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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

LAVENDER & SILVER

Blogger was acting extremely funny this morning!  You may click on any of the photos to enlarge them.

OK -- this is a little editing after the fact.  These dishes you have seen before, several times.  They were on clearance a couple of years ago at Z Gallerie.  That Italian lavender stemware was an impulse purchase in the Fall at -- where else -- Home Goods!  The platinum banded goblets are Vera Wang, and those little silver wine cups are about a thousand years old.  I have no idea who made them.   The silver is Rondo by Gorham, the pattern I chose while a mere infant.  [G(irls) R(aised) I(n) T(he) S(outh) do that.]

The pearl napkin rings I found at Belk last year (or the year before) -- things run together when you get my age, you know.   The b'n'b plates were a wedding gift back in the prehistoric times when I was a jailbreak bride in early 1964!  I feel like I might be talking about my Grandma...


























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 Linking to Cuisine Kathleen for Let's Dish, Alma The Tablescaper for SEASONAL SUNDAY, and to Susan for Tablescape Thursday.
I am also linking this post to these parties:
Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday
Courtney at French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday
Sherry at The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

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22 comments:

  1. Yowza, those dishes are pretty!!!!!!! I know you love shades of purple, and these dishes and stemware are just the reason why...SO pretty! I always love to use shades of purple as a great transitional color because purple is poppin' year round!!!

    Let's get together and give Blogger a smack! I pretty much always enlarge your photos anyway just because I love to look at detail, but I understand how annoying it can be otherwise. I hope they get the problem fixed soon.

    Happy New Year with a big ol' lavender hug!!!

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  2. Do tell us about those dishes! They are gorgeous, especially atop the mirrored placemats! And I love the centerpiece -- adds a pretty touch without flowers!

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  3. You might claim to be a lazy writer but there is not a lazy tablesetting bone in your body! I am so in love with lavender and green now. Beautiful job.

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  4. The sunlight and shadow, exquisite! Loving the purple, Ellen.

    Happy New Year!

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  5. What a fabulous color for a table. It's as ethereal as the ribbons in the crystal bowl for the centerpiece. I would have succumbed to those goblets too.. It's just wonderful, dreamy and I love it!! Happiest of year to you! xo Marlis

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  6. What a beautiful table, Ellen! I love the soft sunlight filtering through making pretty shadows on the talbe. The color of the dishes and stemware is gorgeous. Happy 2013 to you!

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  7. Ellen, You were a baby girl with exquisite taste because your flatware is beautiful!!! I wonder how the price has changed in those years? I recently priced mine which I chose 30 years ago, and wow.... Your table is gorgeous--I love lavender. Happy New Year! Linda

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  8. wow the lavender stemware looks absolutely beautiful with those dishes!! Just gorgeous!! Very pretty photos too!!!

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  9. Your table is beautiful. I love your use of the mirror as placematsand you take wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing :-)

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  10. Oh this is simply beautiful! My favorite color...purple! I love it!

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  11. Great inspiration of a mirror as a placemats. I love that idea.

    Purple is my colour too.

    Hope you had a great time welcoming the NY.

    Greetings,
    /CC girl

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    1. thank you! Better than you know!

      Happy New Year!

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  12. I'm loving the mirror as placemats...I will have to remember that! Gorgeous purple dishes and napkins to match. I do need to also get something in purple myself, I just love it! Thank you for your sweet and kind comment. Looking forward to visitng you in 2013! Happy New Year!
    FABBY

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  13. Hi Ellen,
    Love those plates. I love Z Gallerie. Your centerpiece is spectacular. It looks like wide ribbon piled in a crystal bow; am I right? I love adding the little silver cups too. Dianne

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    1. Yes it is ribbon piled up in a crystal bowl -- brilliant don't ya think?

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  14. Oh how pretty the sun shined on your table. I've come to love purple late in my life --- look what I've been missing all these years!

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  15. Your purples win me over. One doesn't have to grow old to love it!

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  16. Gorgeous, gorgeous, Ellen. This is short...I have to use my phone, the computer is down. I really like this table!

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  17. How pretty! Love the colors, gorgeous!....Christine

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  18. Oh, this is so lovely and I have always adored shades of purple and silver together! You certainly spent some time getting this table just right - wow! Great job!!

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  19. I love that shade of purple, so pretty with the silver. And the stems, oh my!
    Thanks for linking to Let's Dish!

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  20. The purple is gorgeous! Especially the goblets.
    Thank you for joining Home Sweet Home!
    Sherry

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