I bought this Spanish china in beige with soft brown strokes here and there, to give the plates an old, faded look...it was called "Country Look".....since it's kind of boring, I decided to pair it with some pieces that were made at our former Ceramic Factory. The design was the very first pattern and shapes the Spaniards made in colonial times here in Ecuador, using the wheel, or shaping them by hand, instead of using molds, so my hubby and me made them in the same way, except with modern materials.
The flowers and the base I chose for this country style tablescape.
The base is hand decorated at our former ceramic factory. The ambar glasses was my mil's present for one of my birthdays, they're 12.
The salad bowl, the creamer and sugar bowl, they're all part of the Spanish china.
I love this cheese dish with lid, that has a black and white cow on top! This beige china came with mugs instead of cups, I paired them with cup plates from the green designed china.
The green napkin ring was made at our ex-Ceramic Factory too and it has a little bird on it.
The canister with a lid that has a sack of coffee and a vintage silver spoon, in the "spoon rest"; we made it for instant coffee, or coco, to display it on the table on something pretty, instead of the jar from the store. The little bowl is for marmolade.
I little rooster in the green napkin ring...so cute! The napkins I bought new, from a hotel that close down, they wash great!
A better view of the table setting. The center piece has a part with a basket weave design to it. I ut a plant when there's no flowers.
The place mat, is in brown, Chinese, straw handwoven, forming scallops.
The chargers are ceramic made at our past Ceramic Factory. This is an original Spanish design from colonial times.
The Spanish country beige dinner plate and the green and white salad plate. The flatware is from 1975, bought in Bloomingdales, NY...very modern in those days, with an oriental look.
The place setting, plus the beige soup bowl and rooster napkin ring.
I used colourful flowers bought on sale for $1,90 at the supermarket, in a beautiful center piece with a kind of basket weave and hand decorated, also made in our past Ceramic Factory. Hope you like it.
I'm joining:
Thablescape Thursday
Vintage Thingie Thursday
Open house Thursday
Vintage Inspired Friday
Feathered Nest Friday
Flaunted Friday
Favorite Things Friday
Thanking the nice hostesses from all this great parties. Thanking you all in advance for visiting me, I always appreciate it very much.
Love always
FABBY
My dearest hubby gave me a perfume, J.Lo's latest, very sweet and nice for everyday...well, I thought it was nice of him, so after I thanked him, my daughters, grandgirls and even my mom, we proceeded to exchanged gifts, they were all so beautiful! I see my hubby come out of the guest bedroom with a kind of huge box, beautifully wrapped, as he came straight to me, I said to myself...ok, this is it! It most certainly was! He had to go on business a couple of weeks before mom's day to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where they have the most incredible antique shops and he had fallen in love with this German, vintage, Urn, hand painted, or decorated, with beautiful roses; it says in back Germany and 4 numbers...whatever, it's gorgeous and he thought I'd love it in my new French marble table, when there's no flowers... and yeah, it does look perfect there!
We celebrated Mother's Day last Saturday at my house, as my girls and grandgirls were coming for a long weekend, but they were heading back home on Sunday, the real MD's!
Here are some pictures of that day, what I cooked and my dearest mother, my best friend and best fan!
My mama Yolanda, she's 81 and in very good health, she goes for walks by the river side for 45 minutes everyday; for which I thank my dear Lord!
I used my pewter chargers and bread plates, along with my Chzech, Thums Onion pattern china. Celery cream soup, with garnish of potato chips.
The Beef Stroganoff, my hubby's and everyone's old favorite!
I like to serve rice with Basil and Pine-nuts with meats that have some kind of gravy, or it's own juices, like in this case, this rice looks very green in real life; it's great for Christmas because of the color!
You can see much of the salad in the photo, but it has cheese cubes, ham cubes, zucchini slices, two types of letters,Greek black olives, all one needs is to toss it. The salad dressing is with yougurt, honey and spices, is truly delish and I serve it separatelly, so anyone can put as much, or as little as they want.
The Apple streudel came out really good.
My grandgirl Cayetana 4.
My grandgirl, Victoria, 6 yrs., 10 mths. old.
This cotton linen tablecloth is Indian, it has a beautiful finials pattern to it, I just forgot to take a pic, I was so busy! I close up of mother, she's really so much prettier in person, she's picture shy!
We're usually together on Wednesday, she has lunch with me and hubby and in the afternoon we go have tea, or coffee at a coffee house, or we go shopping mostly for the home because I like her opinion and she mine. Hope you all wonderful mothers from Blog Land had a terrific Mother's Day too.
I'm linking at the following parties:
Tablescape Thursday at: http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/
Sherry's Home Sweet Home at: http://howsweetthesound.typad.com/
Courtney's Feathered Nest Friday at: http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/
Thank you very much for the nice hostesses.
FABBY
The center piece I did in a ceramic basket, in the handle there are hand made flowers. The two figurines are French, they're my new vintage finds. I loved their blue hats, I bought them to make a table with my Onion blue and white china.
Here's one figurine of the girl holding a sheep. The soup it's Cream of Celery. The charger and bread plate are pewter.
A better close up of the Celery Cream, I garnished it with home made potato sticks.
The rice is made of fresh basil and pine nuts, (rice looks greener in real life). The meat's Beeh Stroganoff, I make it in round cuts as my hubby doesn't like it in the small piece as the recipe is originally.
The Beef Stroganoff onion pattern platter and the girl's vintage figurine.
The Apple Streudal came out really good.
My version of the Greek Salad.
The Granola Cookies they had with coffee at the end of the meal.
Cayetana who's 4. Bellow, Victoria, who's 6, 10 years old.
Hello dear blog Mothers! My daughters who live far from me, some hours away, came to visit us to spend Mother's Day with me, along with my granddaughters, Vicgtoria 6,10 yrs. old and Cayetana 4. They're going back home Sunday, the "real" Mom's Day, therefore, I decided to make Saturday our MD, so this is my post...I couldn't catch everybody for the pic, but I did my own Mother, 81. I didn't come out because I looked awful with a big red, puffy eye with a stai!...oh well, next time.
Happy Mother's Day to you all.
FABBY
I'm linking at Chari's. Happy to Design
http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/
The Tablescaper at: http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/
I also collect cake stands with pedestals, so here are some of my dog collection with some of cloches as well.
The skinny black couple, greyhounds, are vintage French bronze
Inside this cloche, cheese cloche is a pug and a foo dog I bought in NY's China town many years ago.
This big Foo dog I bought in NY's China town a very many year ago, in the 80's.
Our beloved Pug Ben in the gold wooden frame.
Aren't they so very cute?
Here is my beloved Ben...I miss him, he was so much fun and so lovable. snif,snif,snif......
This is my dog collection. I have some vintage, like the French bronze, some are new porcelain, some gifts and some antique.
I love dogs, real ones and collecting porcelain ones, too. We lost our pug Ben last year, he was 12 yrs. old and I still miss him very much. I still have not made up my mind about getting another furry friend...I hope I will, eventually. You can see Ben in the picture frame.
Thank you for the hostess of this great party, hope someday I'll join with a real furry Little Friend!
Wishing you all a very blessed and happy Mother's Day.
Love
FABBY
