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For Your Easter Dinner At Home Are You..?

Marilyn Sue McClintock

14 years ago

For your Easter dinner at home will you use real plates and silverware or will you use foam and plastic? I plan on using some nice stoneware I have with pretty yellow flowers on it and I have some nice glasses with yellow daffodils on them. Tell us about what your table setting will be.

Sue

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mariend
14 years ago
My DD is fixing dinner/supper. Not sure what she will use, but there is some beatiful paper goods and oh so easy to clean up.
sue_va
14 years ago
I will be at my DGD's for Easter dinner. She always sets a nice table with good dishes, usually using a charger type setting, and tall glasses, etc.

I never have to fix a holiday or birthday dinner any more. The kids do it and if it is at my house, they bring the food.

Nice!

Sue
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patti43
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Plain white Corelle. They're my everyday dishes and my good dishes all-in-one. When we sold our old house I had a beautiful set of china with little pale gray-blue flowers and platinum trim with service for 12 and every serving piece you can think of and a set of stoneware that was sort of Mexican looking. Loved them both but got tired of packing them so I sold them.
sheilajoyce_gw
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My DH bought me some Haviland Limoges antique china years ago because it reminded me of my grandmother's china. It was an on-air auction item at a public TV station in Chicago. I love that set of china! I will set the table with that china which has pink sprigs of flowers on it and use a plain pink linen cloth and napkins with little pink flowers on them. I will use simple wine goblets and sterling silverware I have collected the past 10 years. For serving pieces, I have crystal and silver plate pieces mostly from my mother's wedding presents she received in 1935, but also some pieces from my husband's grandmother and my maternal grandmother. I use my "good stuff" only at holiday meals, but it brings back such memories when I do.
bulldinkie
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I use my antique depression glass I collect the cherry blossom pattern in pink,green,another pattern in yellow makes a pretty Easter table.
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I will use my Mother's china...white with sprays of multicolored flowers, my silver, DH's crystal, and all sorts of crystal and silver serving pieces. I use the good dishes and silver all the time, but these flowered dishes look especially pretty on an Easter table. DH laughs and says we are probably the only people in captivity that use Haviland and silver pieces every day. I figure they are mine to enjoy..why save them? :^)

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