What I want for Christmas

ThetaPrincess24 · #1 11-25-2007, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by als463

Okay, after reading "A Southern Belle Primer" I always wondered if it was true about the china and silverware patterns...This kind of makes me wonder if it is true...I'm from the North, so can either one of you ladies elaborate for me how important silverware and china patterns are to Southern women? In the book it even comments something along the lines that a "very" Southern mother has gone as far as determining whether or not her son's new wife will last based upon her silverware pattern...I'm sure it's not that bad-but, is it really a big deal to have nice silverware and china in the South? I'm curious and find this to be very interesting...

I'm not sure about all of that stuff (i'm from Kentucky which is southern but not "old south" southern). It was a big deal to my mother and the ladies of the neighborhood I grew up in as well as silver tea service sets. My husband's father was manager of the Dillard's home store here for 30 years so obviously nice dinnerware is a big deal in his family because they had/have all of that stuff. When my husband and I have guests over for dinner, presentation is just as important to us as the food itself, so we like to have nice china with a complete set of silverware that matches in addition to our formal wine glasses and crystal drinkware.

As far as having gold silverware or silver silverware, my husband has a set of real silver silverware from his last marriage (for whatever reason the ex didnt want any of the crystal, china, or silverware) but we rarely if ever use that. I'm planning on giving that china and that silverware to my step daughter when she moves out and has a place of her own down the road. I dont feel like that set of china or that set of silverware belongs to me.

summer_gphib · #2 11-25-2007, 10:15 PM

I want a nintendo wii, new cookware (le creuset is what I want but I doubt I get it...

) , new towels and stuff for my new house. I'm getting new furniture (living room and dining room) I'd also like to have a new bedroom set, but I'm not buying that until the house is almost finished (in the spring).

LPIDelta · #3 11-25-2007, 10:35 PM

I want my husband to stay safe...and while I wish he would be home for Christmas, I'll settle for February.

Nothing else really compares to that...

scbelle · #4 11-26-2007, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by LPIDelta

I want my husband to stay safe...and while I wish he would be home for Christmas, I'll settle for February.

Nothing else really compares to that...

LPI, I know that feeling well... I was there just last year. I hope your wish comes true!

Since my hubby is home this Christmas, I want:

The Lucky Shopping Manual
A Lush gift card
a medium brown pocketbook
and new tourmaline ceramic hair appliances (dryer, flat iron, curling iron)

ThetaPrincess24 · #5 11-26-2007, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by scbelle

LPI, I know that feeling well... I was there just last year. I hope your wish comes true!

Since my hubby is home this Christmas, I want:

The Lucky Shopping Manual
A Lush gift card
a medium brown pocketbook
and new tourmaline ceramic hair appliances (dryer, flat iron, curling iron)

I own the Lucky Shopping Manual. If you get it from someone or buy it as a gift to yourself you'll enjoy it! It's quite helpful.

catiebug · #6 11-25-2007, 10:36 PM

I have the china (Noritake Silverdale), sterling (Reed * Barton French Renaissance) and crystal (Marquis Waterford Claria) - all very simple except the sterling (which is combined from my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, so I have place settings in sterling for 36).

All I want for Christmas is my children home safe and sound, my family gathered around me. If I have that, I am complete.

SWTXBelle · #7 11-25-2007, 10:39 PM

LPIDelta - hope you get your wish!

bejazd · #8 11-25-2007, 10:44 PM

Do you all have Papyrus paper and card stores?? Yesterday I bought a beautiful card there with a crescent moon made of pearls! It reads "I'm over the moon for you"

SWTXBelle · #9 11-25-2007, 10:48 PM

ooooo. . . sounds great!

honeychile · #10 11-25-2007, 11:46 PM

ThetaPrincess, I love the Tribeca pattern! I'm sure it goes with everything and looks lovely.

I can't speak for everybody, als463, but with each piece of china or sterling I've inherited, there's been a story about how it spent "the war" in the well, or was purchased in celebration of a first child, or was given to an ancestor as a special momento. Most of my serving sterling doesn't match, but I rather use a 160-year-old ladle full of history than a new one that matches! And no one could ever talk me out of having the dent in my teapot "corrected". That would just be wrong, IMHO. So obviously, I wanted a pattern that complimented these pieces, not one that clashed. I also believe in Marilyn Vos Savant's comment that, when one hits 40, one uses the good china & sterling everyday - and the sterling looks SO much better when you do! But back to the topic at hand:

LPIDelta, I hope that there's a mixup in the traveling orders, and your husband gets home safely & soundly, and before Christmas. catiebug, I see no reason why your wish shouldn't be granted, either.

-a gift certificate for landscaping
-several books
-a studio portrait of my mother & I (we've never had one taken!)
-a spa weekend
-Family Treemaker 2008
-time, time, and more time. It's going to be a busy year, and I haven't even started to think about what I really want.

The boy just called, and asked how I feel about smallish Robins' Egg Blue boxes. I don't dare to think...

KSUViolet06 · #11 11-26-2007, 12:47 AM

On my list this year:

*a new laptop (preferably one of the newer Dells)

*new linens/comforter set that I saw at Bed Bath & Beyond

*dresser I saw at Ethan Allen

That's really all I want. I'm a simple girl.

cheerfulgreek · #12 11-26-2007, 01:58 AM

I haven't given it much thought.