I have been obsessed with dark dishes lately, specifically glazed and floral, Japanese-inspired, with dark blue backgrounds. Chalk it up to the produce I lean toward this time of year - blueberries, blackberries, plums.
It's the reason I am in love with Cost Plus World Market's Cherry Blossom plates:
Not until very recently have I been interested in dishes. I now know what my mother went through around my age: the act of preparing for a nest of ones own. I used to roll my eyes at it. But no more.
I am also pining for a tea set - not the fussy, English type - the Asian kind; the ones that have no handles on lovely little cups. Tea is a favorite drink of choice, so it's only natural, I suppose, to eventually want a tea set to serve it in.
