Pink Saturday--whats cooking?

They are heavy and tight seals on lids

These are a really pretty pink color is off here

Cooking in pink is more fun!

Happy Pink Saturday!

In keeping with my totally pink life I just had to get these cute canisters I saw on Amazon and then I found them at Home Goods cheaper!! I should just get a job there.

I love all my pink cooking things and now it is even pinker. I will be making a cherry pie today. My secret to a good cherry pie is to add some really good vanilla to the cherry mixture and sprinkle sugar on top of the pie before baking and cook with love!

Join Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for more pink fun:

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/so-just-what-is-pink-saturday.html

Have a Pink day!

Pinkness rules!

Joy in a jar
Teacups and pink flowers life is good!

Pink lingerie is wonderful especially if you wear it in Paris!

Pink rules my heart!

I have been so busy lately I feel like I haven't posted much. I have several posts you will enjoy coming along soon but thought I would give you a little jolt of pinkness to amuse you. I collect images of pink as well as photographing my own pink world.

Enjoy and

Have a Pink day!

Garden tour part two

A bonus garden on the tour this is so beautiful reminds me of Italian hillside gardens

Topiary in the tiny garden of a tour favorite of mine

This tiny but densely planted garden was a favorite this is the front!
More of the tiny garden --a charming gate
full of topiary

Besides the goats, chickens and veggies a very formal rose garden

Goats living the good life in Buckhead!

I love the picket fence around the veggie garden

Garden tour 2011 part two

Part two of the garden tour- -who doesn't love topiary in creative shapes? And who would think that in Buckhead there are goats, vegetable gardens and chickens all in one garden! I don't know how they choose the gardens. Whether people volunteer or they search for gardens but it is always a diverse selection and a lot of fun.



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May means Atlanta Botanical Garden tour!

Close up of roses on side with the Gothic details
Side to house

New Dawn and creeping figs grace the wall

Creeping fig in demi lune

Side of lawn white delphiniums

Entrance to garden via gate

Side beds into back of garden

I went on another wonderful garden tour (always held Mother's Day weekend) to benefit the Atlanta Botanical Garden. I go on this tour yearly and have seen some amazing garden both large and small. My favorite garden this year is the Gothic Tudor garden on Northside Drive in Buckhead. The above shots do not do it justice. I adored all the pink New Dawn climbing roses mixed with creeping fig and the neatness of the garden beds along the side of the home. The house had fantastic details and many roses climbing its walls.

Could have stayed there all day. I will share more in future posts of some of the other gardens on the tour.

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Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Pink Saturday

Hope it is extra special for all the mothers.

Please visit Beverly at HSTS:

for more PINK posts

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Angela has kindly let me use some of her wonderful work to see more of her confections-that is how I think of them visit:

http://www.angela-lace.com/

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Pink Derby hats!

Betsy wearing her Barbie creation

Kathie Lee Gifford wearing Betsy's rose hat

Happy Pink Saturday!

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In honor of my home state of Kentucky, I have shown you some Kentucky Derby Hats designed by Betsy Johnson. They were made to raise funds for cancer research. They will be auctioned off. I love the big rose one. I would wear that rose one for sure.

Go to older posts for more pinkness last post was a pink tablesetting
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Table a la Marie Antoinette and Rose Bertin

Lovely way to spend an afternoon at Versailles

Everything looks so pretty in the sunshine

An afternoon spent choosing dress designs, fabrics, ribbons

Lush dress designs remind Marie Antoinette of fluffy peonies

Join in on the fun with Rose and La Reine

Soft colors and glints of silver and gold

Opera glasses are a must for court ladies

Jewelry, a new fan, key to the jewel chest, little trinket boxes

An idea for a dress- very fashion forward of Marie Antoinette
Hat boxes hold trims and ribbons

Marie loved flowers especially roses here are peonies on her plate

French bon bons and roses ---so MA

Time slips by so quickly for Marie Antoinette and Rose Bertin

Little details- la Reine loved jewelry and pretty trinkets

Marie meets with Rose Bertin her dress
maker

My interpretation of a table that might have existed at Petit Trianon when Marie Antoinette met with her dressmaker Rose Bertin. We always think of roses and Marie Antoinette so how perfect to put the table outside among the pink roses.
I've gathered some fun things that remind me of MA and she would, bien sur, have sweets !

What a royal treat it must have been to have a talented fashion forward dressmaker at your disposal and she even came to the queen!

Not many fashion designers in our time would go to the client's home. I like to think it was the royal allure and the cache of visiting Versailles or Petit Trianon. I have read that Rose Bertin became quite weathy and arrogant due to her association with la Reine, Marie Antoinette. She also left the country and saved her own life during the Revolution.

Join Susan at BNOTP for more fun tablescapes for:

Tablescape Thursday

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Have a Pink day!