These are the dishes that came with the BF. [link]

His mom keeps giving us more matching stuff, so we have place settings galore and serving dishes but I don't actually love them. I'd much rather have Fiestaware. I have always liked the color and feel of them and I am glad they have become so popular and available, as I fully plan on getting an entire set at some point.

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Just because I'm single doesn't mean I shouldn't have pretty dishes. And, I eat off my china just about every day.

ABSOLUTELY!!! We don't, but I like my everyday dishes, too. We do eat of the china from time to time, because it's not good for it not to use it.

Our dishes are either boring(white)Although Ted from QE swears by the white dish...which made me happy in a dumb way, or mismatched with silly pictures.

I love white dishes. Our regular dishes are white. I picked white on purpose, so that I could mix and match it with other stuff, if need be.

I am amongst the china-free. Which suits me fine; I barely have space for one set of dishes in my cupboards, let alone two.

Smart choice. It's too frustrating to have if you don't have the space. In our first apartment, the china stayed in the eaves (we rented the second floor of a cape, and there was storage in the eaves). Our second apartment had more dish space than either house we've owned--huge cabinets in the kitchen, a separate pantry, and a big double door built in china cabinet in the dining room. In our first house, the china lived in the attic, but we'd take it out for holidays. Now we have a small corner built in, in the dining room in this house. My china was the second thing I unpacked on moving day. The first thing I unpacked was our books.

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Hil! That's a cute cut! I love it. (Off to read P-C's grand finale).

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Thanks, Susan.

(Off to read P-C's grand finale).

Hee hee. An epic tale comes to a close!

Hil, that is a nice cut, for shizzy.

Kate has a new tag.

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Well, I am done with my first week at school, and take over classes on MOnday! I think my mentor teacher is favorably impressed with me -- the kids are still making up their minds. Which is fine.

I had a minor brainstorm today, and I'm going to try to spark the girls interest in White Fang's "survivial of the fittest" idea by using "Mean Girls" clips to kind of illustrate the idea in girlspeak. Boys pretty much get WF and like the fights and gore and stuff, so I've been trying to think of a way to get the girls into it, too, and I like this idea.

I have to work at the theatre tonight, so no going out for me, but that's just fine. It's opening night, so we'll have beer and wine after the show, and I'm going to get a little tipsy and go home and SLEEP IN tomorrow.

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Dude, I'm glad you told your parents, and go you for sticking to your guns, but on your mom's birthday? And then sulking all day on top of it? Geez Louise. Sounds like you did an excellent job of explaining it later on, though so they can actually understand, so that part rocks.

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Thanks, guys.

P-C, it sounds like your parents took it pretty well, once they got past the initial surprise.

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Fiestaware is my everyday stuff, in purple, sunflower, tangerine, and cobalt blue. Also some very plain white dishes. I have some fine china stored at my MiL's but I've never used it. I liked it when we picked out the pattern, so I hope I still like it when I eventually take it out of its boxes.

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I like the new cut, Hil.

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Great news, Jilli!

My good china is this: [link] . In real life, it's more pastel than this. It was my grandmother's second-best and it pretty much has everything, including cream soups. My father was the only child in an entire family. Sadly, no one had any money to speak of, but they all had china and silver. We've sold some of it, but at one time, we figured we could serve a hundred people with china and silver. We also have a pretty good idea of the natural lifespan of types of china, based on what survived. Cups go first. Dinner plates go last.

Betsy, I love the Haviland.

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