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Read about this setting on the Dinner Series blog: Glass on Black.
Featuring: Chilewich Tuxedo Stripe Placemats , Coupe Dinnerware by Heath Ceramics and Simon Pearce Woodbury Glassware.
Libeco Vermont napkin and Heath Ceramics ramekin on a Heath Ceramics Plaza dinner plate with an iittala Aalto tumbler, Piano Workshop flatware, and Tapio cocktail glass. The tablecloth is a Libeco Polylin in champagne, accented with Orrefors Raspberry votives. The placemats are Chilewich Basketweave Rounds in red
Featuring Simon Pearce Woodbury glassware, and Libeco table linen, and Chilewich Kono placemats, and Heath Ceramics Coupe dinnerware.
Read about this setting on the Dinner Series blog: Glass on Black.
Featuring: Chilewich Tuxedo Stripe Placemats , Coupe Dinnerware by Heath Ceramics and Simon Pearce Woodbury Glassware.
I found the cloisonne ring! And the white beads!
The beads were stuffed in a sock, which was then wrapped in another sock. Of course, why didn't I think to look there? The ring was in her jewelry box. I know I looked and it wasn't there before, so it's just been hiding in an alternate universe for a few weeks. The gold wedding ring is gone forever. It disappeared during a period when she'd lost a lot of weight. My guess is that it slipped off her finger and lives in the garden or in another resident's room. Or it was thrown out in a kleenex. Whatever, it's gone.
Still, I'm feeling better about things than I have been. I've been thinking a lot about my "miserable environment" comment last week.
It IS a miserable environment, in some ways. How many of us could eat 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, in a dining room where your tablemates wail and moan and smell like pee? And you never really know where you are, where your room is, what happened to your dog, when you last saw someone you know or when you might see them again? That part of it is miserable, no doubt about it. It is gut-punching, soul-breaking, cry yourself to sleep at night painful.
But I also think of the staff who try so hard to see that Mom is bathed, fed, comforted, hugged, entertained, and healthy. They do everything they can to mitigate the miserableness. They can't make it all go away, but they sure try to lessen it. And I don't want to lump them into the same "it's all bad" perspective. No-one can do what they do. They make Ginny's life better every single day. That's a victory worth cheering for.
Pillivuyt Quartet plates on Chilewhich smoke Bamboo rectangular and
silver coral tablemats with red Libeco Home Polylin napkins, David Mellor Embassy flatware, and Kosta Boda Eclipse tumblers and red wine glasses
steel gray Libeco Home Vence tablerunner, Simon Pearce Evergreens, Orrefors Discus votives, and ruby red Heath Ceramics bud vases
Got my First Aid certification today, barfed after the Heimlich, wept on several occasions on account of all the heart-rending rescue descriptions, but I got it! Haha. Really though. My tablemates were winking at me in encouragement, and patting me on the shoulder, all sweet.
All my life I've wanted to be someone who knew exactly what to do in an emergency, a person who knew CPR and had the potential to save the day for reals. Simultaneously, half-consciously, I was also pretty sure that if I did get certified, suddenly accidents would spring up in my path and I, by virtue of my magic training, would be obligated to lead the first response and get it right because people's lives would literally be in my hands, not to mention being liable if someone didn't actually want that digit back on, or would have rather not been resuscitated, thanks, or something similarly unforeseeable and serious.
My previous First Aid training was theoretical and acquired online. I was good with this, I think because God doesn't know you're certified to give first aid if it's not done through St. John Ambulance.
Getting the best job ever and wanting to keep it made me drop this block (in a very grown up and sensible kind of way), and naturally, less than a minute after leaving the parking lot, I hear a cracking crunch and see that an SUV has hit the back of a dump truck.
It begins.
Mentally rehearsing my schpiel, alternating "I am a First Aider, everybody ok?" with, "I'm a First Aider, can I help you?" (First Aider is my instructor's term and it doesn't sit right, she did have a tendency to make up words while reading from the manual, "mottled" becomes "mouldled" etc) feeling a little bit like an imposter (and a little bit more like running in the other direction), I brazenly walk up to the SUV.
One of the St. John Ambulance instructors from another room, the guy I had to track my misplaced certificate down from, who had needlessly touched my back and made a joke I didn't hear til after I laughed, which I regretted, was the driver with the chewed bumper.
I said my thing, sans First Aider part because he already knew. He said he was totally fine. Dump truck was too.
Relieved, got the hell out of there. All was well. That was weird.
people have gotten the wrong idea about my breakfasts (www.flickr.com/photos/19211803@N00/6772626939/in/photostream); i'm no health nut and would have gone with the sausage were i not also a cheapskate
Featuring iittala Origo and Kartio dinnerware, Tapio glassware, Chilewich Basketweave placemats, Sabre Basic flatware, and iittala candleholders.
Pillivuyt Quartet plates on Chilewhich smoke Bamboo rectangular and
silver coral tablemats with red Libeco Home Polylin napkins, David Mellor Embassy flatware, and Kosta Boda Eclipse tumblers and red wine glasses
steel gray Libeco Home Vence tablerunner, Simon Pearce Evergreens, Orrefors Discus votives, and ruby red Heath Ceramics bud vases
Heath Coupe Dinner Plate in Linen: www.didriks.com/Coupe-Dinner-Plate-by-Heath-Ceramics.html
Heath Coupe Cereal Bowl in Peridot/Linen: www.didriks.com/Coupe-Cereal-Bowl-by-Heath-Ceramics.html
Heath Coupe Bread Plate in Mist: www.didriks.com/Coupe-Bread-Plate-by-Heath-Ceramics.html
iittala Citterio Flatware: www.didriks.com/iittala/iittala-Citterio-Collection/
Chilewich Bamboo Rectangular Placemat in Celadon: www.didriks.com/Chilewich-Bamboo-Tablemats-Rectangular.html
Simon Pearce Hampton Chardonnay/Pinot Grigio Glass: www.didriks.com/Simon-Pearce-Hampton-Chardonnay-Pinot-Gri...
Libeco Home Tribeca Linen Napkin in Sea Water: www.didriks.com/Tribeca-Napkin.html
Mustard Crusted Loin with Pear Chutney
House Made Apple and Pecan Sausage
Cider Braised Shoulder
served on a Pillivuyt Quartet plate and Chilewhich smoke bamboo rectangular and silver coral tablemats with David Mellor Embassy flatware
Pillivuyt Quartet plates on Chilewhich smoke Bamboo rectangular and
silver coral tablemats with red Libeco Home Polylin napkins, David Mellor Embassy flatware, and Kosta Boda Eclipse tumblers and red wine glasses
Finished 9/28/14, Aunt Lydia's Blue Hawaii #10, 1.75 mm hook.
More info: scottys-place.blogspot.com/2014/09/blue-september.html
Read about this setting on the Dinner Series blog: Glass on Black.
Featuring: Chilewich Tuxedo Stripe Placemats , Coupe Dinnerware by Heath Ceramics and Simon Pearce Woodbury Glassware.
Featuring iittala Origo and Kartio dinnerware, Tapio glassware, Chilewich Basketweave placemats, Sabre Basic flatware, and iittala candleholders.
Refuge des Fondus, 17 rue des 3 Frères 01 42 55 22 65
The best thing about Refuge des Fondus is its originality. A self-proclaimed refuge from one of the most touristy areas in Paris, this restaurant serves its customers one of two selections—meat or cheese fondue—and wine in baby bottles at two long communal tables. The quality of the wine isn't great—perhaps because it's served in a baby bottle. Happy customers have scribbled their gratitude all over the restaurant's chalkboard walls. The help is convivial, as are (hopefully) your tablemates. You'll either leave shaking your head in amazement or, if you're more traditionally inclined, in disgust. But, in any case, you'll leave shaking your head, and that's saying something for a restaurant in the heart of a tourist machine. Does not take credit cards. Serves alcohol.
Read more: www.letsgo.com/9647-france-travel-guides-paris-food-montm...
Sashiko is a form of decorative reinforcement stitching (or functional embroidery) from Japan.
The white cotton thread on the traditional indigo blue cloth gives sashiko its distinctive appearance.
The artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) published the book New Forms for Design in 1824, and these designs have inspired many Sashiko patterns. (from Wikipedia)
The picture shows an Aizome (indigo dyeing) sashiko embroidery 100% cotton table mat.
URL: www.izu-ippin.jp/
These coiled mats are made from scraps of fabric wrapped around a cord. I like using a rainbow of scrap fabrics--they're so much fun!
... and it's all finished
Finally finished. Done on 32 count Belfast linen, the tablemat is 16 inches 40cm) square.
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Pillivuyt Quartet plates on Chilewhich smoke Bamboo rectangular and
silver coral tablemats with red Libeco Home Polylin napkins, and David Mellor Embassy flatware
efuge des Fondus, 17 rue des 3 Frères 01 42 55 22 65
The best thing about Refuge des Fondus is its originality. A self-proclaimed refuge from one of the most touristy areas in Paris, this restaurant serves its customers one of two selections—meat or cheese fondue—and wine in baby bottles at two long communal tables. The quality of the wine isn't great—perhaps because it's served in a baby bottle. Happy customers have scribbled their gratitude all over the restaurant's chalkboard walls. The help is convivial, as are (hopefully) your tablemates. You'll either leave shaking your head in amazement or, if you're more traditionally inclined, in disgust. But, in any case, you'll leave shaking your head, and that's saying something for a restaurant in the heart of a tourist machine. Does not take credit cards. Serves alcohol.
Read more: www.letsgo.com/9647-france-travel-guides-paris-food-montm...