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Places to Camp ~ Mayflower Park, California

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Mayflower County Park and Campground along the Colorado River

Today I’m reviewing 
Mayflower Park and Campground
in Blythe, California
for you!
Come along as we travel across the states
with our move to Texas!


The day use area with some tent camping spots beyond
Mayflower Park
4980 Colorado River Road
Blythe, CA 92225
**** 4.1 stars/5 per reviews {I agree!}
Call a minimum of 24 hours ahead for 
reservations ~ 1-800-234-PARK (7275)
Mayflower Park and Campground is part of the Riverside County Parks system and is a hidden jewel of a campground.  Right on the Colorado river with a boat marina providing access for canoes, kayaks and fishing boats, it couldn’t be easier to float, paddle or motor your way up or downriver.  There are fees for fishing and launching of watercraft payable at the main kiosk as you enter the park.  
The campground itself has 152 roomy RV sites (140 water and electric RV sites ~ with a separate dump station available for use as you leave the park; 12 full hook~up sites) and another 27 additional dry tent camping sites available to campers.  We arrived just after dusk so mosquitoes were out.  Keep that in mind if you come in the fall before the cold kills them off and bring plenty of bug repellant for the evening time.  A good campfire will help ward off insects, too. 
By morning, though, the pests were replaced with just lovely cool fall weather and the pleasant smell of freshly-cut alfalfa breezing in from nearby farm fields.  I took this bug-free opportunity to check out the river while walking my dog and spotted small bass and trout looking for their morning feed in the cobblestones lining the launch ramp.  

A gentle slope affords people with walking limitations easy access without fear of falling. Grooves in the pavement help prevent slipping.  My knees are beat up from old sports injuries and I found it easy to walk down and back up.

Tiny schools of fish swim near the water’s surface enjoying the morning sunshine’s warmth.

The best feature of Mayflower’s campsites ~ eucalyptus and other trees provide much needed shade for those hot weather months.  Park staff and camp hosts were friendly and the park is well maintained.  Definitely a place to return to in the future when we have more time to play!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this 
campground review!
Next camp review, I’ll be sharing our
stay at Tombstone RV Park as we
make our way across to Texas…
*Please let me know if there are any other parks 
you’d like me to review in the future or that 
you’ve stayed at and have really liked!
Happy Sunday to you!
Barb 🙂










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Boxing Day Boating Adventure

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ethereal egret!
“Hello?”
“Hello, when you get done with your shift, 
would you like to go out for a boat ride?”
“Of course!!!”


Saturday morning,
the day after
Christmas,
I was working up in the kiosk helping 
check in 
fishermen 
brave enough to weather the 30 degrees 
outside
in hopes of catching 
“The Big One”
of
striped bass, trout and other freshwater fish
in the clear, cold waters of 
beautiful
Lake Skinner…
When a call came in…
It was for me!


{Sorry Ladies, he’s taken!!!}


One of our rangers called to ask if I’d like to go out on the lake
for a boat ride!!!
I had just brought my camera up that morning to shoot some shots
out front of the kiosk
when there would be a lull in folks
coming to the lake
with the lovely “white light” that I like.

Rangers here go out on the lake
to check on fishermen
and
to look for any problems.
Today, tho?
It was just pure magic!


telephoto shot
water treatment plant along the northeastern shore

interesting angles

the first shot of our cormorant…
a cormorant in flight ~ so ethereal!


When I was done with my shift, 
I met Ranger Tyler
down at the boating ramp
and off we headed out on the water in a sweet T-style motorized boat.
(see how technical I am… huh?)
😉



These are the highlights 
of 
the day’s photo shoot…

May this little montage
of
photos bring you a little peace
in the beginning of this
New Year!
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Thanksgiving Wishes and a Wreath to Make ~

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Happy Day after Thanksgiving!
I’ve been working on
our holiday decorations
over here!
😉

I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving day
celebrating with family and friends.
We started the day cooking
biscuits and gravy
in our little oven and stove in our trailer,
then Hubby cooked chicken sausage, some hamburger
for future tacos, and our turkey breast
out on the grill.
Everything turned out wonderfully!
We ate our turkey with candied yams (my favorite!), 
cranberry sauce, 
our daughter’s wonderful mashed potatoes, 
and some mixed vegetables.
While walking around with Yoda yesterday, I saw…
Campers deep-frying their turkeys
and
many families bicycling around,
others were watching football games
or movies
on televisions set outside
their trailers.
During the evening, 
it seemed everyone had a blazing campfire to keep warm!
Thanksgiving was a cool one
this year!
It’s really fun seeing how everyone camps!
At nighttime, 
families turn on their twinkle lights and party lights.
Some strings are multi-colored,
others are just orange, or red, or blue.
Some change colors.
Everyone is happy to be outside in the fresh air
enjoying just getting away from the 
hustle and bustle
and
coming out to get back to Nature!

Today I thought I’d share
a fun craft with you!


Holiday Head Wreaths
  1. Collect a bunch of pepper berries or any faux or real berries you may have in your yard or craft supplies.  (These I collected right outside our front door courtesy the local trees!)
  2. Take an old, wire coat hanger, unwind the hanger using a pair of pliers/wire cutters.
  3. Bend this wire into the shape of the head you want to decorate.  Either pre-measure your doll’s head/child’s head (definitely!), or just bend your wire and keep checking the wire frame you are creating against your intended “wearer.”  I wrapped my wreaths only once for the big angel (should have done twice ~ was hard to glue only to one wire…), and twice around for our tall lady statue (will share her later).
  4. Using hot glue, glue on berries and their stems to the frame layering berries to cover all the way around the wire edging.  At first, I had a thin layer of berries, but then decided to make a thick wreath by adding berries to the “tops” and “bottoms” of each wreath.
  5. Place your wreath on your wearer and Enjoy!!!


Our little trailer
😉

These wreaths 
could easily translate over to large wreaths, too.
I thought about making 
a large wreath out of these luscious berries
(maybe finding the mostly light pink and white berries!!! Ooooh!)
to hang for the rest of winter.
Shabby pink and faded ~ perfection!

But…
For now, I created a Christmas Wreath
for over the front door
and
I will share that one with you soon!


Sharing with 
Feathered Nest Friday ~ French Country Cottage
and
Creative Ways Link Party #87 ~ Posed Perfection



Wishing you a 
Happy Holiday Season!
🙂

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A New Year ~ A New Home

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The first cool Saturday morning we had in September, I set out to bake some of my banana chocolate chip muffins!

A new year for
French Ethereal~


Of course as you know we are no longer living in our
lovely home in the town of Murrieta, California…


Our new home is a travel trailer approximately 27′ in length
and about 8′ wide ~ one tenth the size (basically!)
of the home we just vacated as the sale 
 finally went through in August 2015.





Yoda enjoying one of his daily walks at beautiful Lake Skinner!  Yoda thinks all 14000 acres belong to him and her barks at
every new dog that comes out to camp.
{And also at the dogs who belong to other camp hosts who live here! Lol!}





Life full-time in a 27′ trailer has its challenges, cooking being one of them! The extra-large cutting board provides some
much needed counter space (of which in this trailer… There is NONE.)
We use the stove to dry dishes set into the stovetop’s wrought iron
grates propped up on their sides, and ALL dishes have to be washed after every meal.
😉



We ended up moving our trailer several times already
for various reasons.
One of which is… We have become “camp hosts” which means we are here to help folks who are camping
if they have a need or there is a problem
after hours.

So far, so good!
🙂
Lovely little flower blooming in the wild grasses surrounding the campgrounds.


Where one door closes… God opens another ~
I spent a lot of this year really stressed knowing that we would have to leave our home of 12 1/2 years.
We put EVERYTHING and I do mean everything
into two 10′ x 25′ storage units.

There were many tears, fits of anger, depression,
the works…

But we are on the other side now and I think God was
very loving, very gracious and very sure that He knew 
we would love being here in a beautiful area with
many species of birds,
raccoons, skunks, mule deer, 
bobcat, and coyotes
(Yoda loves sniffing for all of the new animals!).



I’ll share the photos of the inside of our home
in another post soon,
but for now this will be all.
🙂


I’ll share some of the craziness of trying to make
good meals
while having to pull up every seat cushion
to get at the right pots and pans!
But, truly, this is a lovely place to be
and since 
French Ethereal rolls with the punches,
and I was once called
“RESILIENT”…


French Ethereal will be evolving with the changes…


Just a quick post on this Tuesday evening
to let you know I miss visiting with you
and
I will be trying to post more
and share 
The New French Ethereal!!!

Blessings to you, always,
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Tea Rooms to Visit ~ Barbara’s in Ontario

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Barbara’s Victorian Tea House, 7491 Etiwanda Avenue, Ranch Cucamonga, CA 91739.  Hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 3pm.  Please call 24 hours ahead for reservations ~ (909) 899-1700.  Off HW 15 at Foothill Blvd to the right, away from Victoria Station shopping center/Bass Pro Shop.

This month I have two teas to tell you about
and the first is…


Barbara’s Victorian Tea Room

and Boutique in Ontario, California!

A lovely home built around the turn of the last century now a sweet tea room adorned with lots
of lace, ribbons and bows and pots of tea!


What must be a  hundred year old tree out front of Barbara’s Tea House in Ontario/Ranch Cucamonga, California.   
My friend, Gloria, and I went up to have tea in early February. No one else from our tea group could go
as some of the ladies were ill, but we decided to go anyway and we were glad we did!



Gloria and I had the same tea luncheon, the “Princess Patricia’s tea” which included three delicious tea sandwiches; one large scone with mock Devonshire cream, cherry preserves, and lemon curd; fresh fruit and a homemade cream of broccoli soup that day.  The menu also included a teapot-for-one! (I always love having those cute individual teapots!)


{Sorry these photos are blurry! I took them with my old iPhone!}



When we arrived for our 11:00am sitting, there was only one other party so it was quite quiet and pleasant. Lovely music played in the background
as we began with our scones and first cups of tea…


Next came a lovely, clear-glass compote of fruit

after the scones and before the tea sandwiches…



A two-tiered server was brought out lastly with our sandwiches arranged sweetly around the lower floral plate, while the desserts consisting of a chocolate-dipped-then-drizzled strawberry (it was huge!),
a couple of chocolate truffles and little cakes of lemon curd nestled around the top flowered plate.

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My sweet friend Gloria!

The service was lovely, the food delicious
and the home delightful!


And, I love Barbara’s motto from her menu guide:
for those who cannot get to tea but would love
to have one:


“Do you know someone who loves afternoon tea and is unable to come to our tea house? Consider  “Afternoon Tea To Go.” It can be a very special treat for a loved one or special friend who is homebound.  Please call 909.899.1700 to place your order.Thank you.”


I thought this was especially lovely, as not everyone thinks of people who can’t get out and about or who may be ill…


A lovely, ethereal sentiment…
🙂


Your illustrious blog hostess, ME! 😉  Not my best picture, but will have to do for now.  😉 Love the heart necklace my husband gave me for our second married Christmas together and the heart tea-pin!!


Happy tea to you,
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Fifi O’Neill Comes to Vignette’s!

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Valentine’s Day  was a lot of fun
meeting
Francoise “Fifi” O’Neill!!!


Vignettes, an ethereal store after my own antique-browsing heart, located in the beautiful and sunny antique district of Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, hosted author Fifi O’Neill to a book signing from 12 noon to 5pm, on Valentine’s Day 2015.  “Fabulous Fifi,” as she is often called, has just published her third book, Prairie-Style Weddings…  PRAIRIE-STYLE WEDDINGS: Rustic and Romantic Farm, Woodland, and Garden Celebrations (Chronicle Books, December 2014, $30 USD/Hardbound).








Vignettes is a beautiful French-inspired atelier located in the antique district/Ocean Beach area
of San Diego ~ 4828 Newport Avenue, San Diego, California 92107.  Phone number: 619-222-9244.
Open daily, call ahead for hours.


View along Newport Blvd. looking towards Ocean Beach and the Pacific…



Lori Chandler, the owner of Vignettes, and her staff 

were gracious hosts sharing gift-wrapped chocolate hearts and glasses of champagne with everyone who purchased one of Fifi’s new book and/or

came to shop and meet Ms. O’Neill. 




I’m going to do a write-up of Vignettes in another
posting but wanted to share just a few
photos from the shop…








Fifi O’Neill at her lovely signing table outback of Vignettes… Two designers had set up this beautifully decorated tented area with everything inspired by Ms. O”Neill’s Prairie-Style Weddings book! Even the parachute covering the Easy-Up was pink!


For those of you who read decorating/shelter magazines but might not be familiar with
Fifi O’Neill…

Ms. O’Neill is the former editor of Romantic Country magazine and is the editor of French Country and Prairie Country magazines ~ both Country Decorating Ideas
publications published quarterly.


I have been reading both of these magazines for years
and drooling over Fifi’s decorating style!!! She is originally from just outside of Paris and I think she brings a fresh Parisian flare to our American homes.


Her decor tends towards mugs and dishes with cute French words printed on them, worn clock faces displayed on a shelf, muslin and drop cloth pillows with French printing ~ she likes toile de jouy printed fabrics!

(Mais bien sûr! Mais je te jure que c’est vrai! ~ but, of course!)


Fifi also decorates with her sister’s embroidered pillows, and she has these little metal hearts hanging around her home that were once used as memorials that I really think are sweet…

And, where would we be without hearts on
Valentine’s Day?!!
😉



In this photograph below, there is the first issue of Romantic Country but it wasn’t called that then (perhaps the actual title hadn’t been finalized?).
It was called “Romantic Living.” Anyway, I brought all three of these books and magazines with me and asked Fifi if she would sign them.





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I have a funny story to tell you!

After shooting a few photos of the outside of Vignettes and photos of the antique district there in Ocean Beach I walked inside Vignettes to go to the book signing soiree…


Well, I walked in the door and there was Fifi O’Neill ~ I practically ran into her! I also met another new friend that day ~ Lidy Baars who owns a beautiful online shop called French Garden House.

I said something really dumb like, “Oh! I didn’t expect you to be right here.”(How dumb was that, right?)
I quickly recovered and said hello properly!
🙂



Luckily, there was another lady there chatting with Ms. Fifi so I joined them {this was Lidy whom I asked to shoot the top photograph} This ended up being where we took the top photo and a few more. I hope that Lidy finds this blogpost  someday as I’d really like to thank her for taking these pictures!!! (Thank you, Lidy!!!)

Well, I’ll get off here for now! Been rather excited and
happy prepping this post and I wanted to get it out to you so you can meet Fifi…

She is a lovely, lovely person and though she doesn’t write in her blog much anymore ~ not enough time as she is flying all over the country interviewing and styling people’s homes for print, she said ~ her site is still up and you can watch the video she put up
of her cute little converted garage.

I wish you could hear how sweet her beautiful French voice is!

She is every bit as nice as she sounds, too.


Her style is so cute ~ I know you’ll love her as much as I do!


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Bisous,

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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An old 1930’s mirror currently visiting the Craft room


*Update 2018 ~ This was a fun post except it’s one originally
built on Weebly, my first blogsite, and copied over… ugh!
So with this update I’ve tried to take the writing from
“mouse type” to a more readable size for you.

Enjoy this post even with it’s odd and wonky positioning
that it will not let me fix.
🙂
A picture frame from Michael’s with a mirror I had made for it ~ our bedroom framed.


Mirrors!
They are sparkly, shiny, 
they can be gilded or painted over,
silver, curvy or straight-edged.
I don’t care!
I just love mirrors!

lovely details!
Bottom of the other found in England along with
a cute small gold mirror found in a home store.
One found in England
Love how the scrolling leaves were picked-out with
the paint!
The mirror in my dining room reflects the outdoors,

our backyard and pool.

Originally, I had the lovely, scrolled one in here,

but, 

I liked that one better for

over the mantel in the family room.

😉

The mirror one sees coming in our 

front door

was one of two that flew back
from England with my 
two children
and myself.

The other looking-glass which came

on Virgin Atlantic

from Great Britain

was immediately dry-brush painted-over

as soon as I was

coherent enough

and back on our time zone!

Both were found in thrift shops 

in Sawtry and St. Ives, and I 

knew 

this one would look 

fantastic painted white with 

its original brassy gilding
peeking through!
One of two mirrors in our second bathroom upstairs. 
Both have sayings on them. Thanks to Fifi O’Neill who 
had mirrors on her blogsite which were my inspiration!!!

A picture frame found in Redlands, CA that I lightly brushed
white and had a bevelled mirror made for it.

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Blessings to you,
When we were first married,

I found a corner-round cabinet to display our 

wedding things in, but over the years

it became a display for art

created by our children as well as 

a place to house all of my collected teacups.

This cabinet has mirrors all over 

the back wall.

It happily reflects potted ivy from outside,

other items of beauty

from inside our home, 

and, 

of course, all the lovely 

tea cups & saucers
Our corner-round cabinet
Our final mirrored piece is one of the few, true
French pieces I have.
A lovely 1880’s – early 1900’s, reproduction
Louis XIV armoire.

We had driven down to our dentist appointments 
one day in late summer
just after we moved to this house.
Afterwards,
the kids and I went to lunch and shopping at the mall
in Oceanside/Carlsbad, and 
this one store
was closing its doors.
The woman was selling both of her display armoires.
There it was just waiting for me!
I called my husband and told him about it.
He and I discussed it.
Could we afford it? 
YES!  For once we could!!!

So, the bonnet came home with the kids and I
on the return trip that day,
and the body and bottom piece 
on a second trip later that evening 
with my husband
and myself.
I remember it was a Friday.
🙂

Our armoire holds all our blankets, 
sheets, and decorative pillows.
Sometimes, 
I think about painting it white.
I have seen some very similar which are painted
and they are gorgeous!
But, I am a purist at heart with some pieces.
I love the wood grain.
It is beautiful just as it is…
🙂

So… Happy Sunday to you all! 
May you be the Light reflected out into your corner of this world,


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