Lenox Softwind Blue Tablescape

For this week's "Blue January Tablescapes," Pat chose my old everyday pattern (when I say old I mean it is the set I chose when I got married in the 1970's) and "updated" it a bit with a rustic charger and more color. She even used the glassware I had selected - she stopped at the napkins and flatware (yes, I still have them, too) saying they were too "old fashion." Lenox "Softwind" temperware was advertised as the "first informal dinnerware that matches beauty and strength." You could freeze it, bake in it, then serve in it, and run it in the dishwasher, too. The stuff was like iron. Through years of "vigorous" family use, earthquakes, major moves - you name it, I only lost one coffee mug.

Lenox made 42 different patterns of temperware. 

The first charger is a "Perwinkle Blue" Fiesta(ware) Chop Plate

The second charger is a rustic wooden charger from Pier1

Glassware is "Clarion Brown" by Lenox. 

Flatware is copper "Rustic Twig" from Black Forest Decor

Pat used an assortment of Winter twigs  in a large brown vase for the centerpiece

Where it came from:

Blue Place Mats - from Gottschalk's Department Store (long out of business) years ago

Rustic Wooden Chargers - from Pier 1 five or six years ago

Blue Charger - "Perwinkle" Fiesta(ware) Chop Plate by Homer Laughlin from Replacements,Ltd.

Dinnerware - "Softwind" by Lenox from Walsh's (another really neat local store long out of business)

Flatware - "Rustic Twig" from Black Forest Decor (a mail order company) several years ago

Glassware - "Clarion Brown" by Lenox also from Walsh's years ago

Brown Napkin - Handmade by Pat

Wooden Candle Holders - from Michael's three or four years ago

We will be joining Susan for "Tablescape Thursday" at Between Naps on the Porch this Thursday: http://betweennapsontheporch.net/