Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Plates

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Open your kitchen cabinets and I bet you find some chipped plates in there. Go ahead... go look. They're in there, right? I know. I have 'em too. Those beautiful plates that I can't part with even though they're chipped. Or those that match nothing else in the cupboard and yet, never get discarded. When my husband and I first married we, like all newlyweds, registered for some dinnerware. Ours were/are from Crate and Barrel. I like them, but, well... they're kind of simple and big. I am not a fan of big plates. (See the 9 inch diet book that my husband shot with Alex Bogusky.) We thought for a while that we would get rid of them and buy a whole bunch of different plates from thrift stores and have a mix/match set. Fun! Then, my Mother-in-law gave us this amazing set of vintage leaf print dinnerware, tea cups and all that match our C&B set quite nicely. Well, that put an end to the mismatch idea straight away.

hung on the wall

more wall art

all white in the garden

After seven years of marriage I have several chipped plates and a few that match nothing. But no matter how badly I want to rid myself of the plates, I just can't bring myself to do it. Then I saw these images...

And while I absolutely love the look of this garden (and would love for mine to look like that), I wondered, "could this be done in a retro-modern way and look really cool?" I found this next image, jumped for joy and knew the answer was a resounding, "yes!"

colorful greatness

You can hang them on the wall, put them in the garden, smash them into bits for art sake; it's up to you. Just please, don't throw them away. They are tiny pieces of art in and of themselves. xo