Simple Living | The Holiday & Everyday Table
I've ordered more teaspoons. In fact, I ordered all I could find in our silverplate pattern. Because, somehow, the disappearing teaspoon situation is still a situation. I've also placed a (so far, fingers crossed) lone bid on eight more dinner forks. In other words, I'm preparing for Thanksgiving. Although we're not planning on having a crowd around our table this year (though just last night we did invite a stray boy, and I think the grandma down the road will be joining us, too), if we unexpectedly do have a dozen hungry people show up, no one will have to use the sporks.
This is how I want to prepare. To have enough for us and a few more. Certainly in food, but in place settings, too. The same simple, solid, quietly elegant pieces that we've had, plus a few more. And how deeply satisfying it is to see that, even still (many years on), our favorite dinnerware, flatware, and glassware serve the holidays just as well as the everyday. Pure white stoneware, silver, and glass, there for our cereal on a weekday morning, or a slice of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day. This is how versatile simplicity is. When so much else in life is complicated, it's a little bit of wonderful knowing that setting the holiday table doesn't have to be.
When the new-to-us silver flatware arrives, and those pieces are polishing themselves (here's how), I'll create a simple, natural something - a bit of festive decoration - to accompany the place settings on the Thanksgiving table, made from whatever I might find - dried leaves, seed pods, maybe even apples still hanging from their wild tree branches.
It's simplicity again, loves. And again, and again.
For the curious:
Our dinnerwear
Our glassware (both the 10.875 oz and the 17.625 oz)
Our silverplate flatware, as you know, is antique