Puppet Marie Antoinette

My puppet Marie Antoinette arrived today. I purchased her from talented artist Laura Lee  Burch from her Etsy shop here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraleeburch

She is queen of my closet and will also be used near the Marie Antoinette holiday tree this year. She is perfect down to her blue Habsburg eyes.

She is a felted needle piece.

 I love her pink dress and her updo adorned with pearls.

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Swan love and Spring dinner

Friends came by on their way to Florida so what better time than that to do a dinner with a Spring time feel in the mist of Winter? I will take any excuse I can get to hurry Spring along.

After 5 years of searching I finally found my huge Italian pottery swan tureen. I kept missing them when they came up for auction. I gather it was made in the 70's or early 80's by pottery studio Erna in Italy. I just love the look of her.

 We bid on it and then in a special ,happy serendipity our friends the ones passing by staying one night on way to Florida passed right by the auction house in Ohio so they brought her to me! I had the smaller version of her that is cracked in the base.

It was meant to be I think. I have named her Cecelia and she is Queen of all my swans and presides over the dining room with swan like grace. 

Dreams do come true! I love her.

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Time to refresh in the pink

These two images from Pinterest are my inspiration for some spring refreshing of the house.This time of year I am always looking forward to Spring and the Spring garden and I use the cold time to plan changes in decor. My house is already very pink but I want to add more off white and cream. I am looking for a small table like the one is photo on the bottom and I adore the pink fabric on the chair. I have a French sofa to recover and that damask would be great on it. either in a pale pink or a cream shade.

If anyone sees the damask fabric when you are out and about let me know as I am on a quest for it.
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Herend Chinese Bouquet

Pots de creme are useful little table top items. I will mainly use them for mousse or sorbet or possible yogurt with fruit. I was lucky to get these for Pinkmas. I love anything with a rosebud on the lid.The swan tureen lid came intact but the bottom of the swan is broken beyond repair so I will use lid for table arrangements.

I love to have fresh flowers in the house especially in dull months of winter. Trader Joe's usually has some pink and white flowers and this week they had white stock so fragrant.

I hope you use all your pretty table items. Don't save things just for dinner parties. 
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The Rose

This is a tough time of year for many of us. We need the sun and warm weather to feel good, to feel happy, to feel productive. I try, as I yearn for spring flowers, to keep the words to The Rose in my thoughts:

" Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow

Lies the seed that with the sun's love,in the spring becomes the rose."
I just love the image of pink rose and ice or frost so fresh.

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Marie Antoinette doll from etsy

Oh how I wish I had seen this doll before it sold! I would have loved it. She is so pretty.So Marie Antoinette

In my obsession for Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour I am always looking for things like this.Sometimes I forget about Etsy shopping. She would be pretty on a vanity or in a pretty closet.

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Souffle-Marie and the Pinkmas Tree

Souffle having fun

My beautiful Souffle-Marie enjoys sitting among the tulle tree skirt and admiring the twinkie lights. She is a very quiet cat Himalayans usually do not chat much. In the 2 years I have had her I think she has meowed twice! She makes a little puffing sound sometimes when she wants something. None of the girls bother the tree or other decorations. 

I love seeing her have fun we have loved her very much and been very tender with her since bring ing her home from the cat shelter where I volunteer. She has grown to trust us and even plays sometimes and likes snuggling a lot more than she did when she first arrived in my pink world. Good thing she likes pink too.
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Already a Pinkmas Memory

 Miss Charlotte Moss in her bed

 A fire is always nice

 I redid the mantel this year adding more silver and pine cones

 The rose topped Herend box was a gift from "my girls" my furbabies

 Always love swans these two are new this year on tea tray

 My retro pink Santa guards the candy dishes

Special cookies for special friends Pink Nutcrackers and doves and pointe shoes all made by SugarPlums Bakery in Marietta

Memories

Pinkmas goes by so quickly! Already so many lovely memories. I am joining in
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Silver for Pinkmas

Santa  brought me a silver tea caddy with roses on it and garlands. It is an addition to my small but much loved tea caddy collection. Most of my tea caddies are old silver but I do have a few porcelain ones as well. How sweet of Santa to recall that I collect these and I use them as well.This one is my first square on made in Germany in 1890's.

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Pink Buche de Noel

 I actually squealed when I saw this cake! Sooooo Moi

Baking for Pinkmas!

I am going to try to make a buche de Noel cake I did make them in the past but this one that I saw on Bakingdom.com has captured my heart. So pink, so festive, so snowy!! I have to give it a shot. I even want to try the marzipan mushrooms and holly leaves. 
I think I will either do a white sponge cake or a lemon flavored sponge with lemon curd filling perhaps or white with  the lemon curd filling. My desserts have to fit into my Pinkmas theme . If Marie Antoinette were here today she would want to eat this cake.

Does anyone have a tips to share on making this type of cake?

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Glittery pink nutcracker

This wonderful creation is from an Etsy shop. I asked for a glittery pale pink nutcracker and here he is!

The shop is called Shazam101 here is the link .

https://www.etsy.com/shop/shazam101?ref=pr_faveshops

Florence does custom ones and has other ones on line. I hope to order more from her in the future to add to my nutcracker collection.

I am already dreaming of a PINK holiday!!
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Pink closet stool makeover

 Before- a bit dated and bottom a mess

After smooth new slipcover

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I've had the little stool for over 20 years and it was time for a make over. The bottom was scuffed and the cats keep get caught up in the elastic on the fabric edge at the bottom. 

They use the stool to sit and watch me get dressed --sometimes I even get to use it to sit to put my shoes on! 

As soon as it went away to be slip covered the cats noticed right away it was gone. They hate change.

Now everyone is happy once again with a pretty new slipcover and a place to perch!

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258 years ago today Marie Antoinette was born

Was she a diva? Was she spoiled? Was she naive or just ignorant of regular people's lives? Was she French at the end? Was she in love with someone other than her husband? Was she a good mother?

We are not sure of any of those answers but what we are sure of is that she still captures our imagination and she is still talked about, written about and reinvented even today.

I love all these current reinventions of her and of her "look".

Happy Birthday and rest in peace Marie Antoinette.

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