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Monday, January 19, 2015

Well, Hello Sunshine

Look what we've got here!!! Sunshine!!! After living in Cleveland, Ohio three times, you'd think that I'd be used to dreary skies during the winter, but I've been sorely missing our Georgia sunshine this winter. I can't remember such a grey, grey stretch.

This was a cheerful bunch of Kroger flowers and they begged to come home and replace some of these darned poinsettias that just won't give up. I have such a hard time throwing good plants out, but I'm so over them.

Here's this morning's cheerful breakfast table. Since today is MLK day, Mr. Pressed Pants slept in and my mom, who is visiting, ALWAYS sleeps in, I had time to greet them with a bright and sunny table in the breakfast room.

These exuberant plates from Target set the tone. What's better than a shot of pink and green?

The table accessories were fun, too. The s/p set and the cow creamer are both from Pierre Deux years ago. The majolica leaf dish is a good choice to hold sugar packets, both full and then empty. The French butter dish and twig spreader finish it off.

The pink napkins are from the Palm restaurant line of linens, the knot napkin ring from Old Time Pottery, and the flatware is from Cost Plus World Market. Nothing precious here but the guests!

This glass stoppered bottle and Ikea green glasses both held the oj.

Just a cozy three for homemade French toast and strawberries. (You can tell it's a holiday when I make French toast, and not use frozen.)

My soul must have needed some pink, because it sure makes me smile.

See the sunshine out there?

"Bartholomew" is enjoying it, too. Now, if this holds, there's a round of golf for me this afternoon.

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Centerpiece Wednesday

Show and Tell Friday

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Inspire Me Tuesday

Table It

Home Sweet Home

Sheltered Nest Friday

French Country Home

Wow Us Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style

Make It Pretty Monday

The Dedicated House

Fridays Unfold

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Ready for Some Blue and White

Join me, as I repost this at a new linky party that the wonderful Jennifer at

The Pink Pagoda

is offering called the Blue and White Bash. If you don't already follow her, you'll want to!

I know I've been MIA for a long time, but travel is done for a while, Mr. Pressed Pants is feeling better, and I'm feeling more like a member of the human race. Between sickness and "stuff", we haven't entertained hardly at all since before Christmas. But today I feel the urge to set a cheerful table and celebrate our good fortune. (More later.) Out came my favorite blue and white dishes to dance with three little pots of tete-a-tete daffodils.

I'll serve breakfast here tomorrow, but since I can't photograph that early, I set this up today. As you can see, blue does not exactly complement my breakfast room furnishings, so it sits on the shelf most of the time. Since Mom is visiting and she's a blue and white girl, this is the time to give it a whirl.

This little wood and wicker stand holds three terra cotta pots perfectly. I added a ribbon of yellow and white gingham.

I further used yellow in the rick-rack edged napkin and the straw coaster. That's enough. Just a hint of sunshine here. The dishes closely resemble Royal Copanhagen's Blue Fluted dinnerware, but they are much heavier and much less precious. They are actually vintage and made by Shenago Pottery. I've been collecting it for years. The blue flatware is so old that I can't remember where I got it. I didn't get a good picture of the napkin rings. They have a blue willow pattern on them. I used a mixture of delft, blue willow, and transferware with these dishes. They all like each other!!!!!

Here's a close-up of the individual salt and pepper shakers taken frrom a post of a Labor Day table. You can see it here.

The juice glasses are just a generic blue glass. Maybe from Pier One???

I have not been able to find the matching saucers for the coffee cups, but I did find the plain blue line saucers, and they are working just fine.

Since I'm serving fruit, I am using these Delft handled fruit knives. We won't need all six, but they look so nice in the holder that they all get to come to the party.

Don't you love them?

I'll serve milk in this sweet French reproduction milk bottle. I found it at World Market at Christmas time and gifted myself with it! It came in red, too, and I'm very proud of myself for not buying the red as well. (yet)

Here's a special little treasure. You have no doubt seen lots of old wooden boards that are carved with "bread". There are also old wooden handled bread knives with "bread" carved into the handle. This was designed to go with them, but for some reason, very few of them survived. Probably because the little tiny transferware plate broke and they were thrown away. I'm very careful with it, because I'd probably never find the right size plate to replace it. The mother-of-pearl handled butter knife got to join us just because it has a white handle!

Not far from us, there was a horrific tornado yesterday that did a huge amount of damage. Some of our friends were impacted, but not physically hurt. There was a death, and I'll hold that person's family and friends in my prayers. Although the rest of the loss was material, I am aware that some of that "stuff" was precious and irreplaceable and I'm so sorry for anyone who has to put the pieces back together from this storm. The flooding is now another issue and it can only add to the misery. This awful situation has snapped me out of my inertia and reminded me that I should celebrate every day!

I'm joining:

Monday, December 12, 2011

A Little More Decor

My last post showed you the way our front door, entryway, and living room turned out. You can see it here.

Today I'll show you our bar, breakfast room and kitchen. Here is the English Setter tray on the wall as you enter the bar in the back of the house. This photo must have been taken from a funny angle, because I promise you that this greenery isn't this strangely shaped! It looks like a hat you could wear to a royal wedding! But you get the idea. Don't stand still around here or you'll end up with a bow and some greenery!

The drop leaf table holds an arrangement with the resin pheasant that you've seen here. The top shelf holds some canvas Santas and the bottom one has several wood grained candles from Pottery Barn.

I've used a lot of the same items here that I have on the tree in the living room.

Under the pub sign, I've placed some very special Santas. They are hand painted wooden cutouts that my mom and dad made for me years ago.

The keeping room lends itself well to the colors of the holiday.

I temporarily replaced the green plant here with the poinsettia.

Love this acorn mirror with a bit of fluff!

I don't know if you can tell, but the black forest sconce is a stag and so is the design on the plate.

The other end table.

On the breakfast room table, I've replaced some mums with poinsettias and left the ferns in there.

A yellow glittered Santa is on top of the step backed cupboard.

I like to think about this guy as our kitchen mascot. He came home from France with us and he likes this bow and greenery.

Can you read this title? It's "Some Well Known Characters of Charles Dickens". I prop this against the back splash, but I move it if I'm really slinging hash!