KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Fen1

Does this include the Brown Roses tea set of the 60's/70's? Did anyone ever think that Brown Roses was attractive, or was it one of those patterns that you bought for ( passed along, ahem) someone else?
It is a serious question. My sister or I will inherit a Brown Roses set. Eeeek!!!!!

GreyQueen

Fen1 wrote: »

Does this include the Brown Roses tea set of the 60's/70's? Did anyone ever think that Brown Roses was attractive, or was it one of those patterns that you bought for ( passed along, ahem) someone else?
It is a serious question. My sister or I will inherit a Brown Roses set. Eeeek!!!!!

We've been spared that trauma. Actually, I'm trying to envisage it. Got a linkie to a picture?

The TeaSet Trove is chiefly of something simple in cream. probably 40s-50s with a design of oranges and lemons painted around the rims. Not to be confused with the Midwinter designs of the 50s-60s.

I'm rather fond of it as a memory of happy afternoon teas with Nan and Grandad from my childhood, but won't take it into my life as I would never use it and have nowhere to keep it.

I've spent a fair bit of time thinking about what I can take into my life from Nan's home and have come to the conclusion that I don't need mementoes. I have every inch of that bungalow, its wash-house, Big Shed and both front and back gardens engraved on my memory. All of that is stored in the old grey matter where it takes up no physical space in my life.

My fondness for Nan's oranges & lemons teaset isn't the fondness of the item themselves, it's the pleasure in revisiting the memory of happy times with my grandparents. Having (or not having) the teaset doesn't change those memories and I can visit with them whenever I like.

Floss

We didn't have any rose tea sets - the everyday set was Woods Ware Clovelly, or Woods Ware Beryl both in green. Posh teaset was a very simple Thomas porcelain one with a silver band, which resides in my dining room and coordinates with our own so is regularly used

Knit_Witch

We are currently storing a large quantity of Denby Greenwheat and a 12 piece Winterling (in silver) coffee/tea set

The Denby can be sold - the Winterling .... no idea on that one!

GreyQueen

One of the things which surfaced from Nan's was the lone surviving plate from a harlequin set which my parents had in the 1960s. It is pale blue and used to have companions in pale green, pale yellow, pale pink, pale mauve......

For anyone under 30 who isn't an aficianado of vintage china, I should explain that harlequin sets were made up of plain bits of china, each in different colours.

The household china at Nan's also included an odd plate of mine that I purchased in a charity shop in Scotland in the 1980s when I lived up there, and several random things. She used the odds & sods whilst the good stuff in sets lurked in the pantry and in cupboards.

She also had enough glassware to equip a cruise ship, including sets of tumblers in the fashions of each of the last several decades. I'm dying to get some of the printed retro ones up to the city for donation, I'm sure they'll be a hit with our student population.

We also had Beryl, and its pale yellow sister, Jasmine. Or, as I like to think of them, village hall china. And petalware, in pale blue, pale pink and pale yellow. 'My' teapot when I visit the family home is a blue version of beryl..

GreyQueen

Umm, just to clarify, in case you think I'm too precious to share a teapot with my own family, this is a small one just for me when they have a coffee. Because I don't drink coffee.

Tiny thing, only holds 2 mugs' worth of tea. When we all have tea together, we use a large teapot affectionally known as 'the bucket'.

I come with standing instructions; if I am ever known to refuse a cuppa, pls dial 999 as I'm probably gravely ill.:rotfl:

maryb

I wish I could persuade my DDs that mementos do not equal memories.
Grey Queen how about a photo of the tea set to use as a screensaver?

kboss2010

Fen1 wrote: »

Does this include the Brown Roses tea set of the 60's/70's? Did anyone ever think that Brown Roses was attractive, or was it one of those patterns that you bought for ( passed along, ahem) someone else?
It is a serious question. My sister or I will inherit a Brown Roses set. Eeeek!!!!!

I used to know a guy in his 30's who actually collected that stuff! Heaven knows why lol!

Floss

GreyQueen wrote: »

...We also had Beryl, and its pale yellow sister, Jasmine. Or, as I like to think of them, village hall china...

:rotfl: It was the WRVS ladies hospital china where I grew up, and apparently was in use on the tea trolley when my dad joined the civil service in 1974!

greenbee

Floss wrote: »

:rotfl: It was the WRVS ladies hospital china where I grew up, and apparently was in use on the tea trolley when my dad joined the civil service in 1974!

I see it every week in our village hall... at one point I had a whole lot of it from my grandparents (we used it as students) but it has long since been donated to the CS, and probably been bought to supplement village hall stocks...