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Hexagons from scraps of my grandpa's shirts hand sewn together to make a table mat for the lamp from my grandma. Made Aug - Oct. 2015.
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Sabena
Coaster #01
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Colors: Darkblue - White
Material: Paper
Condition: New
Dimensions (cm): 9 x 9
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© Dieter Schuttyzer
One thing I learnt in Armenia is that the "paisley" symbol is one of fertility and represents a stylized pregnant woman. It appears in carpets, embroidery etc.
Day 11 of our Mediterranean cruise aboard the Celebrity Reflection marked our final dinner in the Opus dining room. Since it was our last evening with our wonderful companions at Table 322, I wanted to make sure we got a group photo with our new-found friends, and our waiter kindly obliged. From left to right are Laurie and Wendy Jorgensen; Garry and Pam Monteith; and me and Mike. These two lovely Australian couples were the perfect dinner companions; we couldn't have asked for better company!
These coiled mats are made from scraps of fabric wrapped around a cord. I like using different shades of the same colour in one mat--aren't these purples great?
I wish I could report that Ginny had two good days in a row, but that's not the case. I went to see her yesterday and she was cranky and uncooperative. Dinner was a disaster. They had only 3 caregivers on duty and about 25 residents -- most of whom can't feed themselves. They served whole chicken breasts, but didn't hand out knives. So old people with limited dexterity were trying to cut the chicken with forks and spoons. Almost everyone had food on their faces and on their clothes. Some of them were fighting. One caregiver just sat in the corner, robotically feeding one person. Another caregiver had to remove a resident to deal with a wet diaper. That left Caregiver #3 trying to serve and help 23 people. Just to add to the weirdness it was "Mardi Gras Night" and they had a musician. It was loud and distracting.
I got Ginny a plate and steered her towards the last open seat. On the floor by the table was a big puddle of liquid which I hoped was water or juice. Unfortunately Ginny's two tablemates were "food grabbers." They reached out for her drink and silverware and that ticked her off. I tried to distract them by bringing them juice, which this woman immediately knocked all over the tablecloth. Now I had a wet table, a wet floor, and an angry Ginny. I put napkins out to soak up the juice. The woman began to eat them.
I rescued the napkins and came back to Ginny. I cut up the chicken into tiny pieces and got her to eat one or two. Then the juice-knocker-over tried to say something to me, and I had to walk back around the table (through the suspicious puddle) to hear her. When I returned to Ginny's side she refused to eat, saying venomously, "You turned your back on me and she tried to touch my food. I won't eat it now."
I pushed my chair back to go get her another plate, and my camera slid off the slick waterproof seat and fell to the floor. I think it's OK.
At that point I should have bailed and taken her back to her room to eat, but I was locked into "get her up and moving around" mode. I took her upstairs to the lobby where they had a nice buffet spread out for the non-dementia residents. Better food, but they had a full band blasting away. I got Ginny a fresh plate and tried to find a seat away from the music. She ate one small bite and began to cough and gag. It looked like she was going to barf all over the dessert table. I grabbed her and took her back downstairs to her room. Gave up on solid food entirely, even though she'd had less than 1/2 cup total. She was still coughing and gagging. We just sat quietly and she tried to breathe through it. Eventually the coughing stopped. I encouraged her to drink some Kern's Nectar and that seemed to go down OK.
I didn't go see her today, didn't call. I had to take a break. I've always noticed that the family members who visit everyday are angry and bitter. I'm becoming one of those people. This is supposed to be one of the better facilities, and yet stuff like this happens all the time.
we stumbled onto Pastis after trying to find this restaurant that served poutine. turns out it was right across the corner from Pastis but was either closed for renovation or for good, we couldn't tell.
we already had reservations at their sister restaurant, Balthazar, but figured what the heck - it was right in front of us, we were starving, it was snowy, we'd only just arrived in town, and we were seated pretty quickly. we had strange tablemates - we feel like it may have been a call-girl / john scenario, but that is pure speculation based on their random [and loud] conversation.
the food - i had the macaroni gratin with bacon and scot the steak sandwich and fries but we shared and it was tres magnifique! the flank steak was perfectly cooked and seasoned and the gruyere melded it all together. i felt like the bacon was unnecessary in the mac n' cheese but scot found it to be perfect.
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Property was yet to receive the usual rafia coasters and tablemats. The Information Box was also not present yet. Postcards were, naturally enough, of The Pineapple!
Japanese style sashimi of Scottish salmon, Turkish broccoli with olive oil and yoghurt, beetroot leaves with curry and lemon, rice with turmeric and furikake. Korean steel chopsticks. Irish linen napkin and silver napkin ring. Swiss rush tablemat. Japanese glass chopstick rest.
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Sabena
Coaster #01
Sabena logo
Colors: Darkblue - White
Material: Paper
Condition: New
Dimensions (cm): 9 x 9
Weight (g):
The essence of summer, these placemats recall long, lazy days by the shore. With colours reminiscent of white sandy beaches, coral-tinted seashells, the sea and the sky, the Somertide Placemats set the scene for a summer lunch by the pool. Just add cool glass of lemonade to complete the picture!
The placemats are reversible and are worked using two stands of a crisp cotton/linen yarn held together.
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After navigating our way down the icy road to town, we knew we wanted a late lunch. Our intelligence steered us into perhaps the greatest slopeslide restaurant ever, Zum See. Our tablemates, an awesome couple with their boy, told us Telegraph named it best slopeside restaurant in the world.
Oh:
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/8104856/The-worlds-...
It pretty much was.
A slight mix-up on the requisition for this week's class had us in Russia, instead of Switzerland. Here we have salmon pastries, made in a brioche dough. Good by themselves, but my tablemates thought they could use a sauce of some sort.
Ink on white napkin.
We make these colored napkins daily for our two sons' lunches. They are both in grade school. We started these with our first son when he began first grade (5 years ago). These napkins have become fun to share with their tablemates, classes, and teachers.
Star Wars is a particularly popular request by our sons!
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Halloween Pumpkin Lantern tablemat
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