A Breakfast For Two

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Spencer

Today's tablescape is actually one that has been 26 years in the making. 

I have planned to set up a breakfast table in the master bedroom for pretty much our entire marriage. With the new empty nest, I thought it might be the perfect week to begin a new tradition.

So I called in the team.

We started with this skirted table from the living room. I've been collecting dishes in the room colors of yellow and green for a while, putting this table together in my mind in bits and pieces.

It will remain set up in the room.

 Next, we added some pears for the center.

 Pears are the husband's favorite fruit.

(and it doesn't hurt that they are the right color, too...)

Both the cow creamer and the pear dish belong

 to the Duchess

This dish is Haviland Limoges.

 It's on loan until I find a suitable replacement...

 

... because I love the pears there.

I'll have to susbstitute faux ones when we're not actually using it.

Real ones wouldn't last a day with the husband around.

After 26 years, he still doesn't *get* that whole

just for looks thing.

Maybe, I 'll decoupage some....

Everything else is actually mine.

As I said, I have been collecting for this table every time I visit an antique or junk shop.

 

I have had the linens for years. They are tea towels from one of those trunks of previous yakabouts. 

Of course, now that I think about it,

 that makes them technically from the Duchess as well.

I loved the dishes because not only were they the right colors, but they also said, "breakfast" to me.

Of course, when I turned them over, I found this.

Well, of course...

Only in Debbie Land would the stuff not pilfered from my mother 

still bear her mark.

I found the stemware at the same shop.

I liked the color.

The flatware is Act I by Oneida.

It's from The Great Wedding Adventure of 1984.

I am on the lookout for some gold ones to use here... 

 Eventually

My favorite thing on the table is the coffee server.

It's another second hand score.

I flatly refuse to check out the bottom.

Adding the food.

Just for this tablescape.

I'll reset with fresh food for the husband on Saturday morning.

 Sorry I can't invite you,

but this is a  table

for two.

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Sharing this on Between Naps on the Porch for

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I guess it's also a Simple Pleasure, but that would be cheating...

I haven't yet had the pleasure.