One Pill Makes You Larger . . . Oops, Wrong Rabbit

I've got rabbits on my mind.
To someone of my vintage, mentioning Rabbit
is as likely to bring back memories of belting along with
Grace Slick as it is memories of this nervous gentleman:

Don't believe me?
Go ask Alice.

Don't get the reference(s)?

Back to the sandbox, young'un.

This image and the one above graciously provided by Karen, The Graphics Fairy.  

I am in goofy mode today.

Because, you know, mostly I am so very, very serious and dour.

Which should be pronounced to rhyme with "tour" and not "sour."  Who knew?

English is whack, man.

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I'm channeling Elmer Fudd, and going Wabbit Hunting.

Because Easter is just over two weeks away, and I have nothing Easter-y in That Old House.  Yet.

I know I've got a small cache of

Bunnies and Easter-y kitsch somewhere.

I thought it was in this chest in the Parlor.

Turns out, I thought wrong.

So . . . maybe I'd stashed them in the Dining Room, where I stash way too many things.

But no.  Not in the breakfront here.  See?

Nor in the sideboard, below.

Back to the Parlor, and that breakfront.

(And if you think I have too many breakfronts, you are probably right.)

Gasp!

Eureka!

In a bottom cupboard, we find . . . well, a jumbled dusty mess, AND

Wascally Wabbits!  Hooway!  Hooway!

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 Since it is Thursday, and I haven't done a Tablescape in awhile, I had good intentions of using

the new-found bunnies and Easter decor that had been hiding in the Parlor breakfront.

But . . . time.  You know, time?  That thing we never have enough of?

I didn't have it.

So, here's a 2-year old Bunny themed table.  Links to Thursday parties follow.

This was done in the first week of March 2010, and we still had plenty of snow on the ground, and more falling that day.
No wonder I was eager to go all "Spring Table, tra-la-la-la!"

What I used:
Sheer flowered tablecloth, from my mother-in-law.
Vintage embroidered runner, eBay.
Georgian pattern flatware -- ca. 1912 -- eBay.
Mikasa Ribbon Pink china -- actually belongs to daughter Anne but it's in my keeping; eBay.
Gorham cut crystal hurricane lamp -- from my mother-in-law.
Irish crystal wine glasses -- Macy's.
Amethyst cut-to-clear glass and pewter hurricane lamp -- gift from my friend Betsy.
Majolica style asparagus pitcher.  Not old.
Majolica style asparagus tureen -- Tuesday Morning.
Vintage linen damask napkins -- eBay.
and
A Bunny.  Pushing a basket on wheels.  No recollection where I got it, but it's just so cute.  And crackly.
I sure wish that basket was filled with licorice jelly beans.  

As night drew in, we lit the candles against the darkness,

as people have done since ancient times.

Time for me to stop hunting Wabbits,

and do things I must make time for!  -- Cass

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Link Parties!

Visit Suzanne at Colorado Lady for Vintage Thingies Thursday!

Visit Leigh at Tales from Bloggeritaville for Thrifty Thursday!

Susan at Between Naps On The Porch for Tablescape Thursday!

And Sherry at No Minimalist Here -- don't miss Open House Party Thursdays.  

Striking A Simple Pose

Well, it's taken me almost two weeks, but I finally have a table setting using the Mikasa Shogun dishes I picked up for a song in Pennsylvania. Because these dishes are themselves quite colorful and striking, I kept things simple, and all vintage. Well, almost all.

I made one nod to Easter; there's a cloisonne egg nestled in the centerpiece.

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In the dining room at That Old House, the table is set for 6.

It's a simple setting -- one dinner plate, two crystal wine glasses, 100-year old flatware, vintage napery.

Have a seat!

In the center of the old table, a square of linen from Germany, edged in darned needle lace, is crumpled.

Flowers in a tin black-and-gold French-style cachepot and crystal candlesticks
-- from Tiffany, Lord & Taylor, and Big Lots -- anchor the table.

Creamy candles cast a warm glow.

It will look lovely after dark.

Ah! Your stomach's-eye view!

Details:

Dishes: Mikasa Shogun
Flatware: Georgian pattern silverplate, ca. 1912
Napkins: Linen with darned needle lace, set of 12 from Ebay, vintage
Center cloth: Linen/cotton fabric, needle lace, from Germany, Ebay, vintage
Salt and pepper shakers -- vintage sterling, Ebay
Cloissone Egg -- gift!
Tin cachepot, black, gold painted trellis design with fleur de lis -- from a decorators' sample sale in NYC.
Fake flowers -- A.C. Moore (ugh, but I had no fresh!)
Candles -- box of 8, Bill Blass, T.J. Maxx

A blessed Holy Week to you all.

Howard's been out prowling the yard, with his camera around his neck;
the grass is beginning to green up! Hooray! -- Cass








Thanks to Suzanne at Coloradolady Blog,
for Hosting Vintage Thingies Thursday.









Thanks to Leigh of Tales of Bloggeritaville,
for hosting Thrifty Thursday!









And to Susan of Between Naps
On The Porch for hosting
Tablescape Thursday.