In addition to all my other uber-macho hobbies, I also have an interest in tableware. No wonder I can't find a date. LOL This is from the New Years party we had at the club.Anyway, I didn't come up with the concept for this tabletop design (that was Mom, based on a picture she saw in the Ross-Simons catalog) but I placed the dishes on the table and enhanced the layout a bit with the additional clear stem glasses for water and clear blue glass dessert plates. I thought it came out really nice.
Side note: everything on that table came from discount stores and cost less than $2.00 apiece. The dinner plates and votive candle cups are from Big Lots; flatware from Kmart; glasses from Maxway; flowers, "snow," tea lights, dessert plates and tablecloth fabric from Wal-Mart, and the vases are from Goodwill.
Very pretty!
ReplyDelete(and very thrifty...you know I love that part of it as well LOL)
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to shopping, we're volume people around here, especially at the club. Saving just a little on each piece makes a big difference in the overall price.
In this case, the savings go toward building more shelves for all the dishes we've accumulated.
Yeah, I mean, do you re-outfit the table for every party you have? That's a lot of dinnerware inventory lying around.....
ReplyDeleteBeautiful table.
The short answer is yes. We do come up with a different table setting for each event, except for 4th of july, which is an outdoor event. It was Mom's idea and I help her when I can.
ReplyDeleteThe club has somewhere around ten different dinnerware patterns, four sets of flatware, 6-8 sets of glassware and 5 sets of charger plates, along with countless serving and odd pieces, all in multiples.
It's a little insane, but we never fail to impress.
"In addition to all my other uber-macho hobbies, I also have an interest in tableware. No wonder I can't find a date. LOL"
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the problem is either, Steven. You'd make a great catch for any guy...
;)
Very funny :rolls eyes: ;-)
ReplyDeleteIf you can't get a date with this 'uber-manly' trait, the irony is not lost on me.
ReplyDeleteMost women spend lifetimes nagging their husbands to lift a finger to take out the garbage, nearly all women work full-time, and many busy single professionals and working moms hire domestic assistants to administrate the minutiae of daily home life. This alternative is often reached when husbands who bring home 40% of the household revenues, or even being stay-at-home dads, can't be bothered to lower themselves to demoralizing, effeminate household duties.
To quote a great mind: you are truly a catch, the women you know just don't know it yet.
Thank you. That meant a lot ;-)
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