Welcome to the 913th Tablescape Thursday! The pollen is raging here in full force. I have all the furniture on the porch covered with sheets and towels. It’s a yellow mess out there! I think I’ll get out there today and try to blow off some of the pollen off the porch before it gets any thicker.
So we are in the breakfast room for this week’s Tablescape Thursday. Wish I had noticed that wonky shade before I took this photo. I hadn’t placed the napkins on the table yet when I took this photo, but it turned out to be the best picture of the new table as a whole, so I decided to include it.
It’s been ages since I used my Villeroy & Boch Melina dinnerware in a table setting. Melina was our everyday china for many, many years. I still use it, but mostly use my Blue Willow as my everyday now.
I thought it would be fun to see a “breakfast” table this week. Melina, to me, always feels like the perfect breakfast china. Since I so rarely use this V & B dinnerware in tables, I went a little overboard and tried to use all the tools in the tool chest. lol
Mr. Rooster was a find in Cracker Barrel several years back. I was going for a lot of pretty layers with this table. I started with round, floral placemats, followed by pierced charger plates, atop which I stacked a dinner plate and a salad plate that I envisioned would be used to hold toast. Next came a cereal bowl, and a cute little egg cup was the cherry on top! This may set a record for the most layers I’ve managed to squeeze into a place setting. Ha!
The chargers were purchased online from Horchow in 2008. The Villeroy & Boch Melina dinnerware was a much-loved splurge from Macy’s back around 1985-1987. I was enchanted with this pattern when I purchased it, and I still love it just as much today.
The only other time I’ve seen this pattern used was when Rachel Ray was in a television special many years ago, and during the show, she visited the luxury hotel/restaurant where she once worked. After doing some quick research just now, I think it was The Sagamore Resort, described online as an “iconic, historic luxury hotel on a private 70-acre island in Bolton Landing, NY on Lake George.” I was so surprised to see that Melina was the dinnerware they were using in the restaurant of the hotel. Does anyone remember seeing that show?
About the only place to find Melina now is on eBay or other resale sites.
I purchased the cute egg cups via eBay a few years back. Now and then, I love to add a piece or two to my collection of this pattern.
The fruit glasses were a splurge in Williams Sonoma many years ago. I say splurge because I remember they were a bit pricey, but they looked like the most perfect glass for serving orange juice or grapefruit juice during a leisurely, over-the-top Saturday morning breakfast. I could envision plates piled high with buttery, syrupy pancakes and dishes of cheesy, scrambled eggs. The toast would be popping, and I could smell the bacon sizzling. These beautiful glasses would be filled with the most delicious, freshly-squeezed orange juice. Each glass features a different fruit, the name written in French.
I snuck a little bit of spring/Easter into this table with the napkins I chose for this setting.
The bunny napkins are from Pottery Barn, several years back. There are some available on eBay, and the pattern is called: Pasture Bunny Napkin. The green napkin is from Pier 1, many years back.
I’ve always considered the pitcher to be a tea pitcher, but I noticed when looking on eBay today, a lot of ads refer to it as a coffee pot.
So, I’ll let you decide if we’re having coffee or hot tea with our breakfast this morning.
Happy Spring! I am so loving all this glorious sunshine, even though it’s being delivered with a hefty dose of pollen. It won’t be long before I can remove all the sheets and towels from the porch furniture. Can’t wait!
Looking forward to all the beautiful tables linked for this week’s Tablescape Thursday!
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Table is beautiful! Speaking of porch pollen, I buy the cheap plastic drop cloths on a roll from Walmart, go out to the porch in early March and using painters tape, cover all the screens. Takes about 10 minutes and keeps the pollen out of the porch!
I don’t have a porch but still think that is so clever! This might help a bit applied to our windows.
Hi Susan!
The pollen? Unbelievable
I like your new table is it 48″? It looks nice with the beautiful china. Love the egg cups and Mr. Rooster. Lookin’ like spring!
I have Conservatory by Noritake China the full set. It’s taken me years to accumulate. I always use them for our Easter dinner. The plates each have a different pattern of flowers which makes the setting so interesting. I love your V&B China too.
Beautiful table setting!!!
Susan, you’ve created another beautiful spring table! Good luck with the pollen!
What a different look the new dining set adds to the breakfast room! Your china pattern is perfect for the assignment: spring breakfast/winter is gone. So ready for warm sunny days too. Next week looks quite promising.
I’m so glad you used all the tools in the box – this is lovely!! What a pretty pattern, especially with the egg cups and tea set. (I’m voting tea!) I love this table in your breakfast room, and the setting is perfect. Thanks so much for hosting – Happy Thursday!
Beautiful table, the light is perfect in your sunroom. That china pattern reminds me of summers growing up in Germany. My grandmother had a vibrant pattern on her lunch dishes. In Germany it’s typical to eat the big meal in the afternoon. This post brings fond memories.
My vote is coffee pot but I like the ice tea pot.
Susan, you know we all love those pierced chargers, but to see them sitting on those placemats was such a surprise. I love the placemats. They look beautiful with the whole stack. Your Melina is so pretty and happy looking. I like colorful, happy looking things. Such a pretty set and all the accoutrements like the placemats and the adorable little egg cups just make the whole table. I bet you had fun being in Georgia again and setting this pretty Spring table.
Btw, anybody in the market for Easter-y plates should check out Hobby Lobby. I stopped by today and was surprised at all the pretty dishware they had. Have a great weekend, Susan!
So pretty! Glad you used “all the tools in the toolbox” as it was nice to see the tea/coffee pot, creamer and sugar and the egg cups! When you look at the place setting starting with the placemat and work up it’s just so pretty! Oh, and that is a lot of pollen. I’m dealing with some sort of seed pods/blossoms from pine, olive and silver maple, but it’s windy today and that should take care of most.
Susan, your table is beautiful and the Melina pattern is so lovely. I was surprised to read how long you have had it. I love the addition of the egg cups to your collection. Mr. Rooster is adorable presiding over the breakfast table and your menu sounds scrumptious! Love the PB bunny napkins lol – so sweet. Happy spring and happy Thursday!
Susan, I so agree with you that the Melina china somehow suggests breakfast! I have a set, though not as extensive as yours. I do love to use it for breakfast foods. I so sympathize with you over the pollen. We had to enclose our screened porch with glass because of it and the dust that the lawnmower deposited there in the hot, dry summers in Memphis. Plus, it was too hot to sit out there most of the year when I wanted to. With AC and heat, I literally live there now. I know you are excited to have your new fans on the way, too. I have always adored your porch!
Divine table setting!!!!!
Love your new table, love that gorgeous china and your tablescape is just wonderful, Susan. Go big or go home, eh? Your did it up splendidly! Hey – something that could work with the porch floor pollen – I use these all the time and they’re the BEST dust picker-uppers too – pet hair – bet it’d be good for pollen as well. I use my light weight swiffer dust mop for them, I bought them off Amazon. They’re called 3M Easy Trap Dust Mop Sheets. I tend to dust so often I am able to do a room then flip it over and use the other side for another room. So they last a long time. Highly recommend this product.
Beautiful table setting. Love those glasses. Happy Spring! Wish warm weather would stay here…84 degrees today and 54 degrees tomorrow. Hello North Carolina weather!
That dinnerware is gorgeous! I am a big fan of Villeroy and Boch, but largely I just have their glassware. This table is so pretty. I hear you about the pollen, although in my case it’s less about pollen and more about my little personal barometer known as my sinuses. We have been having 40° temperature fluctuations. One day we had a high of 95°, and then it plummeted to 39° that night. My sinuses don’t know what to do. Happy Easter, Susan!