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A Very Simple Spring-Time Tablescape
Looking for a simple breakfast tablescape? Then you’re at the right place. I don’t have a vast collection of dishes to change my table around every week so I like to use what I do have and try to think of new and pleasing ways to present it. Thanks, Susan for letting me participate even though I don’t have a super fancy table and a huge variety of plates, etc. I do get inspiration seeing what everyone else is doing. This particular spring morning, when I set my table, we had a few famlies stop by for a breakfast as they were travelling through. One of my favorite tablecloths is one that I…
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Americal Girl Skirt Look-Alike
Serenity so impressed me last week when she made a skirt for Audrey, using an American Girl doll skirt as her inspiration. She used left-over material from a jean skirt she had made for herself. You can’t see it in this picture but on the doll’s skirt, hidden behind that fold is an embroidered heart. So Serenity embroidered one on Audrey’s skirt. Audrey posed like this on her own. These kinds of things come so natural for a girl. It just makes me smile. Good job, Serenity. I’m proud of you!! I’m also linking up with Tackle It Tuesday.
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Wing Clipping Chickens
A month ago we enlarged the chicken coop. The chicks and the hens are quite happy with the set-up, having plenty of room to scratch around for poor hapless insects. But there was one who would not be content and who became clever to the fact that she could fly out whenever she so pleased. Life on this earth would not have had a happy ending for the little black hen if our dogs would have found her before I did on 3 separate occasions. Clearly something had to be done. That something was to clip the wing of the chicken. I enlisted my resident farm hand, Zachary, to assist me in the task.…
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Gnocchi with Quattro Formaggi
Do not be turned away from this dish by its name. Even though it sounds like it could be a very complicated dish, it really isn’t. I wasn’t sure what quattro formaggi meant so I had to look it up. A simple translation is “4 cheeses” and usually it refers to these cheeses: fontina, gorgonzola, parmesan & mozzarella. The sauce in this recipe uses ricotta instead of mozzarella. The sauce is divine, if sharp and flavorful are some of your favorite ways to describe cheese. Combine that with gnocchi, a very mild potato dumpling and you have a keeper. Keep in mind that this recipe uses cheeses that will cost more than typical cheeses. Gnocchi…
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My Mother’s Day Tablescape
This past Sunday, I had the pleasure of doing a special Mother’s Day luncheon for my mom. She lives across the United States in Illinois and I have never been able to celebrate Mother’s Day with her since I was married 22 years ago. They were only going to be here for 2 days so I had to do it then or miss my opportunity and I sure didn’t want that to happen. I decided to use my wedding china – the only china I own. The pattern is La Rose by Mikasa. A photo from above. I actually forgot to take a close-up of the place setting last Sunday, so I…
