Show Us Your Life: China Patterns

The topic this week at Kelly's Korner is china patterns. I love china. When we registered for ours 4+ years ago it was really hard to select just one! And even though I LOVE our china, every time I walk through Macy's I see something that I think I love even more. Alas, we can only register once (I'm still thinking of starting a campaign to allow brides/wives to re-register like every 5 years or so). We registered for formal china as well as more casual, everyday dinnerware. Our formal pattern is Lenox Westerly Platinum:

And here it is being put to good use:

That was Thanksgiving 2008, and other than an anniversary dinner or two with just me and Paul, it was the only time in 4 years that We've used it. But I don't care. We have plenty of time to use it more.

Our casual pattern is Denby Jet Stripes. This is what we use day to day.

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