Outdoor Wednesday...

Comparing my pictures today with pictures of  my plants and bushes from last week.  Here are this weeks photos.

My re-potted Shamrock plant..

My Easter Lily Plant.  Finished...

                                                   

Forsythia Bush Blooming Nicely...

Hugs
Patti-Rose                                          

Metamorphosis Monday ...

Once again I am borrowing a title from blogland.  

A small metamorphosis in the kitchen today.   

The pantry where I keep dry goods needed a little freshening up. I am trying to get all these little jobs out of the way before the really nice yard weather comes, and I can be outside, without thinking about what needs to be done on the inside.

It was a pretty simple task.  Replace the old shelving with new.  A quick measure and a cut and it was completed.  A wipe here and a wipe there on the other shelves and I was done.

Here are pictures of the process.

Ugly stain..

Measuring and cutting....

good eye fits nicely...

neat...

Love a full larder...

A job well done.

Hugs
Patti-Rose

Quilts....

I have wanted to share about my quilts and quilting for some time now.   Only, it is  sad to be thinking of doing anything with quilting, as my quilting buddy of many years is now in the final stages of her fight with cancer.

But, today reading my Sunday Bulletin from The Blessed Sacrament Church, there is a piece in it asking for donations for babies, whatever you can give would be appreciated.  These items are for Mothers who have decided to keep their babies under difficult situations and need a little support.

Carol, my quilting buddy, has contributed for many years making blankets to be sold at her church's bazaar.  I think I would like to take inspiration from her example and make a quilt to donate.

Maybe with a little more prayer and a practical plan I will see if  I can get in the quilt room and start quilting again with joy.

Hugs
Patti-Rose

This is a sketch I copied from a magazine...

Enjoyed choosing fabrics...

Adding Cabanas..

Cabanas awaiting doors, free motion quilting, and borders..
Summer Cabanas is the title of this little quilt.

Pipes and Pipes and More Pipes....

What a couple of days it has been.  My nice little quiet routinely run home has been turned upside down,  with leaks on three floors and wrenches and dirty buckets yuck...not much fun at all...very nerve wracking, no water.

The good news, Sean the pipefitter in the family spend much time away from his lovely family, fixting our old pipes.  Thank you for your patience Gioia and kids.

Early Saturday morning he arrived with coffee for all, and two buckets filled with tools to finish the job.

Thank you Sean for all your help in solving the problems with the old piping in our little blue cape.

Hugs
Patti Rose

Three heads better than one....I don't think so.

Tablescape Thursday...

This is my second try with this post...half way thought the first I lost half of it, pictures included, very aggravating.

Looking forward to seeing Sheila tomorrow for morning tea.  The table is set and tomorrow morning I will make ginger cookies.  Will post recipe in tomorrows post.  It's a new recipe from the Deliha Bakery in Seattle.  Hope it is good.

Rain is forecast for tomorrow.  The weatherman maybe wrong.

Here are some pictures of the table...

napkins and mats bought at Target

Blue and white always cheerful... pink depression glass, sugar and pitcher a gift from Mell and Jim.

Added the white tablecloth and am happy with it...

can't wait for the morning tea with Sheila

Bigelow tea chest ...I will choose English Breakfast Tea.  I don't know about Sheila.

Tea pot and cups and saucers a gift from Mamma.  Shamrock looks good. My Irish knitted cozy a gift from Grandpa Butler.

Hugs

Patti-Rose

Outdoor Wednesday....

Forgot the name of the bush.....

Future home of a fairy garden.  More in a later post.         

Lavender from last year.  It survived!                

Hugs....
Patti-Rose

Saturday Morning Ritual....

Saturday Morning Breakfast...

It's Saturday morning and here I am in my regular spot in front of the t.v. watching cooking shows.

I always make Saturday breakfast a little more special than the rest of the week.  Earl Grey Tea steeped perfectly, drunk plain and hot.  A delicious cream scone, a new recipe from one of my Christmas cookbooks Bouchon Bakery. It's slatthered with Meyer's Lemon Curd.  A real linen napkin, of course, with a new flower napkin holder.  The little pot holds just enough tea for two delicious  cups. 

Now just waiting impatiently for Pioneer Woman and my Ina, both with new shows today.

Hugs

Patti-Rose

Foodie Friday

beatty's chocolate cake
barefoot contessa at home

 This a delicious moist chocolate cake.  The secret is a hot cup of strong black coffee added to the cake ingredients.

Ina has a scrumptious, decadent, recipe for chocolate frosting.  Instead I choose Cool Whip's new chocolate frosting, really quite good in a pinch.

I served this on Easter Sunday and was delighted with the results.

Hugs
Patti-Rose                                                

Tablescape Thursday...

My first tablescape in blogland.  Usually the table is described and all pieces of china and silverware are named and backside of china is shown for origin.  But I am doing a less formal blog of my table.

Easter preparations...

Our Easter Table

 

Great difficulty with pictures today.

Hugs

Patti-Rose

Outdoor Wednesdays Easter Liliy

In blogland there are many titles one can use to inspire a blog.   I choose this for Wednesday.

My plants are not from the outside but from the inside of my home.  I don't really have a lot to say about them except I truly enjoy decorating with plants.

OXALIS...Shamrock

  Easter Liliy

Fake Gerber Daisies

Well hello who do we have here....I believe this gentlemen is from  Willow in the wind.

Hugs
Patti-Rose

Still playing catch up now the month of February...

The best to be said about February 2013 is that it is over.

A horrible flu bug hit our Jim with a force.  Complications ensued making a hosp. visit necessary.  Many long and unhappy days were spent trying to force down one Ensure after another, mush for supper, and jello or pudding for snacks, hoping these foods would aid in the weight gain that was needed. (having lost 10 pounds within two weeks).

Finally, Jim was on the road to recovery as they say, eventually able to swallow whole foods and gain some of the lost weight back.  Thank you Lord.  His recovery continues.

Now on a happier note I do have some lovely pictures of our back yard covered in snow so pretty.

Taken from the upstairs bathroom...

Can you see our Butler Name on the screen house...

It's always so pretty the first day of snow...

The sky was a beautiful soft Martha Stewart Pink...

Hugs

Patti-Rose

Catching up...

Realizing one of my New Years Resolutions...

Celebrating with friends over tea.

January 17th 2013...beautiful sunny day, perfect for discussing plans for a Florida vacation at the end of the month, included was a cruise to the Bahamas.

Sister She, Cathie, and I enjoyed a cup or two of .. Earl Grey and English Breakfast Tea.  Along with a slice of Knobby Apple Cake,  Coffee Cake, and Martha Stewart's Banana Loaf Cake.  All very tasty, tried and true recipes.

My tablescape:  Fransican Apple Dishes...grey cloth napkins (for we always use cloth napkins at The Little Blue Cape on Walnut Street it's a tradition.)...silver napkin ring holders...dried flowers and sweet little white birds (purchased at Target) made up my simple centerpiece.

This is my catch up blog for January.

Hugs

Patti-Rose