rearranging dishes last week

i said i would show you the results of my organizing and housekeeping of last saturday. here it is if anyone but me is interested. i love my snowman dishes, but i feel that, like white shoes, which are only appropriate between memorial day and labor day, snowman dishes are only appropriate from december first to february twenty-eigth or in this case ninth. so, they had to be consigned to the china closet. i took out all the dishes and dusted and cleaned and:

here are the snowman plates neatly arranged in the china closet


i had to take all the dishes out of the closet to clean it. i had dishes everywhere, on every flat surface in the dining room and kitchen. notice the blue willow. i have to figure out when the appropriate utilization time will be for them, because i don't want them to feel bad, and besides they remind me of grandma thomas. who remembers her blue willow, raise your hand. i distincly recall her making me milky, sweet coffee in those cups and then whispering "don't tell your mom." i thought we were doing something naughty, but very cool. anyway, i think i should use them in the fall, say from august through november. i hope i remember.





it is now time for my pfaltzgraff garden party dishes with tulips, violets and cherries on a lattice background. these i also love. they make me feel like spring just to eat on them.





this is a part of my collection of christmas mugs. why do i have so many? my china is all clean and arranged in the china closet here are presents from anne adele and jennifer. and notice my dining table doesn't have a bunch of junk on it. if only it would stay that way.

well, this took some serious time. i can't believe how long it takes to download pictures and get them all in the right place. i hope you all appreciate the great amounts of digital technology i am mastering. it took me quite a while to "grab and move" stuff. i'm still not great at it.

but, the cool thing is while i've been sweating over this tenny has been making me lime bars so am going to go eat some right now. they are very green and beautiful as she was generous with the food coloring. i'd show you a picture but i've had all i can handle.