Hello sweet friends!
Over the weekend I've been tweaking, changing and rearranging some of the vignettes around the house.
I was tired and bored with the old look, it screamed UP DATE ME!!!
I had for so long the same things on top, specially on the antique chest, a heirloom from Alejandro's grandparents.
I've also been inspiring myself through Pinterest great pins from Ralph Lauren's classy décor, I just adore!
Some of you might remember I had it filled with family mementos in silver picture frames, in the foyer.... but if you don't, it's not important, here are my 'new vignettes' around the house, now.
I'm also sharing a couple of new finds. A 'Friendly Village,' soup tureen and big serving platter (perfect for Thanksgiving) and an Indian tablecloth with elephants I bought when I went to Peru on vacation...very inexpensive!
Ok, here it is, hope you like them.
HAPPY SEPTEMBER!
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| The fireplace is in our den, so here too I had almost the same things for so long, except when I decorate it for Fall, now that September is here...or C'mas time. |
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| At left you have a vintage French urn, and a Delft flower vase. In the center it's one of my latest finds from a couple months ago, a hand painted Delft centerpiece bowl, which will be decorated for Fall sometime in September. Next to it, another Deft flower vase with the gorgeous Delft ginger jar, which is part of the three piece garnishing set you see here. |
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| At the far left side of the mantel, I placed a couple of photographs of my dearest 'four girls.' This was an inspiration from a Ralph Lauren's mantel idea. |
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| At the far right end there's a photograph I love of Alejandro with Victoria, our eldest grandchild, who is ten now! This is how my mantel looks right now and I do like the final look. |
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| This chest in our foyer is an antique heirloom from Alejandro's grandparents where I've had silver photo frames for at least 10 years, lol! All I've done here before to change it a little, was in the center part of it with the blue and white garnishing set, now in the mantel top... and come C'mas some holiday decorations, but basically, it stayed the same! |
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| I kept here only the big photograph of me and my DDs some years ago... and the rest was brought to the chest top from the mantel. The indigenous woman with the young boy is a sculpture made by a famous Ecuadorian artist: Gonzalo Endara Crow. The gorgeous French 'Art Nouveau' bowl you've seen many times is now with shells... and it's from the early last century and it was hubby's other grandparents, which I will decorate for Fall next month. Doggies from my personal collection and at the end, inside a cloche is the 'at least' 100 year old 'Virgin Mary' we inherited from my Mil. |
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| My latest find, which I'm so thrilled with, is this lovely 'Friendly Village' soup tureen and big serving platter. I'd like to add that it's difficult to find transferware here right in a store, so I am very happy, indeed! I fixed this vignette in our antique English buffet from Alejandro's grandparents, which is at our breakfast area and where I do lots of tweaking almost every month, to enjoy while we have our breakfast and lunch here . |
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| In the inside of the tureen is a summer scene, a cabin and water well. |
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| The plate under it and ladle is from my white ironstone soup tureen. |
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| Here is my new vignette with my Friendly Village tureen and platter and my bird Polish teacups in our breakfast area - English buffet. |
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| And my second find; is this pretty beige and red elephant, Indian cotton table linen I found very inexpensive in Peru while vacationing there three weeks ago. |
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| Elephants on the sides and the center...I love it! Elephants are good luck and are so adorable. The red and beige caught my eye, and in real life is very beige, not white. I think it'll be pretty come Christmas time too. |
