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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Autumn Hutch

Image 1: Autumn hutch arrangement

When autumn arrives each year at my house, a new autumn hutch display follows. Autumn's palette of colors are more subdued than my normal arrangements, and often consist of mostly brown transfer ware and some Bavarian plates. Over time I have been picking china and glass items to expand my options, and now my autumn hutch is more colorful.

Image 2: Autumn Hutch Detail

The hutch (a Welch dresser) allows me to showcase cherished finds like these above. The mugs above, for example, are antique Villeroy and Boch.

Image 3: Vintage Pear Plate, 10 inches

I love this vintage pear plate. I believe it's a turn of the century or early 1900's art design. I like the artist's decision to include subtle shadows of the branches and leaves on the white section. I consider it innovative design from around 100 years ago.

Image 4: Rim of Vintage platter

Behind the pear plate in the hutch is an extravagant platter that has an incredible border with thick raised gold edging, an inner border of poppies, and elaborate thin gold filigree line work over the poppies. Is this border a little over the top or a lot? I love it's exuberant detail.

Image 5: Williams Sonoma Apple plates

I often mix contemporary, vintage, and antiques pieces in my hutch arrangements, and I was happy to find ten contemporary Williams Sonoma apple plates (in 4 different designs) at a resale shop. I love the "botanical drawing" style on the apple plates.

Image 6 : Williams Sonoma Apple plates

Someone's collection of nine different amber stemmed and footed goblets became mine when I bought them at an estate sale. A lucky find to brighten up the color in the hutch!

Image 7: Amber Glass Water goblets

[I had fun trying to identify the patterns -
From left to right:
1. LE Smith Stars and Moon pattern goblet;
2. LG Wright Wildflower pattern goblet;
3. Madonna Inn Wild Rose pattern goblet;
4. Diamond point ribbed pattern goblet;
5. Unknown;
6. Westmoreland Paneled Grape pattern goblet]

Image 8: Meissen plate from Germany

The German Meissen plate above has oak leaves and acorns trimmed with gold - definitely one of my favorites plates in my collection! It's also a fall plate. Acorns appear in fall and are all over my driveway!

I hope you enjoyed my fall hutch. I look forward to looking at other fall decor posts. I hope you have a great fall season - summer here went by too quickly!

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Christmas Hutch

I've decorated the China Hutch with Christmas china!

The Christmas holiday season always seems to fly by fast, making a quick seasonal change in my hutch a blessing.

Image 1: Christmas Arrangement in Welsh Dresser Hutch

Arranging my "new-to-me" Christmas Portmeirion china in the hutch made the switch from fall to Christmas go quickly.

Image 2: Christmas China Hutch Detail

The china pattern is Portmeirion's "The Holly and the Ivy" pattern, made in Britain. (That's different than just England, right? I'm guessing that maybe it's manufactured in Ireland or Scotland)

Image 4: Christmas China Hutch Detail with Birds

I added vintage red glasses and accessories, some vintage stemware with gold trim, and my two favorite little birds, and the hutch arrangement was done! (I have since found out that the vintage ruby red water goblets and the red footed "boat" bowl are the Moon and Stars pattern from L.E. Smith Glass.)

Image 5: Portmeirion Platter and Ruby Moon and Stars footed bowl

I purchased the china set at an estate sale. A post Christmas sale in snowy weather yielded the china with tons of accessories priced to sell. On the last day the markdown price was great, and I bought the entire set for around $100.

Image 3: Portmeirion Christmas China Hutch Arrangement

Sometimes I think about the previous owner lovingly collecting this Portmeirion set piece by piece. She may have been a fantastic hostess. I aspire to become a better at entertaining, and maybe this set will help. In an unusual twist, I actually use this china for dining. (Many dishes I own are for display only.)

Image 7: Christmas China Hutch Arrangement

I can only hope that setting up and decorating the Christmas tree will go as fast. Enjoy the oncoming Christmas season!

Oh, it's fun to share posts with viewers on-line! The work of collecting and displaying a collection is shared with dozens, hopefully some of which enjoy the post, whereas family members barely notice or register that a change has been made to their surroundings. Really, 2-3 comments on-line can surpass all the accolades from the family - So leave a comment if you have time, but either way, thank you for visiting and ...

Enjoy the Christmas Holiday Season!

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Below are two earlier Christmas hutch arrangements.

Welsh dresser with Christmas arrangement

My earliest Welsh dresser Christmas arrangement!

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Vintage Halloween Glassware

Vintage Halloween Pumpkin and Ghost glass Tumbler

Image 1: Vintage Halloween Pumpkin and Ghost Tumbler

Haunting estate sales, rummage sales and resale shops allows me to find occasional fun items that become family legends. I once found six of the pumpkin and ghost tumblers above. They became family favorites, used constantly year round. Some of the glasses broke, and since I can't replace them, I eventually put them out of sight and only bring the remaining two out around Halloween. I gave one of the glasses to my daughter when she got an apartment, to remind her of home and make her smile. (She insists Halloween is her favorite holiday).

Vintage halloween batty drinking glass bats

Image 2: Vintage Batty drinking glass

The batty glasses above became a favorite as well. I only found two of them. The glass is stronger, but the black bats don't hold up well in the dishwasher, and are now more of "charcoal" instead of black. I now think of the glasses as "ghost bats" - SPOOKY!

Dishwashers can "etch" glassware and wear off images, and some glasses wear much more significantly. I should have hand washed these, but the dishwasher damage has been done, and the kids still like them, so I will bring them out each year, but they will still go in the dishwasher.

Image 3: Dishwasher Damage to vintage glassware - Ghost Bats

Using vintage glassware regularly does take a toll on the glassware - Glasses break, and that's OK. Vintage glassware frequently arrives at a resale shop rarely used or unused, and "using up" a glass is a green option I like. It also teaches the kids to handle glass with more care - (maybe?).

When the kids were young, I was so happy to have matching glassware. I gleefully ditched the children's plastic as soon as they were old enough, good-bye plastic sippy cups! Then came the next battle. Every time someone wanted a drink, a new glass would be out, and on a hot day you could fill the top of the dishwasher with dozens of glasses used that day. I started trying to get the kids to use the same glass all day, which led to needing unique glasses so they could tell the glassware apart. Does this happen in other families??? So much for matching glassware!

This post is a tribute to these favorite glasses, in case they don't survive the Halloween season.