December 28, 2017

Set the Table - New Year's Eve 2017

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Another year is almost over and a brand new year is upon us.



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Entertaining on this special night can be made elegant with just a few additions to your ordinary dishes and accessories.


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We chose a mostly gold, white, and purple theme.



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 Then we added some sparkle with gold crinkle used for gift bag filler along with a generous sprinkling of gold and silver flakes.


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 It starts with a foundation of a shimmery tablecloth and napkins.


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Each place setting starts with a purple paisley scrapbook paper placemat and is topped with a gold charger.


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The plate stack is two white dinner plates of different sizes, a purple salad plate topped with a white saucer and gold bowl.

Each gold bowl received either a beaded ball or a beaded glass bird in a gold crinkle nest.


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The brass lamp is actually a glass and brass jar sitting on an inverted brass bowl.

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Happy New Year!!!

Very best wishes for 2018.


Table Elements

Tablecloth and napkins - Harman
Scrapbook paper - Micheal's
Gold Chargers - Thrift store
Large White Dinner plate - HERE
White Diner plate and White saucer - Richmond by Johnson Bros.
Glass purple Salad plates - Home Sense three years ago
Gold bowls - The Great Canadian Super Store this year
Beaded Glass birds - The Bay several years ago.
Beaded Balls - HERE
Crystal - Waterford
Silver Flatware - Adam Wm. Rogers
Crinkle and Gold & Silver flakes - Michael's




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December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas




Best Wishes to all our loyal readers and blogging friends from

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We hope this magical season is filled with wonder and love.





May friends and family, both near and far, share with you in the joy of the season.




We thank you for your support and wish you all the best in the New Year.

We look forward to a fun year sharing with you.


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December 19, 2017

Christmas in the Sitting Room

It doesn't really feel like Christmas until the tree is up and decorated.

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We have been using silver, white, and purple decorations in our sitting room for a few years now.

Gold has also been introduced recently.


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By using white and metallic colours as a base it is quite easy to phase in another colour, such as purple, red, black, or whatever colour I choose next.



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With the exception of the butterflies and one or two other pieces, our ornaments are mostly glass.



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If there is any breakage, it is usually due to my carelessness.



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I have a few vintage ornaments that are very susceptible to breaking so they don't go on the tree.  


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Thank you for stopping by.

Merry Christmas.


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December 17, 2017

Christmas Decorating Outdoors

Decorating outside at Christmas is always fun.

This year we opted to stay with a red, green, and plaid theme .


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We started with a fresh wreath from Costco.  It came with the berries and pinecones.

We added the oversized red bell and red plaid bows.

The bows we made from plaid yardage.  
We cut strips of fabric about two yards long.  
The strips are each about ten inches wide.  This fabric is easy to fringe by pulling out threads until there is a fringe about 1/2 inch long on each side.



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We filled buckets and planters with fresh cut greenery from our farm and added hits of red and plaid.


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We placed plaid and check pillows on the bench.  The deer pillow came from The Dark Horse in Sunderland last year.

The red plaid and black & white check pillow covers we made last year.




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I have two of these red traffic lanterns from the 1940's  They are lit by kerosene, but, I placed battery operated mini lights inside of them.




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I have had the red bucket for many years and I'm not sure where it came from.



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Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays.

Thank you for stopping by.


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December 15, 2017

Make a Cushion Cover From a Placemat



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I'm calling this a tutorial, but, really there is not very much to the project.

I decided to make this because I was unable to find a pillow cover I liked.  I wanted a fabric with a little shimmer, but, not too blingy.

The placemat was perfect for the look I wanted.


You will need to start with a placemat that has a separate front and a separate back.


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In the picture above there are two sides that are sewn together.

Pick apart the seam on one side.  I chose the long side because I wanted to add a zipper to accommodate a pillow form that I already had.

If you don't have a pillow form the pillow can be filled with fiberfill and then stitched together by hand or on a machine.



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I will admit that adding the zipper was a little tricky only because I didn't want to take out all of the seams.

Once the seam was out, I turned the placemat inside-out and closed the seam using a basting stitch.

The zipper was pinned in the seam and then stitched.

The tricky part was removing the basting stitch.  That had to be done carefully as the zipper was closed and the placemat was inside-out.

It took a few minutes, but, eventually, the seam was opened and there was a working zipper.


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The best part is that I don't have to store another pillow, only the cover.

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December 12, 2017

Set the Table - Amaryllis in the Breakfast Nook


Amaryllis just speaks Christmas to me.

They are so neat because you buy the bulb, plant it, and in a few weeks it starts to flower.

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They are great fun for kids to practice their gardening skills on too.



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The inspiration for the table was a set of Amaryllis tidbit plates that I found months ago at the thrift store.


There is a lot of red and green on these little plates, so it just made sense to set them up in the breakfast nook for Christmas.


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We started with a small linen tablecloth and then added all the other elements.

The little red tow-truck was also a thrift store find.

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We used thrift store red wine glasses.  They were used HERE as well.



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The small green lidded pot was from the thrift store too.  It is by Bordallo Pinheiro and is new to my collection.



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The napkins are Ralph Lauren.



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Red-handled flatware stands ready in a white ironstone pitcher.  We used this flatware HERE.



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A List of the Elements on the Table

Linen tablecloth - I think I bought this at White Feather Farms
Green Chargers - thrift shop
Red plates were purchased HERE
Cabbage Plates were purchased at Home Sense a few years ago.
Amaryllis tidbit plates - thrift shop
Napkins - Ralph Lauren from Home Sense
Red Wine glasses - thrift shop
White ironstone pitchers - I have had them for many years.
Red-handled flatware - B&B from Home Sense
Green pot on green cabbage plate - thrift shop
Red tow truck - thrift shop
Amaryllis - faux from Michael's
All of the faux Christmas trees we have had for a few years.



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December 10, 2017

Fair Meadow Place Bookshelf - Christmas Book List





Ruth Ware Box Set: In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

I've been doing some reading and I have also added some books to the list that I haven't read, yet.

I have not included any children's books as I am not up-to-date on the crop of books available this year for the younger set.



My  first, second, and third choices are by an English author, Ruth Ware.

Her first novel,  In a Dark, Dark Wood I have not read yet.  I bought it along with the second novel The Woman in Cabin 10.

I read The Woman in Cabin 10 and thoroughly enjoyed it.  It is a mystery that takes place at Sea.  It is a real page-turner.

In this book, Ruth Ware writes in a style reminiscent of Agatha Christie, but the era in which she writes is current.


                                                     The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware



I will be reading In a Dark, Dark Wood soon.

I read a preview of the third book, The Lying Game, and it promises to be equally as good as The Woman in Cabin 10.


Right now a boxed set of all three novels is available.


Ruth Ware Box Set: In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

                                       



My fourth choice is Paris 1919, by Margaret MacMillan.  This isn't a new book.  It has been around for a few years.

This is an ideal book for history buffs as it recalls the events that took place at the Paris Peace Conference post WW1.

The book recounts decisions made in 1919 and how those decisions affected the world from that time.   Decisions made in 1919 still affect the world today from WW2 to unrest in the middle east, to ISIS.

This is the book I am curretly reading and it is fascinating.


Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World by Margaret Macmillan




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