What dinner service / crockery do you use?
Welsh-lad
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Inspired by a discussion on another thread, here's a thread on what we're all eating off!
All my daily crockery is Aynsley Daisy Chain
http://www.aynsley.co.uk/category/casual-dining/daisy-chain.html
I think it's nice - simple design and quite elegant.
What do you use?
All my daily crockery is Aynsley Daisy Chain
http://www.aynsley.co.uk/category/casual-dining/daisy-chain.html
I think it's nice - simple design and quite elegant.
What do you use?
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http://www.wilko.com/search?q=colourplay&pdxtbrand=Wilko&pdxttype=Dinner+Plate
http://www.denby.co.uk/everyday-by-denby/everyday-black-pepper-12-piece-set/invt/136043985
Nice. Wilko's has some nice cheerful designs, and good value.
I have a cup, plate, bowl etc of their Sustain range at school:
http://www.wilko.com/sustain/sustain-kitchen/icat/sustainkit
a plate's a plate !
http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-circus-12-piece-4-person-dinner-set/207-2303.prd?skuId=207-2303
Yeah I didn't buy anything matching till I was in my 30s; before that it was all mismatched stuff from my parents and other relatives.
That's a dead ringer for Emma Bridgewater dotty range.
You should have kept it, mismatched is all the rage now
I have a lot of vintage plates too, but I tend not to use them much, some are pre war.
This way, you break one or two, you just replace them with whatever else is available.
I've done this for around fifteen years.
I have four large china cups and saucers (more saucers now than cups of course) but use china mugs of various kinds and sizes and patterns. I break em a fair bit.
A table laid out with a full dinner service can look quite grand, which is nice at special occasions like Christmas.
My most regular dinner plates are either some Bearn plates which my mother bought in France in the 60s and which I remember using sometimes in my childhood and which I then acquired when I bought my house in 2000. I also have some flatter plates (the Bearn have a bit of a raised edge) which I bought in a supermarket in Germany years ago, because I thought they were pretty - they have tiny strawberries on them. I also have some bowls which I bought in a supermarket somewhere because they were cheerful - they're white with red poppies on. I have various other plates and bowls which I've accumulated over the years, but those are the ones I use regularly.
My mugs are all different. The ones I use most often are a nice Villeroy & Boch wave mug (for tea), a purple cup and saucer (for coffee) and a John Lewis christmas mug with a polar bear on it for peppermint tea. Visitors can use any of my various random mugs - there's a Bagpuss one, a Labour Students one, a Dundee uni one, one with the EU gold stars, one with cats on, one with my name on, a dalek... Maybe I should really buy some grown up mugs one day!
I have some nice wine glasses, but again, none of them match. Some are cheapy supermarket ones, some are end of line bargains from posh places, some are antiques I've picked up over the years. I had a lovely antique wine goblet in really heavy glass that I loved (it was really old) but I managed to smash it last year.
I have separate xmas plates and cups, cheapy cheap from the local B&M. I am thinking that perhaps I have too much crockery. I also have a pale pink set for best.
Tesco Matt Mono....cream dinner plate...2
TU Porcelain...white plate......2
George Dalvik......white....1
Tesco Earthenware...........2
Plastic dinner plates...floral...4
Plastic small plate.......floral...1
Square dinner plate...cream...1
Square small plate....cream...2
We don't need a lot of plates, as there's only the 2 of us. But I've got some good cups and saucers, you interested in that sort for a new Thread.
Ooooh swish,
I remember visiting a friend in Wiltshire and eating off this:
Royal Crown Derby 'Antoinette' service.
http://www.millyskitchenstore.co.uk/RoyalAntoinette-Category-3422.html?gclid=CPDqxMe1hr0CFaoewwodr0UAbw
Yes exactly.
Glad I didn't know beforehand or I'd have turned into Elizabeth on Keeping Up Appearances!
I don't have a table either.........:D
Well actually I have two tables..........one has my computer on it and the other has my 'home office'
I eat off a little coffee table.........:o
Just googled that, so it is, looks exactly the same. Way more expensive than Tesco though.
I use an off white ikea set, I thought it was 365 but I bought it by mistake nearly three years ago and it's not as nice.
I'm looking to replace...should I get the 365 or get something more fancy? My pal has a beautiful m&s set. Floral but in a modern way. But the problem with fancy sets is...if one needs to replace a piece, what if the style has been discontinued?? Then what?! It would be a disaster.
Are there any fancy sets which are kinda always in production?