Some details: The table was set for the feast.
The dining room hutch shows some pretty heirlooms.
My son’s father’s mother’s silverware was our flatware for Thanksgiving.
Lots of goodies while cooking!
These measuring spoons look so decorative next to the celery leaves!
My mother’s china which has a blue floral design, which iPhone camera turns grey. I gave this 12 place setting china to her when I worked at Fox Department Store in Hartford CT in the 1965 Christmas season, and paid a percentage of the retail price. My job was to sales-clerk in costume jewelry…some excellent pieces which I purchased and still have!
And yes, that platter has been glued back together!
Michelle’s father’s mother’s china - she says she has 18 place settings!
Sharing with Sepia Saturday, where this week I offer some of the things we take for granted! I'll share some needlework later on...
Asherah
The jets did some interesting writing below the full moon!
“Discredited, reviled, and hidden away, we speak your name, Asherah. Our Lost Mother, obscured in the darkness, a piece of the forgotten collective of the human psyche. We shed light upon you and pull back the veil which hides your face. We bring forth your stories to the consciousness of humankind. We are your stewards; we have not forgotten you. Awake our banished mother. Your daughters rise, reclaiming our stolen power as an act of defiance, an offering to you, our maligned earth mother. Empress of the Tarot, your symbolism hidden in art and fable since your fall from favor. Suspicion of your power comes from generational suppression and condemnation of your stories, and your name. Cloaked by time we now reveal you.
You call out to us in the wind, your voice the melodic sound the trees hum as the wind rushes by. You urge us to take up your standard. Your energy is balancing. You are the divine partner, the consort who is feared. Your subjugation from human awareness has produced an imbalance in our world, creating inequality and division.”
-Erika Lopp, excerpt from “Lost Mother: A Letter to Asherah” – featured in our anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.
Art by Teresa Moorehouse
Thanks Girl God Books FB page
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I didn't take a picture of the great moon, and I'm enjoying the ones from other bloggers. Your family has serious holdings in china!
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see they use these old pieces for holidays.
DeleteIt was a true family day weaving in artefacts of previous generations.
ReplyDeleteI like your new header but not nearly as much as your previous one.
Oh thanks, I like being compared to flowers! I'll post my cheerful pose once again probably sometime.
DeleteI love the poinsettia header, very pretty! It is nice your family gathered for the Thanksgiving holiday!
ReplyDeletePretty sky capture. Take care, have a great day and a happy weekend.
I am so thrilled I could join this family for the holiday. It was definitely a joy-filled time to be with them all.
DeleteIt's nice that you're still using family heirlooms together.
ReplyDeleteYes it is...and I am pretty sure they go in the dishwasher as well! But not the silverware. I've got a bunch of my own silverware that's badly tarnished...any suggestions as to cleaning it?
DeleteThere's an easy way involving tinfoil, you might want to Google it. Not toxic either.
Delete...Asherah is new to me!
ReplyDeletePretty sure she comes from the fertile crescent.
DeleteThe name "Asherah" sounds familiar to me but I can't remember why.
ReplyDeleteI am lusting after those measuring spoons.
Aren't they precious? I'm pretty sure Asherah was mentioned in the Bible...or maybe had been around before it was compiled.
DeleteIt looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteWell, Blogger is fading in and out, and my first reply zipped off. I think I said the old fashioned patterns work well for feasts, but these aren't designs I'd have chosen. Actually, I don't know that my mother chose hers and I may have chosen it for her. Back in the 60s there wasn't an easy way to show someone what you were shopping for!
DeleteAn interesting & lovely post. I have a few pieces here & there of my Mom's & Grandmother's kitchen & dining pieces which I treasure. I also have some interesting measuring spoons but nothing like yours which are a marvelous wonder! Mine have roosters on 'em. :[] Love the piece about Earth Mother, Asherah, & the picture of the jet trails with the moon is neat.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whose kitchen those measuring spoons came from...maybe Michelle's family.
DeleteSuch a lovely table!!! I am the keeper of family china. I have my grandmother's wedding china and my mother's wedding china. I also have my "wedding china" which was accumulated one place setting at a time from our local bank when you made a deposit. They were kind enough to offer this service the year I was engaged.
ReplyDeleteOh I used to like getting "freebees" at the banks. I'm pretty sure my steak knives came from there. I gave my wedding china to my oldest son several years ago, and kept just the teapot, which is damaged so can't be used.
DeleteThat's beautiful china.
ReplyDeleteSo glad that you think so!
DeleteWonderful photos to remember a special event. One of my favorite holiday traditions is when we break out the special china and silverware. Thanks for sharing the origins of the tableware. Inevitably we are always short one spoon or plate for the number of guests, which I fix by taking the odd replacement for myself.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you pile on enough turkey, dressing, veggies and mashed potatoes with gravy, nobody will notice!!
DeleteI too have family china and silver - its a wonderful treasure. It was used back in the day and has some cracks and chips - but I love that - I imagine the family gathering - as we do - and that is what happens!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed very much your pictorial account of the settings for your thanksgiving meal . I love blue and white china and have quite a collection now. The photograph of you and your granddaughters is a beauty and one to cherish !
ReplyDeleteMuch more active than my kitchen.
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