FIRST TABLESETTING FOR 2025

 What a job that was putting all those

Christmas treasures away.  I so

understand why - are you ready for

this - "old people" just get out a tiny

tree or nothing at all. 

 Right before Christmas my

husband went to the market to grab

a few things and a man pulled out and totaled our car.  He said the driver was

 an old guy so I asked "how old was he?"

Oh....about our age was the answer!

Haha!  Thankfully, my husband 

wasn't injured.

I did my first table setting for the New

Year today and am sharing a tablecloth

I made with some purple toile fabric.

Many upholstery type fabrics are wider

and can make great tablecloths.

This is a bigger vintage toile pattern

sometimes called "House Party"

or "Litchfield House Party".

Laura Ashley marketed it too.

My transferware is Clarice Cliff

Rural Scenes.

I found this machine sewn vintage

quilt on Ebay which had perfect

colors for our "snug" area in our

home.  It is on the pony rail by

the stairs going down.

I hope you are keeping warm

and staying safe!

AN AUTUMN TEA TIME for "Tea In The Garden"

 This week we are having amazing weather.

I love when the daytime temperature drops 

to the 80's and even 70's here.  Last week

 we had cold nights so I expected the

 hummingbirds to leave and they did 

but later I saw one at the feeder. 

 Now they

are all gone.

What a beautiful day we had today.  The 

squirrels were so busy dropping 

thousands of acorns and also walnuts

although this year the acorns are

 probably

20 to 1.  

I am sharing one of my quilts I pull

out in the fall and some brown

calico English wares.

Please enjoy one of these muffins

that I had put in the freezer.

They are delicious and the

recipe can be found right here:

Fall Harvest Muffins

This is the base of the oak that is

producing so many acorns.

Things are still green in our yard

but changing daily:

I gathered up a little of this

and that for a bouquet:

Last night it went down

to 39 degrees - burr......

We had a drought here this summer

in Central Missouri.  The corn is

being harvested now.  I was amazed

 on a recent trip to Kansas City.  The

harvest was happening everywhere

on both sides of the interstate.  Corn

and soybeans were in abundance.

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS for "Tea In The Garden"

 Today with lower temperatures in the 80's

range it was perfect weather for another

"Tea In The Garden" and since I looked

at the extended forecast and saw that 

this weather will be short lived so I

decided  to take advantage of it.

We got some rain this week but 

truly, we could have used another

day's worth!

 

This recipe for Blueberry Muffins 

is here (click) however, I made a

different topping this time by mixing

 2 Tb flour,  3 Tb Sugar, 1 Tb chopped 

butter and 1/4 Tsp ground cinnamon. 

 I just put that on top of the muffins

 before I baked them.

I love old quilts....

These were the muffins when

they came out of the oven:

These particular

 blueberries

were huge.

I found my blue Daintee Ladyee

years ago in West Virginia.

You can see the branches of our giant

pussy willow in our front yard. I think

the size is unusual and it can be a

mess in the spring.

I hope your weekend is lovely.

A WARM DAY FOR "Tea In The Garden"

 Hello dear blogging friends and

finally we have some warm weather

again to get out in the garden and do a little

tea time vignette.  You know how it is

when you have days of rain and then

more rain.

I have a real fondness for

old vintage quilts.

Today is really a beautiful day and the

 birds are all happy in our backyard. 

 I seem to always have a lot of purple

 flowers at this time of the year.

The sun now will really make a

difference.  I have heard others say

the same comment which is that our

spring is a little behind this year because

of cooler weather.

This is the gate on one side going

into the back yard.

Blogging just isn't as popular as it

used to be.  I think Twitter taught

people that journalism needed to

be in a hurry.

I love the unique shaped Columbines.  We

have an abundance of Chickadees at

our house.  I have to say I find that 

noise they make very annoying.  If

you have heard that you will know what

I mean.  Please enjoy one of my

brownies I made earlier and froze some

in a carton.

I always remember the late Tasha Tudor saying that she bragged about her forget 

me nots.  I  laughed when she said that

 on her video.  I can get carried away

sometimes too!

I hope you have enjoyed a visit

 to my garden today.

There is a "Sewing With Vintage Linens"

Category down on the right that shows

many things to do sewing with

vintage linens or just the covers here!

Wishing all the Mother's a 

Very Happy Mother's Day!