A Quirky Brown Table

Do you see the cabinet in the corner of that picture?

That’s a china cabinet, and it’s just one of the places where I store my dishes. The sister has several as well, and the Duchess has four or five of them. I’ve lost count.

Oh, we have china…
And crystal…
And silver …

Why we feel the oddball need to create tablescapes

 using old bean pots instead

is anyone's guess.

I think we just like to color outside the lines.

In oddball colors.

Well...that’s the way it appears
 because we also have a variety 

of lovely tablecloths.

Irish linen…

Battenburg lace…

Yet, intead, we reach into that old trunk of vintage cotton ones.

 

 In fairness to the other two on the team, that part is usually my fault. I have this strange obsession with vintage cotton in quirky colors, and I’m a bad influence on good taste.

This week’s quirky cloth is
 brown and yellow and  my fault.

We were going to use a whole set of these neat brown dishes...

When I started campaigning for that tablecloth, 

we opted to save the set

 and use the salad plates only. 

We mixed it up with a brown charger and plain yellow plates stacked in between.

We used some Indian corn tied in ribbon for place cards just to be fallish. 

The names are written in invisible ink.

For the center, we collected a variety of old brown stuff.  

I don't know much about this old crock,

but both it and the bean pot

have been around long enough to be classified as vintage.

And this jug qualifies as antique.

 I actually love this old thing. I know it’s been around since 1904 because there’s a family story about it that took place when my great grandparents were courting, and they married in 1905. The Duchess thinks that it was originally a whiskey jug.

I’m not so sure since it’s signed, marked, and in my opinion too beautiful for corn squeezins, but what do I know?

Whatever its pedigree, it ended up hanging out

 in blog land 

with an old crock, 

a vintage bean pot,

and a quirky cotton cloth.

Now actually, it's not that easy to decorate using those quirky colorful tablecloths...

Which is the reason that this centerpiece keeps changing....

And changing...

I couldn't make up my mind.

Which is also the reason

the Duchess made an executive decision

to lock me out of that vintage trunk until further notice.  

Next week, we're going to my sister's house

 for our  Luncheon Club 

 Lucky for me, my only contribution will be

 the shiny red Kodak. 

*****
Sharing this as always on Susans's porch.