Casual Dinner for two

We often dine at our Breakfast Room table in the evening and often it is fireside. Especially now since our temperatures have dropped to the 20's at night. We are having a chilly Christmas here in North Florida.

We didn't have a fire in the fireplace this partiuclar evening but do very often. This room adjoins our kitchen and I call it the Morning Room. We begin our days here reading the paper and often end our evenings here with a casual dinner.

I pull my Christmas china the day after Thanksgiving if not Thanksgiving night and we use it the whole month of December. I have always loved the Spode Christmas Tree pattern since it is the oldest Christmas pattern and I do have some unusual pieces.

The handled cream soups with their own little saucer are one of those hard to find pieces. I only have eight but would love to have twelve.

I love the old-fashioned look of this tree on the dinner plates. The place mats were a find at a local linen shop and are by April Cornel.

The plaid napkins are also by April Cornel. I particularly like the casualness of the holly print with the plaid. The gold tree napkin rings were a find from many years ago and the hotel silver is my everyday pattern.

Fitz & Floyd salt and pepper.

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