My Thrifty China

Please join me and the other wonderful bloggers at these two party's today. 

http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/ for Tabletop Tuesday

and

http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/ for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

It seems I just can't get enough of this fabulous china!  Yesterday I had to take my son out for an eye appointment and last minute school supplies.  While were out that way, my mind started screaming you must go back and get those other pieces!  You will not have this opportunity again!  So back to the resale store I went with my helper and picked up some more china to complete the set.

I got the 3 extra salad plates I had not originally wanted.   They really aren't in that bad of shape (for the price I'm paying at $2.50 each) and as it turns out they are stamped the same as the other ones I have. 

You see, there are two different stamps that I have seen on the Franciscan Ivy patterns so far.  Most everything I have is stamped like this;

However some pieces, (my salad plates) are stamped like this;

I didn't realize my salad plates do have the different stamp until I got home the other day after noticing they were different in the store, so that's also why I originally did not get them the other day.

The different stamps represent the age of the plates I guess, since this pattern has been around for so long there must have been a change in the stamping pattern.  Anyway, I decided to add the sellers last serving bowl, sugar bowl, and gravy boat to my collection. 

Serving Bowl came to $7.50

Sugar bowl came to $6.74

Gravy boat came to $6.23

This was a freebie!  It had a tag if you need it, take it!  I think she must have just put that out cause I surely would have noticed it before!  I am thinking I may need it!

Now all this adding on has caused me to rearrange the kitchen china cabinet again!  I am so running out of space and really want a hutch for the dining room, but I'll have to wait a bit longer on that.
Here's my newest swap around.

While we are looking at china cabinets let me show you one of my antique pieces in the dining room.  I use this as a hutch to store my crystal.  It really is a desk!  I like the way this looks in here and currently really need the additional storage.

On the top two shelves I keep my wedding crystal

And the bottom two shelves are filled with various other crystal items.

As you can imagine I am constantly changing out the vignettes on the top of this.

This is the way I have this set up right now.  I'm not crazy about the candle up on the little shelf.  I always feel like I need to display something on that shelf but can never find quite the right look.  It usually is empty, which works too.

On the very top I have a serving bowl, coffee pot and smaller blue bowl.  I also added my sailors most recently in the background.  I love the colors of this vignette!  One thing that has stayed the same for years on this piece is my peacock feathers.

For some reason I just absolutely adore them on this piece of furniture.

Hope you enjoyed visiting with me today and seeing my latest thrifty finds and a few vignettes.

Please be sure and leave me a comment if you come by!

Have a great day!

Mary