It's A Pink Occasion

I mentioned a week or two ago that I was going to put together a table with what we call our Pink Occasion Dishes, some faithful old luncheon plates given to my girls by an elderly neighbor. We used them whenever an occasion is dubbed Pink. 

I was so busy actually enjoying our last Pink Occasion that I never did take pictures.  

Fortunately,  we had another Pink Occasion right around the corner. 

This one didn't involve the arrival of daughters,

 but it did involve the invasion of the south's favorite belle. 

So we set this table for two right smack dab in the middle of it.

The Duchess has just about every color of azalea in her lawn

so we gathered some pale pink and white ones for the centerpiece 

and added a few dogwoods for good measure. 

If the azalea is a belle, the dogwood is her faithful beau. 

They generally arrive together. .

Even though I love those Pink Occasion plates, they are actually my second favorite plates on the table. 

My very favorites are these antique cake plates. 

They originally belonged to the Duchess's great grandmother.

There are only five remaining, and I actually own just one of them.
The rest are shared among my sisters and the Duchess.

I picked up those sherbet dishes at the antique mall earlier in the year.

I've developed a big crush on that particular style of sherbet dishes. I love the extra height they add to the table, and I use them often.

There's absolutely no point in owning dishes if you don't actually use them. 

The blossom filled shoes serve no useful purpose beyond whimsy, but I liked them anyway. Don't you think any pink occasion calls for pink shoes?

 Yeah, me too.

They were originally Christmas ornaments. 

The silver is Old English Tipt by Gorham. It's a very simple pattern. 

And finally the napkin.  I used the reversible ones that I made for my luncheon club and just twisted them so that the fan showed both sides. The silver napkin rings belong to the Farm Sister. I still had them from the luncheon club because, "a fool borroweth and returned not again."

So there you have it: 

A Pink Occasion table 

Celebrating one of the Pinkest Occasions of the year:

The south Georgia spring. 

I'm sharing this week at Cuisine Kathleen's new party Let's Dish!

and with The Porch People  and  Pink Saturday