Home and Gardening With Liz: Roma

January 25, 2012

Swirling with Mikasa

Monday Jan. 16th I was notified by Mikasa that I had won a sweepstakes of theirs! I had entered a tablescape on their new "The Great Dinner Party" web page. They did a random drawing and I won 8 place settings of a pattern called Swirl. There were 5 colors to choose from so I chose

Swirl Chocolate!

I chose to mix them with a couple of other dishes so they could be highlighted more. Their dark color proved to be challenging to take pictures of!

As you can see they are a very deep chocolate color

I staged them on a charger that has a woven design. I used a simple white dinner plate between the first two layers

I added in a small red dish to give a punch

of color and

I layered their bowl on top, but it still felt like it needed more color

So I added the small square bowl and rolled a napkin thinking of the shape of an egg roll! I felt like the unique bowl shape of the Mikasa

Swirl dish felt Asian in design so I decided to work with that theme.

This very oversized hurricane was chosen and I put river rocks in the bottom, set a tall pillar candle in the center and used some miniature sea shell covered balls to accent around it.

The white placemats also have a pearly swirl design on them and my white flatware came into play again!

These glasses are unique in their slightly swirled design and I was lucky that their green color worked well with everything else!

I have to admit I started out with a whole different idea, but once I started rummaging through my linens, dishes and flatware my direction took a new course!