A Toile Tale: blue

Do you ever do this? Run into a friend in the grocery store and share the fact that you're both stumped over choosing something for dinner? Then invite them to your house? In TWO hours????? I settled on steak shiska bobs and a spinach salad. She'd bring dessert. Fine. Then, as she went down the aisle to find a pie, she said over her shoulder, "Can't wait to see what pretty table you come up with." Okaaaaaaaay. Wouldn't be a problem, but I won't lie......the kitchen floor MUST be vacuumed and mopped before company comes.

These flowers were already in this blue and white pot in the bar, so, even though they weren't the very freshest, they had opened a bit and seemed lush and pretty to me. That meant I would be going with blue and white dishes and I knew just which ones I wanted. Scalamandre's Toile Tale (!!!!!!).

So many evenings in Georgia are too hot to enjoy outdoor dinner, but we have seen a bit of a break in the temps, and so I chose the table on the lower terrace for our table for four. Doesn't it look cool and welcoming?

Here's the flowers. They didn't leave much room for accessories, but I didn't have time for fussing with them anyway.

I picked up the coral color from the roses in the geometric patterned napkins. I thought they made this china pattern seem a little more contemporary. The blue handled flatware reinforced the blue, and the wicker charger made it seem a bit more casual.

I love this pattern. Here's the salad plate over the dinner plate. Don't you love the way the bridge carries over from one plate to the other? You can see another table I did this spring with a lot of these same items, here.

And here's the dinner plate alone. It's like a fragment of a Blue Willow pattern.

These stems are huge, so I use them as water glasses.

This white butter dish is so cute, and it lends itself to almost any style. Fortunately, I had some really yummy bread from Theo's in Alpharetta in the freezer.