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