FABBY: Purple & White Table for Holy Friday

Hello sweet friends!

Hope your Holy Week is coming along peacefully and serene, in union with our Lord Jesus Christ. My white and purple table scape is specially inspired, on Holy Friday, since these color combination are morning colors, as Jesus was crucified for us on the Friday before Easter Sunday, which is when Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, for His ultimate glory; to be next to His Father, our Lord. May God bless you and your families this Easter Sunday.

My Mil's vintage iron cross.

The purple goblets are Polish and the wine stems are French from my Mil.



I used for this Holy Friday table scape my white with gold Noritake china.

The chargers are purple, which is hard to notice from the picture.

The mother and child ceramic boxes with bunny lids.

The setting was done in our alabaster, breakfast table with white lace place mats.

The purple little flowers are from our condo's garden.

A crystal rabbit at your left, a small pewter cross and a votive.



I folded the knife and fork in the napkin and wrapped it with a purple ribbon. Here you can appreciate a little of the purple charger, which came out so dark in the photo... with one of my mom's doilies; which purpose is "not to scratch" the charger with the dinner plate with the friction they produce, while we eat.

Oh my, the charger looks wine color in this light, but they are as purple as the ribbon!, lol.. 

The glass lazy-susan is great, because it's where we keep the S.&P. shakers, vitamins, medicine, coffee mate, Splenda, teas, etc...here, in this same table, for our every day use.

The tea or coffee station for after dinner.

A pretty Lladro Bunny.

The centerpiece flower vase, bunnies and votives are standing on the glass "lazy-Susan."

The vintage Belgium buffet is flanked by two modern lamps..a floor lamp with glass slits that form a ball shade and at the far end of the buffet is my Italian Kartell lamp, which is my fav...in order to make this part of the dining area a little more eclectic, by mixing old with new.

Thank you so much to all of you wonderful friends who leave me such sweet, kind and generous comments, you always make my day!!

Thanking the gracious hostesses for having me each week at their fun and exciting parties.


LOVE,
FABBY


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FABBY: Two Little Easter Bunnies

Hello sweet friends!

I can't believe March is almost over and Easter is approaching us so quickly..before we realize it, it'll be summer for you my friends, living in the USA. I'm wondering if there is something going on in the atmosphere, or whatever, but I can't understand how fast life is going...do you? Anyhoo, I did a tea table with a couple of little Easter bunnies that hopped at my table! Hope you like it.

Here are my little bunnies that came to my table for this Easter.

I used my Bavarian tea set for this table scape.

I love these pink napkin rings with butterflies, made back at our former Ceramic Co. Monte Turi...and they're perfect for a Spring tablescape.

Aren't they just too cute?! Look how she hides the carrots from her guy, or bro, lol..

A close up of the tea cups with pedestal.

The butter knives rests are kitty-cats, not bunnies..I guess cats like Easter too!!

I love this small silver tea caddy, with a tea pot shape on both sides.

These china has butterflies and flowers in many colors and others...just right for Spring.

You can see at your right a little bird inside his nest.



My three tier English Royal Albert, Lady Carlyle cake stand; was one of my three gifts hubby gave me for our last 38th. Wedding Anniversary.

 The flower vase is vintage Italian in yellow crystal and I arranged it with purple, yellow and pink flowers.

Some apples and peaches for after tea time. I placed this pretty ivory bowl in the pull out of my antique Belgium buffet.

Some of you who follow me remember I re-purposed my living room yellow moire draperies and had made two table cloths from them; after I replaced them with Hunter Douglas shades. The one for my breakfast table is all the way to the floor and finished with a ruffle.

Thank you my lovelies for your sweet and kind visit, you always make my day!

Very grateful to the wonderful hostesses, as I will be joining some exciting and fun parties, too.

LOVE,
FABBY


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FABBY: St. Patty's Sunday Lunch for Two

Hello sweet friends!

Hope you're all enjoying this wonderful St. Patrick's Sunday the 17 of March..as I am because of our new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francisco, from Argentina, South America. May God bless him so he could help all the countries in the world to go back to the original values, our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to live by.
This is a small table for our Sunday lunch I did TODAY, although I sent a draft by mistake last Friday; but today is the real post, with our lunch, lol.. I am using the dinner plateswith the shamrocks now, since my last table for St. Patrick's, was a "tea table", not a dinner table. Have a blessed St. Patrick's Sunday, to you all and your families.

Here is the dinner plate with the shamrocks, paired with my other china, green and white soup bowls, both designed and made at our former Ceramic Co.- Monte Turi.

The soup recipe is at the end of this post, if you wish.

The soup we're having is Creme of Broccoli, garnished with hard boiled egg slices. I prepared it cause it's green, and of course it also goes well with this green-month of St. Pat's..j
hehe..



If you've been following me, you will remember I did a post on all my after C'mas sale finds and I got this very green chargers, I really like, as they're perfect for the holidays too.



The small bowls are for fresh fruit and yogurt dessert.

I'm so in love with my vintage French Opaline flower vase, as is one of the three gorgeous gifts hubby gave me on our last 38th. Anniversary. I was lucky cause he let me choose them too...and I'm also blessed that "he liked what I chose,"..hihihihiii...



The day is getting dark, as it looks like a very needed rain is coming.

We decided to watch a movie after lunch, so we'll be having dessert in the family room with tea and a  piece of Pineapple Pie.

The pie looks good!

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for the wonderful comments you leave me, as you always make my day!


I will be joining some great parties, so thank you gracious hostesses for having me join the fun!

LOVE,
FABBY

Cream of Broccoli


1 1/2 cups broccoli
1/2 medium onion
1 teaspoon fresh mashed garlic
1 medium potato
1/2 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
2 Tablespoons oil
4 cups water, more if you need to.

In a pot put the oil, the chopped onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are clear. Add  the water and boil and put the potato cut in cubes and cook the potato. When potato is done add the broccoli and cook for 10 minutes more. Lastly add the milk and cook for 5 minutes at low flame. Let it cool and blend in your blender until is creamed. Check the salt if needed. Garnish with slices of hard boil egg, like I did, crutons, or whatever you desire. Yield 4 servings.






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