Can you believe Thanksgiving is next week? I’ve been SUPER BUSY and so once again I’m including some pretty pictures from instagram!
Love this choux pastry turkey!
Also love this watercolor cat monogram/crest! I would love one of these!!
A swiss chalet…
A Thanksgiving macaron tart? WHAAAT? I need to try this!!
A beautiful bride in a beautiful dress and veil…
Alright, that will do it! Next week will be light on posts, I’ve got shopping and baking to do!
Well, after looking at these pretty Thanksgiving tables I was inspired… and I am now showing you what I came up with for this year’s table! I like Thanksgiving a lot because it is the most formal meal we eat. My husband loves to cook and I love to bake and set pretty tables! Also, Thanksgiving kicks off my favorite season– the Christmas season!
The centerpiece is Mr. Turkey with the barley twist candle sticks and cranberry trees next to that.
The porcelain turkey is sitting amongst a vine of cranberries as well. There are lots of candles on the table as this room gets dark at nighttime as there is no overhead chandelier!
The dishes are Spode’s “Woodland” pattern which is so much fun… we like to choose everyone’s plate for them. My grandpa would get the turkey plate (’cause he’s a turkey, har har). For the big meal we also break out the real silver too. The silver pattern is “Williamsburg Shell” by Kirk Stieff.
Above, I wanted to show you the fine detail of the table runner in the middle… hand made fine antique lace! Isn’t it pretty?
A look at the little squirrel salt and pepper shaker – the squirrel is the salt shaker and his acorn is the pepper. Isn’t it cute??
Pheasants flank the ends of the table on both sides… the turkey and pheasants are from Williams Sonoma a few years ago.
Below is a look at the table from the other side where the lighting is much better! You can see the red on the cranberries some nice color to the table!
One last look from the other side…
We have way more people coming than 8… I am going to have to squeeze quite a few more place settings in and scrounge up some more chairs!
Well, we’re getting ready for Thanksgiving… getting our grocery shopping list in order! Are you ready for Thanksgiving yet??
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I’ve been super busy with work and I am studying for an upcoming test, so for Friday Favorites I thought I’d share some pretty pictures from Instagram this week!
Do you have an Instagram account? If you don’t, I suggest joining! It’s full of such pretty pictures. I can browse for hours.
This dress below was worn by Marie Antoinette…
You can follow me on instagram here. Next week I will likely do the same for Friday Favorites as its test day that day and I don’t have time to do anything else!
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My husband and I love to host Thanksgiving – I think it is because he loves to cook, we both love to bake, and I love to set up pretty tables!
We’ve been hosting Thanksgiving for 3 of the past 4 years (last year couldn’t host it)… but we actually don’t host it on Thanksgiving. We host it either on Black Friday or that Saturday. Thanksgiving not-on-Thanksgiving we call it. It’s nice because we can usually have more family members over! Plus, what do you do on Thanksgiving Saturday normally? Shopping is Friday so… Saturday is perfect!
Anyway, we always try to find at least one or two new recipes to add or replace each year. We always have appetizers – you know, because we don’t eat enough that day already.
We found this recipe by Well Plated which is cranberry baked brie bites – they were really quite good but we made a few modifications to the recipe which I thing adds a little bit.
The recipe calls for cutting out 1 1/2″ rounds from cookie cutters – uhhh, turns out I don’t have round cookie cutters. But I do have pie crust stamps!
Now for the recipe – get the printable version here.
Ingredients
Directions
1. Pull the puff pastry from the freezer and let it thaw.
2. First, prepare the cranberry sauce: Combine the cranberries, orange juice, water, honey, cinnamon, and salt in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 10 minutes, until the cranberries break down and thicken. Let cool.
3. Unfold the thawed puff pastry on a lightly floured work surface. With a rolling pin, gently roll the pastry so that it is an even 11-inch square. With a 1 1/2-inch round cookie cutter ( or pie stamps ) cut circles out of the pastry (makes about 48 rounds total, depending on what size of cookie cutter you use).
4. Beat the egg in a small bowl, then lightly brush each pastry. One half of the pastry cut-outs, spoon approximately 1/4 teaspoon cranberry sauce and 1 small piece Brie cheese, rind included. Then sprinkle just a dash of fresh thyme on top.
5. Carefully place the remaining pastry rounds on top of the Brie and cranberry, brushed egg side down. Pinch the ends closed. Prick each pastry with a fork to allow the air to escape. Repeat with second pastry sheet.
6. Place a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silpat. Place pastry on the prepared sheet and brush lightly with egg. Bake for 12 to 16 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for at least 15 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Notes: you can assemble unbaked puff pastry bites and freeze them for later. Do not brush the egg wash on them if you are going to freeze them. Freeze them in an airtight bag. When you want to bake them, pull them out of the freezer and then brush them with the egg wash. Baking temperature is the same – 375, but you will need to bake them a few minutes longer. You can also fully bake the pastry puffs and freeze them then reheat them in the oven.
They are really quite good! I know my pictures aren’t the best (they were taken entirely by iPhone), I encourage you to give a try! They are really good and super easy to make!
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| cranberry, brie, and thyme puff pastry bites |
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Happy November! I can’t believe it’s already NOVEMBER! It was so hot all October and then right on cue it started pouring and raining all day November 1! It hasn’t rained here in FOREVER. It was so nice! I actually had to turn on the heat in the house last night! Good now I can finally wear some sweaters!
Thanksgiving baking
My husband and I have been busy testing out recipes for Thanksgiving. Below we were playing around with cranberry brie bites.. they were really good! The recipe we used we will make a few minor adjustments, but I think they will work well! *AND* we can make them the day before which is nice!
Time change
I posted this on my Facebook… I have been getting in my Pjs by 7… my body clock is so confused! I also sleep more since it is darker longer, do you?
Another Puzzle Down
Finished another puzzle recently… ta da!
Pretty Flowers
Husband bought me some pretty flowers as we’ve both been working 6 days a week and haven’t seen each other in like FOREVER… came home late one night and saw these sitting there! Aren’t they pretty? They are spider mums in a burgundy color… I’ve never seen them in this color! They are also pretty big, like 5-6″ across in diameter!
Origami Owl
Have you ever heard of Origami Owl?? Well I have and I recently purchased this “living locket” as they call them… they are customizable lockets that you put little charms in. You can change the charms depending on your mood. The one I bought is a keychain which I think is so much fun! I have an eiffel tower as I love Paris, medical symbol as I work in medicine, an initial, pink stones because I like pink, and because Christmas season is coming upon us… a Christmas stocking, gingerbread house. The starting “base” is a little bit pricey but once you have on the charms are pretty inexpensive and would make great stocking stuffers!
I had to include a range of things you can do with origami owl because I think it just so clever!No, I don’t work for them and I don’t get paid anything for writing about this.
You can make yourself a teacher lanyard… holds your name badge, how cute is that?? A lanyard would be perfect for nurse too!
Or for the coffee lover….
Or a Thanksgiving themed one…
or a Halloween themed one…
A Christmas themed one… you can make a necklace, bracelets, keychains, lanyards, pins… so much variety!
You can find some retired charms on eBay and some non-name brand charms too… look how cute these nursing themed set is that I found on Ebay! You can find cheaper charms on eBay but they may not be made by OO.
You should check out Origami Owl… it would make a great Christmas gift for someone!
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I’ve been searching the web for Thanksgiving tablescape inspiration as I prepare for hosting Thanksgiving! I want my Thanksgiving table to look like Thanksgiving and not just a Fall table. Here’s what I’ve found and am sharing with you. The sources are linked below each picture! Enjoy!
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| pottery barn |
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| amanda parker and family |
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| eddie ross |
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| sweet something design |
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| bhg |
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| peonies and orange blossoms |
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| pottery barn |
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| far above the rubies |
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| a place for u |
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| the tablescaper |
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| on sutton place |
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| apartment 34 |
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| peonies and orange blossoms |
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| between naps on the porch |
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| kathryn greeley |
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| ella claire inspired |
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| amanda carol interiors |
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| finding home farms |
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| daisy mae belle |
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| vignette design |
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| waiting on martha |
I found this nice graphic… It has the layout for setting a proper table… something we could probably all use a little memory refresher when we set up for the big formal dinner!
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| antiquaire vintage |
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Happy Halloween everyone! I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite Halloween pictures – pumpkins, costumes, party ideas!
Favorite Carved Pumpkins
Here are my 3 favorite carved pumpkins I found online. How cute is this minion??
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I also love these black cat pumpkins! The eyes light up at night!
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And how cool are these porcupine pumpkins?!
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Favorite Halloween Party Ideas
One, how cool would it be to recreate the floating candle ceiling from Harry Potter? Um, AWESOME. You can do it by using old toilet paper and paper towel rolls along with faux candles. You can get the tutorial here
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Also, if you’re throwing a party, I think this Halloween playlist seems pretty good.
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Favorite Halloween Food
There are literally *tons* of cute Halloween themed recipes out there. My favorite is still these caramel chocolate apples from Between Naps on the Porch. Look at how cute they are!!
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Favorite Animal Costume
Have you seen the video of pirate cat? If not, you need to watch it. The cat even walks like it has a wooden leg but I think it’s really walking slowly as its plotting its revenge on its owner!
Favorite Costume…
If I were to dress up this year I would dress up as Professor Minerva McGonagall from Harry Potter. She’s got a cool witch hat and you could play with a wand. How fun!
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As Halloween is this weekend, I thought I would round-up all of my Halloween themed posts from the blog!
Halloween time at Disneyland…
Scary Cat Chocolate Hazelnut Macarons are perfect for Halloween!
A spooky Halloween store…
A pumpkin festival held in Germany… you MUST see this!!
Pumpkin Spice Latte copycat recipe…
A delicious pumpkin spice bread…
Stylish pumpkin table settings...
Jack O-lantern pumpkin spice macarons…
10 ideas for decorating with pumpkins…
Halloween Tablescape 2015…
Every year down at our local ranch they hold a pumpkin festival. They actually hold several! One is a gourd festival and another is a Fall harvest festival. We went to both as it really is our biggest form of entertainment out here in the country! I had fun looking at of all of the different pumpkins!!
These pumpkins are actually REALLY BIG. Probably *at least* 50 pounds. I think they are fun! Maybe we’ll plant some of our next year!
Here is an assortment of all the ones they grow with their prices.
We grew our own Jarradales this year!
The “wolf” pumpkin below had HUGE stems. So much fun!
You can really see how big the “big max” is!
Wolf pumpkins!
Cinderella pumpkins below, I think we will have to plant some next year!!
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Apple Picking
This past weekend my in-laws visited and my husband and I took them to go apple picking! It was a lot of fun! Although, I thought the farm we were going to was u-pick, but instead they had all the apples already picked in bins. Oh well, the apples were still YUMMY and we had the best fresh pressed apple juice and an amazing apple cider donut. After the apple picking, we went home and baked a homemade apple pie! You can get the recipe HERE, it really is the best apple pie ever.
So the pie top crust ripped a little bit… oh well… it still tastes good!
Mackenzie Child’s Christmas
We got the MK Christmas catalog in the mail this week and I had so much fun flipping through it. Here are a few things I am thinking about…
I like these Christmas candles, aren’t they fun??
I like this chef pig ornament... for *years* in my bedroom as a kid I had a little pig animal that sat in a doll’s high chair and wore a chef’s hat (a Halloween costume from one year) and this pig totally reminds me of my childhood! But WHYYYY are the ornaments so expensive??
In fact, they had this cute little piggy ornament wearing MK boots which I loved but I didn’t buy it because it was too expensive. Now I’m kicking myself that I didn’t get it. I have an eternal search on eBay for it but alas, no luck.
I will most likely get this JOY banner. I think it is really really cute.
Everyday I’m Puzzling (get it, like the song?)
Had fun putting together this 1000 piece puzzle this weekend! Do you like to puzzle? Doing puzzles is something we tend to do in the Fall and Winter when it starts to get cold out and when it’s dark by 6pm. I realized I really like the Americana scene puzzles… each little area of the puzzle has a little scene you can work on which is fun. I bought a lot off of eBay… I swear, eBay is like the best place to shop. Mom always said, “Never Pay Retail”. The only downside of buying puzzles off of eBay… pieces *may* be missing. Oh well! I guess that’s what you get a bargain!
Fall/Winter Fashion
Here are some things that are on my fashion wish-list, although to be honest it is still in the 80s here! I think a cape would be super fun to wear this Winter! Like the one below…
I ‘ve had my eye on a Barbour coat for quite some time, but since it hasn’t rained here in like 5 months I can’t really see myself getting a raincoat. Although, El Nino is supposed to come and drop a bunch of rain so maybe I will need a new rain coat.
And, not that I need any more shoes, but I love the LL Bean boots. If I still lived in the NW I would have these already… but since I don’t, I will just stare at them instead. *contains affiliate links below
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Have you ever heard of the poison garden? I thought I would share this spooky garden since Halloween is just around the corner. It is located within the formal gardens of Alnwick Garden which is located in Northumberland, England. Of course the garden is in England… they seem to have a garden for everything over there!
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| entrance to the Poison Garden, pic from Smithsonian |
The formal garden was founded in 1750, but the poison garden was added in February 2005. The Duchess of Northumberland was inspired by a trip to Italy after visiting the Medici poison garden. The Medicis had their own poison garden which they grew plants used to poison their enemies!
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| Don’t touch the plants in the cages… the parts of the blooming yellow laburnum tree can cause somnolence, vomiting, and coma! picture from Smithsonian |
The Duchess thought that this garden would be interesting to children… she said children “don’t care that aspirin comes from tree bark, but they would be interesting to know how a plant kills you”. She thought it was a way to educate children without having them realize they are being educated. I agree, I’m totally into this garden and I’m not a kid. (Although I AM a geeky nerd… with a degree in biochemistry!)
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| This plant produces castor oil, but did you know it also contains the deadly toxin, ricin? picture from Smithsonian |
So, she started collecting poisonous plants for her garden. The requirement for the plants is that they must be poisonous and have a good story to tell.
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| The angel trump flower, in everyone’s backyards, right? Don’t eat the pollen… you will start hallucinating! |
Since this is a poison garden, all visitors are prohibited from touching or smelling the plants! Definitely do not stop and smell the roses in this garden!
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| Monkshood… used to poison villages by putting the roots in the water supply! Source: Smithsonian Mag |
Let’s look at some other plants…
Wolfsbane… famous from Harry Potter. If eaten, it causes severe GI upset, but its effect on the heart causes your heart to slow down. However, it’s distinctive taste will likely keep you from eating too much!
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| source: the poison garden |
Atropa Belladona, aka, deadly nightshade! It contains hyoscine, hyoscyamine, and atropine! Say what? If eaten, it causes dry mouth, difficulty swallowing, blurred vision, drowsiness, hallucinations, delirium, elevated heart rate, coma, seizures, and death! A study in 1996 found this plant has caused more serious incidents than any other plant.
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| source: the poison garden |
Why do people die from this plant? Because of the berries! Look how plump they are! Don’t they look delicious? As a bonus, the berries taste kind of sweet too! So you keep eating them!
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One of my favorites below… Foxglove! This plant’s name in Latin is Digitalis. Heard of that before? It is the plant used to make the medicine digoxin, which has saved thousands of people since it was first created. The problem with this plant though, is it will only save your life IF you need it for certain heart conditions…. otherwise it will cause slowing of the heart rate and heart attack!
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| Digitalis, source: the poison garden |
One last look at a common plant, the laurel shrub (cherry laurel, English laurel, laurel)! The leaves contain… cyanide! Yes, it’s true! Don’t munch on these leaves or death will be on its way! The cyanide will cause your oxygen to go low and eventually headache, confusion, and coma! Don’t get these confused with bay leaves that are used for cooking… bay leaves are also a type of laurel bush!
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| the cherry laurel, source: the poison garden |
While all of these plants are organic, do not let them term “organic” fool you! You see, even cyanide is organic! Buying organic this and organic that in the store is all a marketing ploy and an improper use of the term organic. They should really use pesticide-free or other terms.
Not all of Alnwick Garden in England contains poisonous plants, if you visit there are other pretty parts of the garden…
Sources: Poison Garden, Smithsonian Mag
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Happy Halloween!! Yes, it’s a little early, but isn’t everything in blogland? I had fun putting together this spook-tacular table! This is my most terrifying table I have put together complete with ghastly ghosts and bloodcurdling bats!
I hung these boo-tiful bats from the chandelier… I have really enjoyed hanging stuff from the chandelier. It elevates the table scape to a whole new level!
I love the black and white MK courtly check placemats here… I like how they mix and match with my Juliska “Country Estate” black and orange plates. My talented mom made me the monogrammed purple napkins last year. I love how they match the poisonous purple goblets.
Each place setting is completed with a ghastly ghost name card holder. These took me just a few minutes to make… Simply print off your guest’s name in a ghoulish font, then cut around it in a ghost shape. With a black marker, add the ghost face. I used a Halloween truffle to prop each ghost up. The chocolate is not only for looks, but for function. Tastes good too!
In the center of the table I put my favorite little Clapsaddle vintage Halloween postcards. I love the owl one, it’s my favorite! Followed by the black cat to the right of it!
Also in the center of the table sit scary black cats and a happy pumpkin bear. They sit on a cake pedestal above the mysterious velvet pumpkin patch.
A closer look at the pumpkins and the hair-raising mini scary cat…
One last look… the black scary cat has crossed your path, beware! I hope you enjoyed this frighteningly fun Halloween table!
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Has another week flown by? Here are my favorites from this week!
Pumpkin Festival
This weekend we went to our local ranch and checked out their pumpkin festival! How much fun! Look at all of these pumpkins??? I’ll just share a few pictures… I think I’ll share the rest in another post during Halloween week!
Antique Show
This past weekend we went to a local antique show. The show was pretty small. I had fun looking at silver patterns. Someday I intend to buy a set of sterling silver, but I just don’t know what pattern to choose! I think I have narrowed it down to these two:
The one below is “Versailles” by Gorham. What I like about this set is that every piece has a different motif on the handle which I think makes it very interesting.
The other set I quite like is “Francis 1” by Reed & Barton. What I noticed I like in sterling patterns is I like them to be ornate and over-the-top. I feel like if you’re going to dine with sterling, the pattern should be a bit over-the-top because dining with sterling IS over the top. There are some other rarer patterns of sterling I like too, but these two are much more common and are much easier to get a good bargain from an auction.
Christmas in the Stores
What? Christmas before Halloween? YES, please. I love Christmas. Christmas decorations are the cutest, so why should they be up for the shortest time of year? Makes no sense to me. The second Halloween is over I start putting up Christmas. I confess, I may be listening to some classical christmas music right now as I’m typing this up. Any who, we’ve been debating about what to put in our big giant windows that face outside this year. I’m debating between two things… a giant Christmas wreath or a giant star. They are around the same price. What do you think?
iPhone Cases
We’re due for new iPhones next month so I thought I’d get a head start and look for a new case for my future phone. I need a case for my phone because I drop the phone all. the. time. I am going to get the rose gold iPhone 6s this time. Here are some that I’ve got my eye on… although I just discovered on zazzle there are a million billion cases to choose from. Vote for your favorite below…
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Birthday Cake
My aunt’s birthday was this weekend and we brought her a birthday cake. It is called a “Princess Torte”… the outside is covered in a layer of marzipan. It is filled with white chocolate whipped cream, vanilla cake, and layers of raspberry filling. Um, YUM! Isn’t it cute with the sugar flower??
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Today I am sharing with you a straw festival! A what? Yes, a festival of straw! The festival is held in Germany every year at my favorite “little” palace… Schloss Ludwigsburg. This festival was actually held this Spring, but for some reason I feel like it seems more fitting for Fall for some reason… maybe it’s because we decorate with hay bales around here for Fall? The pictures were taken by my parents on their vacation… I am “borrowing” them 😉
As you can see, all of the sculptures are made from straw!
I totally love the carrots and onions, aren’t they cute??
Of course, the snail is cute. Don’t mind the cherry blossoms, pink is okay for Fall too, right??
I hope you enjoyed the straw festival (Strohfest in German). Schloss Ludwigsburg is seriously the best little palace over there… every Spring it hosts the straw festival and every Fall it hosts the pumpkin festival. If you’re ever in Germany… go there! So much fun!
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More Pumpkins from our Garden!!
Since I posted the Fall house tour this week, my husband and I actually harvested more pumpkins from our garden… I thought I’d share them with you. I love the blue-gray pumpkins we planted, they are the “Jarrah” variety. So much fun!!
Some other baby boos in white and orange, and then some white pumpkins that didn’t get nearly as big as we wished! Boo indeed!
Pumpkin Gourd
Several weeks ago we went to a gourd festival at our local produce ranch just down the road. They had all of these vendors selling these hollowed out gourds! We liked this little Jack O’lantern gourd and took him home with us!
New Teapot!
Remember last week when I wrote about how I love Tea Forte’s pumpkin spice tea? Well, I realized I didn’t have a proper teapot to brew my tea in! This in a Mackenzie Child’s teapot that brews 4 cups of tea! So instead of having 1 cup of pumpkin spice tea I can now have 4! Yes! It came in a little set with a small sugar and creamer too. You can check it out here. I think the teapot would make a nice Christmas gift for a tea-lover!
Do you drink your tea with milk/cream or do you drink it plain? I like mine with milk!
I rode a pony!
Oh, so I forgot to write about this last week: I rode a pony! yes, one of those “kid” pony rides at carnivals where they go around in circles. Well, I’m a big kid at heart. And I totally loved it! I had never been on a pony before. My pony was all giving me the side-eye, thinking, “Why do I always get the “heavy kid”. YeeHaw!
Juliska “Forest Walk”
Juliska came out with a new pattern for the Fall called “Forest Walk”. The pattern idea came actually from a walk in the forest… apparently the owner’s family went for a walk and grabbed items in the forest. When they came home they assembled them on the table, and voila! A new pattern was born inspired from the items picked on the forest walk!
I had been looking to see the pieces in person but my local Juliska dealer didn’t get them in yet! I finally found it in downtown San Francisco! I think the pieces look much better in person than online!
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| picture I took from downtown SF Neiman Marcus! |
I really like the look of the plates… all stacked together! The plates and bowls seem handmade but they are not. See how cute the pattern looks all stacked up together?
And how much fun is this pitcher with the antler as a handle?
The only thing though, when you take the plates away from the stack and leave them separately on the table, they seem kind of boring and empty in the center. The little bread plate is cute, but the dinner plate is really boring except on the edge! If I didn’t already have a china set for Thanksgiving (Spode’s “Woodland”) I would consider this set! You can purchase Juliska “Forest Walk” here.
What do you think of the new china pattern by Juliska? Are you in or out?
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