I have to say that when I came across a full set of these dishes some months back I really wasn't sure whether or not I liked them. When I buy transferware to resell, my general rule is that I have to like it myself, not that my taste is better than anyone else's but just because I like what I do and I just don't have an interest in trying to sell something to someone that I wouldn't buy myself. Well, I let these dishes sit stacked in a pile at the shop for a long time. One day I took them out and began pairing them with other patterns in sage/light olive greens, oranges and browns. Wow, they are versatile. I set a table with these dishes paired with some April Cornell linens that had a black background filled with fruits and flowers in greens, reds and oranges. They just popped against the black background. They really began to grow on me. When I came across these leopard placemats for $2 each I knew I 'needed' them. Then I found this p