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:
Hello Rhoda~ Thank you for sharing this giveaway with us. My parents don’t get to visit
often but, when they do I would love to have this special setting for such a wonderful time.
Hugs, Krys
I’d love those dishes for a Christmas dinner.
I love to set a very special table for my children’s birthdays.
For Christmas dinner
Your table looks so homey! I use my “good” dishes for all the usual occasions but love to get them out to make a special dinner for any loved one who may have had a rough day!
Anytime we have family or friends around our table is the perfect time to set a pretty table.
I love using beautiful dinnerware every day! It makes every meal with my friends and loved ones seem special.
LOVE those white dishes. I have fallen in love with white dishes too in recent years. I totally agree to use them everyday!
Love your tablescape, Rhoda! Those fresh cut hydrangeas are the final perfect touch! Cant wait to see pics of your yard in bloom.
Love Mikasa!!! I Dress up my table on Easter! Christmas! …..Gina F
Love white dishes. They are so versatile. I love to set a pretty table for birthdays and special occasions. Thank you for sharing with your readers.
I love to set a pretty table for all my ladies get-together…they always appreciate the extra special details!
Love your blog and read it 3 to 4 days a week. However, the give away program box does not work well at all. Was kicked out twice and it never did let me register.
Bunches of Birthday celebrations with family & friends…TY
Thanksgiving is my favorite special occasion for setting a pretty table.
My children have sold me on the “Just because” tea party, and setting a fancy table for it. It really is relaxed and you are able to enjoy the lovely table.
Anytime friends come over!
I entered the drawing and do not see my entry,
HI, Pat if you entered your email on the Rafflecopter widget and left a comment here, that’s all you have to do.
I like an everyday occasion where nothing special is happening at all!
I love these white dishes with your green! I enjoy setting a pretty table anytime, but especially when we have company, family or friends!
Sometimes when it’s just “us” for dinner, I like to set the table as if it’s a special occasion. Who else but family to use the good stuff for.