Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Anticipating Spring with Blue-White, Fruits & Flowers


Hello sweet friends !

I've been having some wonderful visits and guests at home. My daughter from Madrid, her husband and Maxima four and baby Leonela 4 months old are here and so was my daughter Sofia, Victoria 15 and Cayetana 13, the teenagers... plus baby Alonso 1 and 3 months old.  So you can just imagine !

I haven't been able to look at my blog one day till now that daughter Sofia went back home with her brood, lol...

My dear mom is doing better and last year she gave me these pretty blue and white placemats she had and never used. So they inspired me to make an 'anticipated blue and white Spring tablescape.' 


Wishing you all dear friends very safe days ahead,  what with this "Corona Virus" situation around the world, all we can do is pray for all of us and our families, as well as the rest of the world and the countries most affected.

May God bless us all !


I arranged this table with my Blue Danube-Onion china, Hutschenreuther in blue and white, because of the blue and white placemats mother gifted me.

As I explained at the beginning of this little post, that my sweet mom gave me this beautiful blue and white placemats for six place setting, therefore this table is arranged for six as well.
Last December mother was 90 and while I was taking out a tablecloth for her luncheon, I came across the placemats to which I said how pretty they were. Mother without hesitation just gave them to me and claimed she will never use anything like that anymore. 

The salad bowl that belongs to my Onion china, hubby's favorite china and one of my fav as well.


Here you can appreciate the lovely blue and white placemats that were my inspiration for this "anticipated Spring table."



The two tier piece with the fruit is Meissen. One of my precious things I own.









I brought out the cute napkin rings because of the butterflies for the blue Spring setting.

I also arranged one of the buffets in pink tones for Spring too.


I'm loving my two gold faceted bunnies, gift of my best friend last Christmas.

We always need a coffee station for after dinner.

I arranged the coffee setting in this particular corner since it is all blue and white wall plates and big planter.


With that said. I'm so happy to have made this table, I was so enthused been that I love tablescaping and it's accessories.

Wishing you all dear friends very safe days ahead,  what with this "Corona Virus" situation around all the world, all we can do is pray for all of us and our families, as well as the rest of the world and the countries most affected.

Thank you dear friends for your kind comments, you always make my day !

Thanking the lovely hostesses for your great parties.

LOVE,
FABBY


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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Happy Valentines and Lots of Love !


Hello sweet friends !

So I finally could come up to make a Valentines table setting for Mr. Living and me.

I used a couple of settings for us two of my mom's old, not complete everyday china from when I was just a kid back in Astoria-Queens, NY.
I thought it is a cute romantic pink floral just for this special Love Day.

The china is Bavaria, Germany. There's a sign but nothing more.

Wishing you my dear friends a wonderful and romantic Valentines, even if it is with your kids, grandkids, or friends.



I baked our favorite Chocolate Cake with Red Fruit topping. Actually it's with chocolate too.
I baked it on my 'heart Wilton' cake pan.

I found this adorable flatware with hearts in them, very inexpensive. It had no knife but I will use a stake knife for the meat. At your right there's the cake fork and coffee spoon too. So cute !

This dishes were my mother's from when I was a kid. It's Bavaria, Germany incomplete set, it  was our everyday china and it brings me memories from when back.

I set it for Valentine's dinner at our beloved antique French foyer table.







Nothing like Chocolate Cake for dessert to celebrate Valentine's !








Have a great Valentine's dear friends.  Thank you for visiting me, you always make my day !

Thanking the lovely hostesses for their great parties and for featuring me most of the times.

LOVE,
FABBY

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Some January Vignettes 2020


Hello sweet friends !

I started arranging some vignettes for January here and there. 
I have no time for much lately with mother whose health has been declining somewhat.

Here they are. 

I also received this Christmas past, two adorable 'gold faceted bunnies' from my best friend and to cheer me up they're displayed on the dinner table to remind me of Spring.

Hope your 2020 is of to a good start.



Marble on marble styling for a little tea and cake on our Foyer antique French marble table.



The Faceted gold ceramic bunnies was a gift from my best friend this past Christmas.

White ironstone soup tureens and at center my 'Friendly Village' favorite tureen.

Blue and white January vignette. More blue and white, my forever favorite combo.

Family room styled tray for January 2020

Thank you dear friends for your kind comments, you always make my day !

Thanking the lovely hostesses as well.

LOVE,
FABBY

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Sunday, January 5, 2020

A Winter Luncheon for my Cousins


Hello sweet friends !

Like the title of my post says, my dear cousin Silvana came from Tampa, along with her fiance Joe Ciaccio to meet the family who live here in Ecuador. She also came along with our other cousin Pollyanna from Guayaquil and so I invited them at home along with my brother Joe, Julio and Stephanie from NJ and my best friend. 

I arranged my luncheon table for eight in a Winter-January motif with my Portuguese Magnolia china I brought from Madrid a year and half ago, to keep some green, but mostly white to resemble a little bit of a 'Winter wonderland.'

With that said !

             Wishing you all a wonderful 2020 !



I started this 'snowy Winter tablescape' with a centerpiece using my Friendly Village soup tureen and platter.

A glass German charger with bread plates to match. A magnolia china with a little green and Venetian stemware.







Someone asked me about the 'Gold Flatware' and I will share the brand and it's "Flatasy."
I remember I asked a bloggy friend some time ago, about her gold flatware, so I can look for it when I went to Miami and she never gave it to me.
Thank goodness I got on line right in Miami, instead of looking for it and found just the one I liked !



I placed my 'Friendly Village' large serving platter under the soup tureen, because it didn't come with a base plate.

The pearl napkin holders were a gift from my daughter Sofia a couple of years ago.





White linen embroidery table topper as a canvas for this 'Winter Tablescape.'







Love, love this magnolia pattern china !






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Thanking the lovely hostesses for their great parties.

LOVE,
FABBY

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Friday, December 20, 2019

A Little Christmas Tea Time


Hello sweet friends !

I had a little tea time yesterday at home because of the delicious cake my friend sent me as a gift. She makes the best cakes, ever, she's a very talented baker and sells them from home to people that order them.

The dishes I used were made at our past Ceramic Co. I found a pretty Christmas design in a cloth and had it copied by hand by our artist decorated.

Wishing you a very happy and blessed Christmas dear friends.



Tea set and cup made back at our former  Ceramic Co., Monte Turi.












I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous new year. May God bless you and your families.

Thank you for visiting me, you always make my day !

Thanking the lovely party hostesses as well.

LOVE,
FABBY

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