GLASS CAKE PLATES, I have a few. I started collecting these way back when. When they were first sold during the mid-century they came with aluminum dome covers. My plates don't have covers. What good are they without the covers?
Two dozen chocolate chip cookies were placed on one and cellophane wrapped with a bow to be presented to our Granddaughter for her 17th birthday. I can give these mid-century glass cake plates to others with cookies on them in the future. They are footed on the underside. Neat.
They would make nice plates to use for gatherings for holding finger sandwiches, miniature tea sandwiches, treats, fruit, cookies, bon bons, chocolate covered cherries, sliced breads. That sort of thing. Or for center pieces, candles, flowers.
For now, I know that I have them. I'll give it some thought about future uses.
Slowly going through the moving boxes and recalling what is there. Slowly. The outside temps are bitterly cold. Staying inside. Making some headway on turning the Dining room back into a Dining room instead of being used as a warehouse holding our belongings. Wish it were already done. Truthfully, I know unpacking would have gone faster if we weren't so cramped inside the rooms. It takes great effort to even walk through a room. See-sawing through the path to get from one room to another. I hope I can laugh about this one day remembering how we danced about just to go through the house.
Plans for this week are to have the BLUE WILLOW dishes back into my Mom's China Cabinet. I forget how many pieces I have. Over a hundred. They will be taken from the stacks of boxes just sitting in the Dining room. As I empty the boxes, the bulky boxes will disappear. Praise the LORD. One more EMPTY BOX GONE.
I'll have to shuffle stuff to open an area to work in to make this happen. As the boxes disappear, it will get so much easier to continue at what needs to be done.
When the weather warms some, the old Morris chairs that are stacked in the Dining room will be taken to storage. The two Henredon chairs as well. Not sure when we will have a warm snap this WINTER. Just getting these chairs out of here as there really is no room for them will help open up the house. SO the next step is to clear out more things so the COTTAGE is opened up and functioning. When the weather warms THEN we will work at clearing out the storage units. This is the way we have to do this downsizing thing.
With the weather being so cold, we cannot work on the units.
I want to keep the cake plates. They have been placed in a nice storage box for now. I know I will have more glassware and dishes that I have to do something with.
by taking inventory so I know what I have that I can use.
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