Wow, after years of living in mobile homes and cramming my dishes into the kitchen cupboards, I was finally able to display some of my old china and other fancy dishes. I have quite a few nice pieces that I inherited from my grandmother who came to Canada from England in the early 1900's.
They looked wonderful on the shelves....well maybe I should be truthful and admit that my Coronation plate of King George V1 was no longer visable after a few months. Somehow over the past two years I filled the cabinet to overflowing.
The day I decided to clean out the china cabinet started with good intentions. I have to admit though that in about four minutes I was considering leaving it to another day. My lovely china cabinet that had provided a home for my antique pieces was filled with odds and ends.
Prominently displayed, for all the world to see, were the wedding favours we got at a friends daughters wedding. I know I remember thinking how cute they were on the wedding day and what a nice keepsake they were, but come on now, do I really need to cover up my beautiful china with plastic silver sprayed wedding favours??? Not only did I have the one I saved, but I kept everyone else's too! So there were four of them stuck in there on top of King George's plate.
I sat down for a coffee.
I decided I would take everything out of the cabinet, one shelf at a time. I set aside everything that was not unique or valuable. By the time I finished with two of the top cupboards it was plain to see that the china cabinet had become a catchall.
There were quite a few dishes that didn't need to be in there. There were even more things that didn't even need to be in my house! Garage sale treasures that had struck my fancy that had never been used for anything. A huge chip and dip set that I dragged from one house to the next on every move and I can't remember when I ever used it. It had been a gift and was actually rather an ugly thing. I don't even remember who gave it to us.
