DOES BAILEY LOVE COFFEE??

Well, Coffee Loves Bailey's

A few years ago, I saw a blog that posted a New Year's Eve dinner where the hostess served coffee in these cups!

A LITTLE TWEAK HERE, A LITTLE TWEAK THERE!

A week or so after the Fourth of July,

I put the patriotic decor away until September.

After all the fireworks 

I wanted to cool things down a little! 

Honestly it didn't work because it was 101 degrees

here today. Not sure about the index.

LAZY DAISY

Taylor-Smith-Taylor

Lazy Daisy pattern just speaks 

Spring and Summer!

This coffee service has been set up on the sideboard for more than a month.

 I am an extremely busy woman 

or

I am a totally discombobulated old broad!

(No vote necessary)

This pretty set of dishes was manufactured in the 1950s.

The bright white daisies and the soft green color

are a perfect look for this time of year.

The interior of each piece is mocha colored and the lids on the coffee pot and creamer are made of wood with  brass knobs. The design of the knobs is a giveaway to the mid-century origin.

If you take cream in your coffee be careful. You won't be able to see the coffee in your cup.

This adorable Tea Coffee Towel reminds us that the bees are a buzzin'. The silver colored bee is a pot sitter from Cracker Barrel.

The silver is International sterling, Stratford pattern, 

introduced in 1902 and discontinued, some sources say 30s, some say 50s. 

We move to the left side of the sideboard.

Here you will see a pair of ceramic vintage style boots. They are truly vintage because I made them in 1967.

They were a gift to my mother and unfortunately, in time, came back to me. They were matte black with gold eyelets when I gave them to Mom.

I used a pedestal cake plate for lift, added flowers and a snail, pot sitter. The jar of flowers is from the tray of bottles I won from Verbena Cottage.

The Hydrangeas are from my garden. The two colors are from the same bush. I needed small blossoms but they were very hard to find. I think these are really still in the bud stage.

The Daisies are faux as mine are doing poorly.

Sorry, I HAD to have Daisies!

I love the detail in the shoes. At times I forget they are ceramic. The visible creases mimic normal wear.

 Also at this end, the footed server and Gerber Daisy dessert plates await the blueberry scones.

The scones arrived shortly after the shoot. They tasted good but were not photo worthy. That's a story for another day, let's just say "lost keys". We won't discuss how many I ate. Bob insisted on storing his extra (American) biscuit with the scones. 

International Brotherhood!

I removed the bottle of flowers so you could see more detail in the shoes. 

I have always wished I had some shoes like these.

I should have called this post "Ginger Loves Shoes".

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PACKING IN CHRISTMAS!!

Many of you know that we were away for Christmas!

So the decorating was slim around here!

I decorated the kitchen chandy with my

 Norman Rockwell Cameo Collecton.

There were nine ornaments in the series depicting Santa from a first appearance through his exhausted finale on Christmas Night. The series ran from 1980 through 1988.

I really restricted my decoration to the breakfast area so of course I decorated the sideboard.

Everything is packed up til next year. I will soon share how the sideboard looks now. I am not quite satisfied with it yet.

We left here and traveled to Tennessee and Illinois.

We had a great time with family and friends.

We passed around the egg nog and the upper respitory infections. Much of the time I was wearing a surgical mask.

And No, I did not get a picture of that!

Here are a few pics I did get!

~~

TENNESSEE

All of these figures are animated and musical. My grandson Jon and I loved to get them all going at once.

Drove my sweet SIL crazy!

Hollie made this beautiful card holder. I meant to get a pic of the sweet advent calender she made. 
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ILLINOIS

Kim has been really ill the last six weeks so I was not allowed to take pics inside.

She did a total renovation on the outside this summer.

I think it looks so pretty. This was the extent of her Christmas decor. You can see it was a strange holiday for us but at least the meaning was not lost upon us.

We have each other and we are blessed.

I will share the total renovation later

Above is her office and guest house. 

This is where we stay when we visit. 

The field you see was the cornfield

below.

Hey, we're from Savannah!

This IS SNOW and it counts!

Well, we are home and everyone is feeling better.

I have been busy listing new items in the

ETSY- SAVANNAH SECRET CELLAR

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