As a Southern girl, I love pretty dishes and tableware, as I’m sure most of you do too. There’s just something so nice about sitting down to a beautiful table all set with dishes, flatware, glasses, and colorful napkins. Oh, don’t forget the fresh flowers. I cut these hydrangeas from my yard, which was a treat this year.
Today, I’m joining a few other bloggers and sharing a fun book and dish set giveaway with Mikasa. I love Mikasa and have so enjoyed my Italian Countryside dishes that I use everyday. 
Setting a pretty table on my porch is so fun this time of year. I enjoyed using this beautiful white set of Loria dishes with their pretty beaded edge.
With chunky bowls and mugs, the set has 4 of all of these. Those little bunny leaf plates are from Bordallo and I’ve had them for years.
I pulled out some of my yardsale and thriftstore finds to go on the table, using a scrap piece of green outdoor fabric I made into a tablecloth. You know how I love green!
These napkins were a yardsale fine and I love their white edge. My newly covered chairs look great with this tables cape.
Dear Carolina is a brand new book by Kristy Woodson Harvey. She and her mother, Beth, write the design blog, Design Chic and Kristy has been on a book tour recently promoting her new book. Southern fiction always has a little drama and Dear Carolina does as well. From main character, Khaki Mason, who has a thriving interior design business to Jodi, her husband’s 19-year old cousin, fresh out of rehab, pregnant and alone, this story weaves together 2 strong Southern women and one baby girl in the most difficult decision they’ll ever make. Written to baby Carolina by both her birth mother and her adoptive one, it’s a story of life circumstances shaping, but not defining and that families aren’t always born, but made.
So all of us are setting a pretty table today, in honor of Khaki and her love of interior design and Southern tables.
Mikasa is joining us for a fun giveaway for ONE of you too. Who doesn’t love a pretty table? I know all of you do!
An antiques store urn that I found a few months ago holds freshly clipped hydrangea blooms from my yard.
The flatware and glasses are also from Mikasa.
Doesn’t this bone china look lovely with green.
I really am totally sold on white dishes for the last few years. I’ve always heard that food looks more appetizing on a white plate and I’m convinced of that.
Mikasa has some new dinnerware, glassware, and flatware which is part of what they call their “every day sets.” All of these are what you’d normally see in a formal set of dishes, but they are meant to be used every day. Bone china is the best quality dinnerware you will find. The bone component makes this dinnerware extremely chip resistant and also gives it that beautiful, pure white color. The glassware and flatware have a similar philosophy – highest quality but for everyday use.
Click here for Mikasa Loria dinnerware, Mikasa Laura glasses and Kelby flatware.
This is a new program for Mikasa and they use the highest quality bone china and lead-free crystal, but these sets are meant to be used every day, not just for special occasions. These plates have a great feel to them and I love the beaded edge.
You can visit Mikasa on Facebook and Pinterest.
Mikasa is also offering ONE of my readers your very own set of Mikasa Loria dinnerware (service for 4). Please leave a comment telling me your favorite special occasion for setting a pretty table. Get out the good dishes and use them! Please click the Rafflecopter widget and click the box that you have left a comment and then leave a comment here on my blog. ONE winner will be chosen for a set of 4 Mikasa Loria dinnerware. US entries only. Be sure and add your email to the Rafflecopter widget, that is how I choose a winner!
And the winner will also receive a copy of Dear Carolina, the new book by Kristy Woodson Harvey.
Here’s to Summer entertaining!
Note: Mikasa gave me this set of Loria dishes, flatware and glasses.
I’m joining these other creative bloggers, so go over and see their tables too. They are all giving away different sets of Mikasa dishes as well:
Christmas is the most festive of occasions for setting a pretty table! These white dishes would be the perfect compliment to Christmas reds and greens!
Sunday brunches would be a great way to use these beautiful dishes!
These dishes are lovely. I like to set a pretty table for any occasion!
Special dishes can make even a ho-hum weeknight a reason to celebrate! I would love to celebrate by using these gorgeous dishes!!
Families are more apart now so you don’t see them much so when we do get together for a nice dinner its fun making up your table settings. I’d enjoy having this new set.
I like to set a pretty table when serving a Ladies Bruncheon. We are all so busy doing the things of life that when we finally do stop to get together with friends, setting and eating from a pretty table is so enjoyed and appreciated. These dishes are classic and beautiful and could be used for any special occasion.
Christmas is my favorite time to set a pretty table. I love your tablescape and most of all I love your blog. Thank you so much for the giveaway.
I would use them for a regular night at home with the kids:) But Thanksgiving is my favorite time to do a table in an extra special way.
Your table on the porch is wonderful! This is a fun way for y’all to introduce the book and the dishes. Just added the book to my Pinterest board. 🙂
I’d love to set the table with these dishes and invite my lunch bunch girls over for a yummy summer salad.
I love a beautifully set table but Christmas has to be my favorite time! Love these dishes!
Love a pretty table! These dishes would be a great addition to mine! I love a decorated table most days as I have an evolving centerpiece and placemats just to keep it interesting. So each and every day is a special day to have a lovely tablescape.
I love decorating my table for Thanksgiving! I love when all my family and friends come over, and we all get to sit down and enjoy a wonderful dinner. This pattern would be so beautiful to add to my Thanksgiving table!
I love these dishes! I would use them for a summer dinner on my porch with my three daughters and their families! I love to have them over and cook out on the grill. The grandchildren add to the conversation and fun at our table. Thank you for the offer.
These versatile white dishes would be perfect for a Fourth of July table with red and blue linens and accessories.
These dishes are beautiful! I have never owned white dishes before, but I think food would look the best on these. I love to set a beautiful table for Easter. It is my favorite holiday! As a Christian, I think it is the most important time of the year.
My husband and I are now empty-nesters. I love setting a table for two each week…memories of early days of marriage.
I LOVE THESE, PERFECT FOR A LADIES LUNCH!
I love using pretty dishes for birthdays and Christmas especially. It seems to make these special occasions feel even more special.
I’m more of a buffet style person — Thanksgiving is when I break out the nice dishes and try to make things look special.
Birthday dinners with my family are a special occasion at my home!