Foggy morning at the farm

Isn't it funny how things just turn out??? This morning I was lying in bed thinking about doing a post for White Wednesday and Outdoor Wednesday and was having a real blank spot when I happened to have a glimpse of the sky outside. It looked really dull and covered with clouds. When I dragged myself out of bed and looked through the window all I could see was white, white, white. Fog everywhere!! So I grabbed the camera and took a few happy snaps around our home.

This is on the north side of our house - the farm sheds are on the right near the chook pen.

You can just see our house dam here - it is used for garden water and also for water for the sheep.

This gnarly old tree is down near the fence that cuts the paddock off from our 'house block'. This is near the catchment for the dam so that's why there is very little grass here.

I love how this photo looks - this is our ram paddock in front of our house. The rams are in there somewhere but not quite sure where!!

How's this for spooky??? This is my house looking back from the ram paddock fence. If you look really carefully you can see my chooks scratching around in the grass just in the bottom right hand corner.

Finally, this is looking down my driveway towards the main road - trust me it's down there somewhere!

Hope you have enjoyed your little visit to the farm house.

Suzy

Teapots and tea things..

I am in awe of some of the posts I have seem for Summer Sunday - it is freezing here at the moment. We had a lovely rain last night but today is very windy and cold - a good day for staying inside... When a looked around I could see we really needed to do a little dusting - know the feeling!!! While I was working away with my little feather duster  I was admiring my pretty teapots (which you have probably seen in different tablescapes) so I decided I would group them together for something different. I hope you enjoy them and please hop over to the great parties I'll be visiting today and tomorrow to see some great teapots.

As you can see the light at the moment is pretty much nonexistant!! I tried using a lamp to highlight the teapots but it really only made more shadows!!

This teapot at the back is one of my favourites - I love the simple shape and of course, the pink roses.

These are Maxwell and Williams teapots - so cute, don't you think?

As you can see they all have little babies to match!!

While I was on a roll I thought I may as well bring out my blue and white tea and coffee pots - there goes the dusting for today.

See I told you it was cold - even the teapots have their woolly jumpers on!

This tea cosy is my favourite - my mum made it for me ages ago. I really love the pansies on top.

Lots of little blue and white babies here too!

This pretty crocheted table cloth came from a garage sale earlier in the year - it is very pretty. It cost me $10 to buy and two weeks to get it clean but now I think it's worth it.

Suzy

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Sweet, Sweet William

Once again we have had a busy

week...I am on school holidays so Mr FH and I went to Perth for a few appointments and also to WORK HARD!!!  We have a unit in Perth where our son and his girlfriend live and in March Perth got hit by a freak storm and three rooms of our unit were flooded!! Finally we had all the insurance sorted so it was time to get the new carpets laid..Yippee!! On Thursday we spent the whole day shifting furniture around from room to room. It was pouring with rain outside (I was worried about flooding again!) so we were unable to put anything outside so it was a matter of keeping in front of the carpet layer and just shifting things from room to room. It was hard work but well worth the effort. We came back to the farm last night and I have spent the day today just catching up. We are meeting our daughter and her husband and baby at our local pub for dinner tonight so that will be nice.

I bought myself this pretty bunch of Sweet William from the vegie store on the way home - the colours are just so lovely.

Hope you all have a great weekend - it is cold and miserable here in Australia so I hope you are all enjoying the nice sunny weather.

Suzy

PS A few people have asked me about the box of china I found - it was in the old farm house where my husbands parents lived so I guess you could say they are family heirlooms!

Just add a bit of bling...

I have had many comments on the pretty pink cup and saucer in my header so I thought I would share with you the story how I come to have them.

I actually found 6 matching cups, saucers and plates in perfect condition (all wrapped individually in newspaper) in a cardboard box in the store room at our old farmhouse!  Boy, did my little heart miss a beat when I was unwrapping them and found there was a complete set.

This is where they live in their very un-glamorous state in everyday life - they fill the top shelf of a very old shabby dresser I have in my kitchen- dining room.

                                   

As you all probably realise by now I have a real soft spot for china - mainly pink and green with roses!

Today I have set out my pink cups on a mirror off my bathroom wall - I thought they could do with a bit of bling so I added a few pieces I had on hand.

I set two of the cups up on my mercury glass candle holders to add some height to the display.

I love the way everything is reflecting in the mirror.

A piece of pale pink chiffon certainly fits in well with all these gorgeous treasures.

Can you see my keyring with diamonds(?) in the shape of an 'S'?

I am on holidays from my 'real' job at school at the moment but I'm going into my sister's gift shop to 'play' with some displays tomorrow. I'll take my camera to get some happy snaps to share with you.

Suzy

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Mosaic Monday in Paris!

I hope you all had a really wonderful weekend - Mr FH and I went to our beach house again - we are slowly getting it to look like home for us. The weather was very cold but we had our two daughters and their families join us also my sister and her family visit for the first time so we had a lovely night together on Saturday.

I'm joining Mosaic Monday with a few photos of my French table I did last week - I hope you enjoy them..

Have a lovely week,

Suzy

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Ohh la la!!

Does your heart ever skip a beat when you see something in a shop you just have to have???  Mine did this the other day but lucky for me it was on the 'special' table... I found these fabulous little french plates the other day and just loved them. When I got them home I really didn't have much to go with them so I really had to have a good look around to make this tablescape.

Don't you just love this French poodle out shopping with the girls?

Looks like Pierre has found his girl here on the bench....

I love a shopping bag - signs of a good day!!

I have bought this gorgeous black wrought iron Eiffel Tower ready for the French look in holiday house.

I used black and white ribbon to tie the white flat ware and popped it in this cute little hot pink bucket.

Can you see the fabulous pink shoes I added to the wine glasses - somehow they don't look like shopping shoes to me..

The balck and white striped napkins look great with the black cloth and white placemats - I was going to use my lovely white chargers but the table was just to small and looked to cramped.

These lanterns I already had  in the cupboard - they are actually battery operated so I am keen to see how they look in my pergola. Perhaps I'll try them when the nights are a little warmer.

This is such a nice sunny spot by this window - the sun beats in here a bit on summer mornings but it is a nice warm spot on a winter morning.

I love these lanterns - there are two more, purple and blue. They are actually made out of a very fine fabric not paper so they should last a little longer.

Sorry about the reflection in this shot - I just couldn't seem to get the photo without it.

Hope you'll join me under the Eiffel Tower for lunch.

Suzy

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