spud?

Very Cute Kathleen! (Poor Spud, drowing his sorrows over not being invited to Judith's lunch!) I agree with "Venison Month" as yesterday, we had a deer eat all the leaves off my hostas in the front bed...and they were doing so well this year! GRRRRR!!!!!

DD

Kathleen, Ah, poor Spud, but alas, it was a girls only soire...maybe next time...if he brings the wine ;)

You Guys(excuse me---Gals and Jim) are CRAZY!! And I love you. I sure am happy to get back home to you.
Judith, I checked out your Blog too. Thanks for sharing where you found all of your beautiful things. When I was in Chapel Hill NC I went to all of the Marshall's anywhere close by except one. And the only reason I didn't get to that one was the GPS I was using would not accept the street address. When I typed in the street name, before I could finish it would pop up another street. GRRRRR! But I got LOTS of neat stuff. My niece ( Bless her Precious Enabling Heart) went with me to one Marshall's after she got out of class and encouraged me to get some cabbage leaf serving pieces that I almost decided I couldn't afford.
On the way down she was saying how we couldn't possibly fill up her Trail Blazer and when we got ready to pack it she was saying "Oh my goodness, how in the world are we going to get everything back home!" She even bought some "Pretties".
I will try to post some pics later.
Betty

Kathleen, your "Spud" is such a naughty boy! LOL

And such a party boy...he always shows up when he hears "Pah ty'!