Pink Bunny Cookies

Yesterday, we had a wine and cheese party for 2 in our garden. I baked some pink bunny cookies. I bought them from Walmart and they are ready to bake.

I will show you my whole tablescape for Tabletop Tuesday and Tablescape Thursday.

My only guest, Debjani, was wearing a pretty cobalt blue Indian outfit and I wore one with teal blue. We thought the color will be pretty against the pink azaleas.

I am linking with Beverly for Pink Saturday at

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com

Thanks for hosting, Beverly, and thank you all for your visits! I hope you all have a nice weekend! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Bees Are All Over But Not a Bunny In Sight!

My bunnies are still in the attic. Our maintenance guy who helps me take them down has been sick, so the bunnies just can't hop on the table yet.

But we have bees all over the garden so I decided to create a tablescape with them. No, not the real one! Anyway, I am joining these following parties:

Susan or Tablescape Thursday at

http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com

Debbie's Refresh Restyle's Springtacular Tablescape Party at

http://refreshrestyle.com/

and Shirley's Egg-xellentTablescape Spring Party at

http://housepitalitydesigns.com/

For my centerpiece, I used mini mini herb garden consisting of 2 small pots of lemon thyme and cilantro.

I added 2 little white birds on the pot.

Aaah....there is the beehive, where the bees have been hiding!

The Bee salad plates are from Williams Sonoma on clearance after summer last year.

BTW, Cherry Kay, here I used a green natural fiber runner that I sell in my booth. I had them imported directly from the Philippines. Do you see it? I really like the texture.

Napoleon Bee flatware from Horchow or Neiman Marcus from a few years ago.

The placemats are from Pier One. I just bought them last Saturday.

I won the green sparkly glass chargers on Ebay about 3 years ago.

It looks like the birds are singing

A special thanks to our hostesses and thank you all for stopping by.

Now, please join me for some coffee!

St. Patrick's Table and Spring Cloche Party, 2012

It's Party Time! I hope you get to visit both Kathleen at http://www.cuisinekathleen.com/ for her 4th annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl and Marty's Spring Cloche party at 

 http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com. I hope you don't mind me integrating the 2.

I decided to use a cloch for my centerpiece.

Napkins were from Homegoods in Fort Myers.

I have had these 2 glasses, probably from TJ Maxx in Baton Rouge.

The salad plates and small bowls are also from HG in Fort Myers. I used white square, actually more like a trapezoid plate chargers. I think I got them from Ross a long time ago and I just pulled out my green dinner plates out of a baroque style set.

I don't know what the nationality of the doll napkin ring is but today, she is Irish.

a close up of my cloche centerpiece with antique Bavarian teacups, a yellow bird sitting in a nest on top.

Now, I would like to show you more cloches. This one's in my black china cabinet in the kitchen. I just store some dessert plates in it.

My hen cloche that I have displayed on my kitchen island right now.

There she is at the end of the white plates.

A pastry cloche with white ceramic promegranates in them. I got the promegranates at Williams Sonoma from their clearance table. I knew I could use them one day. I also moved the glass box under the kitchen cabinet. It used to be on the kitchen island but I moved a rack with white plates there.

Inside the glass box or can I call it terrarium, is a mini tea set resembling a Quimper. It is unmarked so I am not sure who the maker is.

I took out one promegranate for you to see. I think one of the ones left inside the cloche is a tomato.

Thanks for these fun parties, Kathleen and Marty and thanks to all who visited especially the ones who left comments. I really appreciate it.

 Happy St. Patrick's everyone!

My Dining Room is Back Into Shape!

Our dining room is back to normal with new refinished floors and a little rearranging of furniture and dishes.

I have a lot of pictures to show you so please bear with me. I wanted to show you the extent of the work that I did, which I think was REALLY a LOT, but you be the judge.

This is our formal living room, though it looks more like a storage in this photo. And this picture was taken after I have put away half of the bins already, which were in the forefront blocking the way.

These were the packages that came in while I was staying in FL for my 3 grandgirls' births. John kept moving them to the back room which is intended for our grandkids when they visit, because they were blocking the entry and would not fit there.

DH knew I would be stressed when I got home seeing all the mess so he hired someone to help me open the packages for 2 days and these were most of the boxes in the garage after they were emptied. I know our garbage men loved us after we dumped all of these, lol. After all, we are giving them job security, right?

Back to the dining room now. From the foyer, let's go clockwise and take a tour. First, comes the oak cabinet. Surprisingly, I was able to fit 5 cabinets in this room, where I can all use to store dishes, plus 2 tiered tea tables.

And here's what I was able to fit in there.

Then I have this French Louis VI (I think, Vanna, please correct me if I am wrong) buffet.

I put a lot of glassware in there.

On top of the buffet are some Sevres shell pieces and my Napoleon demitasse cup set.

In the drawer, I keep my "Siam" brass and mahogany flatware. I don't even bother organizing them cause it is a service for 24 plus lots of extra pieces and they wouldn't fit in there organized.

 I have a plate charger cabinet in the laundry room but I keep here what do not fit in there. I also store some platters here.

Next is a mahogany corner cabinet. On top is a Sevre compote, a Quimper tea set and a cloche holding my lion handled flatware.

 Inside is a Johann Haviland soup tureen and platters and a Noritake Nippon Toki Kashi tea and dessert set. And look what I discovered when I opened the cabinet to take pictures! I have an empty shelf, lol. I can buy more dishes or just move some from the other rooms or from the garage or just store what's on the dining table there.

In the middle of the wall under the mirror is a small French cabinet, I keep salt and pepper shaker sets in the drawers and the top has a Tracy Porter Artesian tea set. The shelf underneath is an Asian celedon tea and snack set.

Next comes my favorite French provincial cabinet. I love it because it can hold so many sets of dishes. if I find another one just like this, I will buy it.

 See what I mean about being able to store a lot in there?

Here's a tea table with more tea sets, a case with a German set of flatware and an old blue and white soup tureen, some silver pieces and other miscellaneous table stuff.

 Here's another favorite of mine, a corner mahogany china cabinet,

 It holds some of my favorite dishes, some Limoges salad plates, pink Homer Laughlin eggshell,  a green antique Bavarian Tirschenreuth set and underneath is a Bavarian china set of Greek key design.

 Now that you have seen all the cabinets, let me show you the floor. The picture on the top mosaic below was the old floor in the family room. This was replaced with new floors as shown in my past post but the floor in the dining room was exactly like this one, although not quite this dusty. They were sanding the dining room floors that is why it was so dusty. I wasn't here when they did it so I wasn't able to take a "Before" photo.

The picture on the bottom mosaic is the dining room floor after it was sanded and restained. This was the original floor, same one that we had to take out from the halls, bathroom and family room and replaced there. I wish we could have saved it because I really like how deep the grooves are but we could not find a match. It was no longer being manufactured.

I hope I did not bore you with this post. Sorry if I did but I just wanted to show you all the work that was done. Now, I have to work and clean the formal living room and the 2 guest rooms and then I am done. Yay!

Linking with

Susan's Metamorphosis Monday at

http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com

Mary's Mosaic Monday at

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Carrie's Amaze Me Monday at

http://dittledattle.blogspot.com/

Mary's Masterpieces Monday at

http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/

Cielo's Show Off Your Cottage Monday at

http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/

Marty's Tablestop Tuesday at

http://astrollthrulife@

Sandi's Teatime Tues at

http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/

Martha and Terri's Teacup Tues at http://www.marthasfavorites.com/

Tuesday Cuppa tea at

http://antiquesandteacups.blogspot.com/

Trish' Tea Party Tuesday at
http://sweetology101.blogspot.com/

Miss Spencer's Teacup Thursday at

http://missspensersblog.blogspot.com/

Kathy's Home and garden,

Kthy's A Return to Loveliness Party at

http://blissfulrhythm.blogspot.com/