thing I don't like:
One Balzac's blend and a chocolate croissant please!
At the distillery there are so many wonderful galleries, and the quality of work is awe-inspiring. I would love to paint again one day. I used to paint with acrylics in college and quite enjoyed it.
How I love to go antiquing. I found this pretty sugar bowl from a tea service at the local thrift store the other day. It now holds my sugar packets for tea and coffee. Someday I would love to find a silver or silver plated tea pot and creamer to add to my collection. I have a silver tray already that I got a few years ago. I also got these groovy cereal bowls - I love the colors and flower pattern - must be 60's or 70's. I bought the green coffee pot at an antique market for a mere $5 bucks, sometimes I put fresh flowers in it. Steve found these great old coffee tins which look nice with the green coffee pot. It gives me a little thrill to find treasures at thrift stores and garage sales. I've got some wonderful things from garbage picking too. In the past some of the treasures I found on the street are: an old sewing table that I use as a bedside table, it's a bit shabby chic; a heavy oak arm chair painted a lovely vintagey green-also very shabby chic; an antique mantle with mirror that now holds all my family photos in frames and various knick knacks; a teak 70's armless chair with a cushioned seat in a red/green paisley material; an old medicine cabinet with a gold gilded mirror that we are going to put in the bathroom eventually.
Recently I've bought some antiques from Ebay. A couple of tea cups, an antique alarm clock from Hungary and a 1963 pink radio that ended up costing far too much money after paying all the charges and duty plus the delivery which I had to pay for twice. So I have to be careful from now on - some things end up costing alot more especially when I buy American items.
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My honey came home with these for me the other day. Is'nt he swell!
It's a cyclamen and should do ok inside. The leaf pattern is so interesting.
I just love looking at them while eating dinner and they are very complimentary to the wall color and plant pot,
n'est pas?
Here is the before and after.
She introduced us to her dancing partner, Roy, a nice older chap, I wonder if they're more than dancing partners. Hmmmmmmm. Anyway, she came to look at our landscaping, and then showed us her garden, of which I took lots pictures. She gave us some cuttings, forget-me-nots, white lilies, sedum and catnip. She is giving us black eye susans and more flowers next year. I'm glad we have her as a neighbour, since she can teach me some gardening stuff and she's soooooo nice. I'll have to bake her something nice as a thank-you for the cuttings.
I've been putting on a bit of weight lately(pregnant??)I've been eating too many pies, tarts 
and cookies from the local Farmers Mk. I tend not to bake during the summer, because I love the pie ladies wares but I do plan to bake more in late October when Farmers' Mk. ends.
Check out these tasty treats>
I actually did bake a peach galette yesterday 
. It was pretty good, the pastry a tad tough to cut though, I cheated and used frozen puff pastry. It was mighty delish with praline ice cream, I must say. The produce at the Mk. was amazing, fresh peaches and cream corn, cukes, vine-ripened tomatoes, peppers. I made some gazpacho too, the flavors were so intense, it was similar to 'having a party in your mouth'. I usually make it at least once every summer, esp. since Steve loves gazpacho.
<my peach galette
Since the peaches were quite ripe, I thought it fitting to make a pie, but instead found this simple recipe for galette, which is very easy to make. The recipe was on the box for the puff pastry.
Here are a few more photos from my kitchen:
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