Ah Spring! My favorite season of the year! I could not wait to set a Spring tablescape to welcome you into our home!I wanted to greet Spring with all of the colors of the season. Bright colors and pastels all seemed appropriate.I started with my favorite Spring plaid tablecloth and then added a bright green charger, my favorite Spring dinner plates, Forget-Me-Not pattern by English Staffordshire and a white embossed salad plate, an unnamed Johnson Bros. pattern.My MIL, Linda, has...
Happy Party day my friends! Also, Happy St. Patrick's Day Week to you all! Confession time. It has to be totally wrong when your last name is Burke and you have nothing in your wardrobe that is green to wear! Green is just not my color but I don't wanna get pinched so, I may just hide out at home for the day. Or, maybe it's time we put an end to all of that pinching nonsense and just have...
Happy party day peeps! I hope this finds you all enjoying some Spring-like weather for a change? Oh the snow is a meltin' here at a mile high! Sunshine, not a cloud to be found, upper 50's! Oh yeah, and it's just going to get better each day this week! Can you hear me singing and see me happy dancing? Perfect weather for another party with Kim & I, dontcha think? Let's get to it!It's Time For The Features of the...
When we first came to look at our house to buy, one thing I knew would change, if we bought it, was the kitchen backsplash.The painted faux stones and other "artistic" touches were so not me!The house was built in 2006 but I am sure faux ivy went out of style in the 1980's.I can't even begin to tell you how dark all of this made working on the counter. It was dated, it looked so fake and it totally...
With Spring just days away and all of us being just sick to death with this winter we have been dealing with, I set a table specifically to say Buh-Bye to Old Man Winter!I had purchased these plates off of Craiglist last year. I love how they look like they are cross-stitched. And the deer in the center of the salad plate is...well..dear! I know I could have used them during the Christmas season, and they would have been perfect, but...
