abby try again

my sunday suppers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I absolutely adore the Sunday Suppers Blog and all that those ladies do.

Seriously! How fun would it be to make a big beautiful meal for people who are gonna love it?

So fun and so good.

Growing up, Sundays were sacred and often times meant a big afternoon meal of a slow cooked roast, potatoes, salad and bread. Sometimes there would even be home made chocolate cake. I look back on those meals with fondness and have decided to start my own tradition.

So on Sundays, we'll have a pretty little dinner-even if it is only just the two of us. This past Sunday we had onion soup, salad and home made bread. The bread was less than perfect (um pretty much inedible, ha), I made waaaaay too much soup but hey-at least we're trying, right?

Off to dream about next Sunday's meal plan....

simple times

 

When my Mom visited a while ago, we enjoyed our favorite activity together; thrift shopping.

I found a number of interesting things, it's easier to find them when you have a willing partner who will dig through the mess with you. One nice thing I found was a giant book of Currier & Ives color plates (for $2.50!). 

I enjoy the America that these prints show.It was a time when boat races were elegant, neighbors harvesting together, and early bicycles were making their debut. It seems to be a time when simple luxuries weren't taken for granted. A time when seasons were paid attention to and activities and small pleasures followed suit. 

It's also interesting to think about a time before photography existed for the masses, a time when many of the images people saw were like these. Kind of the total opposite of my world today...

hmm

I think I will post some of my favorite images from the book over at my other blog.

Happy Monday!

one store opens, another closes...

 

Well, I am blatantly ripping off the theme of this post from Susan's, but I'm sure she won't mind.

By now you may have seen that the lovely Alyson has opened up her new shop, Postal Press.

She debuted her goods at Summer Social and I fell in love with pretty much all of them. Shown above are the ones I traded her for and believe me-if I had my way there would have been more! But a girl must show some restraint, right?

I wish I could show you better photos of them, these goods are truly gorgeous. I have yet to use them as I enjoy looking at them far too much. I must use them soon though-it's silly to have such pretty things just sitting around.

I dream of a day where this is my personal stationary stock.

Congrats, Alyson!

On the shop closing side, Monday my photo print shop will close for a few weeks before I unveil the new stuff! So if you'd like to catch the sale-grab up some goodies before it's too late!

Hope you are having a lovely weekend, friends!

old cooking

 

 

I found this old silver (pewter?) spoon at at thrift store for $.25 the other day.

I thought it was gorgeous so I brought it home. I've been thinking of all of the people who may or may not have used it. It's really heavy and to me-it looks pretty old.

I was reminded of the terribly old hand written recipe book my Mother gave to me years ago. (The spoon is shown resting on the book.) The book is funny and amazing and I love how some of the things listed in it aren't even really recipes-just ideas and assumptions that the person reading will know what you are writing about.

You can see the book open here, and notice the "recipe" for rice griddle cakes...The news clippings above are from the book, too. I am fond of the rarebit one and I love that it states its "especially suited to golf players on a chilly evening". I must make it for James some night.

I found this website, which seems like it can lead to hours of searching and fun. 

I've begun thinking of the heritage recipes from my own family...what will we remember? Chocolate sheet cake of course and potato supreme and tomato bread...?

Do you have any great family recipes?

Happy Weekend! I'll be posting this weekend over at my other blog.

flowers for Lindee

 

 

I am one lucky girl. I have one brother and seven sisters who are all totally amazing people.

One sister in particular, Lindee, has been much like a second mother to me.

If anything is wrong-you got to Lindee. If you need help, she'll help you. If you just want to have some fun and go shopping or share a good meal-she's there. Without her, I probably would've never lived in France, gotten married, moved to Portland and done many things.

I owe her so much and yet she expects nothing but love in return.

Happy Birthday, Lindee! You are one super cool sister. I hope you have a great year.

small, but wonderful

 

Awhile back I scored this beauty from small stump.

I think it's the most beautiful print I own.

I adore it.

Thanks for the kind words yesterday. Loved hearing about all of your fall plans.

I'm adding on to mine!

where'd the party go?

 

 

I suddenly have this abundance of crepe paper at my house.

What to do with it...maybe make a garland like this or some of these?

I also just scored a dozen packs of my favorite crepe trim on major clearance-yay! I now have my holiday packaging all set. That sounds crazy, I know.

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So totally unrelated here's my fall plan:

-wear shift dresses and dark opaque tights, try to be lady like

-bake lots of cakey things like orange cornmeal cake and carrot cake

-maybe start a small knitting project (again!)

-start making seasonal drinks-this recipe for ginger tea looks like a great one for fall

-write some letters

You got a fall plan yet?

Happy day to you....

misadventures in clothes dyeing

 

 

 

 

 

flowers for your friday

Not ready to get back to my daily posting yet, but I thought I'd give you some flowers today-it's the weekend after all.

You can find me over at my other blog this weekend.

Happy day to you!

ta ta for now

I need to get some free time to do things. Like take photos for this blog.

So instead of updating it, I'm taking a bit of a break here.

There are some clearance photos still left in my shop if you are interested.

You might see me over here.

Back soon!