I'm not sure if anyone else falls in this boat, but I was lucky enough to receive some beautiful china and silver for my wedding (Raynaud's Heloise china pattern and Towle Chippendale sterling ). I love them both, but can't seem to use them very often. I've started cooking a nice Sunday dinner using them, but I'm beginning to feel a little wasteful with all this nice stuff that I don't use. So, I have a few china/silver questions:
1. What are your patterns?
2. When do you use it?
3. How do you store it?
4. Do you think it was a good present?
5. Is your silver in the silver pattern zodiac? (I'm a yankee, but my mother and grandmother had my pattern, and I think it's beautiful!)
Now, I'm going to eat my left over pad thai on the good stuff!
I use mine pretty much everytime I eat, unless we're eatign outside or just heatign soemthing in the microwave. I store mine in a china cabinet (on the display shelves) now, but before we had that, I just kept it in a cabinet in the kitchen.
I think its a great gift! We bought the china ourselves with money we received for our wedding, but the silver was probabaly one of our most appreciated gifts- especially sicne we use it al the time.
I have no clue what a pattern zodiac is. All I knwo is that I liek mine. lol