FABBY: Table for 4

 I used this soup bowls, small serving bowls and a bigger  salad bowl with pretty pink roses for this tablescape,  I know I have some more pieces but didn't feel like opening more boxes to look for them.  I paired them with my 1979 china from Anchor Hocking that has  pink roses too and I'm using for our every day china lately.

 The bigger salad bowl it's so pretty.  You can see part of the tablecloth my mother crocheted for me around 25 years ago and I used an undercloth in a wine color,  I like the color  with pink.

 Here is a better view of the tablecloth my mother crocheted for me by hand and it's very long, for a table of 12 seats, I used it for this small tablescape in our round table.

 The roses in the soup bowls and salad bowl...in the far left a small serving bowl with the other side of the design, which is pretty too.

 This small platter has such pretty chintz look to it with pink carnations, maybe because it's  Minton, made in England and was my mil's along with the  serving spatula, is vintage silver.

 The inside of the salad bowl with such pretty pink rose.

 My mother also crocheted  12 doilies to use on  all my chargers, so the dinner plate doesn't scratch the chargers, she once saw them in a magazine and plain went to work on them several years ago too. My mother doesn't crochet  anymore because of some ailment she has in her column, she's 81; but I'm so lucky she did runners, tray  mats, 2 sets of doilies for the chargers, this tablecloth and others things.

 The dinner plate is called Naomi Rose, stonewear, 1979.

 The salad plate.

 The plates with the Japanese soup bowl.

 This small cloche has a little girls tea cup with a pink similar rose...it's from my grandgirls tea set, I keep it here to play when they come to visit.  The rose candle holder is bisque porcelain and was made at our former Ceramic Co.

 The stemware is French and was my mil's.

 The small serving bowl for sauces, or whatever you wish it for.

 This pretty design is in the other side of all the  Japanese bowls.

This is going to be a sad weekend for the United States, conmemorating the 10th Anniversary  of 9-11, that  catastrophic day when we lost the twin towers in New york, by muslem extrimists and as a Newyorker, I am specially sad.  I wasn't going to post anything, even though I had already taken some picks of a table for four I did with my mother's beautiful tablecloth she crocheted for me several years ago and some pretty Japanese bowls, with a pink flower, I found in my cellar where I have some boxes of china and things.   Later I decided that I might as well, it is going to make me happy to be in  PINK SATURDAY and  to visit the other friends that joined the party, so thank you Beverly and thank you to the other lovely hostesses I will be linking too.  Thank you in advance to the wonderful friends that always visit me, with such generosity and kindness.   God bless America.  Love   FABBY
Pink Saturday at:  http://howseetthesound.blogspot.com/
Saturday Spotlight at:  ASA Interiors and Green Door Designs
Sunday Favorites at:  http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/
Seasonal Sunday at:  http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/
Metamorphosis Monday at: http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ 
Master Piece Monday at:  http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/
Amaze Me Monday at:  http://dittledattle.blogspot.com/
Table Top Tuesday at:  http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/
Nifty Thrifty Tuesdat at:  http://coastalcharm.blogspot.com/
Wow Us Wednesday at:  http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/
White Wednesday at:  http://fadedcharm.blogspot.com/

FABBY: "Some Favorites"

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 The Chinese Secretary, all closed up.  (please disregard the ugly wires from the phone and lamp)

 I love the top of it and the oriental scenes with children and the big bird cage.

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 The peach tree and cage.  Children playing with a foo dog!

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 I love the brass hinges in the doors.

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 In all the drawers I keep some of my tablecloth stash, doilies and some vintage lace and family heirlooms.

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 Some of my dog collection....they're so cute!

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 Inside the doors I have oriental things from our travels, heirlooms and gifts...I have a weakness for oriental things!!.....naaa!, you haven't noticed!! lol

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 A picture of my baby daughters.  In the slits I keep our personal engraved cards, thank you cards, journals, Chinese stamps and coins in albums, that were a present to my husband several years ago...

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 I also keep a portrait, oil painting of my  granddaughters when they were small; from a local artist.

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 Here is the second piece of furniture I love is our Italian buffet!

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 These ovals are made of a very special wooden tree root, I don't remember what the name is.  They have a bronze frame to them.

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 I love the bronze angels...my granddaughter Cayetana when she was 1 1/2, it seems the angels were at her height, so she used to kiss them!, hehehe...lol!

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 In the right hand side it has drawers where I keep some silverware, some napkins and  napkin rings.

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 In the middle section I have two sets of china and some other pieces.

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 In the left hand side I keep my lace, or reticulated china and some of my mil's French stems.

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 The upper part of the buffet has a hutch, where I keep some crystal, silver, vintage tea set, etc.; it has beveled glass in the doors.

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 This is what it looks like opened.

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 I like the wood work in the corners.

Thanking all the gracious hostesses for having me at their great parties!

   I didn't make a tablescape this week for TT at, BNOTP, but decided to take some pics of a couple of  my favorite pieces of furniture we have.  The first one is a Chinese Secretary, acquired some 11 yrs. ago and the other is my Italian buffet that it's part of the set of our dining table and chairs...I loved this  Italian dining room so much when I saw it 20 years ago in the imports furniture store; that hubby gave it to me for my birthday as a surprise, as it was more expensive than the Chippendale we had already  picked out and thought they were going to deliver, sooo imagine my surprise!!   I just loved the bronze angels and the ovals that have a special wooden root, which I don't remember what it was,  and framed with bronze.  I'm showing you some of my stash I keep in them, too.  Anyway, here they are. 
Thank you always for your wonderful, sweet and generous comments.   I'll be also joining some parties and I thank the lovely ladies that host them every week!      Lots of hugs.          FABBY

TABLESCAPE THURSDAY at:   http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/
VINTAGE THINGIE THURSDAY at:  http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/
OPEN HOUSE PARTY at:  http://nominimalisthere.blogspot.com/
DELIGHTFULLY INSPIRING THURSDAY at:  http://thefrenchcupboard.blogspot.com/
THRIFTY THURSDAYS at:   http://bornagaincrafter.blogspot.com/
FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY at:  http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/
VINTAGE INSPIRATION FRIDAY at:  http://commonground.blogspot.com/
HOME SWEET HOME FRIDAY at:  http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/
FLAUNT IT FRIDAY at:  http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/
SUNDAY FAVORITES at:  http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/
SEASONAL SUNDAYS at:   http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/


Thanking all the lovely friends that visit me, as you always make my day!

                                                                             FABBY

FABBY: "Babaco" Pie

 You have to cook the fruit with all pie ingredients cut previously in cubes.

 I usually have my patè-brisè recipe for pie crust.....my fav is from Martha Stewart's recipe book.

 Here's the pie with the meringe on top, I usually spread it all around it, but later it just shrinks, lol!  My mil's cake silver spatula with her engraved initials.

 The table is set to have a piece of pie with tea, or coffee. with my mom's silver tea spoons from her childhood.

 This china was made at our past Ceramic Co. and the green design was the original decoration taught by the Spaniards in the colonies, the green was a natural die for ceramics, they had no other, except for a not pretty brown shade as well, I got the design from authentic pieces my Mil had and from books.

 I love the tea pot with the rooster...the originals always  had farm animals as handels, we've used them in most of them as well.

 The salad, or cake plates.  The tabletopper was my mil's, but it's not vintage, it blends nicely with the off white china though, as is the tablecloth.

I had promised some friends  to show them the Andean fruit called babaco turned into a yummy pie, see, I make it with my recipe for pineapple pie because of course, there's no pie recipe for this, there's other local recipes, but hubby loves my pie version.   Above is  a picture of the "babaco" fruit from my earlier post.  Thank you my friends for your  visits, I'm always thrilled to have you for a piece of pie!
Thank you for the lovely ladies that host the following parties I'll be joining:
METAMORPHOSIS MONDAY AT
AMAZE ME MONDAT
ON THE MENU MONDAY
TEA POT AND TEA THINGS TUESDAY
TEA CUP TUESDAY
TEA TIME TUESDAY
NIFTY THRIFTY TUESDAY
WHITE WEDNESDAY
WOW US WEDNESDAY

FABBY: Autumn Leaves

   I always loved Autumn, as a girl from Queens, NY, it was my favorite time of the year, I loved to go to beautiful Astoria park with my little friends and we would all jumped on top of the beautiful bed of leaves, brown, gold-yellow, red and ambar with stricks of orange and to hear the crunchy sound this would produce!  October is also my birthday month, so I always got a lot of attention from my parents, my brothers,  my cousins, uncles and aunts would come from LI, bringing presents...it was great!  Actually, it still is with my hubby, daughters and grandgirls, too!

   Besides fall, I got inspired by a tablecloth I hand embroidered several years ago with orange fall leaves and my vintage Oriental bone china, which I paired with  charges that have an orange band,  bringing out the orange flowers of the china.  The centerpiece  I did in a large wooden oval tray that were used to make bread dough and I  arranged it with nature's fall bounty and faux leaves and flowers.  I hope you like it and I invite you my dear wonderful friends from blog land, which inspire me with such enthusiasm  to try come up  with tablescapes that go with the seasons, festivities, or whatever theme we're in the mood.  Thanks so much in advance, I so appreciate your wonderful visits and generous comments.

I will be linking to some great parties too, so thank you to the gracious ladies that host them every

 I thought I show you the center of  my embroidered tablecloth before I set the centerpiece, which is some what big.

 The Autumn tablescape.  The four corners of the table topper is embroidered like you see here.

 The wooden large tray which people used to knead big amounts of dough for bread making.

 The candle holders are Portuguese, they won a design award in the 90's.

 The wine is fuax...let's not get excited, lol!

 The leaves look like grape leaves, but also like fall leaves, maybe??

 The center piece...I love the colored corn!

 I loved the shape of the pumkin I found at the local open market, along with the other things.

 The glass napkin rings are a new find, I loved them because they're glass and had the color of orange candy.

 The tablescape for eight.....the cute little salt celler was made at our former Ceramic Co.

 I had fun elaborating this centerpiece.

 A side of the centerpiece.

 The color corn are so much fun!

 This corn has a pretty,  wine red color to it, I love it!

 The centerpiece evoking Autumn.

 This small bowl is for dessert, but I use them with a clear chicken soup with wine, a French consomè as an antrè.

 The layers and the centerpiece.  The stems are hand blown in Mexico.

 This is a big dinner plate, like they make them now, so it was perfect as a charger for the smaller, vintage one and I like the way it brought out the orange flowers in the oriental plates.

 The vintage oriental dinner plate is so much smaller than the modern ones, this enabled me to use them as a chargers,  I'm even thinking we'll have Thanksgiving in this combo!

 The layer with the small bowl...this china comes with bigger soup bowls and soup plates, too.

 The bone china's tea set on a wooden Italian hand decorated tray and a vintage Italian yellow flower vase.

 week.         Lots of hugs.     FABBY

Tablescape Thursday at:  http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/
Vintage Thingie Thursday at:  http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/
Open House Party at:  http://nominimalisthere.blogspot.com/
Delightfully Inspiring Thursday at:  http://thefrenchcupboard.blogspot.com/
Thrifty Thursday at:  http://bornagaincrafter.blogspot.com/
It's a Party at:  http://creativeprincess.blogspot.com/
Feathered Nest Friday at:  http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/
Home Sweet Home at:  http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/
Show and Tell Friday at:  http://myromantichome.blogspot.com/
Flaunt it Friday at:  http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/
Pink Saturday at:  http://howsweetthesound.blogspot.com/
Strut your stuff at:  http://saturdaymornings.blogspot.com/
Sunday Favorites at:  http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/
Seasonal Sunday at:  http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/
Mater Piece Mondat at: http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/
Amaze Me Monday at:  http://dittledattle.blogspot.com/
Blue Monday at:  http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/
Tabletop Tuesday at:  http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/
Tea Time Tuesday at:  http://ladykatherineparlor.blogspot.com/
Tea Cup Tuesday at:  http://marthasfavorites.blogspot.com/