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Pink for Christmas…

December 1, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Pink snuck into my Christmas decorating

last week when I was in the middle of

creating a Nordic Christmas around here.

First it was Pink Santa…

And some small pinkish Christmas trees

over to the right of the t.v. above the fireplace.

One of these small trees

migrated over here and can just be seen

peeking out from behind the

barely blushing bouquet.

These beautiful pale pink peonies were found

while I was out getting some groceries at

Whole Foods

three days ago, so I came home and took a few

photographs to capture their beauty…

And a little pink for breakfast is what’s

on the menu today…

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Friday at the Fire Station ~ A Fireman’s Wife

Thursday Favorite Things ~ Katherine’s Corner

Happy Friday,Everyone!

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Red Pepper Soup Recipe

January 18, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

photo taken with my iPhone 5C

Last week on Instagram I shared some photos

of a recipe for

Roasted Red Pepper Soup…

This roasted red pepper soup recipe
is healthy and easy

to whip up!

A friend of mine gave me this recipe

oh, probably, 10-15 years ago.

Without further ado,

here it is with my additions of

extra seasonings and alterations

when you are out of

an item or two.

🙂

Roasted Red Pepper Soup

2 lbs. red bell peppers, seeded and chopped 1 medium onion, chopped

2 Tbsp. olive oil 2 carrots, chopped

1/2 tsp. garlic powder 1-2 ribs of celery, chopped

1 lg. (or 3 small) cans of chicken soup stock base or celery seed

*I bought a carton of chicken soup base 1/2 cup heavy cream

Some potato flakes or cooked minute rice for thickening salt, pepper, cayenne pepper to taste

***I added some Mrs. Dash, a little paprika since I didn’t have cayenne pepper, garlic salt instead of garlic powder (didn’t have any). Tip ~ If you don’t have any heavy cream, add some watered down sour cream and a tiny bit of sugar to sweeten.

Roast the peppers:

* Wash and cut up the bell peppers into strips, removing the white tough ribs and seeds. Toss with olive oil and garlic powder. Roast on a cookie sheet for approximately 20 minutes at 425 degrees F.

Basic soup:

* Pour chicken stock into heavy sauce pan (1 can or 1/3 of the chicken soup carton). Add chopped onion, carrots and celery. Cook until tender.

Dump soup mixture into a blender or food processor and blend with roasted peppers. Mix, blend, purée until all is soup consistency. Return to large sauce pan. Add remaining 2/3 chicken stock and cook for about 10 minutes to heat. Add 1/2 cup heavy cream and salt, pepper and a pinch of cayenne pepper (and any other seasonings you’d like) to taste. Add 1/2 cup potato flakes or cooked minute rice to thicken.

Enjoy this recipe!

It is really good with grilled cheese or tuna sandwiches or as a first course before

quiche at a tea.

{my favorite way!}

This roasted red pepper soup recipe was originally shared with me by a lovely lady in one of my tea groups whose name was Barbara Spriggs. Oddly enough there were three Barbara’s in our tea group!

There were eight of us in that 1st Wednesday Tea Group and we all loved this recipe so much Barbara graciously shared it with us.

And now I share it with you.
🙂

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Bon appétit!

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Spring Blooms ~ Color Choice Inspirations

April 7, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

I pass this “Queen Anne” home (just out of the picture) and it’s covered patio next to the garage
at least once a week and this year the owner was outside…
I saw his wisteria madly blooming, screeched the car to a halt, jumped out and asked if it would be
alright to snap a few photos. Gloriously dripping with lavender blooms ~ I was blown away!

“Ethereal blooms

Verdant in light

Wave coquettishly

To all in sight…”

Barb Chapman, your blog author,
April 2016

Ethereal spring!
Verdant with blooms magical…
Doesn’t your heart feel light when spring erupts
in this majestic massive menagerie of blooming hysterics??

[F]lowers… adorn our lanes, fields and fells, and… smile upon us and cheer and bless us in our country rambles…. the lovely blossoms… kiss the clear brooks and mountain wells… ~James Rigg, “Preface,” Wild Flower Lyrics and Other Poems, 1897

I know I’ve shared this photo via Instagram, but I hadn’t yet
shared it on my little rambling blog, so today I thought I’d
share this “bougainvillea bouquet” in its pick~up~truck~vase
with you!

When I think about colors, especially
here in the spring,
I think about how much these colors influence our
design decisions:
what we are going to buy and wear this year,
what fabrics we will pull out of our textile piles and sew,
or new textiles we will buy from the fabric store to fashion
into new pillow covers or tablecloths.
And, I like to think about what colors we will put on our walls
when what was that perfect shade of paint
no longer looks so fresh and inviting…

Just turn to God’s wonderful

floral creations for renewed inspiration!

Isn’t it magnificent that there are soooo many color

choices and color combinations in flowers at our supermarkets

and at flower markets around the world?

I use these offerings as major sources of inspiration

when I head to the store to get a new can of paint!

When I visited England in 2005 and saw varieties of tulips

with ruffles and colors I had never before seen in America,

I was in no doubt as to why the tulip mania of 1636 – 1637

occurred. Speculators helped drive up prices for tulip bulbs to

incredible heights only to cause the world’s first

financial “bubble.”

I was totally inspired in my decorating upon coming home

and spent a good part of that year making floral chair covers

for my dining room chairs using colors found in

those tulips, though my favorite flower pattern is roses!

I also painted several rooms that year!

😉

Sometimes its the blooms we encounter growing uncared for

out in some hidden meadow, or those blooms found in our

neighbor’s yard that give our souls such happiness

and inspirations.

I confess that my favorite colors are the ones

seen in these photos. Your favorite colors might be found

in other flowers, or just in other rose or lilac hybrids.

And, that’s okay.

It’s good to know yourself and your tastes

when it comes to color inspiration.

Find your flower with its blaze of color and use it to fuel

your creativity!

[F]lowers… adorn our lanes, fields and fells, and… smile upon us and cheer and bless us in our country rambles…. the lovely blossoms… kiss the clear brooks and mountain wells… ~James Rigg, “Preface,” Wild Flower Lyrics and Other Poems, 1897

Let these beauties be your inspiration!

Changing colors within our homes

should be fun and a source of happiness!

Our new yard, for however long… 😉

So as spring blooms brighten your day,

let their magic work on renewing you…

Roll a little paint, sew a few new things this year ~ be inspired!

Blessings to you always,

Barb 🙂

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Style Teachers ~ Meet Sandy and her Style!

April 1, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Sandy in the cute home she shares with her husband and tuxedo cat Guido!

Sandy is a great friend
and the best cook and baker I know!
So, when she had a
Valentine’s Tea…

I was ever happy
to come to her ethereal home as I love her decorating style!
She loves Shabby Chic, Victorian, lots of florals
and china with violets or any purplish flower transferred onto
their pretty edges and sides.

Every tea Sandy has is different ~ she NEVER serves the same thing twice!
This is a talent of God, I am sure, and not one that I really have.
She keeps a diary of the different sandwiches, sweets and savories
and desserts she has shared with all of her friends
through the years,
and
I am always amazed that she hasn’t really duplicated a meal!
She might remake a favorite sandwich but only because
one of us requested it!

taken with my old iPhone 4

Sandy loves purple in all its shades and her guest bathroom

just embodies her Victorian tastes and

her love of the hue so perfectly!

Sandy knows how to “do Victorian Chic!”

Her former home had a living~dining room whose walls

were painted

all one shade of lavender,

but…

with a twist!

Paint tip: She used a paint roller as the “width” of her stripes

and

then taped~off every other one and used a clear glaze overtop

creating “another color” but really just the same color.

She did this LONG before it became popular

and

I was sooo in love with those walls!

(when I find my tea photo albums again, I’ll photograph a copy of those walls)

loved this little basket of “fingertip towel roses”

Decorating Tip:
Fingertip Towel Rose ~ tutorial

So easy to create!
* Just fold your washcloths and hand towels in half lengthwise
(you can also fold them into thirds)
* Begin rolling from the end with the tag on it
(if you don’t cut them off; hide any raggedy ends)
* Roll slightly off-center creating “the rose”
* Arrange in your prettiest basket, on a tea tray,
whatever lovely container you can come up with!
Done!
🙂

Sandy is one of the original members of the
Victorian Tea Society
and has held various positions on the board.
She is most notably known for hostessing the yearly
Christmas and Spring Teas.
She bakes thousands of scones and lovingly helps set the tables
for each of the attendees.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no Law. ~ Galatians 5:22-23

Our table set for tea ~ in the foyer between the kitchen/sitting areas
and the covered patio

We weren’t in her new dining room today, but isn’t it lovely?!
This was her “staging area” for today’s tea.

Sandy’s parlour

I have known Sandy through

two houses~worth and 17 years (I think!) of time now.

We’ve watched each others children grow up and get married,

we’ve shared a lot of tears and our frustrations

{Funny, the VTS started off that one was NEVER to talk

about anything political, controversial (hah!) or sad (my description)

and of course it evolved into “real life!”}

and

our love of tea, friendship, decorating, shopping together, loving the same

things and decorating magazines!

And, great friends take care of each other…

Sandy has most of my plants.

The ones you see lately in this blog are all new.

Only the inside violet that lives in the bathroom came

with me to our

“tiny home.”

Sandy opening a little gift from Gloria, seated.

Sandy’s super cute patio with her writing/sewing desk and a daybed for
when one of her two “boys” comes home to visit!

This is Sandy’s shelf that I copied a pattern off of in 1999
to make one for myself. She recently painted hers white and it is a vintage
piece with “true” 1/4″ thickness of wood (not like today’s 5/8″ pieces).

So as a style teacher,

Sandy has taught me sooo much about being a good hostess,

throwing a fun party and serving delicious dishes

that inspire others to cook!

A true friend with an incredible gift of sharing and

cooking from the heart, indeed…

🙂

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Thank you and have a blessed day!

Keep cooking, my friends!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this visit to see Sandy.

May the Lord

richly bless you always,

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Birthday Tea, a Backstamp, and Mom

January 9, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Inspiration ~ Sometimes it’s something little…

Today it was something big ~

my mother-in-love

baking me a

coconut pecan chocolate birthday cake!

(just a Betty Crocker cake today!)

It’s the little things that mean the most to me these days

honestly!

and a really gooey, light and chocolatey cake

is just about the

best. thing. ever.

and…

It inspired me to look around the house

to create a little tea party!

That’s when I remembered

all the lovely antique china pieces

Gramma Gini’s gun-cabinet-cum-china-hutch!
{the hutch was her father’s cabinet and she inherited it.}

This tea set

Crown Ivory

The saucers show a blue back stamp, the teacups are completely blank,
the dinner plates also have blue back stamps.
{sorry the picture is sideways}

This set belonged to Gini’s
grandmother and grandfather

on her father’s side.

There is no teapot, sadly.

Perhaps it was broken long ago

however,

the creamer and sugar bowl are here

and

feature in today’s tea party story!

😉

Also in the set are 8″ dinner plates, small bread plates,
small fruit bowls and a large bowl.
Really, really cute!

Emma Louisa (Hine) and Hearly Everett Fudge
and their son Raymond Fudge, aged 5
Mr. Fudge was a conductor on the trolley line in Joplin, Missouri during those years
photo circa 1914

Of course then I began looking up the name of the company…

Do you ever do that??

Then three hours goes by…

😉

I’ll keep looking for this company Crown but my guess
from the backstamp is that Crown is an American company
and this particular china pattern

was fired in the 1930’s.

This is my husband Charles down in the corner, circa 1975, and his sister Jodi on the right.
Rear ~ Raymond Alvie/Alva Fudge, {Mami} Kate Daffin (Duke) Fudge, Mary Virginia “Gini” (Fudge) Chapman,
Charles Robert “Pete” Chapman, Sr.
Gramma says that the two dresses she made for Jodi and herself to wear to this
Odd Fellows instillation dinner hung in the Sacramento County Library for a short time representing
the Colonial period and the American Bicentennial.

Love this photo! My mother-in-law today.
She is a joy and beautiful in spirit and body
to me and to my hubby Charles.
🙂

*Will be sharing with:

Feathered Nest Friday ~ French Country Cottage

and others 🙂

***Thank you for joining here on Blogger; I’m happy to have your friendship!***

Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed this family tour

and tea party!

Blessings to you,

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Teacups, Treasures and a Recipe

May 17, 2015June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Teacups…
Lovely…ethereal…tasteful…useful…practical
But, mostly
Incredibly Gorgeous!!!

How many teacups do you have in your home?
What are your favorites?
How do you share yours?

Today I thought I’d share a few treasures with you…

Do you have teas for family or for special friends?

When my children were young, I volunteered but I wasn’t working outside the home then
so we had lovely mornings during school breaks
to bake
chocolate chip scones
and have
a little tea party with lemonade tea, hot chocolate, or just
a cup of milk.
🙂

Peter and Amy when they were almost 4 and 6 years old. We had a lot of chocolate chip scones back then!

Here is the
Victoria Magazine
recipe for their scones circa 1991-1992.
It is and has always been my favorite scone recipe…

Oven Scones

1-3/4 cups self-rising flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup unsalted butter
2/3 cup milk

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Sift together flour, sugar, cream of tartar, and baking soda.
2. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
3. Slowly add milk, mixing with a fork until a soft pliable dough forms.
4. On floured surface, knead lightly with fingertips to form smooth dough.
Roll out 1/2-inch thick. Cut in 2-inch rounds. (I make teapot and other shapes.)
Arrange 1-inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
5. Bake at 450 degree for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
Yield: 12 to 14 scones

***To ours, we always added a combination of dark and milk chocolate chips. I also make golden and dark raisin scones (those were for me, since I’m the only one who likes raisins here! :))

Serve with mock Devonshire cream, assorted jams and jellies.
YUM!!!
🙂

***I had a Girl Scout troop back then. My daughter was in Brownies and we sometimes had
Mother and Daughter Mother’s Day teas.
(a post for another day!)

This one, above, however, was Amy’s 6th birthday tea.
I sewed her dress for her that spring for Easter.
It was finished Easter morning and we had gone up to Sacramento to be with Gramma and Grampa.
and we had
Belle, from Beauty and the Beast
come and celebrate with us!

One of my most favorite photos of Amy!!!

***

A favorite photo of our Peter ~ in the blue shirt
is one we took when a friend Margie came over for lunch with her granddaughter one day.
These were taken at our first home here in Murrieta.
(basically the same house, living room-wise, just smaller than the one we have now)
🙂

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Matthew 19:14

As much as I love all these teacups, none compares to the love I have for my children…

🙂

Anyway, I thought I’d just share
“my treasures”
with you today…

What are your treasures??
🙂

*Sharing with

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Happy treasured memories
and blessings to you!

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After Easter Tea…

April 7, 2015June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Yesterday I was inspired while out cutting roses
to set up a little tea table for you!

I had wanted to set up our dining room table
with a cute Easter-themed tea,
but
due to fixing things around the house,
that just didn’t happen.
😉

Then yesterday while I was out clipping some of the long
canes to tidy the
Cecile Brunner climber,
I saw all of the lovely blooms on our
Winchester Cathedral
standard…

You know when a rose bursts into bloom
and it is just calling your name.
Yep,
that was what happened.

The Winchester Cathedral standard is the tall rose to the left along the fence, and to its right is a Mary Rose in between the WC and the monster Cecile Brunner climber.

Snip, snip, snip…

clip, clip, clip…

A quick trip inside to reclip stems under water,

plunk into a favorite vase,

and

voila!

Then a little birdie

flew

onto the table…

A sweet little bird I found last year at Michael’s Craft Store. I bought a green one for my daughter and this one for me.

And that’s how it happened…

😉

***Sharing with:

The Style Sisters at Centerpiece Wednesday ~

http://thestylesisters.blogspot.com/2015/01/centerpiece-wednesday_81.html

Tea Time Tuesdays at Rose Tree Cottage

http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com

Happy Tuesday to you,

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Tea with the Duchess

September 17, 2014April 9, 2021 French Ethereal

Wedgwood’s Sarah’s Garden tea set and tray ~ not named for the current Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson (and formerly married to Prince Andrew, Duke of York), but for the first Duchess also named Sarah. Sarah Ferguson was spokesperson for Wedgwood back in the early 2000s.

Okay, I admit it. I am a completely
nuts for royalty!

When my friend Cheryl and I found out that Macy’s
was hosting Sarah, the Dutchess of York,
in a meet and greet back in 2001
We Had to Go!!!

I am not a royalty snob but I followed
Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mum,
Prince Charles and the whole crew
back then
buying and collecting
People and Majesty magazines
whenever they had
Princess Di
on the cover.
She was my age and generation,
after all…
😉

I, like many of you, was devastated when
Princess Diana
was killed in that terrible auto accident in France.
I had seen her wedding to Prince Charles
when I was 19 years old
and in Germany on an
exchange program.

From Leverkusen, at 2:00 o’clock
on a Saturday afternoon,
the family let me take over the television and
stare dreamily at the screen as Diana,
shy and beautiful in her voluminous gown and
sparkling from the camera lights
bouncing off the pearls and diamonds
in her tiara,
she married her prince.

***

Flash forward to 2001…

Meeting the Duchess was like getting to meet
Princess Diana for me…
She was wonderful!
Gracious and funny, Sarah Ferguson
gave a talk about taking a china tea service
wherever she goes
as she really dislikes taking tea
in a styrofoam cup!
(Her lady in waiting would prepare tea for her
when there wasn’t a nice tea service around.)

She and the representative from Wedgwood
showed us all how strong their bone china is ~
that you can quite literally flip a teacup over
and stand on it!
It will not break.
It was really cool when the man did that.
Everyone seemed quite impressed!
Has something to do with the way the cup is shaped,
and the strength of bone china.
We still were impressed!

Having the same first name as the first Duchess of York
was one of the reasons Wedgwood asked Sarah to be
their spokesperson and to help introduce and promote
this ethereal line of botanical china.

Personally, I love the realistic look of the
fruits and flowers, butterflies and bees!
Soooo cute!

I use this china a lot at my teas. The salad plates are
standards in my cupboard for serving cake, muffins, whatever!
They are used daily.

The teacups come out when I want to visit with
one friend and have a
heart to heart.
🙂

Pumpkin scented candles ~ replacing some of my usual vanilla ones. These are my favorite candleholders!
My friend Kathy gave me the front-left, cream-colored one with the roses and tied tassels.
The others I have found in various shops like Tuesday Morning and Home Goods.

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, signed three pieces of china for me: this large serving tray, the teapot, and another tray. Wedgwood uses a technique involving vodka to loosen up the glazing. Once loose, one can “write” on china with a certain type of pen, then each piece has to cure for a month or so to “harden.”

This Wedgwood Sarah’s Garden teapot holds eight cups of hot tea which is quite good when serving

many thirsty friends.
🙂

This week we are having super hot days ~ over

100 degrees Fahrenheit.So, it was nice this afternoon to come home
in the rain with the weather slightly cooled
and have a nice cup of hot tea!

An ethereal piece ~ so lovely!

I am looking forward to many more fall days with tea and teacups, and you know Sarah’s Garden
will be involved in there somehow…

For some of my other posts covering all subjects
royal ~ click here and here.

~ As always, please feel free to “Re-post,” “Share,” and “Pin” from my blog, thanks!!! ~

Happy tea to you all!

Enjoy,

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Wednesday Tea ~ Peacocks and Pink Roses

August 9, 2014June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

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It was my turn to host our monthly tea today and I was still setting the table as my friends from the Victorian Tea Society
group I am involved with in Riverside County, CA, arrived.

But I was able to snap just a few photos before they arrived all
the while as I was going on with getting the tea and scones
ready to serve and out on the table…

Similar scones ~ photo “stolen” from a later tea tablesetting. 😉

For the first course I made cranberry and walnut/pecan scones then I tossed a summer salad shared by Courtney over on

French Country Cottage a week or so ago, made with spinach, sliced strawberries and fresh blueberries, crumbled feta cheese and drizzled with a lovely poppyseed and oil vinaigrette!

The salad was absolutely delicious!!!

*Here is the link to Courtney’s post here.

A little stack of silverplate platters and a teacup decorating the buffet.

Next, we ate smoked turkey and avocado sandwiches served

on mini croissants with fresh fruit salad sans dressing.

The beautiful rose strewn teapot given to me by the ladies when we first moved into this house in 2004 ~ it’s a favorite!
Here it is paired in all of its peacock blue goodness with tea-stained linen napkins found in Idaho on a track and field trip.

Lastly, I served a lemon cake cooked

in a new, rose-shaped baking tin.

It was the first time I used this cake pan; however,
it turned out well for baking it for the first time!

This I served with powdered sugar

sprinkled lightly over the top of the cooled cake.
{sorry, no photographs…}

The table set for our first course of tea and scones served with lemon curd and clotted cream.

The ladies enjoyed all of the courses and we talked about all kinds of things (like usual!) ~ about our kids and grandkids
who was heading back to college (my kids)
upcoming weddings and school beginning soon.

A little rose craft I copied from one I’d seen ~ hanging off a floor lamp.

The peacock tea with blue and cream as part of the decorating

theme and inspired by these little note booklets I’d found

at Michael’s Craftstore, I believe.

The peacock feathers I was given by the occupational therapist

who works with the students at our middle school.

He and his wife have a gentleman’s farm and raise peacocks

and other farm animals ~ a perfect addition to this tea and

was part of today’s Peacock Tea inspiration!

Friends Gloria (left, on settee under the window),
Caroline, Julie and Patsy ~ sitting on the just finished
settee cover.
We were having fun looking at blogs and Pinterest.

Julie has a cute glamper so we had to check it out!

I hope this tea has inspired you to try some
themes at your next teas and with your tablesettings!

A lovely day – enjoy yours,

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