It is Celebrate Your Story Monday and another group of features for your enjoyment. I want to personally thank you all for not only reading our Celebrate Your Story Link Party but participating with us so that we are able to pick four feature posts. It is so exciting to see the posts and the…
Transitioning from Thanksgiving to Christmas Tablescape… What? You say! OK, Thanksgiving is over and now Christmas is on everyone’s mind as we decorate our trees and homes for the Christmas Holiday. I recently took a liking to these velvet pumpkins that everyone has been using in their Fall/Autumn Decor. But I didn’t want to pay…
Welcome to another Link Party for Celebrate Your Story! Folks, the days are flying by like crazy and I don’t know where they are going, but I know I need to get busy and be ready or the next thing I will know is it is January! Thank goodness, you wonderful bloggers are ready and…
Setting a pretty table, or not. We have all done it,… prepared a beautiful tablescape for our family Thanksgiving dinner. But it has not always been that way, for me anyway. We set a pretty tableescape because we want a beautiful showcase for our dinner….after all, we spend hours preparing that perfect feast and we…
Talking Turkey Thanksgiving Tablescape! Talking Turkey Thanksgiving Tablescape! Can We Talk? Turkey, I mean. Tis the time for delicious roasted turkey for our Thanksgiving feast and also a time to really, literally… put the turkey on the table. Ok, Thanksgiving isn’t until next week, but it will be here before you know it. I’m thinking…
Adorable White Pumpkin Soup Tureens! Fall is definitely coming…in fact, in some parts of the country, it is here! I am so excited because I love Fall/Autumn!…and even though we don’t have drastic changes in our Seasons here in Florida, we still have Seasonal changes. The leaves that have fallen off of my shady lady…
Today’s Woodland tablescape is celebrating the Crispness of Autumn as the Simmering Summer Slithers away. Here in Florida, we notice our streets of traffic begin to get a little busier, and we know that our nice long leisurely lunches at waterside cafe’s will soon be replaced with long lines of Sno-birds swarming like flies over…
Did someone say Roasted Turkey And Stuffing? AND Virginia Ham? Candied Sweet Potatoes, creamy mashed potatoes and gravy without lumps? Pineapple Pistachio Salad and cranberry sauce with oranges? green bean casserole, pumpkin pie and moist apple walnut cake? The Thanksgiving day parade and all things to be thankful for? Yep! I thought that is…
Do you need Tips for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey? Seriously? Probably not BUT… We are going back to the basics here, just in case there are a few new cooks out there. First I have to tell you that I am not an EXPERT on preparing a Thanksgiving Turkey. When I started this blog, I…
My dear readers…..I was all set to go all traditional with my Thanksgiving tablescape for this year. Remember when I did this tablescape? And this? And this one.… Or maybe you remember this tablescape. Yep! all pretty traditional. And then, I sat down with a cuppa tea and had a meeting with my traditional dishes,…
Good morning, my dear readers…..I thought since I have been talking “Fall” for several posts…. that I would share with you a little tour of my Fall decor. My confession is, I always decorate for the Holidays…it used to be for my kids and then I realized that it was for the biggest “kid” of…
We have all heard Mighty Oak and little acorn stories and I love the acorns in this tablescape. My dear readers…., It is time to admit the last couple weeks of Summer have hung on by it’s shirt tail in some places,…. but let’s face it, I believe it is time to hang it up in the Seasonal Closet along…