Fall Leaves Turn Early on the Table: Anna Weatherley Autumn Impressions Plates

It's never to early to plan ahead. Fall is just around the corner and it's time to start thinking about your next table set. Anna Weatherley has a great collection of Fall inspired fine china called Autumn Impressions. The Amber cocktail serving plates are the perfect welcoming to Fall's arrival!

The Canape plate is six inches and is great for serving little appetizers. The Cocktail Leaf dish is four inches and the perfect size for an individual snack or perhaps a butter dish. Each plate is formed in the shape of a amber leaf and hand painted with such detail that they look like they were plucked straight from a tree; only the gold rimming gives it away. To complete your Fall inspired table, check out the rest of the Autumn Impressions collection by Anna Weatherley.

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Canape Plate Price: $262

Cocktail Leaf Plate Price: $148

Lush Tropical Palm Leaves by Roost Home Furnishing

Roost Home Furnishings has made a perfectly delightful salad or serving bowl. The Palm Leaf Bowls by Roost are made from porcelain and are shaped to form lush tropical palm leaves. Roost completes this look with a white matte finish, making it food safe for all your guests. This piece can easy be used for an end of the Summer party and then transition into Fall parties. The palm leaf comes is available in two sizes, small and large, it just depends on the number of people and what you are serving. Wood salad servers are an excellent touch and really draw in the natural look and feel.

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Price: $20-$68

What's Black, White, and Yellow All Over? Raynaud Tableware's Ombrages Dinnerware

The Ombrages Limoges dinnerware by Raynaud Tableware will create a elegant and modern table. The black, white, gold and yellow color combinations create such a strong color statement that it will capture the eye of any guest. Each plate, creamer, cup, or dish is adorned with an avant garde floral pattern that brings life to the table. This dinnerware comes in different background and foreground colors but the beauty of this design is that one may mix and match each piece to design a table set that is uniquely yours. Not only is this pattern available for the dinner table, it is also available in candle pots, vases, and candy dishes.

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Price: $26-$537

William Yeoward Carafes: A Wonderful Host/Hostess Gift!

According to NBC's Today Show "Trend Report" manners are a trend that never will go out of style. Saying "thank you" to a host or hostess is a must; especially if you ever want to get invited back. Showing your gratitude with a great gift is always a great way to guarantee that invite back. The "Trend Report" recommended some great gifts for your host or hostess including William Yeoward's carafes - and I can safely support this recommendation.

William Yeoward offers two luxurious carafes that can be used as a beautiful beverage service on the table or as a exquisite vase. The Wisteria Carafe by William Yeoward is my favorite and probably our most popular carafe. this crystal design is lovely and is accented with delicately etched leaves and vine. The Country Carafe is simple yet divine. It has the same crystal shape as the Wisteria Carafe but this one does not have the etched design. Say thanks to your summer host with William Yeoward's carafes.

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Wisteria Carafe Price: $106-$142

Country Carafe Price: $88-$116

Lynn Chase's Midnight Charger Adds a Dramatic Touch to the Table

Set the perfect mood with a beautiful table set! To create a dramatic table one needs to think in saturated colors and dimensions. A great way to add color and depth to a table is to use a charger plate as an under plate, in this case, used specifically for decoration.
The Midnight Charger by Lynn Chase has an amazingly dark black/brown with gold scaling on the rim and a thin gold band that will bring a dramatic and classy look to the table. It can be accompanied with almost any other dinner plate and give the table more dimension. Try a dinner plate that has a touch of gold to really make it tie together. It will look stunning on a table and give a dramatic and sophisticated look when accompanied by burning candles and lively flowers.

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Price: $65

Lady Primrose Vanity Trays to Keep Your Bathroom Vain

Vanity trays are a romantic way to show off your perfume bottles and lotions in a bathroom or powder room. Storing your bathroom items on a vanity tray can make your bathroom look ten times classier and more organized. There are so many vanity trays to choose from, so you need to pick the right one for your decor and personal style. Lady Primrose carries many wonderful vanity trays now in a few different styles.

Lady Primrose is known for their beautifully cut crystal decanters and bottles, so it is fitting that their primary vanity tray is made of crystal. The Large Crystal Vanity tray by Lady Primrose is exquisitely cut with a diamond design in the middle that bursts open into rays and is finished with a wonderful scalloped rim. For a different look, they now offer the Mirrored Vanity Tray. This is rectangular and completely mirrored for an uniquely reflective look that can be paired with a matching tissue box. Whatever your style, Lady Primrose creates excellent and high quality bathing products and accessories that can be found at Sallie home.

Crystal Tray Price: $40

Mirrored Tray Price: $60

Dinner and a Seascape View from the Table

The plates and platters from the Seascape dinnerware collection by Anna Weatherley are perfect accents for a nautical table. This collection consists of both animals and plants one could find around a pond or a an ocean. Frogs, shells, and lobsters are skillfully painted on each plate and platter and are all finished with gold around the rim.
The Hor D'oreuvre plates will bring aquatic life and color to the table. There are six different sea shells to pick from but each is more realistic and beautiful than the next - pick one shell or mix and match all six. The lobster oval platter ties the whole table motif in together exquisitely. Click here to view all of the Anna Weatherley china available at Sallie home.

Price: $248-$869

Contemporary Stemware: Pythagore by J.L. Coquet

J.L. Coquet is known for his avant garde designs and innovative style mainly in his creation of Limoges china. J.L. Coquet's style transcends his china and is used in his creation of his crystal stemware collection, Pythagore. The Pythagore stemware collection consists of contemporary designed glassware that will add a creative touch to any table. Each water, champagne, and wine glass in the collection has a linear cup that sits atop a cone-shaped stem, geometrically crafted to perfection by skilled artisans. For a more personal touch, these glasses are available in an array of colors including, clear, black, smokey grey, green, amber, ruby, and sky blue. If you are looking for something original and cutting edge for your table, look no more; you've found it with J.L. Coquet's Pythagore stemware collection.

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Price: $68-$90

Roost Beverage Dispenser: Outdoor Entertaining at its Finest

Keep your refreshments cool and accessible for your guests; they'll appreciate it in this hot summer weather! The Roost Marseilles Beverage Dispensers are the perfect addition to any outdoor party. Not only will it keep your guests hydrated, it looks beautiful on the table. The lid will keep the tempted bugs away unlike an open punch bowl. And the voluminous clear glass, showcases your beverage of choice - lemonade, fruit punch, sangria, what-have-you - and allows you to show off the actual fruit used for a nice refreshing and tasty touch.

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Price: $170-$220

Personalize Your Stemware: Varga Art Crystal Monogramming

Picking out china and crystal is a very personal thing, it expresses who you are. What better way for you to express yourself than by monogramming your initials onto your china or crystal. Varga Art Crystal offers a monogramming service using their same skillful techniques used when etching patterns onto their crystal. The crystal wine, water, flute, martini, DOF, highball glasses can all be monogrammed adding to their original brilliance. Even the whiskey decanter can be monogrammed, making it a perfect personal gift.

For even more personalization, they offer two styles of lettering, Vegetal and Ruban, and six different formats for the lettering. To order online from Sallie home, once in the checkout process, there will be a "note" box. Please specify what lettering and format you want your monogram in. Or just call 1-800-257-9167. To view more amazing Varga Art Crystal stemware and barware available at Sallie home, click here.

Victoria & Richard Jewelry, sooo hot right now

Since Victoria & Richard started making jewelry, it has been a hot commodity. In particular, the Glass Menagerie jewelry collection made of a variety of colorful beaded animals. The Glass Menagerie has taken the spot light over on all their other jewelry collections, but those other collections are just as exquisite.

The Haberdashery necklace, bracelet, and earrings are filled with color and texture. The glass beads that separate each tassel are unique and wonderful. The Sparkling Grape collection is created with beautifully cut crystal spacers and each bunch of grapes is made with many colorful glass beads. This collection is also accented with ribbon or bows or both, adding a special touch. The Poppy Cock, March Fourth and Ribbit are all fabulous; the Poppy Cock necklace is full of roosters and the March Fourth is full of penguins, and the Ribbit is hopping with frogs. All of Victoria and Richard jewelry is wonderful and will make any outfit special.

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Fine China as a Work of Art: Raynaud Limoges Tableware

I was at my cousin's house recently and in her dinning room she has her Raynuad Allee Royale china prominently hung on her wall as if it was a piece of art. It looks beautiful and it got me thinking, "china is an art and it should be displayed like any other sculpture or painting and not tucked away in a china cabinet."

The Raynuad Allee Royale, which like I said is my cousin's china pattern, is a perfect example as china as art. It is a wonderful combination of blues, golds and greens. The blue flowers are skillfully detailed and there is an intricate weave around the rim. It is a classic china pattern, that is, like any other work of art, timeless. This dinnerware can be used everyday and not just for dinner.

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Price: $36-$1,119

The Perfect Gift for Every Room: Agraria Petite Essence Diffusers

If you are looking for a great house warming gift, try the Agraria Nob Hill Petite Essence Collection. It contains four miniature air diffusers of Agraria's most popular scents, Bitter Orange, Lemon Verbena, Lavender and Rosemary, and Balsam. Each scent comes in a beautiful bottle with an antiqued mirrored tray to set it upon. The home owner can beautifully display a different scent in each room, warmly welcoming new visitors into their home.

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Price: $140

Lynn Chase Children's "Piggy" Banks

You've heard of a Piggy bank but how about a Rabbit Bank, Jaguar Bank or a Panda bank? Now-a-days children are learning to save their pennies in banks that are not exclusively pig-shaped.

Lynn Chase has a collection of children's "piggy" banks that come in an array of colorful animals like the rabbit, jaguar, or panda. The Forest Friend Rabbit Bank is cute and green, surrounded by the outdoor foliage and butterflies. The Jungle Jaguar Bank holds the money in a sleeping jaguar. And the Jungle Party Panda Bank is so adorable chewing on his bamboo. All of these would be a great gift for any child, any age; it's never too early to learn the value of a dollar, plus it's a great accessory for the child's room. Click here to see all the wonderful gift ware by Lynn Chase, available at Sallie home.

Price: $25-$40

Annieglass Water Lily: A Refreshing Addition to the Table

Annieglass Water Lily dinnerware and serving pieces are a modern work of art. Each piece is made from hand-sculpted glass that is dishwasher safe and durable enough for everyday use. The creator made each piece with the vision that food tastes better on a beautiful plate and should be a feast for the eye not only the palette. The Water Lily is beautifully sculpted to mimic the beauty of the flower floating on water. It is definitely a refreshing look for your table. Click here to view all of Annieglass' hand-sculpted dinnerware and serving pieces available at Sallie home.

Price: $50-$109

Raynaud Tableware is on the The List

Raynaud Tableware's Cristobal Chop plate is the perfect size for entertaining whether it be a buffet or a sit down, elegant dinner. The chop plate is verstaile in use; you can have your guest eat from it or you can serve them from it. This plate has a beautiful coral design middle encompassed by a skinny gold band - perfect for a summertime beach party. According to St. Louis Magazine, this plate is on "The List," the guide for St. Louis hipsters, hot happenings, cool people, and coveted objects. Check out this plate and other Raynaud dinnerware for your next dinner party at Sallie home.

Price: $277

Softest Sheets; Sallie home Has Them!

In St. Louis Magazine's July issue, they have awarded Sallie home with the title of "Softest Sheets" in 2008 - part of their St. Louis A-List 08' guide. We would like to thank our loyal customers for supporting us and consistently shopping in our store. Though Sallie home sells more than just bed linens(we offer top-of-the line dinnerware, tabletop and gifting items, too), the store began 30 years ago to fill the void of luxurious bed linens in St. Louis. For this reason, we pride ourselves on offering the world's best bed linens, and why we stock brands like SFERRA, Matouk, Yves Delorme and Peacock Alley. We know the value of a good night's rest and hopefully our sheets will help. Click here to see all the linens, tabletop, and gift items Sallie home has to offer your home!

Classic and Elegant; Hawthorne Limoges Dinnerware by Raynaud Tableware

The Hawthorne Collection by Raynaud Tableware is classic and elegant. This collection may seem plain at first glance compared to a lot of Raynaud's collection, but it's beauty is in it's detailing. The detailing blends in quite lovely with the rest of the plate as it is all in white and just slightly raised. Around the rim of the plates and along the body of some pieces like the gravy boat there are beautiful flowers and leaves connected by vines. Each piece is cut with curves and scalloping to give it an extra flare.

The Hawthorne collection is so beautiful and simple that it would be wonderful for everyday use - that is if you like doing dishes by hand. However, this collection is elegant enough to be used in formal settings as well. It is a versatile collection that is also timely. Click here to view all of Raynaud's dinnerware collections available at Sallie home.

Price: $15-$463

Crocodile Wastebasket and Tissue Box by Habitat International

The crocodile pattern has shown up in fashion for years; it just never seems to go out of style. Recently there has been an influx of this crocodile pattern in home interiors. It is a more modern and sophisticated look in home decor. Habitat International creates a beautiful line of these modern accessories for the home and tabletops.

Habitat International's Crocodile Wastebaskets and Tissue Boxes are great accessories for your home bath, bedroom or office. Their collection of Crocodile wastebaskets and tissue boxes are so handsome and come in an array of bright colors - all which are hand painted on. Together or separate these pieces stand out in a home. And don't worry, PETA won't be knocking on your door, all of these crocodile items are made of a faux leather fashioned to look like crocodile skin.

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Price: $40-$81

Ocean and Land Collide to Create Anna Weatherley's Coquille Dish

The Majestic Coquille Dish by Anna Weatherley is a beautiful overall nod to the outdoors, both aquatic and land. The matte-gold shell-shape of the dish represents the wonders of the ocean and the leaves and butterflies represent the luscious green outdoors. This harmonious combination creates a striking and durable porcelain dish that is becoming on any table or in any house, and is the perfect accent to many of Anna Weatherley’s other collections.

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The Perfect Leather Chair for Any Father

Every father needs a place of solace. In most houses some are lucky enough to have their own office or den - a man's room. In a room like that, the Cartwright Fireside chair would fit right in - fitting the decor and feel of the room. The Cartwright is a handsome leather chair designed by Steel Strike and manufactured in the rugged mountains of Colorado. Beautiful leather tooling and design make this chair one-of-a-kind. Click here to view all the wonderful Steel Strike hand crafted wood and leather furniture and tabletop accessories available at Sallie home.

Price: $4,125

A Chic Look for a Modern Table; Jaune de Chrome

Jaune de Chrome's dinnerware and serving pieces have a distinguishable style. With a simple form, clean cut lines, and little ornament, these pieces posses a modern feel. The Spangled Black collection is just that; modern, chic, and unique. It almost has the look of a black granite but is made of a porcelain and then covered with an amazing glaze.

If you love coffee and tea as much as I do then you need to check out the Spangled Black Atoll Tea/Coffee Pot,the Spangled Black Atoll Creamer, and the Spangled Black Atoll Covered Sugar Bowl. These pieces are amazing and will work on with any modern table day or night.

Sallie home is no longer a carrier of Jaune de Chrome.

Victoria & Richard Emprise Flower Pots For Your Garden

The flowers are in full bloom and the time has come when you can stop worrying about night freeze and plant your flowers outside. Flowers are beautiful in themselves but, when you plant them in a plain terra-cotta pot you take away their full potential. One needs a vessel just as beautiful to plant their flowers in. Victoria & Richard Emprise have created some amazing pots that are perfect for the garden.
The Victoria & Richard flower pots come in many different shapes, styles, and sizes; guaranteeing you'll find one to fit your needs. The Plain Jane pot may be the classical pot style but it is anything but a Plain Jane. If you like more style and a more ornate look, the Lattice Lass is for you. All are made of a freeze resistant terra-cotta, are hand-made and feature a detailed Victoria & Richard crest. Click here to view all of Victoria & Richard's garden, home and jewlery accessories available at Sallie home this spring.

Wine 101: Vagabond House Antler Corkscrew

The Vagabond House Corkscrew is a wonderful gift for the wine connoisseur. This is a stunning piece to add to a barware collection . The handle of the corkscrew is made from Vagabond's House's classic naturally shed stag antler. The rest of the corkscrew is simple, with a black body and pewter wings. The rustic look and feel of this wine corkscrew makes it a perfect gift for a Dad on Father's Day. To add this corkscrew and other wonderful Vagabond House pieces to your barware collection, click here.

Price: $101

Varga Crystal Imperial Compote: Fit For a King's Table

A crystal compote is a classic gift to give someone; a compote is both beautiful and useful. The Imperial Compote by Varga Art Crystal is one-of-a-kind. The Imperial pattern is everything the name implies. Beading encircles the bowl bordering simple flowers and a detailed pot with a curled fern spurting out; a royal design. Standing three inches tall, it is the perfect accessory for any table. One can use it as a candy dish, a condiment server, or just purely as decoration. It is a wonderful gift for any home. Click here to view all of the Varga Art Crystal available at Sallie home.

Price $240

Steuben Glass Baseballs for Father's Day

One of the biggest bond between father and son (or daughter) is the love for America's favorite past time, baseball. Commemorate this bond and the 2008 baseball season with the Steuben Glass Baseball for Father's Day. The Steuben Glass Baseball is a beautiful replica of a baseball, down to the detailing of the stitching, made from quality crystal. Placed on a desk or shelf, it is a wonderful reminder of the giver and the bond they share. The Steuben Glass Baseball is the perfect gift for the dad who loves baseball and you!

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Price: $600

Contre-Jour by Raynaud; Combining Photography and Porcelain

Contre-Jour dinnerware and serving pieces by Raynaud are inspired by the photography and designed by Marina Chastenet. Many of the photographs used are of flowers and plants. The photography used, suggested by the name Contre-Jour, was taken with the camera pointing directly towards the source of light. This creates a strong light and dark contrast that emphasizes lines and shapes - like the veins of leaves.

The Contre-Jour collection created nature-inspired pieces that show plants and flowers in their organic form. On each piece of Limoges porcelain there is a photographic image of flowers and plants, like poppies and hydrangea leaves, painted in their full intricacy. The Contre-Jour covered sugar bowl is striking. The almost transparent, sepia-hued, flower image is painted from the base upward, spilling onto the top of the lid.

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Price: $49-$486