These dishes trigger my own memories, but they also take me down a path of wondering about their life and service before I met them. When my mom and my aunt were a little girls and young women, what memories get triggered for them. Fortunately for me, I can still ask both of them, and journal it, and of course, scrap about it! But I don't stop there. I know my grandmother and grandfather got these dishes at their wedding. What sort of dinners and holiday's were these dishes apart of way back then? Unfortunately for me, I can't ask about those, and when I could, I wasn't really thinking about it. A good lesson to remember as we are with family and friends, ask what we want to know, push ourselves to think about what we might want to know in the future and ask! Take advantage of our time together.
My musings are not just about my personal connections to dishes and serving pieces, they expand to those I pick up because I like them. They provide me with the opportunity to imagine the grandest of experiences, and sometimes, even the simplest. I wonder about the people who ate off them, what they thought about them, if anything, and what the conversation was at the table.
If you really think about it, dishes are amazing in that, if treated well, they can live through so many generations and be a part of so many stories. I suppose this is where the famous phrase "if {walls} could talk" came from. In this case...... " If dishes could talk."
Wishing all of you love and memory filled Thanksgivings. Enjoy your day, your dinner and most of all, the time you spend with those you care most about!
Ah.... I almost forgot, the name place card is a project I have followed from Kathryn from Life on the Scrapbeach. I joined in with her last year on the same project and I (as well as my family) loved the result. It is still fun to read what we highlighted as what we were thankful for (especially my nephew who said he was thankful for water cause you need it to stay alive!).
Love
Debbie
