Skip to main content

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!







I'm joining:

Between Naps on the Porch,
 Savvy Southern StyleRomantic Homes Common GroundFeathered Nest Friday,Charm of HomeFunky Junk Interiors No Minimalist HereA Stroll Thru Life
Pink Saturday, A House In The Roses, Under the Table and Dreaming, Homemaker on a Dime



Comments

  1. Your china is beautiful but I absolutely LOVE your silverware. I have never seen that pattern before. Like you, I also love roses!

    ReplyDelete
  2. The whole table is gorgeous! Love the napkin tutorial!

    ReplyDelete
  3. The poem is wonderful. I think this pattern of transferware is my new favorite. I don't think that I have seen it before. I am also intrigued buy the tablecloth. A manipulated fabric!
    Beckie in Brentwood, TN

    ReplyDelete
  4. Your table is so romantic and charming, Nancy.Love the rose folded napkins...Christine

    ReplyDelete
  5. Fabulous, fabulous post. Love the dishes, the rose napkin fold, the roses in the silver pitcher, I don't know where to begin, I am your newest follower. Visiting from BNOTP. xo,

    ReplyDelete
  6. I always love to come to your blog to see your beautiful transferware. That was a beautiful poem written by your mother. Nice people do grow roses!

    ReplyDelete
  7. I've just started following you on FB and I love what you have done with your home. Of course your table settings are just beautiful. I get my "dish" fix just looking at all the pretty ones you have collected. Tahnks so much.

    ReplyDelete
  8. What a lovely table! I LOVE that linen on there!!! YOWZA!!!!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Beautiful table loved it.

    Thank you for sharing.

    Lots of Love,
    Karin Åžen Cankan
    karinsfairytale.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  10. So gorgeous table! Stunning home and blog!
    Love everything about it:)
    I would love to see you on my blog:)

    ReplyDelete
  11. Nancy, Everything is so gorgeous! I truly enjoy your blog and love to see you on mine.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Forgot to mention I must I love shopping with you.

    ReplyDelete
  13. So very pretty! The tablecloth is gorgeous as are the dishes! The rose napkin in the teacup is the icing on the cake! Can't wait to watch the video! Thanks for sharing!

    DD

    ReplyDelete
  14. Love this post! So many wonderful quotes to go with so many wonderful pictures! You are a girl after my own heart mixing and matching for your tablescapes! And thanks for including the youtube video - those rose napkins in the teacups is just precious! Just found you and I'll be following from now on!!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Just love your rosy post.. Those dishes are really very pretty. The silver teapot is a great piece too.. Happy Friday, xo marlis

    ReplyDelete
  16. This is really a beautiful pattern! Red roses....ah-h-h!

    Hope you will please drop by and enter my $50 Overstock.com Gift Card Giveaway!! If there are 500 entries, the amount will increase the Gift Card to $100.
    Honey

    ReplyDelete
  17. Such a beautiful setting. The rose napkin is the perfect touch!

    - The Tablescaper

    ReplyDelete
  18. Absolutely beautiful! The dishes are perfect for me. :-) Love the flatware too and mixing is such a neat idea. Thanks so much for sharing the beauty with us!

    Pat

    ReplyDelete
  19. What a beautiful post for also pink Saturday. Beautiful transferware and roses in the silver pot. Gorgeous.
    Happy pink Saturday

    ReplyDelete
  20. Your mom and her poem are awesome! Love the transfer ware too. Happy PS.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Nancy, the opening poem is beautiful!! So richly expressed and from the heart.

    Your table wares are lovely! O, and I agree wholeheartedly...I'd much rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck (although I wouldn't say 'no' to both..COL)..seriously, I would take roses over diamonds any day of the year.

    What a lovely idea - a rose shaped napkin...I am so thrilled to see so much creativity on blogs.

    Have a delightful day,
    Marianne

    ReplyDelete
  22. Beautiful. How simple that was to make the rose for the cup. Thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete
  23. Gorgeouys tablescape, Nancy. I love the china, is so different and delicate! Love the tablecloth, ve4ry beautiful. Thanks for sharing the napkin fold tutorial, really very sweet and pretty. Happy Pink Sat....I just dropped to visit you from PS too. Hugs, FABBY

    ReplyDelete
  24. Lovely setting! I like the red transferware and the rose quotes...especially the one by R. Browne! The napkin roses in the teacups are charming!
    poetryinapotoftea.blogspot.com
    shawn

    ReplyDelete
  25. Hi, Nancy! I'm admiring all your creative posts here. Can you please share them at the Creative Bloggers' Party & Hop? Hope to see you there at the party :)

    ReplyDelete
  26. Beautiful, Nancy, as always! thank you for sharing your gorgeous table at VIF, xo Debra

    ReplyDelete
  27. Just wondering if you can give me any info on the silverware? Was looking at your blog and admiring it to find out my grandmother has some that looks a lot like it but I don't know anything about it or where to find out info - my grandmother passed away 1 1/2yrs ago and now my grandfather passed away a couple of weeks ago so they are cleaning out the old home stead. Any info is appreciated. Thanks Amy amy@aes2.com

    ReplyDelete
  28. Wonderful Nancy! I love your mother's poem! The rose napkin is a great idea too. Thanks for linking it to HSH!
    Sherry

    ReplyDelete
  29. Nancy, Another beautiful tablescape and I love the poem. Thank you for linking to the Open House party.
    xo,
    Sherry

    ReplyDelete
  30. So beautiful! Thank you for linking with Air Your Laundry Friday! xo Jami

    ReplyDelete
  31. Love the dishes, red transferware is on of my favorites! Beautiful!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love hearing from my readers. I appreciate the time you take to post a comment and I read them all.

Popular posts from this blog

English Cottage Living Room - Before, Partly After & Still a Work in Progress

I am sorry for not posting more pictures of the progress we've made settling into this new (to us) home.   It seems life rushes by so fast and that at times, doing little things, even those that I love and enjoy, often get pushed aside and onto the back shelf of my mind where I tell myself, "I'll get to this later".  Well, it is later and though I don't have as much to share with you as I'd like, I'm going to at least share my favorite spot in our living room.  I promise to show the rest of the room soon but for now the opposite half of the living room has been occupied by my daughters boyfriend who has been staying with us for the past 7 or so weeks until his apartment is ready for him to move into, and so the couch is usually made up for him to sleep on!   Here is a photo of the current living room just as we found it, a small room just off the entry of the house with a nice marble and wood fireplace surround, hard wood floors, beautiful crown mouldi

The History of Johnson Brothers and The Friendly Village Tablescape

Last week, Shawn and I popped into a couple of estate sales and I picked up over 100 pieces of Johnson Brother's The Friendly Village .  I think I may have to hang on to 12 of the dinner plates and use them this year at Thanksgiving but the rest of them, including this 48 piece service for 8, will be you know where. I don't know about you all, but I have had enough of Summer and I am down right ready for the cooler temperatures of Autumn.  I've been doing a lot of rearranging around the house….I'm in one of those zones where I've got a zillion projects going on, even if half of them are just in my mind that I'm contemplating!   We've also been moving kids out and around.  Three of them are out and the three still at home are moving or rearranging their rooms around.    Since I am yearning for Fall, haven't posted any tablescapes in a while and just got these Friendly Village pieces I decided to set the table with them.      Oh great, I

More Traditional Red White & Blue Rooms with Transferware

A couple of weeks ago I shared some pictures of beautiful rooms in red and blue color schemes decorated with transferware .    Here is another roundup of rooms that I adore, all with red and blue color schemes and all with transferware!  Enjoy!  (via Traditional Home) (via enchanted home) (my old living room) Joining some of the following parties: Between Naps on The Porch Transformation Thursday at  The Shabby Chic Cottage Feathered Nest Friday at  French Country Cottage Friday Inspiration  At The Picket Fence Cindy at  My Romantic Home Funky Junk Interiors Charm of Home No Minimalist Here WOW  Amaze Me Mondays  Making Monday Link Party  Motivational Mondays  What'd You Do This Weekend?   Inspire Me Monday   Make It Pretty Monday   Monday Link Party  Inspire Me Monday 

My English Country Mom Cave

Susan, at Between Naps on the Porch is hosting a Home Goods Mom Cave contest with four lucky winners.  Come on in to my little niche I've carved out of my house.  This is where I work, create, relax, read and chat with friends and family. This is one of my favorite spots in the house to read about one of my favorite subjects...English transferware or poetry, and drink tea.  I often start and end my day right here. Next to the chair is an antique dumbwaiter which holds some decorative items as well as lots of poetry books.  This is the view of the room from the wing back chair.  This cozy room serves as a small living room, although it's not uncommon to have 8 or 9 of the girls in here during family gatherings.  It's usually where we all wind up to have coffee and visit. . On either side of the sofa I display some of my vintage Canine figurines on Spode meat drainers. Above the sofa are some of my favorite paintings.  The one directly over the sofa my Mom pain

Decorating with Brown Transferware & $100 GIVEAWAY

Brown was introduced as a transferware color around 1829-30 and is the least expensive of colors to make. Therefore it is fairly common, so far as transferware goes, to find.  It is also one of the most collected colors and it is probably the most versatile of colors in my opinion.  Brown is neutral and looks good with any color scheme from pastels to rich jewel tones, but it is with the ushering in of Autumn that I see it popping up in home decor and vignettes the most.  Though, most of these rooms and vignettes are decorated with brown pieces year round, it just seems the perfect time to share them.  I may have to do another post because there are so, so many more equally beautiful spaces that have incorporated the use of displaying brown transferware  and I can't fit them all here. So, check these lovelies out and then stick around for the giveaway at the bottom of the post. This vignette just stole my heart the first time I saw it.  So many of us have vintage luggage

The Aesthetic Movement and Transferware

What is the Aesthetic Movement? The Aesthetic Movement refers to a period of time in the late 19 th century (1870-1900) which was a backlash to the formal Victorian years.  Artists and writers of the Aesthetic movement period maintained the belief that art should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral or sentimental messages.  They believed that art did not have any didactic purpose; it need only be beautiful.  Japanese art had a great influence on Aestheticism. Aesthetic interiors were often decorated with Japanese prints, screens, fans and other objects. An appreciation of the art of Japan is seen in the work of many Aesthetic artists and designers such as James McNeill Whistler and E.W. Godwin. photo credit Country Living The Aesthetes developed the cult of beauty, which they considered the basic factor in art. They ascertained that life should copy art and considered nature as crude and lacking in design

Decorating with Blue Transferware and a GIVEAWAY!

   If you haven't already been over to Enchanted Home , you'll want to go over after you finish this post because the wonderful Tina, who authors the incredibly gorgeous blog,  has a great post up about decorating with dishes plus she's hosting a giveaway to my online shop, English Transferware !  Details at the end of the post! I know Tina loves blue and white (just look at her header and you'll know!) and has a collection of her own. In honor of Tina, I've decided to share some of my favorite images of rooms decorated with and often around blue transferware collections.  You can see more rooms decorated with blue transferware on my Pinterest board . To me, Charles Faudree is just about as synonymous with English transferware as he his with French Country Decorating...he seemed to always find a use for it in his incredibly detailed decorating schemes.  Isn't this bedroom charming? I love this next image from Decor Magazine.  Look how the blu