Our Formal China is Lenox Hannah Platinum, and we have Westbury Court Lyrical Blooms for casual/everyday china. We’ve got 12 place settings for the Lenox, and 8 for the casual china. We’ve only used the Lenox once or twice in the 7 years we’ve had it, but we use the casual china every day.
I have Terrace from Pfaltzgraff. We have half in the blueberry and half in buttercream (yellow).
Almost forgot. We also have Potter Barn Sausalito, which I think is the worst dinnerware ever made. Whatever it’s made out of, it gets nuc-u-lar hot in the microwave, and it’s really brittle. We had settings for 8, including cofee mugs, but the mugs transferred so much heat that they were almost impossible to drink cofee from. I was very happy when the last one (inevitably) broke. We’ve still got the plates, though. Rubbish.
Our everyday dishes are these Currier and Ives patterned.
Our formal dishes are Vintage Rose by Noritake.
You just brought back memories…those Currier & Ives dishes are the exact same ones my mom had when we were growing up! Do they still make them, or did you inherit a set?
We inherited these. I love them.
I love them, too. Mom’s set is all gone now…with 4 of us kids there was a lot of breakage, and then I think she just decided to get rid of them. 
Hey, good taste! 
I have two sets of china. One is this (Yamaka Sherwood), and the other is a plain white with gold rim (which I can’t find at the moment). My everyday stuff is by Oneida, a pattern called “Symphony” which I also can’t find. It’s white with white impressions in it.
I have a small set of Flow Blue GRACE by Grindley. It’s lovely but I don’t use it every day.
I just found this place, and LOVE it! Life is too short to use ugly dishes!!!
SheilaRaye
Links didn’t come through - will try again.
http://http://www.replacements.com/webquote/WW_HUS.htm#905411 the first link is to Hunting Scene, a pattern I’ve loved since I was little. I have a couple place settings I use once in a while. The other set I have that I use daily is Summer Chintz. http://http://www.replacements.com/webquote/JB_SUC.htm#4031199
My every-day are Corelle, which I love /hate for all the reasons posters above have said. I broke a plate well before Christmas and just got a shard in my heel this weekend. Im not that crappy housekeeper either, but I do have grooves in my hardwood floors that things stick in.
Im a vintage girl my pattern was probably one of the most common 60’s 70s china patterns Butterfly Gold My mom’s friend gave me these dishes after I moved back to Thunder Bay with a few duffle bags of stuff on the greyhound bus 7 months pregnant. It didn’t quite replace the cool set of Corelle I had got as a wedding present and never opened, but a lot of people smile when they see my dishes, it reminds them of someone /something from the 1970s.
My “good” dishes are Wakefield by Wedgwood. fFull service for 8, three platters, two serving bowls, and cream and sugar. $10.00 at a yard sale. I saw the box which said Nana’s autumn dishes, looked in, flipped them over, bargined down from 15 to 10 and ran like heck.
This is my Grandmother’s pattern Serenawhich my mom has, although it is supposed to be mine. I have no space for it, and its not my taste, but I would like to have a meal or two every year on it. I might go borrow some items for her birthday coming up. (She would have been 95 this year)
I love dishes. If I win the lottery I will have to have a “dish room” with floor to ceiling glass cabinets to hold all the sets.
Oh and some of the most fun is collecting a set from Thrift stores. I had collected a set identical that we had at the cottage but then my parents found and brought it “back” to the cottage…:smack:
I almost bought these the other day, on sale for 49.00 but I sort of figured having phone/cable internet trumped new dishes.
I really need a nice set of mugs though. My last set is down to one.
We only have one set, but we’re both in our twenties and it’s just the two of us, so there’s really no need! I have no idea how to search for this pattern so I just took a couple pictures, here and here. My mom bought them for us before we got our place, and we have one entire set in white and one in brown, but in the cabinet I have them stacked together, it looks nice! Plus my glasses are square, and I think it goes together perfectly
Our everyday dishes are Johnson Brothers Asiatic Pheasant blue. My mother bought me twelve place settings as a housewarming present/graduation present when I moved into my first apartment. I added bread plates and pasta bowls and serving pieces, over the years. Unfortunately I am now pretty much over the blue-and-white thing, but the dishes are such good quality (zero breakages, cracks, and chips over eight years of constant use… they look brand new still) that my frugal husband insists we keep them.
This Christmas I bought myself a set of special occasion dishes on eBay, Fashion Manor Laura. Someone else got the soup bowls, oh well, I have dinner plates and salad plates and berry bowls and cups & saucers for eight, as well as a serving platter and open vegetable dish. I bought a set of gold-toned repousse flatware to go with it. I love 'em.
Brings to mind Roger Ebert’s review of La Cage, the parents were to dinner, looked at the Grecian themed plates, with Greek boys doing…something…
I’ve never bought a set of china as I’ve always had dishes thrust upon me by people eager to get rid of theirs. Mr. Sali bought a set at Service Merchandise years ago, green and white Sango ‘Pavilion’, which I’ve filled in with Royal Norfolk garden-themed knockoffs of something more famous for $1 each at the Dollar Tree (and very nice they are). At Marshall’s I spotted a few I. Godinger & Co. ‘Primavera’ plates and bits and pieces, painted with exquisite little flowers and insects, trimmed with gold. Brings to mind having tea in an English country garden. I swooned! snapped up every piece there, and food really DOES taste better served on the ‘good’ plates…Up in a remote cupboard is a complete set of Noritake (?) ‘Pauline’ that will probably still be there when the house is sold after we die…But my first love, the dishes I will never forget, the dishes I lusted after and STILL lust after, which are unavailable, are Wedgwood ‘Wild Strawberry’. I wish I’d been able to buy them when we got married, but they were expensive, and besides, we had all those Service Merchandise dishes…
We have some mismatched plates that we both accumulated over the years, a set of china from a former neighbor, and this red/white set from Target that we use when we have guests.
The ones we bought back in 1985 - which were discontinued a month after we chose the pattern :mad:. http://cgi.ebay.com/Midwinter-Wedgwood-England-Blue-Print-Platter-NICE-/170589781948
The ones we got as the 1985 stoneware was getting sparse:
http://www.amazon.com/Noritake-Colorwave-16-Piece-Dinnerware-Service/dp/B0002PC7A4 (these have NOT held up well at all).
And the ones we’re gradually purchasing:
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=92818&CategoryID=32384.
I wanted a different pattern of the Denby - a blue one (you see the trend above) but they discontinued that one just as we were ready to start buying.
And the bone china we inherited from my aunt:
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/M__MAR.htm
Mostly Fiestaware. I am just a few pieces short of have at least one of each contemporary items and a number of vintage items. Just put my order in last night for the new marigold soup tureen that is coming out on April 1st.