I still find it quite laughable that, even though I detest the color blue, I have developed such a love for Cornflower. Wheat and French White are still my all time favorites, but there is just something about that little blue cornflower. It's not like normal blues. I guess one can be a walking paradox if one wishes.
I don't like Navy blue cause it depresses me... I don't like Cobalt blue because it just makes me feel nauseated. Royal blue & electric blue are just so insidiously in your face, that is annoys me. I don't like Robin's egg blue, because it feels cold and uncomfortable to me, as does most pale or light blues. Neon blue (an 80's fashion don't) never should have existed in the first place. Sky blue is OK, but it belongs outside, on the sky, not in my house. Mom's house use to be "dusty" blue ALL over the place in the 80's. Blue carpet, blue paint, blue wallpaper in the dining room, blue dishes, blue table cloth, blue sofa, blue chairs, blue dish towels, blue curtains, blue background pictures, right down to the Christmas ornaments.... Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue!!!! The inside of her Ford Escort Wagon was even Blue! ARGH!
I use to hide in my blessedly calm and soothing BROWN bedroom ALL the time to keep from being assaulted by BLUE! I am just an earth tone kind of guy. Give me olive green, dark eggplant purple, rich deep orange, dark golds and browns. (which is why I love the Wheat pattern so much)
But as I stated, there is just something about that little blue cornflower. It's a happy blue, it's a classy blue, and placed, as it is, upon a white background, it's a crisp and clean blue. It's a bright and eye catching, yet comforting blue. Maybe it's because I associate that little blue cornflower with delicious things coming from my Mom and Grandmother's kitchens.
All I know, is that THIS is the only blue for me.....
And now it graces my dinner table, for I have found a couple of the Centura dinner plates to match the smaller ones I recently found at the Salvation Army store.
As luck would have it, though they are not part of the original dinner service, I found a couple of coffee mugs too.
These mugs were released decades later than the Centura dinnerware. They are made out of, what I believe to be, Suprema, which completely supplanted Centura by the fact that it was microwave compatible. Besides, the original place cups (with saucers) were of a similar "coupe" shape to match the dinnerware and did not have a cornflower on them, they were simply white. (though the bowls, which I have yet to find, were solid blue)
So I just thought I would share an almost complete Blue Cornflower place setting.
It may not be actual Corningware, but all the pieces are some form of pyroceram, though both are glazed. (Yep, Suprema has to be glazed too)
Where is your Corningware??
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I don't like Navy blue cause it depresses me... I don't like Cobalt blue because it just makes me feel nauseated. Royal blue & electric blue are just so insidiously in your face, that is annoys me. I don't like Robin's egg blue, because it feels cold and uncomfortable to me, as does most pale or light blues. Neon blue (an 80's fashion don't) never should have existed in the first place. Sky blue is OK, but it belongs outside, on the sky, not in my house. Mom's house use to be "dusty" blue ALL over the place in the 80's. Blue carpet, blue paint, blue wallpaper in the dining room, blue dishes, blue table cloth, blue sofa, blue chairs, blue dish towels, blue curtains, blue background pictures, right down to the Christmas ornaments.... Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue!!!! The inside of her Ford Escort Wagon was even Blue! ARGH!
I use to hide in my blessedly calm and soothing BROWN bedroom ALL the time to keep from being assaulted by BLUE! I am just an earth tone kind of guy. Give me olive green, dark eggplant purple, rich deep orange, dark golds and browns. (which is why I love the Wheat pattern so much)
But as I stated, there is just something about that little blue cornflower. It's a happy blue, it's a classy blue, and placed, as it is, upon a white background, it's a crisp and clean blue. It's a bright and eye catching, yet comforting blue. Maybe it's because I associate that little blue cornflower with delicious things coming from my Mom and Grandmother's kitchens.
All I know, is that THIS is the only blue for me.....
So I just thought I would share an almost complete Blue Cornflower place setting.
Where is your Corningware??
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