As you may well have guessed, I LOVE blue and white china!! I have lots of mismatched blue and white transferware hanging around my kitchen. We eat daily from a set of Johnson Bros. Blue Willow. I also have several blue and white ceramic accessories around the house. This is our 5th residence since we've been married and I have decorated with blue and white somewhere in each. Along the way though I've discovered that blue and white can go with just about any color scheme. I've hung them plates on white walls, tan walls, gold walls, red walls, pale yellow walls, apple green walls and patterned wallpapered walls. So at my home you'll see touches of blue and white just about anywhere.
I thought I'd share a particular collection that I've been accumulating for several years now. It has starred in a white beaded board bathroom, an apple green playroom and now a soft golden laundry room. It's my blue and white state plate collection. And by *state plate* I don't mean vehicle license plates that are blue and white, as one friend thought when I told her about them:) They are souvenir plates that are relatively inexpensive (usually $3 to $8 or so, although I have paid a little less or a little more) as most have no markings on the backs. I have plates from sixteen different states with several more plates that are from specific American historic sites. I've also mixed in a few other patriotic prints that I love, just for fun. I have so much fun when I score one at an antique shop or mall. They're getting harder for me to find, it seems, but that makes the victory of finding one even more enjoyable!
a plate from my home state
George & Martha Washington silhouettes with a Mt. Vernon plate
state plates with a few other patriotic plates and prints
I thought I'd share a particular collection that I've been accumulating for several years now. It has starred in a white beaded board bathroom, an apple green playroom and now a soft golden laundry room. It's my blue and white state plate collection. And by *state plate* I don't mean vehicle license plates that are blue and white, as one friend thought when I told her about them:) They are souvenir plates that are relatively inexpensive (usually $3 to $8 or so, although I have paid a little less or a little more) as most have no markings on the backs. I have plates from sixteen different states with several more plates that are from specific American historic sites. I've also mixed in a few other patriotic prints that I love, just for fun. I have so much fun when I score one at an antique shop or mall. They're getting harder for me to find, it seems, but that makes the victory of finding one even more enjoyable!
a plate from my home state
George & Martha Washington silhouettes with a Mt. Vernon plate
state plates with a few other patriotic plates and prints
a larger view of the state plates
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