What a Bargain!
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This table has been partially set for a few weeks. I've been wanting to have a few friends over for lunch to plan our upcoming Supper Club group. Things have been so hectic around here, that I just haven't been able to commit to a day that I could prepare something lovely for my friends. Well, I've decided we're going to brown bag it but still eat off the plates! Hey, we're all friends here! I also can't wait to show them my crazy cheap finds!! You, my blog friends, will get to hear about them first!
Let me start by saying I have beautiful Vista Allegre Pavillion everyday china. Just gorgeous. The problem is, with two small boys, it was getting pretty expensive to replace. One day at Target I saw this cute pottery (bottom plate.) I could pick up a place setting and a bowl for the cost of one Vista Allegre plate! Well, with my left over birthday money, I picked up around 8 place settings. I've enjoyed them so much. Also, I don't cry a little on the inside any more when a plate gets chipped or broken.
The plate are on top of wicker chargers from either Pottery Barn or Williams Sonoma. I've had them for several years and can't quite recall which store they came from.
Small wine glasses from IKEA (more on that below.) Water goblets are Ralph Lauren.
These sweet antique "Bakerman" salt & pepper shakers were my Grandma's. If I remember the story correctly, my Grandfather would bring my Grandmother salt & pepper shakers when he had been out of town. These are one set of three that I was lucky enough to recieve.
I have a question...are people from Sweden freakishly small? A few weeks ago, IKEA had a one day sale on 12 pieces (4 - 3 piece place settings) of white porcelain for $4.99. What?!? Yes, $4.99. Just a dollar over a place setting. Welllllll, the place setting looks like a salad plate, bread plate and dessert bowl. Humph. I had grand ideas of 30 white place settings for Supper Club. Alas, they will be part of lovely mix 'n match tables.
Also, same scenario the next weekend, but this time the star of the show was the bargain of 12 wine glasses for $4.99. They forgot to say MINIATURE wine glasses. (Check it out in the first photo.) Don't be surprised if you see a post using those wine glasses in a craft project!
Needed a little more color on the table, so the coffee beans in votive holders were called in to play.
Mr. Bakerman salt & pepper shakers.
The little blue bottles were about $1.75 each on sale at Hobby Lobby. They pick up the blue in the pottery plates perfectly. I LOVE that color of blue! The roses are from one of my rose bushes.
A pretty view of the coffee bean votive holders.
I'm so looking forward to having my friends over.
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