FABBY'S LIVING

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Fabby: Dinner Party a Year Ago.

About a year ago we hosted a dinner party with a few good friends after we remodeled our kitchen and so I was so excited to start the "party cooking" and use all my new appliances, like my double oven and everything my brand new kitchen privided me, specially how wonderfully organized I finally was. I wasn't blogging than, so the pictures are the home made tipe, didn't have to worry you'll see them!...LOL

You can see me tiding up my house for the party and than next to my table setting and so is my dear hubby in the small marble antique table. The chinese alcanphor wood and hand decorated trunk was a gift from my MIL one one of my hubby's

b'days...it's more than 100 yr. old . The black chair next to eat was my grandmother's. The gorgeous roses are from my BIL's Rose Farm. The piece of furniture flanked by the two French red striped chairs belonged to my hubby's grandfather, turn of the century Italian, the flowers in the doors of it are carved by hand. So, I hope you

enjoy it and sorry for the not good photos, I'm getting a little better. Thank you for all the hostesses I might show this post to and for letting me participate! I'll start with my friend Chari at Sunday Favorites.

Love you all and thank you in advance for visiting, I love it when I hear from you!

LOVE

Fabby

Thursday, March 24, 2011

FABBY: Another Tableware Design

I'm posting at BNOTP Thursday's another of my dishes I designed at my husband's Ceramic Factory we owned 3 years ago. This design I used in making my tablescape last Thanksgiving, but maybe not everyone saw it, as I was so new at blogging.
The inspiration for this design came from the wrapping blankets Indian women use for their infants, they're made of thin natural colour wool they weave themselves by hand, and the embroidery is with birds and flowers...and of course, the beauty of it is that they use lots of colour! So here goes the one we used to call: "Baby Blanket". The candle holders are from Portugal, they won as best design in glass in 1994, I found that out later, I just loved them and bought them here.....I loved the lotus-flower look to them.
I thank you in advance for all the nice friends that visit this post.
Lots of hugs.

FABBY

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fabby: VIVA! ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Hi! I'm so excited to participate with my St. Patrick's Day tablescape with all of you talented people, Irish and NOT...like me.

In another post I shared with you all that I used to design china, hand made and hand decorated, inspired in the Ecuadorian Indian people's cloths. The one I'm showing you now the flowers are from women's blouses and the, yes, shamrocks are from the men's shirt collars. So I mixed the two embroidered patterns and came up with this design, many years ago... and now here we are, my dishes and me honouring the Irish Catholic St. Patrick' Day with this china!

The place mats my MYL gave them to me many years ago and I couldn't believe they went so well with the plates! This place mats are also falk art from this region and are also hand made in a "frame loom" and it also has a green flower at the two edges of each one!

The green goblets are Italian and I only use them Christmas time so they don't break much more than they already have.

The astromelias had a nice and soft green to them, since I did this table they have bloomed beautifully.

I dedicate this table scape to all my blog friends, Irish and not, for their enthusiasm and talent to execute such spectacular and amazing tables capes I feast my eyes with every time I open your

blogs.

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Thank you Kathleen for hosting this party, so, VIVA! St. Patty's Day!

Many blessings.

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So here you have it, my very own "St. Patricks Day" table setting.

Happy St. Patrick's day to everyone.

LOVE,
FABBY

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

MOTHER'S VINTAGE LIMOGES

My mother gave me this Candle Light by American Limoges-22k. Gold, (this is in back of plates). She said it was for the memories as not much is left of it, except 5 place sets, some of the dinner plates are chipped and so I covered the chips with the napkins. There's a salad bowl, a oval platter and a cute sugar bowl...no cup and saucers left! I love the pretty gold finials on the plates.
The center piece is French antique, as it was my hubby's grandparents an art Noveu piece from the 20's...I ciuldn't believe how incredible it went together with such a very French colour, from the Napoleonic Empire era, it's a Federal Blue... (this is also in back of plates). It has a monogram from his dad's side of the family CA and we have the same initials, AC, so that's why my MIL left it to us. The faux flower arrangement was made by my MIL...I'm finally ready to take them off and make something new.
Thank you for visiting me, I'm always thrilled to have you.