Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Dishes, Pots, Pans, and Silverware
I love this current series of Cee’s: Photo Ops in Your Own House. I had so many ideas for this installment — I have dishes, pots, and pans from three generations before me, and I buy boxes of china at auctions. I really wanted to line up pots from each generation — cast iron, enamelware, aluminum, and stainless steel — but I got caught up with the enamelware and didn’t get any of the other kinds photographed. I also wanted to place each era of pot with its matching china, but I will have to save that idea for another day.
I did get to showcase a vintage tablecloth though! If you pay attention to cooking magazines, you will notice that the pictures often show vintage or handmade table lines, to set the food off to advantage and make it look extra delicious.
Enamelware and produce.
Mustard greens, cucumbers, and tomatoes in old enamel pans and bowls.
This is what happens when your family members never throw anything away.
This one is a plan for a quilt composition.
Cheerful flower patterns.
Love your idea! Is that cake keeper from my mom?
No, I actually bought that somewhere, I think at an antique shop here in Montgomery.
I bet you could do a set-up like this every week for a year and never repeat anything! You know, of course, that my favorite element is the tablecloth–it works perfectly with your enamelware!
That is a really good idea!
And I do love that tablecloth, I bought it recently, because I didn’t have anything in those colors. I seem to have ones that are only red or only blue, and then one fantastic one that is avocado green, lavender, and brown, I think.
Looks like fun, so I went to her site. Thanks!
She has so many on-going creative challenges! I enjoy going to that site and following the links.
I really like your choices of dishes for this week. Thanks eve so much for playing,
You have inspired me! I will keep playing along, possibly on my own delayed time table though! 🙂
What a great way to practice taking pictures! Thanks for sharing. Love your enamelware.
Thank you! Cee’s ideas really appeal to me and motivate me to finally take those pictures I’ve been meaning to take for a long time. 🙂
Yes I started following her because of your post
You have a fun stash of enamelware, and I love the vintage tablecloth. I have a similar tablecloth that was my mother’s. Such happy colors!
I do get a kick out of vintage tablecloths! Even ironing them! 🙂
OH, it IS summertime with all those dishes and produce.! Love all the colours.
Yes, we are having a cool summer for us so it is actually possible to celebrate it instead of just suffer through it! 🙂