I am often asked "Where do you get your ideas and inspiration for your beautiful table settings?" I find them everywhere-from magazines subscriptions I receive in the mail, old entertaining and cook books, photographs of tables set in historic homes, vintage Martha Stewart shows, from dinnerware patterns themselves to nature...
Behind the Lace Curtains-TTS #68/2020 Table Setting Challenge #28, Summer Sunflowers
"Summertime, and the livin's easy." Or so goes the old Gershwin song. Apparently, they didn't work in the tourism industry, because summer is always busy-or at least we hope so! This is the time we make most of our money, so little breaks here and there are a welcome respite...
Behind the Lace Curtains-TTS #65/2020 Table Setting Challenge #25, Auntie Betty Jo’s Briar Rose
My Auntie Betty Jo and I had a special kinship. We both loved to have a beautifully decorated home with lots of brick-a-brack, our tastes were on the fancier side, we enjoyed classic clothing, high heels and jewelry, and we enjoyed cleaning our homes and decorating them or working in...