{"id":10707,"date":"2016-02-18T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:05:06","slug":"whimsy-for-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10707","title":{"rendered":"Whimsy for the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0009\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1708\/25066731806_b95cf4f835_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0009\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1708\/25066731806_d02a1c619a_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0009\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really loving all the sweet, whimsical plate designs I&#8217;ve been seeing lately. I picked up a few of these <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropologie.com\/anthro\/product\/home-dinner-collections\/C36560423.jsp#\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Farm<\/a><\/em> dessert plates by London artist Holly Frean for the boys and they make dinner time (and breakfast time, and lunch time) a lot of fun&#8230; especially when we put English cucumber slices over the eyes to look like sunglasses!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0001\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1615\/25066730596_f839a71172_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1615\/25066730596_64ba081742_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rabbit in the upper left (which I found in West Elm for $5) is from artist Rachel Kozlowski&#8217;s collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westelm.com\/products\/dapper-animal-plates-e735\/?pkey=call-dining%7C%7C#opi1781206115\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dapper Animal Plates<\/em><\/a>. The quality of the plates is very good &#8212; already these have been through the dishwasher a few times and banged around a bit with no chipping. I would say that the West Elm collection is even sturdier than the Anthropologie plates &#8212; thicker and more substantial if you&#8217;re going to use them with kids.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0010\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1605\/25093054775_758226deec_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0010\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1605\/25093054775_c3bbc36b73_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Owl\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1591\/24470968883_6a3d0dd4e9_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1591\/24470968883_6a3d0dd4e9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Owl\" width=\"425\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have my eye on this owl to add, but unfortunately it was not in the store and I couldn&#8217;t justify shipping <em>one<\/em> plate!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paradiseplate\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1671\/24730476489_cc3e215f13_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Paradiseplate\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1671\/24730476489_cc3e215f13_z.jpg\" alt=\"Paradiseplate\" width=\"425\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of plates, I am also <em>crazy<\/em> for this design by New Orleans artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropologie.com\/anthro\/product\/home-dinner-collections\/38070389.jsp#\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelley Hesse<\/a>. Aren&#8217;t the colors beautiful?<\/p>\n<p>Happy dining!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really loving all the sweet, whimsical plate designs I&#8217;ve been seeing lately. I picked up a few of these The Farm dessert plates by London artist Holly Frean for the boys and they make dinner time (and breakfast time, and lunch time) a lot of fun&#8230; especially when we put English cucumber slices over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whimsy for the Table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}