About 25 years ago, my sweet mom and I were shopping in our local Reading China -- oh how I still miss that store. You could find just about anything there, and it was usually good quality at a good price, too. Anyway, I happened to spot these boxed sets of dishes on an endcap, and I was immediately hooked. For our entire married life (which at that time was only about eight years) I had used the cheap modest stoneware dishes that I bought at K-Mart when I first moved out into my own apartment. I don't have any pictures of those dishes, but I thought they were very pretty at the time. We also had some dinner plates passed down from Hal's mom that came from the potteries in Seagrove, North Carolina.
