French kiss in the USA

É por estas e por outras que eu adoro mesas de doces!... Olhem-me este trabalho fantástico publicado hoje no blog Ruffled (um dos meus favoritos, by the way), onde nos podemos aperceber, pelos créditos, da quantidade de pessoas envolvidas nesta produção e no excelente resultado final! 

Eu adoro o toque vintage deste tipo de decoração de mesas, os bolos de aspecto caseiro, a mistura de cores e de texturas, com aqueles cake-stands a fazerem roer-me de inveja!... Mas é uma inveja boa!! :-)

Parabéns à Amanda, criadora do Ruffled e à Melissa, do The Loveliest Day, pois esta mesa está deliciosa!

 Credits: Ruffled

Event Design & Styling: Melissa of The Loveliest Day / Vintage Rentals: Jen of Found / Cakes and Pastries: Melody of My Sweet and Saucy / Paper Goods: Jane of Olive Hue/ Photography: Ashley Rose of Ashley Rose Photography

It's because of dessert tables like this that I like event styling so much! Look at this wonderful job featured today in one of my favorite blogs, Ruffled. In this production, one does realize how much work is involved and how many people participate in such a lovely job!

I love everything vintage, especially where dessert tables are concerned, and I absolutely love these cakes, the colors and texture, nothing too matchy-matchy... and those beautiful cake-stands that I would die for!!... :-)

Congratulations to Amanda, for her wonderful blog, and to Melissa, of the Loveliest Day, who styled this dessert table amazingly. Check Ruffled to see more details.

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Vegie Patch October 2010

I am so excited to have a vegetable garden this year for the first time since we moved to Adelaide in 2008.  Although it's still fairly early in the growing season the vegie patch is shaping up well. 

The previous owners had a cubby house in this corner of the garden which they took with them, leaving a bare patch of earth that just yelled 'vegie garden' to me.

I have divided the area into four beds with bricks, partly so that I can rotate what I grow, and partly to provide somewhere to walk.  I don't want to tread all over my new little seedlings!

In the picture below you can see broad beans, lettuces, broccoli and silverbeet.  There are also a few tomato seedlings, pea plants and radishes, but they are too small to show up in the picture.

In the shot below, taken from the side, you can see potatoes, onions and carrots.  The bare, straw-covered bed at the back will have summer vegetables once they are big enough to plant out.  I am hoping to get some sort of trellis to cover that very ugly metal fence and will growing grapes or passionfruit over it.

This rose-covered arch (not yet flowering) is the gateway to my vegie patch.  In another month or two it will be very pretty.

Here are the rest of my summer vegetables, growing in a mini greenhouse (I took the cover off for this photo).  There are watermelons and rockmelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis, eggplants, peppers, chillis, squash and sweet basil.  I'll plant them out when they get their second set of leaves.

I'm trying to grow everything from seed this year.  I don't know if it will all work but I'll keep you posted!

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Seaside Daisies

Seaside daisies (Erigeron karvinskianus) are unlikely to ever win a prize in a flower show.  They are neither glamorous nor dramatic nor big.  Yet as a hardy perennial groundcover, they are hard to beat.

Thriving in the poorest soils with very little water and no maintenance, seaside daisies will provide their small pink and white flowers year-round in mild climates.  They will spread to fill any bare patches of soil.

And I think they are rather photogenic, don't you?

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My Sunny Kitchen Tour

After our last house, a rental, which had a dreary, windowless kitchen, I was very keen to have a window in my next kitchen.  Oh, and plenty of bench space.  Fortunately, this house has both. 

I will never underestimate how wonderful it is to be able to daydream out a window when my hands are deep in sudsy water.

Here are some views of our kitchen from a few different angles.

From the family room.

A corner from within the kitchen.

Looking out across the table to the garden.  The family room/informal living room is to the right.

And here are some details.

I haven't bought anything new for this kitchen, so what I am showing is things I already had.  Fortunately, just about everything goes with an off-white kitchen!

Anyhow, here's the windowsill, which has a little blue dish my husband brought back from china, a little bowl with my favourite rose-scented soap, and a blue chook.  The tree outside the window is a lemon tree which I have underplanted with strawberries given to me by a friend.

As you can see, the splashbacks and windowsill are granite as well as the benches.This makes for very easy cleaning!

A little birthday gift from friends who know how much I love to grow things.

This small white bin is used for kitchen scraps which I put in one of our worm farms (we have two).

Finally, some canisters.

I hope you have enjoyed my kitchen tour.  It is participating in Show Us Your Life Friday: Kitchens at Kelly's Korner blog.

Have a wonderful weekend. 

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Wordless Wednesday - Siblings

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Love at first sight

Não me lembro onde foi que vi os brincos e colares da Tamar pela primeira vez. Só sei que a sua loja no Etsy ficou memorizada nas minhas favoritas e foi agora, à procura de ideias de decoração, que voltei a deliciar-me com as suas medalhas e flores... Para além das orelhas, imagino outros sítios onde estes brincos podem brilhar.

A Tamar Schechner tem uma empresa de decoração em Vermont e dedica-se igualmente à criação destas belezas, assim como ao seu blog, que vale a pena visitar.

Que vos parece? Onde acham que também podemos utilizar estes acessórios?

 

Credits: Nest Pretty Things

I can't remember where I saw Tamar's creations for the first time. I can only tell you that her Etsy store remained one of my favorites and today, while looking for creative decoration ideas, I stumbled upon these lovely earrings, that I imagine using not only in my ears but also with other decorative purposes...

Tamar Schechner has a design and decoration firm in Vermont and besides that, she also creates these beauties and writes on her blog, which is worth visiting.

Well, what do you think? Where else can I use these acessories?

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A Tough Nut to Crack

When I brought home macadamias in the shell from the food swap yesterday I didn't realise how hard they would be to crack.  I usually eat them covered in chocolate or roasted and salted.  I don't think I've ever eaten them straight from the shell.

Fortunately, we have sons who were very happy to whack the macadamias with a hammer - they're happy to hit anything with a hammer.

Afterwards, the nuts were guzzled down with great haste, especially by my husband whose favourite nuts they are.  And I am on the look out for a grafted macadamia tree, now I know that they will grow in Adelaide.  I have no idea where I would put a macadamia tree, but I'm sure somewhere can be found!

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