Good enough to eat (off of)
By Never teh BrideOnce upon a time, a certain aunt of mine had a series of plates depicting scenes from Russian folklore hanging on her dining room wall. I simply must find out what happened to those because they were awesome in a almost-no-one-will-understand-them and they would look great in my office.
When I was a tween, however, I went through a phase inspired by Franklin Mint commercials in which I associated any plate-on-a-wall with elderly ladies who obviously spent most of their Social Security checks buying things they saw advertised in Sunday’s coupon circular. Isn’t that the target demographic for all Franklin Mint products?
I did get over it, and I do have one wall plate in my house. Specifically, it’s a handmade plate fashioned by this weird potter that works out of a shack off a highway somewhere around the border between Nevada and California. My MIL presented it to us as an engagement gift, but it was only many months later that I realized it had a tiny hole in the back making it suitable for hanging.
All that exposition above was just a long-winded way of leading into the fact I’m lusting after these Good Luck Garden dessert plates from Anthropologie’s August catalog. Naturally, the darned things are sold individually, which means if you want to hang and display the lily, the marigold, the chrysanthemum, AND the peony, you’re ordering one at a time.
Of course, if you’re so inclined, you can eat off them, too.
