Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Hello everyone

    Good evening everyone...  I was trying to fix my blog from my I pad without great success.   So I'm now trying to make a post but it keeps disapearing.  The whole thing just goes off...  How was your Christmas dear friends....   mine actually turned out really nice..  which I was very surprised...  here are some photos of my Christmas table...  I set it a couple days before hand to save time. This was a sunny afternoon...



     I used my Johnson Bros. dinner plates, the Great Britain pattern.  Which I love so much.  The soup bowls are not vintage but they are made to look like, with a lovely embossed edging...  the teacup setting is also Johnson Bros.  Great Britain too.  
     My napkins are just plain red but I folded them and then rolled them to look like a rose and stuffed the end inside a wicker napkin holder and sat them in the teacup...
   Red place mats and vintage milk glass drinking glases with embossment as well... and plain white handled flatware...  and I used a vintage green depression desert cup...
     I used a red lace table cloth but because of the babies I purchased a lace plastic top piece...  and that kept things cleaner and easy to clean up...  I also used a large red rose doily for a center piece and my red glass candle sticks made by fenton..  The light green planter is from the fifties it was never used so I used it for holding my serving utensils...
     
   Our menu was red chicken tamales...  and pollo pozole blanco, chicken soup with hominy, served with dried oregano, shredded cabbage, onions, limes, queso fresco, a mexican cheese, a salad made of Romaine lettuce, Diced apples, hard boiled eggs chopped, dried cranberries, pecans, feta cheese, bacon, and pears but I added red ripe tomatoes chopped, because there were to many sweet things and I made a fresh poppy seed dressing...  it was a wonderful salad.  We also had mexican beans and rice..  I also made what they call ponche, punch... made with apple cider, fresh cinnamon sticks, allspice berry,  fresh apples cut up, orange pieces, and a brown mexican sugar cone and water heated up on the stove top and served hot....
     For desert I made big cut out butter cookies for the kids to decorate...
     This is my younger son steven he decided to get into the action to the left of him is his daughter Alina...  to the right is my 16 year old grandaughter Rosalinda ...  she kept saying grandma can we do that now decorate the cookies...
     This is Yuliana she is so shy we couldn't get her to decorate any...  her daddy did it for her.. hehe...

     Alina said forget decorating I'm going to eat mine and watch you guys do the work...  hehe

     I didnt take photos of the food ...  this was the next day after..  the salad a tamale and a piece of queso fresco...
     Monday morning my son and his wife and my grandaughter took me to breakfast then shopping to Marshall's which was ok...  then we went to starbucks and a big fish store...  my son has a huge fish aquarium..  then for lunch we went to eat Vietnamese food which was so good...  then we drove back towards home but they took me to a savers out of San Francisco which me and mama used to go to when we wanted to go for a drive...  I found these and was so excited because the first time I looked I didn't see them...
     Two pieces of limoges one was $6.99 the other $2.99 or $1.99 can't remember...  it has a slight chip on the very edge on top, but that diesn't bother me..  the larger piece is perfect...  a while after mama died my daughter in law took me to the same savers and I had found some plates there how funny that I went back like two years later and found these pieces...
     The bowl is lovely it is Theodore Haviland ...  the other I think was bolivia ...  but they are just pretty 
to me... 

     I found a few other things a duck plate that I collect and can't never find anywhere...  and four blue snowflake placemats, some dvd's that are Barbra Striesand ... my favorite lady
     I came home dead tired but I enjoyed every moment from Christmas eve, to celebrating Christmas in Church for the first time in my life...  to the end of the day after Christmas,.. 
     My little vintage Christmas tree...


     A christmas breakfast all to myself...   

     I want to thank everyone for their sweet loving comments,  It was a much needed break there was just to much going on at once for me...  thank you again so much I truly appreciated you all..  i hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as much as I did...  wishing you a lovely day, with love Janice ✨πŸ’›πŸŒΈπŸ’žπŸ’›✨



     





Thursday, December 8, 2016

Leaving for a while

    Helo dearest friends.  I just wanted to let you know that i will not be posting.  Life has become to over whelming for me at the moment..  And right now I just can't handle visiting and all that...  It is a long story and I'm too upset to explain it all..  Maybe one day in the future...  Please stay well and safe and I hope you have a very Lovely Merry Christmas...  With love always Janice
                               
   

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Good morning.... A touch of chatter...

    Having sinus issues this morning...  The weather is cold and today its cold but nice out we are having some sun....   Took a walk with my daughter to my grandson's school.   The other day we went thrifting I had so much fun looking through Christmas stuff...  And I found many nice things
     I found this ceramic shortbread pan for I think $2.99 brand new in the box. It came with a tiny little book with recipes for the shortbread, different flavors..
    It is so cut I love the designs...  So when I get back home I will be making some shortbread which is one of my favorites....

   I also found two wonderful brand new Christmas cook books with some really nice things inside, recipes...
   Pretty cookies...  I recently purchased a bunch of star cookie cutters....
     I found this it has stationary inside...  I have one already but it was empty when I found it years ago..  So I used it for holding photos when I was changing them into new photo books...
     But this one had the paper a few stickers and some envelopes inside...  
     
     I also found this set of stationary the box it was in was a tad broken so I just added to this box...  Sweet tiny bears which I also love...  With pretty pink envelopes...
     Then I found a pack of pretty Christmas cards....  





     Sweet envelopes...
     I love them all....  I love snowmen...  
     
     I also found some cute cookie cutters for christmas sugar cookies,  two angels a candy cane a tree and a snowflake perfect....  I already washed them up and they are drying...
     I also found these pop makers...  For a $1.49, I couldn't pass them up...  
     It was a fun day...   So I'm ready for Christmas...  I need to finish cleaning the living room so I can put my little silver tin tree up...  I bought all gold ornaments ....  And I last month found a golden skirt... 
                                     Exciting.....
     Hopefully I can show you everything I do...  My time has been consumed lately with church and binle study class and trying to do more things at mamas house...  So I'm sorry if I haven't been by your place but I'm trying to visit little by little I do appreciate all of you and your visits... Thank you so much for them...  Wishing you all a lovely day today....  I have to try to take better photos for the recyle place so they know exactly what they are he said..  So that is my chore for today..  My mission lol...  Sending love to you all where ever you are.....
                With love Janice ✨πŸ’™☃❄️πŸŽ„πŸ˜‡




Thursday, December 1, 2016

Hello ....

     Hello good morning everyone, it is cold this morning sweeppea's feet are cold and she keeps walking over my legs with them and o my....   She is so tiny o sweeppea you say who is she she is my mini chi...  She is six years old now...  
     This is my favorite window...  I try to keep little flowers there so when I walk by to the kitchen or to the bathroom I get a little good feeling...  I moved my tiny christmas tree there to..
     Yesterday I went in the garden and to my surprise the purple daisies had made some blooms...
     I have a lot of things here with greens as well ....
     Golden birds...
     I have been washing all the things on my hutch, so full of dishes and what nots, this is just from one shelve...



    Still got a few more tomato's ....
     The little rose I picked by mamas house..  This house I admired ever since I was a little girl...  It always seemed like a rich person's home when I was little..  One day maybe I can take photos of it..  The tiny pink smelling so wonderful roses hang over a wooden fence taller than me...  They smell so good.. .   I picked two and brought them home and they are in the kitchen window...
   I love my blue glass to me there is nothing like it when I awaken and the sun is shinning through them in the morning, or afternoon...

     My back door, with window placks ....  I have had them forever, the moon thermometer and the rose maybe 35 years...  The humming bird mama gave me about 25 years ago..  And the pink flowered one is hers I recently brought from her house...


     The windows get wet in the winter and I have to wipe them down over and over...
     I love this ole coffee grinder....
     The other kitchen window...

     My violet blooming again...  The others have not and I don't know why...
     This one is huge it is like three plants in one ... It is really healthy but no blooms... This I call the majic window all the plants get so big in this window...
     It looks like a jungle there...

     My hanging ducks... A wind chim...  But I think they would break in the wind...  There are ceramic...

   Windows with pretty things to see...  Have a lovely day all with love Janice...