Shelf and Rose Plates

I found this old shelf at a thrift store last year. It was spray painted a dark brown so I sanded and sanded and painted it a nice white (I wish I had taken a before picture of the shelf). I love the curves and lines.

I thought it would be a good place to display my rose dishes and cups and I do like it but after taking pictures and seeing them on the computer, it looks a little plain.

I have more plates that are larger than the plates on the shelf and I was thinking I would use plate hangers to hang them on the wall around the shelf in the order below.

I thought about putting a couple of larger plates on the shelf but then I would be overlapping them and I'd like to see the entire plate. 

What do you think?

I've been looking at this for months and, as usual, I can't decide.

If I do this, I think I need one more larger plate in place of that smaller one on the lower left.

Our weather has been so perfect for the last 4 days I just had to make a trip to the garden center for some impatiens and I found 2 beautiful peonies.

This one is called Sea Shell, I think it's gorgeous, the picture doesn't do it justice at all.

The fragrance is divine and it's a large flower.

And one soft pretty pink peony to replace the one that never blooms.

I love peonies.

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