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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Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday at:  http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/
Trish's Tea Party Tuesday at:  http://sweettology101.blogspot.com/
Tea for Two at:  http://theplumethpen.blogspot.com/
Miss Spencer's Tea Cup Thursday at:  http://missspencers.blogspot.com/
Bunny's Blog Hop Wednesday at:  http://bunnyjeandecorandmore.blogspot.com/
Wow Us Wednesday at:  http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/
Primp Your Stuff Wednesday at:  http://primp.blogspot.com/

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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FABY: Elegant Tea Tablescape for Me

 Hello sweet friends !

I bought this eight place setting tea china, complete with teacups and saucers, 8 cake plates, a cake platter and two cookie plates. I also got 4 purple water goblets and 4 pink ones and of the same style, I also acquired 4 pink compotes and 4 purple compotes to match.

 The complete tea set, teapot, creamer and sugar bowl. 
The best part is that I acquired this beautiful teaset the day before my birthday, which is today, Oct. 20th. The brand is "Grace Porcelain."

I won the small marmalade bowls at 'A Stroll thru Life' where we joined Marty's great and fun Cloche Party... they are a set of four cute little sweet crystal cloches with four small adorable spoons as they can be used for so many purposes such as marmalade, butter, sauces,etc., I've posted them today, as they came Oct. 18th. just in time for my birthday tablescape for a high tea.
 
   I thank you sweet and lovely 'Chie' for your adorable gift crystal pieces and I'm crazy about them!

With that said.

Here is one of my favorites "Gracie Porcelain" complete tea set which I bought several years ago, with eight cups and saucers, 8 cake plates, a tea set and two small candy dishes, which I bought later in the same store, I mentioned after the last photo.

The tea set has such pretty flowers of multi color, the teapot has a butterfly and a dragonfly on the other side of it and they all have pedestals.

I used the dinner plate of my reticulated dinnerware as a small charger for the cake plate, the shell cute spoon is for ice-cream that could be used for desserts, in this case with the glasses here.

Here is the compote glass in pale lilac, or purple I bought them a month ago four in pale pink and four in a pale lilac to mix and match them, along with four in each color of the water stems.

Here is one of the set of four small cloches and spoons I won on a giveaway from sweet Chie from "Chubby  and Chieque," which 'Marty at Tabletop Tuesday' hosted.   
Lovely Chie has a beautiful blog:  http://chubbyandchieque.blogspot.com/ and she lives in Sweden.

 You can see a little of the beautiful organza place mat in green and beige with an embroidered stem with leaves, they are from India and  they are my favorites too.  Here is the pretty tea cup with pedestal and saucer.

 The big platter where the tea set stands I've used it before with different cookies and small tea sandwiches.

 The water stems and compotes I bought a month ago, I saw them and I said: umm..they would look great with my mil's antique dinnerware with pink roses and the tea set I'm showing here...so you can imagine me!

 The tablescape in my honor' (by me) for my birthday-today Oct. 20th and I explained my plans for today after the last photo.

 Just with candle light- I kind of like it- in real life it is a little too dark but so romantic.  The crystal candle holders are 'Bohemian' from the 'Czech Republic' and I also  purchased them several years ago.

 I love the tea pot, it has a dragonfly too.

 A closer view of the tea set, it also has an orange flower, a different twist from usually pink.

 The set has multi color flowers like, orange, lilac, pink, a little yellow and green leaves.

 Thank you my dearest friends for coming to my 'birthday party tablescape'...today Thursday Oct. 20th. at Susan's Tablescape Thursday.  You know your visits are so very appreciated and wonderful.

   I also want to thank the sweet and lovely ladies that host such great parties every week with the only purpose for us to show off our lovelies.        

Lots of hugs,      

 FABBY

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FABBY: Mayor Changes at Home

Hello sweet friends!

     We are finally finished with the two weeks of hard working home renovating, which has been re-painting our social area from a pale yellow to a mother of pearl color with a little sheen to it, these are the new wall paint colors and we're very happy with the choice, so what we repainted  is the dining room, the family and living rooms as well as the entrance and foyer. 

  We also changed completely our draperies to Hunter Douglas latest trend in shades, the window treatment was long over due and we are very happy with the results, my sweet husband Alejandro  was the one who really wanted another look opposed to the material draperies, he wanted something more modern to freshen up the classic style we have. He wanted to lighten the rooms up along with a white paint and he was right, it not only brighten and freshen it up, but it also enlarged it to the view!

I confess I wasn't sure about the more modern look on the windows, although I did wanted to change the window treatment long over due, but as soon as the people from Hunter Douglas came to install them I saw hubby was totally right, I just love, love them!

      And here you have it, the BEFORE and AFTER.  

Thank you for coming and for your wonderful and very appreciated comments.
    Lots of hugs and have a great week y'all.        

 FABBY

BEFORE: Yellow moire draperies.

AFTER:  I do love how neat, clean and fresh it looks now!

My grand Victoria 7, who came with her sister Cayetana 4 to spend a week with us.

 At the left corner by the shades we had an antique silk Chinese black  screen that I moved else where, you'll see it in another pic where it is now.

Moving the black embroidered silk antique screen also lighted and enlarged the space of the living room to the view.

AFTER:  Here is where I placed the antique silk Chinese screen that was a gift for my in Law's wedding 70 years ago and it is next to the 100 year old camphor Chinese red trunk that was my mil's.

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I just opened the silk screen  two of the four sides of it and it separated slightly in an elegant way the family room or den from the formal living room....what do you think?


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BEFORE:  Another big window with the yellow draperies that were stained from a water leak from the ceiling that now it's resolved.

AFTER:    I really love the way it turned out because Alejandro, my terrific hubby always knew exactly the look he wanted to acquire from the Hunter Douglas style of shades,  fresh, lighted and modern without having to change our style of decoration and furniture.

AFTER... another part of the den.

BEFORE:  This is the way we had the window treatment on the only large window that leads to the breakfast-round table and the formal dining room areas.

BEFORE:  Everything is covered and the curtains are taken down to start painting the dining room.

AFTER:  This shades are made of cloth material by Hunter Douglass as well and we chose them on the same tone of color as the walls so that they blend, this way it became so much more clear and it enlarged the area to the view.  We still have to install the chandy that goes there.

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We are very content and happy with all the AFTER results and specially me as I wasn't sure on how great it was going to  look and it was Alex who was very sure and knew the more contemporary look was what he really wanted and I'm totally sold now! 

Thanking you lovely friends for your sweet comments, as you always make my day!

I'm very grateful to the gracious hostesses for having me at their great parties.

LOVE,
FABBY

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