I just finished making a birthday dinner for my step-daughter's

Well, the Kitchen Gods have rewarded me for not drawing blood last night and

and actually apologizing later to said hub for getting so angry when I knew he hadn't tried to do something so, let me see, illogical.

I found 4 Staub Mini Plats, 3 Staub Mini Oval Cocottes, 4 Johnson Bros. Rose Chintz Dinner Plates, 4 Rose Chintz Dessert Plates, and 2 sets of Jennifer Garant note cards and journals for a grand total of $31.00. I love Jennifer's graphics and the Rose Chintz dinnerware was the pattern I had picked out when I first moved out on my own. I had picked out all the pieces at the department store, and then was turned down because I didn't have any credit history. Today, the plates were $.70 each. Yay!!!

 
Whoa! What a good deal Dawn! I googled and I love the

pattern of the Johnson Bros. Rose Chintz Dinner Plates! They're very pretty and traditional English looking. You also made out like a bandit with the Staub purchases.

I love china and good deals.

See what you get for not freaking out? LOL!

May I share my VERY limited collection of dinner and bread plates? I got them on sale at Macy's a few years ago but there just so happens to be a Villeroy & Bach outlet store not far from where I'm moving to. It's been very hard to stay away from there! Couldn't help but peek over the years though! My first piece was a little candy box that I picked up duty free in St. Thomas many years ago and I fell in love with the china. See image link. I keep my earrings in there - lol.

I just own two dinner plates and two bread and butter plates, but if it takes me twenty years or more, I'm going to buy me some more dinnerware! (see dinner plate link)

I have to throw out some pretty blue floral and inexpensive English ironstone dinnerware before I move soon and it breaks my heart, because it's pointless to pack them. They've lasted for many, many years.

I hope your enjoy your new bargains Dawn!

http://www.villeroy-boch.com/en/us/home/products/tischkultur/dinnerware.html?artikel=1022812620

http://images.replacements.com/images/images5/china/V/villeroy_boch_design_naif_4_candy_box_w_lid_P0000109481S0216T2.jpg

 
I love the dinner plate pattern...

I swear I saw 6 dinner plates very similar to those yesterday with the fruit on them. But I would have recognized the VandB name. I had them in my cart, but I put them back. They were only a dollar each, but I have a set of black Fiestaware, a set of Mary Engelbreit melamine (it is a set that I bought at Target a long time ago, with butterflies on it, so pretty and durable) and now the Rose Chintz, so I am trying to be sensible about things like this.

Instead of throwing things out, join FreeCycle.org. You can offer up items that you don't want and people will pick them up from you. I am sure there is someone who would love to have your dishes. It is a great organization that helps keep items out of landfills and into the hands of people who want them and can use them. I got my son's large old solid wood dresser from someone on recycle, and I love it. It was exactly what I was looking for.

 
Cindy, another secret is to use LOTS of icing. You can always scrap the excess back

into the bowl, but building up a layer of icing makes the smoothing process go much quicker.
Plus almost all icings freeze.

 
also, many women's shelters put together baskets/boxes for women who are leaving, but may need to

start over. My bookclub put together 4 baskets of household goods that we gathered together over Christmas. It's very much appreciated.

 
I used to lust over Rose Chintz.....wanted it so badly but

never would cough up enough to buy it. When I did decide to buy, I ended up buying Desert Rose but I still drool over Rose Chintz when I see it. Last weekend in Branson at TJ Maxx there were several pieces. I alway pick it up. smileys/smile.gif

Congratulations on your good taste, my dear! Those are mighty fine 'girly' dishes!

Hugs

 
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