Sometimes you just can’t resist a challenge, other times you are lured there bit by bit.  Cee does her very best to make it fun and I do like to reciprocate.  I started out with my head full of Greek amphitheatres and quirky gnomes pushing spherical balls in Wroclaw, but look where I ended up!

You know I’ve been mentally wandering the Greek Islands lately?  Well, it was on one of those islands (and right now, I don’t recall which) that the great plate adventure began.  We had recently moved into a house with a Delft rack, and it seemed a shame not to use it.  Standing outside a Greek pottery shop, I chanced to admire a plate in the window, and right there the collection began.

Not the cheesey “souvenir from Corfu” type, you understand.  Oh no!  Far more tasteful than that.  But it did become a feature of our holidays for a number of years that we aided the local economy with a carefully chosen plate.

I think these dolphins were our first.

I loved this one! It has a matching vase too.

Of course, we had to have the traditional style as well.

Even though they were a little cheesey!

I did like this one , from Rhodes

And this metallic one caught my fancy too.

Back in the UK, I spotted some beautiful Russian plates in a magazine.  A semi-naked kitchen wall seemed to be crying out for a little attention.  Before I knew it, I was collecting again.  Aren’t they a lovely shape?

This post gives me the opportunity to try out the circles format in the WordPress gallery.  If you click on the first of each series of plate you can see them in close up.  Sorry the photography’s not great.  Much scope for practise, methinks!

I guess I just like plates!  I even started to receive them as presents.  This little one normally sits on the top shelf of my china cabinet.  No, I’m not going to show you the entire contents of the cabinet.  A girl has to have some secrets.

Pretty, isn’t it?

Thanks Cee, for this opportunity to mess around with circles.  You’ve properly cheered me up.  Head over to Cee’s page for some totally different takes on circles and curves, and some much better photography.