A Breakfast Room Dinner

We start every day here with first coffee and then breakfast and we end every day here as well with first a martini and then dinner.

It's a small room, our breakfast room, and a small table so rarely do we dine here with dinner guests.

But one evening we had only five for dinner so, we decided to eat in the breakfast room -- watching the birds have their dinner as well.
A simple gold cloth, the gold napkins (in the silver napkin rings) and of course, the blue Spode. The blue and white oriental bowl which hold apples during the fall is the centerpiece . . .
My newest purchase -- these "new" old candlesticks. They look aged but they're actually new and I love anything bird especially in the breakfast room. They were a splurge -- a real splurge but I absolutely love them.
The metal bread basket was a new purchase as well and I'm thinking about getting a second for when we dine at the "big table".
It was really more of a supper than a dinner -- a first course of the last of the farmer's market tomatoes and fresh mozarella and fresh basil sprinkled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, followed by big bowls of Plaza III steak soup and a great baguette. Dessert was a four layer chocolate cake.

You see, I did have company that evening, but I spent the day in the city -- playing (for I bought the candlesticks and bread basket and had lunch with a friend). The soup slowly simmered all day in the crock pot and shamelessly, I bought the baguette and the four layer chocolate cake!

What's more important -- making ALL of the dinner myself and not having enough time to have friends over OR buy what I didn't have time to make and spend a nice evening with friends. I'll always chose the second!

It's Thursday which means that it's time for tablescapes. Please join Susan At Between Naps on the Porch to see how everyone's tables are set this Thursday!