I have a great-Aunt Marguerite, who was called Auntie Mamie, and two Marguerite cousins.

I currently don't have any dishes. I had Phalzgraft set kthat was like the one I had growing up....Mom foudn it at a garage sale and got it for me.

But I realized I wanted new dishes and those things were heavy so I got rid of them.

And never found a set I liked. Well I found a Corelle set that by the time I decided those were the dishes they were out of stock almost everywhere and then the price jumped. So I bought a couple of Corelle plates and some pasta bowls and a cereal bowl and called it a day. They didn't make it from the move from Vermont but I think when I buy dishes again it will be Corelle. They are lightweight, they don't break easily and they don't take up much space in the cabinet.

I have my grandmother's wedding china packed up in Florida and one day I will have a cabinet and put those on display.

sj, we have the same china! My everyday dishes are these: [link]. I have everything except the mugs. Setting for 12, and I've used them all at least twice (and not because' I was too lazy to wash the dishes).

Yay! Great minds. I have settings for twelve as well, but I'm missing a few bowls and accent plates, and I'd like some more serving platters (I have one). I have an alert through ebay.

I'd really like something bright and colorful for every day. Something like this but not melamine. I'm ridiculously picky and just haven't found the perfect thing yet.

Can melamine dishes go through a dishwasher?

An author emailed just to tell me, "The proof revisions are in proof-revision.pdf." NO! I would've never guessed!

re: dishes: I love the colors of Fiestaware, but I'm leaning towards lighter stuff, ie Corelle and its ilk.

We're in a drought here, and sunny days are nice and everything, but I just looked it up -- for June/July/August, we usually average about 10.3" of rain. This year, we're not going to break 4". So glad I'm not a farmer right now! A little sad my mother spent money on the yard this year.

An author emailed just to tell me, "The proof revisions are in proof-revision.pdf." NO! I would've never guessed!

Better than my author, who emailed to tell me the editing is "all wrong." (On an article that my coordinator gave me excellent feedback on. Embrace the irony.) He wants me to call him so "we can figure out why the editing is wrong." That is the most passive-aggressive thing I've ever read. (SPOILER: I am NOT calling him, because fuck him, that's why.)

He also said he wants to "start the process over," which I think means "I want you to take my unedited manuscript and re-edit it, but only in the way I deem acceptable." NOPE.

I am so tired of these bullshit special snowflake authors who are aggrieved that their precious baby words are edited. When their article is accepted, they are told it will be edited. (I know there are medical journals out there that publish without any editing happening whatsoever. Perhaps these authors have been published in such journals. But that's not how we roll.)

Fortunately, I'm allowed to ignore customers who email me directly instead of going through the support protocols. So many of them think I've suddenly become their free, personal IT person.

I inherited my grandmother's wedding china; it's not marked that I remember, but I believe (I've had it packed away for years) that it said either "Bavaria" or "Bohemia" on the bottom. I did snag some of the family silver and some of my mother's good glassware, which I love.

Can melamine dishes go through a dishwasher?

Yes