FABBY: Spring Tablescape

 I took my  Oriental-Chippendale chairs from the living room that's adjacent to my new vintage Italian table with Carrara marble top, and put them next to it for this  Spring Tablescape.

 For the centerpice I used a vintage flower base, cut glass from Venice in yellow with yellow and lilac chrisatemus.

 You could see the butterflies on the design by the chrisantemus, that's my touch of spring as I don't have bunnies, but I have DOGS!

 The soup bowl is the classic European shape, although it has round bowls too, notice the dinner plates are not so big as the Chinese don't use big plates like we do, now they make them for Westerners.

 The dessert bowl  I often use them for fruit salads, ice-cream or "ceviche".

 In the background on my Chinese black laquer secretaire  I placed the cups with the tea set fom the china set. 

 The gold glass chargers are hand painted in Turkey.

 It came with this pretty tea set.....it also came with porcelain spoons, that I don't know where they are in my tons of boxes!

 All set for chinese tea...but knowing me, it'll be for coffee!

 A nice shot where you can see the "spring" dogs, china, my Italian Bormiolli goblets and in the forgrownd my secretaire with the doors open where I keep my oriental figures and bowls from our travels.

 The whole table.

 Another shot of the table and chairs.

 My dogs for "all seasons..."they came from my collection of porcelain, bronce and ceramic dogs, some vintage, some not.

Hi everyone, I  wanted to make a spring tablescape but had no rabbits, or bunnies, or eggs, except in the frig! But!...I do have dogs for "all seasons", ha!  This china is one of my earliest buys, I remember it wasn't expensive, but I fell in love with it because of the pretty original chinese design, with chrisantemus in pretty colors, even lilac and it  also has butterflies on four of the  flowers, therefore I thought it was perfect for spring along with the same color flowers in my flower base.  We bought it around 1979 and  the owner of the shop told us that it was an original Chinese Design from the 50's and it's made with very fine porcelain, the cups are so thin you could see thru them.  My hubby who knows so much about china and ceramics as he owned a factory up to three years ago, (for the ones that haven't visited my older posts with our designs) said that the way they make them in China now is different, in a more technical way, more modern I guess, but this set is made like before technology  and the brand in the back is all in chinese simbols still.  I hope you like it as I do.  Thanking you in advance for your visits, I appreciate it so much, as you're all so special to me.
I will be linking to the follwing parties, for which I give each one hostess my thanks for letting me participate.
Today at FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY-MOSSY LOGS
The Tablescaper for SEASONAL SUNDAYS - at:  http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/
Susan  of Metamorphosis Monday - at:   betweennopsontheporch.blogspot.com/
Marty Table Top Tuesday - at:  astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/

FABBY: My Daughter Alexandra's China Design

Hello my friends, I have missed you!  We went to visit my daughter Alexandra who lives in Quito- Ecuador, so I haven't open my blog to visit you.  The idea was to go, and see how Alexandra has decorated her beautiful apartment that's in a building very high on a heel with a view to die for!  She took some photos, she's also a profesional photographer... of the view from all her windows at night.  The church at your right, all lit up, is Guapulo, a 400 year old colonial church.  Quito is full of Colonial churches, houses, buildings, lots of Republican and Colonial Arquitechture, therefore, it's Patrimony of Humanity.  Someday when I go to the old city I will take lots of photos to show you all.

 Guapulo, the Colonial Church at your right. You can appreciate how high is her view from her apartment, it's like a gorgeous "live artwork".

 THE VIEW!

 Night view from her apartment window.

 The whole table.

 Dinner plate.

 Salad plate.

 With the consomee or cream bowl with two handles.

 The tablecloth, it's not, it's an Indian batik scarf that Alexandra had and it was big enough to serve the purpose, plus it's pink!

 The center piece is a toureen with 4 handles, designed in Colonial times by the Spaniards.

 Cute salt and pepper shakers.

 Alexandra bought this stunning antique cupboard and buffet,  it was originally in a Meditation Temple, or Ashram in India.

 You can see the rest of her gorgeous china with at least 150 pieces and 14 place sets.  We can also appreciate the hand carving in the wood of the buffet.

 The very modern silver lamp in the background is from the Italian company Kartell, designed by Phillip Stark.

 Her kitchen with her new adquisition, that great American made "butcher block" we shopped, along with her German pots. Take a look at the ceiling, it's like a blackboard, she changes what she wants to write using white or colour chalk.  She's the artistic kind.

 Butcher block with home made bread my hubby makes with no eggs and no fat, really great!

 Cup and saucer.

As you can see I could not pass by the chace to make a small tablescape for three on Alexandra's French vintage  small table.  Alexandra always loved to take pictures since she was a young girl, so one day she went to the shopping area here in Cuenca and took pictures of the dandle skirts native women wear, all embroidery all around the buttom of such and she brought me this design she saw on a green skirt that went with a pink one with scallops as the women wear always two, one embroidered and the other scalloped in a trimming...so this is what our tablewear vertion turn out.  Hope you like this one too.
I thank our hostess, Marty, for Table Top Tuesday.
Love
FABBY

FABBY: Two Cupboards

Hi, here I am at NOTE SONGS with a couple of my eight cupboards where I store my 15 sets of dishes and all the many things  that goes with them!!!

 I love this cupboard, since we bought it 15 yrs. ago, specially because it is  Italian and went very nicely with my Italian bufett I had previously... so my hubby plantered it, smack! in the middle of it and it looked great!  I keep here some vintage and new crystal and my antique chinese tea set.

 Here it is in a prifile where you can all see the full bufett...

 Another angle of the cupboard and bufett...

 My kitchen cupboard where I keep my everyday china, glasses and serving pieces...right by both dining areas, in the kitchen and breakfast room, very easy to just reach and set the tables.
This is such a fun party.....thanks to our hostess at Note Songs and thanks to the nice friends that will drop by!
God bless you all.
FABBY

FABBY:Vintage French Foyer Table

I took this pictures from outside my window last Friday as a rain storm was approaching the city and yes, they can be full of thunder and lighting, it's a beautiful scene, even though it was only like 4pm, you can see it's already so dark!
My hubby and me went browsing at the European Antique's Shop and that's where I bought the cute boy and girl flower base that I posted previously.  So, I remember looking at this beautiful Italian table with white Carara marble  top and think...what a beautiful table!   My hubby took one look at it and asked about it to the lady in charge and said:  "look at this beauty, it would go well in the space in between dining and living  rooms"!  To make this story short, he bought it to my delight!
Hope you like her as I do!   I'm showing it at Metamorphosis Monday and I thank Susan for hosting this nice party!
Thank you all in advance for your visits as I'm thrilled when you do.

 Just look at the thunder coming on strong an making a lot of noise!

 I took this pictures from our living room  window of the mountains about to be rained like crazy!

 Ben, our beloved pet...it's going to be a year this 29th. of April  since I had to put him to sleep. We still miss him so!

 Here's the French Vintage table!  Ain't she a beaut!  Look at those legs and that white marble Carara top!  Hope you like the place we chose to place her.  

Hugs to all and God bless.

 

LOVE,

FABBY

FABBY: In Honour of my MIL

 This goblets are hand cut in the Chzeck Republic-Bohemian.

     My Mil's pretty dishes.

 Here are some of  the serving pieces, there are 3 of each showing here.

 I fell in love with this French boy holding the bowl with lid as it is Limoges, it's my new find.   I just did a little shopping at the Antique European shop we have localy and he was $45, I couldn't resist him, he's vintage in perfect condition!

 The crochet tablecloth was also my Mil's.

 The blue cobalt chargers were made in our past ceramic factory and they go well with the plates it's because it has some blue flowers in it if you can see closer.

 Here's my boy again!

 A very close up of my boy!

 For herves tea or coffee after lunch.

 I thought this lace napkins, I bought many years ago could go well with the tablecloth, it had the look and color.  I have a couple of tablecloth's size of sheet material I made for a background to match the chinas I use... I also made a blue one too.

 I used  colourful bouquet to give it a spring feeling to the whole lunch.

 The turn of this pretty French girl now, she's also a new find, she was $22...she's perfect to arrange little pink roses like this.

 The center piece is a pretty cut glass crystal basket from the Chezch Rep., I have it many years... I wanted to keep the table  simple and fresh for the lunch.

    Yesterday we hosted a lunch for seven at the table because it was one of the Friday's of this Lent season as there is a custon in this part of the world to have a soup, as a main dish, made out of various fresh grains and bacalah fish, which is quite delicious and it's usually acompanied by an antree of a "tamale" made of "yuca", which is a tuberculous like potato and for dessert  yougur with fresh fruit.  It is on this note, that I decided to share with you my Mil's china made in the USA-The Padden City Pottery, that she got for her wedding in 1940 it has had almost 70 years of loving use and it's still going strong!   That's why I'd like to honour her because she liked to use this set for 24 for the "Fanesca soup" occation as she always had lots of  family, having seven children of her own.  There's probably sixteen places left intact as some were broken and chipped, but the serving pieces are perfect for which I'm so lucky and happy to own it.  Thank you Lali
I'm thanking the hostess of Pink Saturday at The Aiken House.
Love Fabby