What’s a girl to do?

Hubby’s gone fishing for the day. What’s a girl to do?  Buy more dishes…ah, ha…no! Play with dishes…yes. You know how you walk by something every day and it doesn’t bother you, but one day all of a sudden you think…hmmm…I should clean that out?

This is my china closet. We’ve had this oak dish keeper since we were first married. Over the years it has held our antique glasswqre. But now it is crammed with glasses and dishes of all sorts. In the spirit of making room for the new dishes I decided to take a look and see if some of the old could go.


It does look rather crowded and unorganized. I pulled out a card table and began to sort.


It doesn’t look too different now that I’ve rearranged, but I did find spots for all my dishes.


My black and white set, my black dishes, the Paris plates and my new oblong Chinese plates are on the top.


I found a spot for the fruit plates and cups and a place to put my new individual soup/casserole bowls.



Even my Christmas dishes found a home.



These are the things that didn’t make the cut…my wedding china (beautiful silver edged, but I never use them) and our collection of pink depression glass. They will go to storage (so sad!)


Of course, with the dishes out I had to change my tablescape.



I love the bird plates.


And what was dear Sadie doing all the time I was fussing with dishes?


Just sitting in her crate.