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DIY: Hang Plates on a Wall
If you read my slideshow on how to decorate on the cheap with pretty plates, you might be feeling inspired to hang some in your own home. Before you get started, there are a few steps you should learn, so you don't wind up with shattered materials for a mosaic instead. While you can just hang a trio evenly spaced on a wall, you'll make more of a statement if you group them in a more unique arrangement.
How-To: Decorate on the Cheap With Pretty Plates
If your budget is a little tight right now for wall art including painting, prints, or simply getting that favorite photo properly framed and matted, relax: there's another inexpensive option for dressing your walls with style and flair. Beautiful, graphic plates can look just as stunning as an expensive painting when they're displayed well. Check out some of my favorite plate displays, as well as tips on getting the look.
Do You Have Any Plates Hanging at Your Home?
I love the effect of a carefully arranged grouping of plates. Depending on how you execute it, it can look either wildly modern or downright traditional. Either way, it's a lovely way to decorate your walls.
Have Your Dandelion Plate and Eat It Too
Moms panicked during the BPA scare and some of us have even opted to feed our wee ones primarily organic diets. Once the wholesome food is prepped, is there a safe way to serve it?
Dandelion ReUseable Toddler Plates ($7 per set) are made from a unique corn formula which provides a nice alternative to petroleum-laden plastic tableware.
Guess Who Illustrated These Plates?
These illustrated plates are hung in the fashionable hallway of Max and Lubov Azria's home, featured this month in Harper's Bazaar. Can you tell me who illustrated them?
Do You Own Fashionable Servingware?
Do You Own Fashionable Servingware?
Of course! My dining and servingware is incredibly stylish.
Lil Links: Food on the Plate Face
- Food face plates — Cookie
- Isla Fisher enjoys being a full-time mom — Celebrity Baby Blog
- Kate Winslet takes her honey, Mia to school — Celebrity Baby Scoop
- Are babies an no-no during recession? — Fit Pregnancy
- Amy Roloff shares the good, the bad and the ugly — Parentdish
- Sexy food to put parents in the mood — Health
- How to survive being the only woman in the house — Alpha Mom
- Childfree by choice — Momversation
- I hate my kid's friends — Cafe Mom
Off to Market: Heart Kitchenware
Last year I received a spatula with pretty pink hearts on it as a hostess gift. At first, I thought it was a little cheesy, but now it's my favorite kitchen tool! To encourage you to cook with more love, let's head off to market in search of heart kitchenware.
Off to Market: Christmas Plate
When I was growing up, we had a special Christmas plate that was reserved for serving Santa Claus. Every Christmas Eve, my sister and I would take the pretty plate, place the most perfect cookies on it, and set it out by the tree. To relive old memories, I went looking for the long lost plate.
Nice and New: Kate Spade Holly Heights Tidbit Plates
You can count on Kate Spade to infuse full-on girliness into her holiday décor. Spade's candy-colored Holly Heights Tidbit Plates ($50) are good enough to eat! The set of two green/yellow and two red/pink plates has ample festivity for holiday entertaining, but the central starry snowflake pattern is subtle enough that you can pull off the plates all year long.
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