kbhale, I grew pimento this year for the first time. I grew one called simply "Pimento Sweet" and one I started from seed called "Red Cheese". I love these peppers. The Pimento Sweet I grew were rather large around 2" wide and 2.5" long. The walls are super thick. The Red Cheese looks like a minature pumpkin (only red) they were about 2.5" wide and only 1.5-2 inches tall. The Red Cheese also have very thick walls. I do not dry them or pickle them I use them just like sweet bell peppers in cooking. I will try other pimento peppers in 2010 until I find one with a REALLY SWEET flavor that I like. I did find that the Pimento Sweet plants were not very prolific. The Pimento Sweet put on about 7-8 peppers per plant and then stopped!! Not another flower or pepper until the first 7-8 were turning red. The Red Cheese were not prolific but they kept putting out flowers and peppers -- as a matter of fact the plant is still alive and green with flowers and baby peppers after a mild frost. (33 degrees at night for 2 hours) Hope this helps. DL

My pleasure, glad to be of help. I normally visit this website to learn. Didn't realized that I could be of help this time. By the way, I forgot to mention that this tea set is usually Made in China and is made of porcelain. You may find this same design with various shapes of the cup, tray (dish) and teapot. However, the set you have is the most popular. Even if it doesn't worth ($$) very much, it's worth keeping it if you drink tea. It is considered as a traditional tea set and in some way, it is also a collectible set. In China, different type of tea is recommended to use with different type of teapotware. ie: Oolong tea is recommended to use with Yixing teapots, a purple clay found only in Yixing, China. Green tea is recommended to use with porcelain or ceramic teaware. Since it's porcelain, hand wash this set only. If you don't know much about porcelain, it is lighter than ceramic. It retains heat longer. It is strong but easily chip. Enjoy it!

Oh my gosh! I remember that style. I don't know if its "in" again yet. Everything seems to come back eventually. Check ebay for "60's lamp" "70's lamp" to see if you find similar and what they are selling for. If they are not of any great value as they are, I would paint them turquoise, put an ivory wash over just leaving some turquoise peeking through, and painting the candle part so it doesn't look dirty. And a nice fresh ivory shade. Or whatever! Let us know what you do. Kathy

The ends slide out as far as the one on the right. They do not actually raise to table top level. I see it as a cute place for little kids to color, but that's about it, but then the extensions are sort of in the way. There are no markings anywhere on the table to suggest a manufacturer or time period. You just hear of people giving things to Goodwill they don't love that are special and I'd hate to do that, but it doesn't really match the direction I'd like to go with my furnishings.