Happy Friday everyone!
I'm not one to rush the season--I like to savor each day for what it is, what joys it may offer. I love waking up to bright summer sunshine and thinking "let's get things done today!"
My home is all blue and white and will remain so thru September. I love summer!~ [That said, right now it's too hot for me and Mo to walk or have deck hour, that will be later...]
The other week I put up my shell collections and blue and white souvenir plates. No vacation or travel this year--- oh how I miss family days, Cape Cod Augusts---but I enjoy the transferware souvenir plates. They date as early as late 1800s to just made in China last week.
The really good examples are gifts, Statue of Liberty and Cape Cod.
The c. 1960s Chicago is fun. We lived near there when I was growing up. Gifted from my brother.
Note the famous Marshall Field's clock and other familiar places.
I try to only pick up places I have been or interest me to visit someday.
Other pieces sneak in, like this vintage Tiffany Beach Ball plate. "Seaside" is, I think, the pattern name.
Summer daisies, like our September Montauk daisies, a mid century English plate.
A modern but cute and colorful Cape Cod. I love the border details, shells and lobsters.
And my little doll size pitcher collection.
Then some seashell jars and white ironstone jugs.
The coffee table with my fave wicker pineapple and this year a few floats and extra pretty flea market found shells.
The Swedish bench, holding shell strings rescued from TS Debby's winds and the big bowl of Scottish carpet balls [a few modern finds mixed in].
More shell strings hung on the plate rack. I try to make one each year with the winter's finds, though i usually give them away.
And this messy corner holds some of my seaglass collection. I'm looking for another tall jar at Home Goods or the church fair to combine the jars and make them look neater. Of course I have more! A lavender jar, a pottery jar, a cobalt jar, a tiny bottles jar, my mom's Lake Erie and Elizabeth Islands jars etc etc.
I've asked when I die that these jars be returned to the ocean along with my ashes. Then when someday a grandchild or great grand holds a bit of treasured seaglass in their tiny hands, they'll think of me and wonder it this once was mine. Silly I know--
Off topic, What to do with all those tomatoes you grew or bought at the farmers market? [internet photo]
Make Fried Tomatoes!
Here's a fun traditional/ old fashioned country food recipe from my family. We'd have it once or twice a summer with corn on the cob, fresh picked ten minutes ago at the farm down the road. Good times. [Don't dredge in cornmeal unless you do not want gravy. Even then it's better if you mix the cornmel with white flour.]
Have wonderful August weekend!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
PS the zinnies are late but doing better. Mo is loving early mornings in their shade.
I have seen butterflies finally! A bluette, an unusual Admiral with a black and white underside, and playful white cabbages that always come in pairs, spiraling happily in the flowers and fountain's spray. [internet photo]
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