Red Roses Transferware Tablescape

Love, Like Flowers

Seasons have come and gone with each having a glory,

And my lips smile sweetly as never before,

As I'm reminded again of my flower story,

While watching Spring's beauty come on once more.

Flowers were wilting as if by foregone conclusion

When the somber tones in his words did murmur,

Of our love being just a romantic illusion,

Then left my heart breaking on boughs of summer.

With the close of those days my heart shut its door.

I listened not to futures vague rhymes or reason.

His love had vanished like others who came before,

So, for me, love was always just a season.

Like those wilting flowers for which life ended too soon,

I'd wished for some firm roots that could live on and on.

I'd wanted love's flower that grows more with each bloom,

Not those that died ere their season was gone.

Then after three Falls and Summers, and lonely Winters,

That were missing of love and all it might be,

I opened my heart's door and removed dull splinters

And saw a world that looked brighter to me.

Spring had come to the air and did gaily speak,

And with warm breath was sprouting green growth in glee;

And my ears were filled softly with promising music,

As small buds sang gently of colors to be.

My heart, like that Spring after sleeping, felt stronger

And had stirred its quiet bed with hope once again,

Of replacing its lost with a flower to live longer-

And a red rose now grows where pansies had been.

 ©1975 Marilyn Stubbs Robinson (my awesome Mom)

The beautiful red transferware in this tablescape is by Ridgway.  Plates, cups and saucers are for sale in my shop, English Transferware.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

~J. M. Barrie~

The rose is a flower of love.

The world has acclaimed it for centuries.

Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.

Red roses, ah red roses are for love triumphant.

~unkown author~

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I love to mix and match flatware.  Towle Stockholm is paired with Barenthal Mabre' in burgundy.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck

~Emma Goldman~ 
I couldn't agree more.  
Here, on my table is a profusion of roses in pinks, reds, whites and red tinged ivory's in an antique silver teapot that belonged to my Great Aunt and Uncle.

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses 
or growing roses makes people nice.
~Roland A Browne~


Vintage ruby flash, Kings Crown thumprint tumblers pair well with wine glasses etched with a single rose. I found the wine glasses for a quarter a piece at a thrift shop!  I placed tealight candles in each ofthe wine glasses.

"For, if I wait", said she, "Till time for roses be-
For the moss rose and the musk rose,
Maiden blush and royal dusk rose
What glory then for me
In such a company?"
Roses plenty, roses plenty,
And one nightingale for twenty?
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~

Napkins rolled into rosebuds are nestled into the teacups. This rosebud napkin fold is SO easy!  

A friend gave me a napkin folding book years ago with instructions on how to fold this rosebud, and today I found a video on YouTube to show you just how easy it is. I've included it at the bottom of my post.


 Enjoy!

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