While browsing the vintage markets on a weekend away in Dorset, I found a wooden cutlery tray & knew right away that I needed it ....
Kate at Cornucopia Bridport produced a second, matching one & I knew exactly where they would be used!
I love old cutlery, especially coloured cutlery that I use with my vivid table settings & just the week before a friend had moved & needed a cutlery tray so I gave her one of mine but plastic trays are never a favourite ....
Our cutlery is divided between the sideboards in the conservatory ...
Two additional vintage cutlery trays & 4 drawers of cutlery meant that it took a whole afternoon to sort it out into a workable order. Sometimes these simple tasks - transferring cutlery from plastic trays to wooden trays - just escalate into a whole afternoons sorting, especially when it involves photos too.
There is actually an order to the seemingly random drawers - conservatory trays hold the 'tea & cake' cutlery while the dining room drawers should contain knives, forks, spoons & serving cutlery ...
I love coloured cutlery - they just make ordinary place settings look special but they are not easily available & mostly hand-washable but we still love them. I like to mix old & new so the sorting reflects this ...
These are the 'tea & cake' drawers once they are sorted - do you have any favourites?
Some are vintage family cutlery from both hubby & my side for the dining-room
The coloured cutlery are all different styles, era's & patterns but are used together
Hand beaded gifts from South Africa that I use often
So a job well done - all the cutlery sorted. I know we will use them more often because they are easy to find & there is even a whole lot that no I no longer have any use for because you should not keep things that are not useful or beautiful :)
Do you have a cutlery drawer - or two, or three, of interesting bits or is your home streamlined?
Thanks for stopping by, always pleased to read the comments & return the visits,
Dee ~♥~
