I’m going to take this to work and hide in a colleagues room 
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Home alone today and decided to get the nice dishes from the top shelf now, by daylight, instead of tonight or tomorrow morning when I’m in a hurry.
All this stuff together cost us close to nothing. Most of the Arcopal was inherited through my in-laws, except for the big one in the back (that I’ll fill with pastries and rolls) which Mr. Imma thrifted for me for Christmas. The egg plate was a wedding gift to my parents in 1980 that they hated and never used. I got it a few years ago and I’ll be using it for the first time tomorrow.
The Zeller Rooster and Hen plate I inherited from my greataunt - only a few plates are left of it now and all have some damage. I guess everyone who has roots in the Germanic part of Europe recognizes this classic and has a few damaged pieces in a cupboard or in the attic. I’ll be serving asparagus on it, the plate is slightly bigger than the Arcopal.
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Getting things together @Magpie ‘s carrot pouch is ready to rock!
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Aww, sweet!
Our kids are uninterested in any of that anymore. I have a dozen carrot bags languishing, sigh.
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I love using a mix of new and vintage dishes. It makes the table look homey and welcoming. I love your egg plate!
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I get why my parents hated it in 1980. My parents were pretty mainstream (getting married in church at the age of 20) but in the rural community they were from they were considered quite cool and alternative - my mum had David Bowie records. I assume it was a gift from an aunt or neighbour, someone much older than them. I was just really surprised my mother kept it! Now it’s just very retro, and exactly the right colours for Easter.
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate! I am more into the secular part of the holiday: Easter bunnies, candy, family getting together over traditional dinner, etc.
Fun fact related to my new state: Peeps are made in Bethlehem, PA. 5.5 million are made EACH day, with over 2 billion made in a year. That’s a lot of peeps! Peeps come in 9 colors.
Like Spam, you either love them or hate them. I love them, but they are mostly sugar, so I eat them only at Easter and just a few.
Have a great day, everyone! I am crafting and chilling today!
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We had Easter brunch this morning and judging by how much food there was left, everyone loved it! Easter is two days in our country, so tomorrow we’re visiting a relative who lives close to us, and probably everyone is going to come back to our place afterwards to eat soup (aspargus soup, which is a classic Easter dish here)
Today, the only thing I’m going to do is craft and relax, just like you @AIMR
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We did an egg scavenger hunt to kidlet’s basket this morning (rhyming riddle clues in eggs leading to the basket at the end) and then played Tiddlywinks which she got in said basket.
Then the table broke mid game and i’m clearing the scene while she calms down from that upset:
It’s always something! This was my Grandparents’ set so it’s about 80 or more years old. At least I wasnt getting ready to host an Easter Dinner!
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Oh, no! Good no one was hurt! I had a similar table when I first got married that was passed down. The leg broke as well. I am guessing they were meant to be used only for special guests instead of family use for games, puzzles, crafts, eating, etc.
At least you had some fun Easter festivities before it happened!
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Wow, that’s a solid wood table leg that just broke? I didn’t know that was even possible. I suppose after 80 years, that’s not unreasonable. I hope you can find a way to fix it or someone has a replacement dinner table for you in the attic. I’m glad no one was hurt and I hope it didn’t damage your floor or whatever was on it either.
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Luckily it was just a game of tiddlywinks on it so no damage there and no one (kid or animal) was hurt. And extra luckily I am not hosting anything today.
I have a smaller table on the sunporch that I can sub in here while I figure out how to handle this. There’s a repair shop nearby where we had it refinished a few years ago so maybe he can repair or find a replacement pedestal. A second leg on there looks compromised as well:
To be honest, I love this table. I love that it was my dad’s dining room when he was a baby and all throughout his childhood. I have 2 of the original chairs left, the china cabinet, and the giant sideboard. I love the set but the diningroom I have was definitely not made for such a collection of furniture. They’re so big for the shape and size/configuration of the room. I’m seriously considering letting the table go for something more appropriate to the space and not made on pedestal supports, but 1 that seems wasteful, I have a table that can likely be fixed 2. Sentimentality, 3. Break up the set!? Clutch the pearls! And 4. Budget considerations.
Good times! Lol
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Awww…my little great niece’s Easter! She is wearing the little crochet vest I made her this week as it is a bit chilly this morning.
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I love big dining room tables, and I have my grandparents’ one as well, so I’m biased. But I say let’s see if the table can be fixed at a reasonable price! Large tables are not just great for dinner, but for so many different things. They are often the heart of the house, where people craft, make homework, play board games etc.
It does sound like a lot of furniture for a small room, is there a way to move for example the side board to a bedroom? You’re still keeping the set intact and in use, but not all in the same room. In future maybe you can put it all back together in one room if you want to (this is assuming you like all the pieces of furniture and they’re in use, and they’re not taking up space for sentimental reasons).
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I’ve been toying with the idea of moving the sideboard to the livingroom as a storage cabinet there, there’s one wall it might work on- it’s a bit of a beast:
The house is 2 bedrooms and they’re all full, too. I have been working on decluttering- mayhaps the universe took my “get rid of it all!” energy too seriously lol
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The sideboard is very pretty! But you’re right, it’s quite big, and maybe the shape of the drawers isn’t the most practical for storage.
I’ve found out that what works for me, is to get one large piece of furniture, and then use that as the “limit” for stuff. But we went through the whole renovation thing, so we emptied the house and got rid of all the small, seperate, unpractical shelving units, sets of drawers etc, and have replaced them / are planning to replace them with a few big things. It really looks less cluttered.
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Oh my gosh! That sounds upsetting in alltheways. Glad nobody was hurt at least. Geez.
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I daydream of emptying the place out completely, deep cleaning it top to bottom, paint some stuff and then only put back the chosen things. Sounds divine!
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Don’t underestimate the time and energy it would take, but it’s definitely a great way to declutter!! It was worth it even just for that reason. I think maybe people just need to move every 10 years to reduce their clutter.
I don’t know how desperate you are but I think that’s a TV show format here. TV show people unload your entire house into an empty warehouse, shock, horror and pearl clutching about the amount of stuff people have, then they decide what to keep.
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I love those shows, the houses always look so good in the reveal.
I’m working on “real life level” decluttering and it’s been slow but steady. With winter over now I have more daylight and better weather to give me more found opportunities to dig into spots that need work. I’m also what Gretchen Rubin calls an “underbuyer” so a lot of things get worked past the “worn out, really. Let it go,” stage which I’m working on. A big clean out is coming. We have lived here for over 10 years and came into it with a lot of stuff from two separate households. We have 2 large outbuilding/garages that also are poorly organized and contain enough “get rid of junk” to warrant a skip/dumpster hire once the “rainy” season is over.
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