A Tea Party with Scooby Doo!

Miss Phoebe and I had a tea party the other night ... playing a Scooby Doo movie in the background!   Phoebe set the table with our Johnson Brothers Eternal Beau.   We put everything on the coffee table, so we didn't have to miss any of the movie!

Now, you might think this food isn't really tea party quality ... but when you are 5, it is just perfect ... everything you love!

We had "dogs in a blanket", but Phoebe only ate the "dog"s and gave the real dogs the "blankets"!   She didn't want me to take a picture of her plate, showing the dogs!   We had grape tomatoes with some yummy string cheese on crackers, cranberry goat cheese, warm cheese dip with tortilla chips dusted with lime,  oatmeal cookies and some of our Valentine chocolates!

Oh, yest ... and Earl Gray tea!   That is one of our favorites!   I'll post this with Potpourri Friday and Home Sweet Home, so make sure you click through to see the other parties.  Take a look at my home page, too ... to see all my videos and other posts!

Pink Saturday - Pink Food

I'm posting with Pink Saturday!  Thought you might enjoy seeing some of the pink foods I've photographed in the last couple of years!   Make sure you click through to the party to see all the other posts, but take a look at my home page, first.  
I have several videos posted and some really pretty pink china ... in case you missed it last Pink Saturday!

The Year of the Dragon!

We finally got to celebrate the Year of the Dragon!

Just above this post is a video of the tablescape and the

joy of my life, Miss Phoebe.

Phoebe was in the Dragon Dance Parade at Pre-K a couple

weeks ago and I promised her that we'd have a dragon dinner.

I told her I would make dragon toes (chicken wings), which she loves ... but she wouldn't eat them this time!  You can't eat the dragon's toes!

I'm posting with Tabletop Tuesday,

,Rednesday and Tablescape Thursday ... so make 

sure you click through to the parties and 

take a look at all the other posts!  Enjoy!

My Handsome Labrador

Here's my very handsome Labrador, Junior!  He had a swelling on his ear and had to have surgery.  That is a soft cast on his ear ... quite a problem for a floppy eared boy!
He's already been wearing it for a week ... and looks like he'll have it for a few more days.
He is not happy that I am blogging his picture!
If he gets too excited, I have to put his 
bandanna on him like a babushka.
He really loves that!

Sissy's Pink Roses

All my followers know what a pink rose china nut I am!  Normally, I'm looking for the old Moss Rose patterns, but when my favorite antique store owner told me he had a set of china for me ... I knew it would be fantastic!   It is American made Style House from the 1950s in the Dresden Bouquet pattern.   The most fantastic part of this recent find is the fact that it is 12 place settings with extra cups and saucers, all the serving pieces you could possibly need ... and there isn't a mark on it!  It seems brand new.

Right now it is on the hutch, so I can just gaze at it as I go by ... but it won't be long before I set a table with it!  It actually has doubles in the serving pieces, even an extra cream and sugar!
That means I can set two family-style tables.

My addiction to dishes came from my Aunt Evelyn, who we lovingly called "Sissy" because she was our daddy's baby sister and that is what he called her!   The rose in the following collage caught my eye at the supermarket the other day, mostly because of the jar it is in.  Sissy had a beautiful rose garden because she bought a home that had belonged to a couple who had a flower shop and grew many of the flowers they used.  We never had enough vases for the roses, so we'd grab just about anything to use.   Tea parties and suppers under Sissy's shade trees were almost always adorned with roses.  This made me think of Sissy.

The rose, by the way, is silk ... not real.  As I left the supermarket with propped up in my cart, I paused to put some money in the soup pots for our local food pantry.  That is a fundraiser that our university football players always do on Super Bowl weekend.  One of the big husky players complimented my rose and I let him smell it!  As we all laughed, I put a generous donation in the other big husky football players soup pot and they got so excited about the amount ... they both hugged and squeezed me!   I think I was tackled!  What great guys.


I'm participating in Pink Saturday and the Home Sweet Home Party, so don't forget to click through to see the other posts!  Make sure you check out my home page to look at my other posts.  I have some videos running with some great recipes and cooking hints!


Enjoy!

Valentine 2011 Tablescape

Last year, we had a couple valentine dinner parties and
I'm re-posting pictures from the more formal event!  
I always enjoy using my collection of Cape Cod glassware ... even though one of those glasses is not Cape Cod!  Can you find it?


Candle light is always beautiful and I loved the black background on the table cloth.


I'm posting with Tablescape Thursday, Potpourri Friday and Laurie's Valentine Party.  Make sure you click through to see the other posts, but check out my home page and take a look at my cooking videos.  Chicken Marsala makes a great Valentine dinner!