"HIRAETH" AND THOSE PLACES OF VALUE
"Hiraeth" is a Welsh word that means a nostalgia or an inexpressible longing for a time or a place or an experience that has not actually...
MY GRANDMOTHER'S DEPRESSION ERA SOUTHERN CHOCOLATE CAKE (beware, the original recipe called for
For my mother's 90th birthday, I am making HER mother's chocolate cake whose recipe has been in the family since the 1930's. However,...
"PITTI SING" from "THE MIKADO" series of dessert plates
I thought it would be interesting to create a series of hors d'oeuvre plates decorated asymmetrically with the characters and related...
6" by 6" Adaptor Aesthetic Trellis Tile
Many of my first designs were created for application to a 4"by 4" or 4 1/4" by 4 1/4" tile. Above a certain sized area, the resulting...
Aesthetic Movement inspired scene
One of the very first "antiques' I ever purchased was this English tureen transfer decorated in the Aesthetic Movement style. To a child...
A "bain de Marie"
According to "LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE" the term "BAIN MARIE" was originally a term used in alchemy which eventually evolved to refer to a...
David B. Kelly Design: "TREE PEONY"
THE TREE PEONY PATTERN FIRED ON A HALL CHINA OVAL SERVING PLATTER I am satisfied with the balance of the large scale image of the blossom...
Everyday Earthenware
Should the plates and bowls that one uses every day for meals somehow be considered as unimportant-something prosaic, something that...