FABBY: Thanksgiving Table 2011

Hi my sweet friends!   I'm sure you're all thinking and even making already your Thanksgiving tablescape for this year...I am!  My table for 2011 Thanksgiving is going to look like this, while my table will have a fall look my house will be all Christmas decked up!  I am posting a couple of weeks in advance as here in Ecuador there is no Thanksgiving as in the USA so we usually celebrate the next Saturday after Thanksgiving, usually at an American friend's house who is married to an Ecuadorian too; or at home with the family.   Hope you enjoy my Thanksgiving 2011 tablescape.  
I will be joyning some parties, so I'm thanking the super lovely ladies that host them each week.
I'm also thanking you all my darlings for your sweet and wonderful visits, they are so appreciated!

Love,

 I did my Thanksgiving tablescape using part of my china made at our former Ceramic Co.  I paired the china with my orange plates and the salad and small pan with the birds motiff. The chargers I used my Turkish glass ones because of the gold color. The small pan will go in the oven with a potato and cheese antree.

 This is a dip platter which I use with a hot chile cheese sauce dip and small empanadas.

 The name cards are set on a walnut which I copy cated from Martha Stewart's. The duck lid on the bowl is for patè and it's from Portugal, bought in Bloomingdales NY in the 80's.

 This other mud duck was bought in NY's China Town several years ago.

 I was so happy to have recycled my living room and den yellow moire draperies into two beautiful tablecloths!  I think gold is great for fall too.

 You can see in this high photo I took of the fruit centerpiece bowl with two birds, one is feating the other and from up here they look like they're kissing.

 Coffee or tea is ready in this corner of my buffet to drink along with dessert, or later in the afternoon.

Some pink flowers for Beverly's Pink Saturday at How Sweet The Sound.

 The vintage church brass candle sticks that were my mil's, with orange candels.

Here are the two cute birds in the fruit bowl which I put gourds in as a centerpiece...the one that is feating the other must be the mother bird, lol!

The glass charger with my mother's doily.

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The layers with the pottery pan, which  can be used in the oven perfectly as they are made of terracotta.

This is a pot with a duck lid and I often use it for a Pecan Sweet Potato pudding that goes in the oven in this same pot and to serve it I replace the lid on it... and the pudding it's everyone's favorite!

 This is a vintage cheese platter in depression glass and hand decorated, (you can see like an Arizona house with a cactus plant) made in the USA from the 1950's....it was my mil's too and my hubby has such fond memmories  when we cut cheese from it at the dinner table.

The bread plate it's so cute with the decoration of  a flower flanked by two birds decorated in  many colors.

FABBY

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FABBY: Tea 4 2



I love my daughter's gift for my bithday past Oct. 20th.  One side of the tea cups has a style of birds and the other side another, like next photo.

These two cups from the Chzech Republic were a  gift from my daughter Alexandra for my past birthday and I'm in love with them as they have such adorable birds on each side of the tea cup and on the saucers as well.

 

You can see a close up of the tea cup, isn't she too cute?!



Here is the saucer with two small birds too...I don't know the name of birds, but I'm sure you know which they are.  I used my white Noritake plates to make them stand out better against the yellow tablecloth.



I used my two Oriental white porcelain teapots, they both have a Chinese signal and the round one is footed and I just love the square one...they were a gift from hubby from many years ago.



The reticulated small bowls for marmolade are Italian, hubby brought them from Italy more than twenty years ago. The pretty plant with flowers are in a porcelain plant pot, trimmed in gold, was made at our former Ceramic Co.



The tablecloth I had made from my living room and den's yellow moire draperies we just changed, along with a rectangular for my formal dinner table. I was so lucky there was a lot of material to do both!



 I love this tea box my very good friend Myriam  gave me for some few Christmas ago, specially because her talented sister makes them.  The work on the lid is pewter and the work is also made by her sister.
 A closer shot of the adorable tea cups and saucers with one of the Italian lacey bowls.  The spoons are vintage silver.

 Here is the tea box opened, you can see it has separations to store the various teas.

My daughter Alexandra  gifted me for my birthday these two beautiful tea cups and saucers from the Chzech Republic in yellow with two cute birds on both sides and on the saucers too, and I just loved them, you can imagine how much; so we've had some tea together as she, our daughter Sofia, her hubby and the little girls were here for a four days holliday.  We had a great time been together all of us, it's not often that this happens, so I was lucky to receive belated birthday presents from both.   I hope you like my pretty tea cups I'm going to share with you on the great Tea Tuesday parties and some other wonderful and fun parties. I'm thanking all the great ladies that host them every week for having me.

Thanking you in advance my blog friends for all your lovely visits and generous comments.
Have a wonderful week.
FABBY

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Sandi for Tea Time Tuesday at:  http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/
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Trish Tea Partry Tuesday at:  http://sweetology101.blogspot.com/
Miss Spencer's Teacup Party Thursday at:  http://missspencers.blogspot.com/
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FABBY: Walnut Coffee Cake

I have a full house for four days for local holliday. So our two daughters, sil and  my two grandgirls are here, and mother of course... forgot, and our grandpuppy Chloe too!  I baked this delish Walnut Coffee Cake from a Good Housekeeping Book, recipe they all love... and I fixed a small table, so my daughter Alexandra who's a professional photographer can shoot some pics for her digital magazine. Alexandra gave me some pictures for me to share with you, and she kept others for her digital magazine.  I'm also sharing a photograph my husband took of our daughter Alexandra.

 Here is the cake with walnut filling.  The silver spoons were my mother's and were used in her First Communion when she was 7 years old back in 1937.

 With a red candle it would look great Christmas time, as this fall candle is orange. Alexandra loves my reticulated china set, so she used the teacups for the photo shoot.

 Don't you just love that sky in the background?

 The tablecloth  I had made from my living room moire yellow draperies and they came out great for the round table and, I had enough material for the large rectangular one too.

 Than later Alexandra thought it would look great putting the walnuts inside the cavety below. If anyone likes to enter Alexandra's web page and see her work, she'd love to have you, as she's our No.1 fan of us ladies and gentlemen from blog land.     http://www.editorialstudios.wordpress.com/ 
   Here is our daughter Alexandra in a photo hubby took of her for a magazine.  She lives in the capital, Quito.

I am also sharing the recipe as I've made it a few times and everyne loves it, I remember my dear MIL loved it so much she had me make it for her "Saints day". 

THE PERFECT COFFEE CAKE

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 Cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flouer
3/4 Cups chopped pecans or walnuts (I use walnuts)
1/3 Cup brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 Cups granulated sugar
3/4 Cup butter or margarine, softened
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1 container sour cream (16 ounces)
1 Cup confectioner's sugar
4 to 6 spoons milk.....(I prefer to use lemon juice instead of milk)

Preparation
1)  Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease 12 cup fluted baking pan; dust with flouer...(my mil taught me to use fine bread crumbs instead of flouer to gurantee non sticking and it's totally true!)
 2)  On waxed paper, combine b. powder, b. soda, salt and 3 Cups of flouer.  In small bowl, combine pecans, brown sugar,cinnamon and remaining flouer.
3)  In large bowl of mixer at medium speed , beat granulated sugar, butter and 2 teaspoons of vanilla until creamy.  Beat in eggs, 1 at a time.  Alternatelly beat in flouer mixture and sour-cream
beginning and ending with flouer mixture.  Beat just until blended, occasionally scraping bowl.
4)  Evenly spread 2 cups of batter in prepared pan; sprinfle with half of nut mixture.   Top with 2 cups batter.  Sprinkle with remaining nut mixture, then spread with remaining batter.
5)  Bake cake 55 to 60 minutes on until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 10 min.  With small metal spatula, loosen cake from pan; invert onto rack to cool completely.
6)  Prepare glaze:   In small bowl, stir confectioner's sugar, milk or lemon juice, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla until smooth.  Drizzle glaze over cake  using a tablespoon.

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Thank you for your lovely visits, I always love and appreciate them very, very much.
I will be entering some great parties too.... so thank you darling hostesses for having me again.
Lots of hugs,                               
FABBY

FABBY: Cloche Party

 I was inspired by my vintage Italian table in the foyer to make a fall tea with a cloche with gourds.

 I love the candle holder made in Poland because  it has many uses, as a flower vase is great too and filled with candy, cookies, etc. 

 I took advantage that the gorgeous roses were still fresh, they are from my bil's Rose Farm he sent them to me for my birthday a week ago.....he's roses are exported for the royals's weddings.

 One of the four cute cloches I received from dear Chie's giveaway...blog: Chubby and Chieque. Here I have it with blueberry home made marmolade.

 A close up of the  gorgeous roses, natures best!

A fall vignette with cake stand with gourds and crystal lid... in my kitchen with one of the sets of china we made at our former Ceramic Co.

 My favorite dog race are pugs and here is one under a cloch with the black face....we  lost our 12 yr. old Ben last year in 2010, we still miss him.

 A buffet fool of little friends.

My darling collection of dogs, here they are under some cloches,  crystal lids and even apothecary jars!

Look at this tiny ones inside a couple of the small cloches that were a  giveaway from Chie.

Are these so cute?!

Some cuties!

 This was another giveaway I was so lucky to win from dear Melissa at:  http://shabbylove.blogspot.com/   If you haven't visit Melissa she has a beautiful blog, don't miss it!

 Aren't these hand towels so pretty and they go so well with the gray in my visit bathroom. She also included a beautiful shabby chick door-knob I will be using on my bedroom  door when we remodel our bedroom- which is in our next year's agenda.

A cloche with a couple of puppies got to the bathroom somehow too!

       Hi everyone!  I bet we are going to have a fun time at Marty's Fall Cloche Party, I can't wait to visit all of you and see all the beautiful posts  you've done.  I was inspired on a few things...first of all my Italian mable table in the foyer,  some fall gourds and my dog collection, which I love to put them under cloches, all together they look like they're making  lots of noise barking to get them out of the cloches, lol!   Also a very generous giveaway I won from Melissa at: http://shabbylove.blogspot.com/  Anyway, let's party and hope you enjoy my cloche post.
   I'm so happy to join Marty at a new Cloche Party she's hosting again.  Thank you lovely lady for making Tabletop Tuesday more special today and for having me.
   I will also be joining  other great and fun parties as well and  thank you in advance to all the lovely hostesses for having me.
   Last but not least, thank you so much to all my dear friends from blog land for your wonderful and lovely visits that always make me so happy and  your comments are all so very appreciated.
  Lots of hugs,                                   FABBY

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FABBY: Francoise Sagan's Coffee Table

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Here is French writer Francoise Sagan in her than Paris's Left Bunk residence in an August 1991 Architectural Digest Magazine of interior design.  I love AD and I have collected them for many years.

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 Here is the gorgeous round marble coffee table I fell in love with.. and hers is made of Portuguese burned orange marble and I was so lucky the Ecuadorian marble mines also produced the very same color, so we immediately had it made to order; already, some twenty years ago.


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 A closer look of the top...ours is perfect and exactly alike, I haven't met anyone that didn't give us a compliment when they saw it for the first time, needless to say, I'm still in love with her...I also love Francoise Sagan and her book: Bonjour Tristesse as my dad loved and had the book.  I always keep the French antique bronze black dog figures here also and now my hand made Chinese young ladies holding a bird.  The gorgeous roses are from my my Bil's Altaflor Rose Farm.

 Since we were so lucky to have it made to order, we took advantage and had a half moon, small side table made as well for the small space we had next to the sofa...isn't it great?!

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 Here I have some brass things along with this Art Nouveau mirror with mother of pearl that was my Fil's mother, so it's more than one hundred years old. There's a bird at the top of it, I guess I didn't see that, so it did not come out in the photo.

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     I love Architectural Digest Magazine of interior decoration and several years ago when we were first making this apartment because we lived in a very big house in the suburbs with so much grounds as well and when our daughters where teens we decided to move to this quite big enough apartment and we've loved it ever since.  

While looking at one 1991 AD than- I ran across a gorgeous apartment in Paris of famous French writer Francoise Sagan...remember her book-Bonjour Tristesse" she wrote in 1954. To make a story short, I saw she had a gorgeous round coffee table in burned orange,  Portuguese marble and I fell in love with it and knowing there are fabulous marble mines here in Ecuador-as our black and white floors are and  were inspired from an AD apartment that belonged to Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer... I took advantage with Alejandro and went out and had the beautiful flooring made too and they are also like the magazine photos- exactly alike!!  

We had a small half moon table made to match the coffee table  for the side of the sofa, because the space there is very small and this one fitted perfectly there!

Thank you my lovely friends for your wonderful visits and thank you in advance for your very appreciated comments. 
         
   I'm going to be joining some parties and I would love to thank the gracious hostesses that run them every week.

                                                                       FABBY

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