All Things Happen for a Reason - a photo on Flickriver

            A few weeks before Christmas, a very dear Flickr friend of mine in America sent me a wonderful Christmas parcel full of lots of lovely presents, including a set of six Sheffield Steel knives from the early 1950s with porcelain handles painted in pink and hand decorated and gilded.  She hoped that they might look good on my Christmas table, which they would have since the floral arrangement I made for my centrepiece this year consisted of pink roses.  What my friend did not count on was the backlog of Christmas parcels in the post.  Sadly, they did not arrive until after New Year, when I again had a floral centrepiece of pink roses in three different shades and pink carnations.

Well, things happen for a reason.  The day they arrived in the post was also the day that I discovered that the theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 20th of January is "cutlery"!  I immediately knew which cutlery I was going to photograph.  I went and pulled out my antique linen that I set the table with for formal occasions, plucked a few remaining blooms from my New Year centrepiece that were still good and used them to accessorise the knives as I photographed them.  My friend sent me these knives because she felt that they would give me joy to use them on my table, and give her joy to see me use them, and now she can see them in all their glory as they might have been!  I dedicate this photo to my very dear friend, and I hope that she likes my photograph of them.  I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!

These Sheffield Steel knives are just one set of several my American friend has in various colours including blue and green (her favourite colour).  The original set that inspired her to collect these style of knives were baby blue ones that were gifts on her parents’ wedding registry back in the early 1950s.  One day, she found a knife in the buffet drawers just like the blue ones, only with a pink handle.  She asked her beautiful Mother, who told her that the set was also made in pink and someone sent a pink knife in error as a wedding gift.

Taken on: January 7, 2023

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/2.8, 1/15 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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