tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464274115073364512024-03-13T14:11:35.042-05:00Le Beau Paon VictorienKatie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-26474277395048035972013-01-11T22:47:00.003-06:002013-01-11T22:47:43.621-06:00Winter Wonderland ProjectLast year I meant to do this project for Christmas but ran out of time to put it up, but I found some time this year, however.........<br />
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I call it the "Winter Wonderland". I suppose, because of the icicles, that's what it reminds me of.</div>
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The glass icicles I bought two years ago at an after-Christmas sale for a steal. The silver "twists" I also bought at the same time. The "snowy" branches and other sparkly elements I already had from when I did my White Birds and Snowflakes theme tree in 2010. Some previous owner of our house had put some small nails in the molding above the large mirror over the parlour fireplace mantel, so I used some floral wire and wired everything together and attached the whole thing to the nails. Then I used some white thread in different lengths to hang the icicles from ornament hooks, and added a short string of white lights to it.<br />
It was a little difficult to hang up, mostly because we have 10 and a half foot ceilings, so I had to get out the big ladder to be able to reach that high, and it was awkward. It turned out so pretty though!<br />
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I also can't resist sharing some of my photos that I edited with my new photo editing software, Lightroom.<br />
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I had hoped to post this BEFORE Christmas....but alas! Good intentions and all..............<br />
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Every Christmas I do a "theme" tree in my front hall. Last year it was a Peacock Themed Tree (click<a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-theme-tree-2011-peacocks.html"> HERE</a>)<br />
The year before that it was a White Birds and Snowflakes Tree (click <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2010/11/white-wednesday-2010-theme-tree.html">HERE</a>)<br />
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This year, I did a tree with birds again. I have been calling it a Twigs, Birds and Tartan Bows Tree.<br />
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All lit up!<br />
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It was a fun tree to put together...but what tree isn't? I love coming up with ideas for my next "theme" tree. I haven't thought about what I'm going to do next year, however.<br />
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Hopefully all of you had a nice holiday season......I had the flu...like a million other people!<br />
The hubby and I did find time to take in a performance of Handel's <i>Messiah</i> by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, which took place in a very old cathedral in Milwaukee.<br />
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Erik looked very dapper in his black suit. He loves to dress up.<br />
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The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Built in 1847.<br />
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The Cathedral was built in an architectural style known as "German Zopfstil". It was very popular in Milwaukee in the 1840s until the 1860s, which is when many Germans settled in the city.<br />
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I did find time to bake many yummy cookies! Here are just a few!<br />
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The outside of the house looked very festive.............<br />
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The Victorian tree looked splendid, as usual..........................<br />
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Astrid got her ornament this year (it matches the ones I bought last year for Olive and E.B.)<br />
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E.B. and Olive really enjoyed the flannel sheets and the Christmas bedding.......</div>
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Astrid likes the couch the best..............<br />
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Or this cardboard box in my craft room............<br />
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-74964911491336110412012-11-27T13:49:00.000-06:002012-11-28T21:12:01.797-06:00A Thanksgiving TablescapeI did not host Thanksgiving at my house this year, but I still found time to put together a Thanksgiving tablescape anyway!<br />
I'll be linking up with <a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/">Between Naps on the Porch</a> for Tablescape Thursday and <a href="http://www.cuisinekathleen.com/">Cuisine Kathleen</a> for Let's Dish!<br />
I did my napkins in a fan fold, reminiscent of a turkey's tail fanned out!<br />
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Autumn centerpiece, complete with a velvet pumpkin..........<br />
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The cover.......<br />
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Pheasant S&P shakers and a silver domed butter dish......<br />
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I have really no Thanksgiving decorations, so I thought I should treat myself to a new tablecloth which has turkeys on it! I bought this recently at Bed, Bath and Beyond. It's very beautiful!<br />
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Paisley figured placemats in mustard/gold are perfect for a fall table.....<br />
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A trio of glassware at each place; water goblet, wine glass, and champagne flute.<br />
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I also bought two turkey votive holders at Bed, Bath and Beyond, along with the tablecloth. Notice I have "fake" votives in them. This is due to my cats, who like to go up on tables when I'm not in the room. I often put these battery operated candles in my candle holders for "effect". If I was hosting a real dinner, I would have put real candles in them before my guests arrived!<br />
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Monogrammed individual spreaders go on the bread plate at each place setting.<br />
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Each place setting also gets an individual salter, or salt dip.<br />
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A crisp linen bread basket liner proclaims there are "HOT ROLLS" to be had.....<br />
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The red color of the napkins is perhaps unexpected, but works well for a fall table.........<br />
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I'll be joining Susan at <a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/">Between Naps on the Porch</a> for Tablescape Thursday and<br />
<a href="http://www.cuisinekathleen.com/">Cuisine Kathleen</a> for Let's Dish!<br />
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"Phase 1" of the project, as we like to call it, was officially completed in July, but it took some months for the new grass to grow in. We don't know when we will begin "Phase 2", which will involve replacing the fence. We are hoping to start Phase 2 in the spring. As for the rest of the project, which involves a new driveway and landscaping the rear yard, including a patio and pergola, we have no idea when we might be able to afford to do that at this point. Hopefully it will be in the next few years, if we are lucky!<br />
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In the meantime, enjoy the transformation!<br />
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<u>Before</u>: Front walkway and front steps<br />
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<u>Before</u>: Front steps with partial view of front retaining wall.<br />
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<u>After</u>: New Walkway<br />
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<u>After</u>: New walkway and new steps<br />
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<u>After</u>: New walkway, new steps, new retaining wall, new landscaping!<br />
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<u>Before</u>: Side Yard Retaining wall.<br />
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<u>Before</u>: Side Yard wall, fence, back yard and back steps<br />
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<u>After</u>: Back Steps and new back walkway<br />
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<u>After</u>: New retaining wall, side yard and back yard<br />
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<u>After</u>:New side yard retaining wall with new landscaping<br />
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<u>After</u>: New landscaping, front yard<br />
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-26338348762854186652012-11-24T11:55:00.002-06:002012-11-24T11:55:59.080-06:00Hallowe'en At Le Beau Paon VictorienAs usual, I am way behind all the other bloggers, who are all showing all their Christmas decor and Christmas projects!<br />
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I finally just managed to get all my Hallowe'en decorations taken down and put away last week!<br />
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Although I promised to show pictures of my decor, I wasn't able to get to it. I find it difficult with my new job to have time for my blog as I used to.<br />
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But, just so I don't disappoint, here are a few photos....better late than never!<br />
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Front Hall Mantel<br />
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Front Hall Table<br />
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Euphraxia<br />
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Ellendea<br />
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My Hallowe'en collages, made last year.<br />
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Front Hall Piano<br />
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It's Fall! The weather has been quite fall-like here....it's been getting quite chilly, with crisp, sunny days, blue skies and leaves turning pretty colors. A few leaves found their way into the birdbath in my yard.</div>
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The birds that nested in my birdhouse are gone for the summer, but the birdhouse still looks pretty amongst the colorful leaves of the maple tree in my back yard. My father made this cedar birdhouse for me a few years back. I love to look out my kitchen window and see it every day.<br />
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After summer is over, I move my summer annuals indoors to over-winter until next season, and normally I leave my planters empty. This year, I decided to put in some fall flowers in my planters. I planted purple kale, burgundy colored mums, ornamental pepper and added a couple small pumpkin gourds as well.<br />
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They really brighten up the front porch for a couple more months before winter sets in.<br />
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Just this last weekend it was rainy and quite warm, with temps in the mid-60s, so I used the opportunity to put up some of my Halloween outdoor decorations. I had already put up the cornstalks in September, and had pumpkins out, along with my fall planters. To "spookify" it all, I added "dead vines", a Halloween wreath, and a scary skeleton angel. I love how everything looks so much better against the backdrop of the new landscaping!<br />
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My Halloween wreath got a fresh coat of black spray paint last season and it's still looking pretty good!<br />
This was a really easy wreath to make. I bought some red silk roses on clearance, spray painted them black, cut the blooms off the stems and hot-glued them to a wooden wreath form. I tied on some Halloween ribbon and <i>viola</i>!<br />
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Since this hangs outside, sometimes the black wears off after a couple of years and the red starts showing through. I just add a fresh coat every couple of years to make it look as "dead black" as possible.<br />
The "dead vines" that I have wound around the porch railings are just silk fall leaf garlands also spray painted black. I normally will buy one on clearance at the end of the season, spray paint it, and put it away with the rest for the next year, so I keep adding to my "collection" of dead vines.<br />
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I have about three quarters of my Halloween decorations up inside the house, so I will share them very soon!<br />
Until then.................Happy Haunting!!!!<br />
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-<i>St. Adalbert's and Holy Trinity Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI. Photo by Katie P. 2012</i><br />
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For the last three years, I have attended a huge local craft fair in September at <a href="https://holyhill.com/">Holy Hill </a>with my mom and my two sisters.<br />
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Holy Hill's actual name is the<i> Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at Holy Hill.</i><br />
The Church sits atop a great hill, thus it's name, which sits in the middle of 435 acres of grounds. It is also home to the Brothers of Mount Carmel, or officially, the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites. The Friars, who wear the robes of their Order, can be seen on the grounds and are the essential staff of Holy Hill. Their Order originally came from Bavaria in 1906, at the invitation of the Archbishop.<br />
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Every September there is a huge craft fair on the grounds. It is a beautiful place to visit and a pleasant place for a fall outdoor craft fair beneath the shady pines with the huge church on the hill as a backdrop.<br />
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Above: a picture of the Basilica, shrine and monastery buildings.<br />
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I was excited to find the vendor booth with the handcrafted witch dolls again, and had to buy another one for myself.<br />
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This is the new one. She wears a brown dress and has a burn-out velvet cloak. I have named her "Ellendea".<br />
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They are so beautifully made and at only $45, it seems almost like a steal, since it seems like there must be hours and hours of work involved. The woman who makes them says that she changed the design this year and made the nose longer. I also noticed that she made the dresses longer and more voluminous.<br />
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Ellendea will join her "sister", Euphraxia, who was purchased two years ago:<br />
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I also bought a few small things (a knitted hat, a painted Christmas ornament, home made soap) and these small folk art prints:</div>
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The artist who does these had a large vendor booth with all of the original, large-size paintings in the booth, plus lots of smaller prints. The original works were beautiful, with beautifully painted frames, but were a little out of my price range. The small 8x10 size prints were more in my budget.</div>
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This one is very colorful, but with the plastic over it, it's not quite so vivid. I got a kick out of the witch's skirt. I thought this would look cute framed and put out with my Halloween decorations.</div>
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The other two have a more nautical tone: I thought these two had a fun 19th century look to them.This one has lots of mermaids in it.</div>
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I love all the teeny little sailors in the rigging on this ship. I planned to frame these and put them in Erik's "Victorian gentleman's study", perhaps in a grouping with some maps and other folk art-type decor, including a scrimshaw tooth that used to belong to my father.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by!<br />
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Both of my parents grew up on a farm; my Dad's family had a turkey farm and later a dairy farm. Many of his relatives, who were from Michigan, were loggers and those who were not loggers, were farmers. My Dad's father was Belgian; his family, before emigrating to America, were sheep farmers.<br />
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My mother moved to a farm with her family when she was about twelve or thirteen years old. Her grandparents had both come from farming families, potato farmers to be exact, after arriving from Poland they settled in Chicago, but were soon lured to northern Wisconsin, where farm land was being given away for free. Later, after my great-grandparents were grown and had married, they decided to move to Milwaukee to try life away from farming. My great-grandfather got a job driving a streetcar, which was lucky for his family, because he didn't lose his job during the Great Depression like so many others did.<br />
Many years later, his second oldest son, my Grandpa, decided that he wanted to buy a farm, so he did, taking his wife and seven children with him. My Mom was about twelve or thirteen at the time, the second oldest of seven children. My Grandpa still had a regular day job; the farming part was mostly like a "hobby farm", although he did plant fields and they had animals; goats, rabbits, chickens, a few cows and horses. They also had a very large vegetable garden and an orchard. Growing much of their own food was helpful when you had a large family of growing children and not much money.<br />
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By the time I was born, my Dad's parents still lived on their farm, but they no longer kept a dairy herd and my Mom's parents, though still living on their farm also, kept no animals anymore and the fields were rented out. As the years went by, my grandparents aged and by the time I was in high school, their farms had been sold, the equipment auctioned off and long gone; my parents had careers ( my mom a nurse, my dad had his own business), so I never knew what it was like to live on a working farm myself.<br />
But, the farm life loomed hugely in my memory, from stories and pictures from the past, and me and my siblings and cousins had always enjoyed visiting our grandparents so we could play in the huge empty barns, swing on old pasture gates, hide under the corn crib, and dive into the hay in the loft (which we were forbidden to do, but did it anyway!)<br />
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A few years ago, one of my cousins, and her husband, decided that they wanted to buy an old c. 1850s farmhouse, which also came with a few acres of land, and numerous barns and outbuildings. They also decided to become goat farmers. Every year they have a Labor Day picnic at their goat farm, and me and my extended family, all of us "city folk" go out to the picnic and have a fun day "on the farm".<br />
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These are all pictures that I took this last Labor Day at the farm, and then edited using my new editing program.<br />
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They do have some cows; a few young Holsteins and two Herefords.<br />
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These are actually some of the young kids. There are two pens of the kids, who were all born this last spring. One pen holds all the males, the other are females.</div>
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I have forgotten now exactly the number of kids that were born this spring a the farm... but I think it was close to sixty or seventy kids!</div>
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These are the adult females. There is only one adult male; the "billy", who 'services' all the females, but he is kept with the cows in the cow pasture.</div>
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I got this picture of my Mom when I was looking down the hay chute. She's holding onto my Grandpa's arm as they were walking around in the lower level where the goats are. At nearly 95, my Grandpa still loves to talk about his own farming days and it's a great treat for him to come see my cousin's farm.</div>
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Just like cows, the adult female goats get milked twice a day. There are about 50 adult female goats. They can fit two rows of ten goats in the milking room at a time, where they get hooked up to the automatic milking machines. If you walk into the milking room, they all will turn and look at you. Goats are very curious creatures; they are also very friendly and entertaining to watch and have quite distinct personalities.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed a taste of the "farm life"!<br />
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I really felt like I had no time at all this summer to do many things; including work on my blog! Our landscaping project was very consuming because of how bad the heat and drought was....I had to water, water, water, water to keep the new grass and new trees alive.<br />
Because I currently work somewhat long hours, I had to always make sure I went home right after work so I could start the watering process, which often took me four to five hours to complete. With only one outdoor faucet, I had to use a hose splitter to hook up multiple hoses so I could run two sprinklers at once...but I still had to move them around so all areas of new grass got watered, and with how hot and dry it was, we really had to saturate it. To really saturate the straw covering the new seed, I had to water each section 40-45 minutes. Erik helped me move sprinklers, but it was still a very tedious task. If we had been getting regular rainfall, it would have been much easier on us, of course, but we, unluckily, did this project in the middle of a severe drought. Our efforts paid off, however. The grass came in beautifully and our new trees are doing well.<br />
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Most people in blogland have already been posting pictures of their fall decor and even Halloween decor! I am way behind....my fall decor is still in the attic. Erik's band had many summer shows, which kept us both busy. I had also decided to change jobs and will be starting a new job in 3 weeks, leaving my current employer after nine years. My new job will have "regular" hours; which means that I will be working a regular five day week instead of four days, so my Friday day off, a day I often did my blog posts, is a thing of the past.<br />
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I will adjust to the new schedule, and hope to get back on track again and post more regularly soon! Erik bought me a new photo editing program that I have been learning also. It's Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and it's been fun learning how to use it.<br />
Here's a few images I've played around with:<br />
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Fuschia on my front porch<br />
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A statue atop a gravestone at Holy Trinity Cemetary in Milwaukee (where I recently visited and took many interesting photos).<br />
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I finally hung up my J.Gould bird prints in the front hall (actually, Erik hung them, since I am apparently too indecisive and I told him to pick a spot and hang them before they ended up sitting on the hall table for six months!)<br />
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I had mentioned in other posts about how I was trying to find the right sized, and right type, of pictures to make a grouping over the spinet piano in the hall, without success. We ended up buying this reproduction tapestry at a local Renaissance Faire and decided to hang it by itself above the piano.<br />
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I want to add some hanging tassels to it also. This is a small reproduction of a Flemish tapestry that was woven around 1500 in Flanders, called <i>"La Licorne Captive</i>" (Unicorn in captivity). It is done very nicely and is of good quality. We thought it would look interesting and very "old world". I might end up moving it to Erik's "Victorian gentleman's study" when we actually start that project later on, but I think it also will look lovely in here permanently.<br />
On my never-ending list of things are window treatments for the hall windows. We have been in the house now for nearly seven years, and still there are no curtains on the windows in this room!!! <br />
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I recently acquired this wonderful antique photo album from a consignment shop. I had seen it previously on several occasions, but it was a little on the expensive side, and so I passed it by, though not without longing.<br />
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I have a collection of cabinet cards, many of which date from the 1880s until the early 1900s, and an old photo album was something I hoped to acquire at some point to put some of my favorite cabinet cards in for display.<br />
Surprisingly, these are often hard to come by and are usually in really poor condition, with pages missing and loose and the bindings torn. More often than not when I find these they have no photos in them, although sometimes there are. The ones that are in good condition can be quite expensive and they appear to be highly collectible. I finally caved in and bought it, since I just couldn't pass it up. It is in fairly decent condition, and even though it has no photos in it, the pages are all in good condition and the binding intact.<br />
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The album is on a stand, and still has it's pretty clasp. On the front is a small circular mirror centered in an anchor. The anchor is often mistaken for having a Naval or seafaring connotation. The dealer who owned this piece must have thought so too, for it was marked as a "nautical" album, however, to the Victorians, and to many Christians from the first century and onwards, the anchor meant something else entirely.<br />
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The anchor is a symbol of hope. Because of the great importance of an anchor in navigation, it was regarded in ancient times as a symbol of safety. Early Christians adopted the anchor as a symbol of hope in future existence. The hope spoken of is not <b>earthly</b> hope, but <b>heavenly</b> hope and consequently relates to the hope of salvation. The Epistle of the Hebrews (Hebrews 6: 19-20) was the first time the idea of hope was connected to the anchor; <i>"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil...". </i>The symbol of an anchor appeared in catacombs and tombs as far back as the second and third centuries. It was popular again during the 19th century, particularly with the sentimental Victorians, and was a motif often used on gravestones and mausoleums. If you have ever wandered in any old cemetery, you might have seen the anchor carved on some stones.<br />
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In many old photographs from funerals during the Victorian period, there is often a floral arrangement that is made to look like an anchor present at the service. Sometimes it would be photographed with other floral arrangements, sometimes it would be photographed as part of a display that included a portrait of the deceased. It was not uncommon, or unusual, for photographs to be taken of funerals and floral arrangements, or the deceased themselves laid out in their coffin, surrounded by all the flowers.<br />
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To many modern eyes, the assumption would be made that the person must have been associated with sailing, or the Navy, or the sea, but this is not the case. Certainly it would have been a popular motif for someone who had been involved in the seafaring life, or coastal towns, but the anchor ,as a symbol, was not limited to just those who were. And, as evidenced by this photo album, it seemed to have been used as a motif on other things as well, besides at funerals and cemeteries; anything that might be associated with remembrance, it seems.<br />
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When the clasp is undone, it folds down like so, revealing another mirror behind it. You can also see how vivid the colors of the velvet was originally.<br />
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When it is unfolded like this, now the album itself can be opened.</div>
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The pages are quite pretty, and though there is some wrinkling and slight foxing on some pages, they are all still intact, none of them loose; all attached to the fabric binding.</div>
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A couple of the pages had small tears at the bottom of the photo frame, where there is a slot to insert the photos into, and some of them had been taped, but I just slit the tape using an Exact-O knife.<br />
Then I proceeded to add some of my old cabinet cards into it!<br />
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I filled up the whole album, except for the last two pages, which had smaller frames for photos that would be about the size of calling cards. I don't have any that size, so I left them empty.</div>
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Did I also mention that the original owner's name is written in pencil on the inside front cover? "Romman Ulbrich" it says in typical 19th century script. Additionally, there is also a <b>music box </b>on the backside of the stand, tucked into a small, pocket-like box. It's very rusty, but we did get it to work, since the key was still in the back! <br />
I've tried to date this photo album, but it's quite difficult. The fabric covered albums like these were popular for a long period of time during the Victorian Era, and even into the early 1900s. The style of the album and the vivid, bright, almost garish, red-pink color of the velvet fabric seems more like 1880s or 1890s to me, but at this point I'm only guessing.<br />
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It certainly makes a statement, and currently occupies a small table in our parlour, on prominent display.<br />
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It's hard to believe that it's already mid-August and that soon it will be Fall!<br />
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Where did the summer go??<br />
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Oh yes, I remember now.....my summer was spent watering, watering, watering. Or sweltering in horrible heat!<br />
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I didn't really have many nice yard/ garden pictures to share this year because of the awful heat and drought we had, not to mention the landscaping project that destroyed a big part of our yard!<br />
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I had hoped to do a small outdoor tablescape this summer; now that the weather seems to have cooled down and it's much more pleasant, perhaps I can still do one before Fall.<br />
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About three weeks ago the new grass was starting to fill in, finally....<br />
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It's been growing so slowly because of the unusual heat, despite my daily watering.<br />
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My pink Tall Phlox is doing well, despite the heat and dryness............<br />
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This is how everything looks now, a couple of weeks later, after the weather cooled down and we got some rain:<br />
Side yard:<br />
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Back yard:<br />
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Front yard:<br />
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Of course, there's lots of weeds in with the grass; it's just how it goes. Weeds are opportunistic and will germinate wherever and however they can. Erik is not happy about the weeds ( he REALLY hates weeds) but we have to wait until Fall and the grass goes dormant before our lawn service can come and treat the new grass with weed killer. If they do it now, the new grass will die.<br />
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Recently, I also found two of these antique pressed-back wooden chairs. They have spool-style spindles and what look like Colonial Ball finials. They were a steal at $40. They were marked as having " honey-dipper" finials, but I don't think that's correct. I just love press-back chairs!<br />
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I actually bought these two for our kitchen, but they also look pretty on the porch and can be easily brought out for extra seating on the porch if we need more chairs!<br />
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Press back, or pressed back, chairs became very popular in the late 1800s with the development of steel die stamps that were mounted on rollers, which were then passed over a finished chair crest rail under immense pressure. The die stamp had sharp edges and resulted in pressing a design into the wood quickly and efficiently. It was much cheaper than having hand-carving done by a cabinet-maker, and also allowed for fast production. In the new era of purchasing goods by catalog, it allowed the new wealthier Americans to buy decorated furniture that looked "hand-carved" without having to pay a hefty price, or wait weeks to have it carved by hand.<br />
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There were both "shallow cut" and "deep cut" designs. The shallow cut design required only a single pass of the die stamp and therefore were the most in-expensive. A deep cut design required multiple passes, and might also include some hand chasing, which made the "deep cut" the more expensive option.<br />
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I have a fondness for old wooden chairs and I was quite delighted to find this pair for my breakfast table!<br />
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One of the items that has been on my "list" lately ( I have mentioned before how much I make lists for everything) are some more pictures for the walls at Le Beau Paon Victorien.<br />
I have a few that are up, there are a couple more that are still in storage, because even after six years here I still have not decided to where to hang them; but there are still spaces that I'd like to fill.<br />
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In our front entry hall, I am trying to make a grouping of pictures over the spinet piano.<br />
At Hallowe'en I hung two framed Hallowe'en collages that I made next to a crazy hologram picture that pretty much hangs on the wall all year (long story!).<br />
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After Hallowe'en was over, I put them away with all my other decorations.<br />
In their place, I hung a small framed picture I bought in November in Tomah, Wisconsin during a girl's weekend getaway.<br />
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This is a close-up of the picture; it's not really big and the style is a little more country/primitive than my usual style, but the picture spoke to me. It looks so much like my grandparent's farm that I just loved it.<br />
But, as I said, it's kind of small, so I've been looking for other pictures to make a small grouping with this one. I was hoping to find a picture in an oval frame, something vintage and Victorian, preferably. I found an oval picture of a sailing ship once, but the picture was in such bad condition and I wasn't sure about the subject matter, even though typically I adore mariner pictures.<br />
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There is one picture that I KNOW would be perfect for this grouping, but it's my mom's and she is still not quite ready to give it up, even though she knows I want it. It's just a picture she bought at a rummage sale right before my brother was born, in 1969. I'm sure it's nothing valuable, but I looked at it all the time as a child and loved it. I think next time I go out there I will take a picture of it to share!<br />
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A couple of weeks ago, I took my husband to go browsing at some local antique shops to see if I could find anything for the walls and I ended up finding two delightful vintage J. Gould prints!<br />
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I recognized the name of J. Gould on the bottom of the prints, and also I loved the colors and fineness of the prints. <br />
John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. He was born in Dorset, England in 1804, the son of a gardener. Eventually, he also became a gardener and worked with his father at the Royal Gardens at Windsor. John Gould became an expert in taxidermy, which prompted him to start his own business in London. His skill led to a position of Curator and Preserver at the museum at the Zoological Society of London, where he met and came into contact with many naturalists, including Charles Darwin. Much of Gould's work is referenced in Darwin's book,<i> On The Origin of Species</i>.<br />
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Viewing the many collections of birds that came to the museum led to his interest in birds and publications of many beautiful monographs of bird species, with hand-colored illustrations that were done mostly by his wife, Sarah Gould, although John Gould did many of the drawings himself. The couple eventually traveled to Australia in 1838 to study the region's bird species, intent on producing the first major work on that subject. The result was <i>The Birds of Australia </i> (1840-1848) a seven volume set which included many new species of birds which were new to science, and 600 colored plates of birds. Two other works he did in Australia, <i>The Mammals of Australia </i>(1849-1861), a three volume set, and <i>A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos</i> (1841-1842), led to John Gould being known as the "father of bird study" in Australia. The Gould League in Australia is named for him. John Gould published numerous books about bird species and published about 2,999 paintings of birds. It was no wonder he was called the "Bird Man"!<br />
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19th century lithographs of J.Gould's bird plates are quite beautiful and quite valuable, and were done in the early 1880s after his death in 1881, but these prints that I have are from a later date. Reproductions of J. Gould's lithographs were done in the 1940s, by the I.M.Fisher Company. They are still very attractive and very nicely done, even for reproductions, and many have been hand-colored. Mine look like they were hand-colored and I believe are still in their original 1940s frames. I bought these for $8.00, which I think is a pretty decent price!<br />
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These prints are called "Parakeets No.603"; there are two in the "set", 603A and 603B. I've always loved birds and when I was in high school I had a number of parakeets and finches as pets. Nowadays, I have cats, so I don't keep birds anymore, but I still love pictures of birds. The Victorians were also big fans of birds, and flowers and other natural subjects, so these seem to be fitting subject matter for my Victorian house.<br />
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I might change the frames, even though I kind of like these trippy 1940s-era frames and the painted glass "matting".<br />
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I also found these two vintage lace jabot collars:<br />
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Originally, the term <b>jabot</b> referred to the frills or ruffles decorating the front of a shirt,and then evolved into a decorative clothing accessory consisting of lace or other fabric attached at the neckline, either sewed onto a neck band, collar or just pinned in place with a brooch.<br />
In the 17th and 18th century, the jabot consisted of lace or cambric and was sewn to the edging of the neck opening of a man's shirt and partially visible under a vest worn over it. Jabots made of lace hanging loose from the throat were an essential component of men's fashion during the baroque era. By the late 19th century, jabots were used only in women's clothing, and were lace or cambric that was sewn onto a neckband or pinned in place onto a blouse, or <i>shirtwaist. </i>I don't know how old these are; today most jabots are only worn as part of official costumes, like female judges in the United States Supreme Court and by members of the French magistrate court dress and academic court.<br />
They have the look and feel of being vintage, if not exactly 19th century. I seem to remember seeing jabot collars on pictures of women's clothing in some magazines I have from the late 1930s and early 1940s, so perhaps these were from that era.<br />
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I bought them because they looked so neat, but I didn't have anything specific in mind for them. I am sure I can come up with a use for them!<br />
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I also found another pair of cotton pillowcases with beautiful crocheted lace on the edges, for our bed.<br />
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Erik found a folio of old phonograph records that we can play on our antique upright phonograph:<br />
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I have two other folios that I bought years ago, but this one, although a little water-damaged, was completely full and none of the records were cracked (one of my other folios had only a handful of records and the other had more records, but some of them badly cracked.)<br />
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Erik liked this collection because nearly half of them were John Phillip Sousa songs and marches. The folio was only $10, so we bought it, of course!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by and visiting!<br />
I'll be linking to these parties:<br />
Show and Tell Friday at<a href="http://romantichome.blogspot.com/"> My Romantic Home</a><br />
Feathered Nest Friday at <a href="http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/">French Country Cottage</a><br />
Home Sweet Home at <a href="http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/">The Charm of Home</a><br />
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Ok....so here it is......some AFTER pictures of our landscaping project, now that it is finally complete!<br />
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For those of you who have already been following this project, keep scrolling down and enjoy.....if you want to "refresh" your memory of what the yard looked like BEFORE and DURING...click <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2012/05/landscape-plan.html">HERE</a> and <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2012/06/landscaping-project-before-and-during.html">HERE</a>!<br />
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BOO-YA!<br />
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Front yard, with new walkway and steps.<br />
Doesn't it just look lovely!??!!<br />
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Now when I stand on my front porch, this is what I see when I look at the street!!<br />
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The two trees are actually Dwarf Korean Lilacs on a Standard, which is a fancy way of saying that it is a shrub that has been grafted onto a<b> standard</b>, so it grows in tree-form, rather than like a regular bush, and is considered a dwarf ornamental tree.<br />
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All new planting beds in front are the brown mulched areas. The areas with the straw matting is where new grass was planted (which I have to water now every single day! Exhausting!) On the corner is another new tree; this one is a Silver Ball Pear tree. It has pretty silvery leaves and will have flowers in spring.<br />
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Another view of the front yard.<br />
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Jutting off the side of our house in front is the alcove in front of which I had planted a beautiful Snowball viburnum. The landscapers tamed this unruly shrub and gave it a nice shape for me. The planting bed now extends around the side of the house and in front of the snowball bush, and includes another new tree, a Firebird crabapple. It will have flowers in spring and fruit in fall.<br />
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Another view of the alcove and planting bed. The orange daylilies were moved from the corner of the yard into this planting bed.<br />
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The side yard also has a tree; this is another Silver Ball Pear.</div>
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This is our back yard and another good view of the retaining wall. We only had them do the new planting beds and trees in the front yard, from the design plan, because we can't afford to do the back yard plan yet, but they did have to plant new grass in the areas that were tore up when removing the old wall and the chain-link fence. We are planning on replacing the fence, with a nice wood privacy fence, that will enclose the back yard. It will be almost in the same "footprint" as the old fence, with a few small changes. It will be set back from the wall about 4 feet, and it will enclose a small area behind our garage which is part of our property but the previous owners didn't enclose with the old fence, for some reason. It's not a big area, but large enough for me to put a potting bench and a compost pile, and it will be behind the garage and not visible from the rest of the yard, so it will be nicely out of the way, but still enclosed with the rest of the yard.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by! I'll be posting updated pictures as the grass grows and as my flower gardens fill up! I have lots of space now for new plants! I can hardly wait!<br />
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Well, if you don't like sweets much, I guess you wouldn't.....but I love sweets and I love baked goodies and I absolutely LOVE these bars.<br />
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They are super-delicious, in my opinion, but also they remind me so much of my childhood. My mother got this recipe from <i>her</i> mother, my Grandma Helen, and she made them so very often when I was a child.<br />
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We never went on a camping trip without a big Tupperware container of these bars, and there was seldom a family picnic or cookout that didn't have a pan of them around. They were a family favorite with everyone.<br />
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I don't know where my Grandma Helen got the recipe; from a book, magazine or maybe off the back of a package of Nestle' Tollhouse Chocolate Chips, but I love the gooey, chewy goodness. They have some coconut in them, which gives them more of a texture and a very subtle hint of flavor, so even if you are not usually a fan of coconut, you will hardly notice it.<br />
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This recipe only makes a small pan of bars, a 9 inch square, which is nice if you have a small group or a small family. My mother always doubled the recipe to make a regular 9 x 13 size.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Country House Butterscotch Brownies</span></u></b><br />
1/3 cup butter, softened<br />
1 cup brown sugar<br />
1 egg<br />
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract<br />
1/2 cup flaked coconut<br />
3/4 cup. flour<br />
6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips<br />
1 tsp. baking powder<br />
1/4 tsp salt.<br />
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 inch square pan ( or a 9x13 pan, if doubling the recipe).<br />
Using an electric mixer, or a hand mixer :cream butter and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla and mix well, until creamy.<br />
In a separate bowl, sift flour, salt and baking powder, then add the dry ingredients to the butter and sugar at intervals, mixing well after each addition.<br />
Stir in the coconut and chocolate chips with a spoon or spatula until incorporated. A half cup of chopped walnuts can be added also, if desired.<br />
Spread mixture evenly into pan and bake for 25 minutes.<br />
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I love them when they are still warm from oven and are all melty and gooey, but I also like them chilled. Sometimes I put them in the refrigerator for awhile. Even chilled they are still soft and chewy.<br />
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Despite the extreme mess here at Le Beau Paon Victorien, what with our landscaping project underway and taking seemingly forever, I still had to put up the new patriotic bunting that we purchased awhile ago.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> We were very excited to buy this "vintage-style" bunting and put it up and we were not going to be deterred by the mess of our yard. I saw this bunting in the catalog for <a href="http://www.plowhearth.com/">Plow & Hearth</a> and had to have it!</span><br />
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A few dollar store flags added to my pots of annuals give my front porch more patriotic flair!<br />
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Please excuse the dust! There is stone dust all over everything. I try to rinse it off every few days, but the minute they start cutting stone, it's back!<br />
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If you missed my last post about the HUGE landscaping project we are doing, and all the pictures, you can click <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2012/06/landscaping-project-before-and-during.html">HERE.</a></div>
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Inside the house, I have put up two 4th of July banners that I bought at JoAnn's back in May. They actually had these out and on sale, for Memorial Day, even though one of them says "4th" on it.</div>
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We've had the worst weather this year for flowers and gardens. We had an early spring, with unusually warm temps, but not a lot of rain. We finally got some rain in late April and early May, but the temperatures were cooler than normal during those months, and we had some pretty cold nights. Then came the drought. We have not had any rain in over six weeks. Everything is curling up and dying and everyone's grass is dead.</div>
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It hasn't helped that we have had horribly hot and humid weather for weeks also, with temperatures close to 100 degrees and high humidity that makes it feel like 110 degrees.</div>
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My flowers are hanging on because I have been diligently watering them, but many of them are not doing very well because of the heat and the dry weather.</div>
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My coneflower garden is still looking pretty good.</div>
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My pots of annuals are flourishing, due to massive fertilizing and watering pretty much every day:</div>
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The front yard is a complete disaster right now, and most of my planting beds are tore up. In the back yard, by my back porch, my orange butterfly weed and red bee balm were doing wonderfully:</div>
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But this is what it looks like now:</div>
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Yeah. Yikes!!! It's pretty bad.</div>
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The walkways are completed now:</div>
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And the wall is progressing nicely:</div>
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I am excited to be able to post some pictures of our landscaping project finally! If you missed my first post regarding this very large (and expensive!!!) project, click <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2012/05/landscape-plan.html">HERE</a>. This post also has a few "Before" pictures and a picture of the landscape design.<br />
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We had to wait a few weeks for the quarry to cut and prepare the stone and then we had to wait for the landscaping company to make out their schedule for June so they could give us a start date.<br />
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They were tentatively going to start last week, on the 21st or 22nd, but we had a number of days early last week where the temperatures were about 96 degrees with very high humidity and so they got behind on their other projects because of the heat. When there is a heat advisory, they don't have their employees work because it can be dangerous. Here in Wisconsin we do get some hot days and if it was a dry heat, it's much easier to deal with; but we have the worst humidity, so 96 degrees can feel like 120 degrees.<br />
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At last the hot weather went away, so they started the demolition of the old wall on Monday. I was at work, so I did not get any pictures of the old wall coming down.<br />
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Here's some more "Before" pictures, just so you can get an idea of how hideous the old wall and fence was:<br />
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The front walkway and steps were very broken down and terrible.<br />
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The side yard<br />
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Side yard steps and gate:<br />
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In many places the wall segments were leaning every which way and falling apart.<br />
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The chain link fence made it look like a prison! Weeds were always growing in all the cracks no matter how many times we pulled them up or sprayed them with weed killer.<br />
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When I came home from work Monday, this is what it looked like:<br />
The wall was gone, most of the fence was gone and so were my back steps! A big dumpster with pieces of the old wall was in the street, waiting for the truck to come back and take it away.<br />
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This is what my front yard looks like now:<br />
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They had already excavated the front and laid down some gravel:<br />
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The side yard ( the long side ) all excavated...........<br />
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Some of the saw-cut Lannon stone for the new wall.<br />
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My poor front yard!<br />
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They had to store the pallets of new stone in our driveway, so we will have to park on the street for awhile! There is also a huge mountain of gravel at the end of my driveway!</div>
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Starting to lay down the new wall.<br />
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Everything is super dusty! There's dirt and stone dust everywhere! It doesn't help that we are in the middle of a drought and have not had rain since early May. Our grass is pretty much dead and my flowers are hanging on because I've been watering them like crazy. Soon they will probably but a ban on watering if we don't get rain soon.<br />
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The laying of the stone is time-consuming. The stonemasons are laying down 3 and 6 inch slabs at intervals, but also cutting stone with a stone saw to make pieces fit and also give it that "random" look which looks more like an old-fashioned wall. This is a dry stone wall, there is no masonry.<br />
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This is where my back steps used to be:<br />
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In some sections where they have most of the wall in, they are starting to back-fill with gravel.<br />
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It looks so pretty! The foundation of our house is also Lannon stone, but it's a different style of "cut" that is called "rock-face" and the squares are much larger in size. Almost all of the early homes and Victorian homes in our neighborhood have a Lannon stone foundation and many of them have Lannon stone walls also. Most of the older Lannon stone walls from the 19th century are what is called "snapped" stone. Ours is "saw-cut", so they are smooth on the tops and bottom. It's more expensive than snapped, but the labor cost is cheaper because it's easier to place. Snapped stone is rough edged and jagged on all sides, but it takes more work to place.<br />
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My entire house and all my flowers and plants are covered in dust! I hope that after this project is finished we get some rain to wash everything clean. The landscaping company gave us a price to do the planting beds and put in some trees in the front and ,after discussion, we decided it was within our budget to have them do this as well, so after the wall and steps and walkway are done, they are going to fine-grade the front yard and level it (it's very lumpy and hilly) and plant new grass, make new planting beds and put in some trees. It will look very nice and very different after they are done! I can hardly wait!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by! I will continue to post pictures as things progress!<br />
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If you missed the first post, which also explains just exactly<i> what</i> Old World Wisconsin is, I suggest you click<a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2012/06/going-back-to-19th-century-at-old-world.html"> HERE</a>.<br />
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Sorry for the looooong delay in posting the second half.....I have been incredibly busy!<br />
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I had left off showing some pictures from Sanford House and Loomer Barn. Here is a picture of some of the fences that abound in the "village", with a picture of the boarding house/inn, Four Mile Inn, in the background.<br />
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Here is the family sitting room in Sanford House. This farmhouse was built in the 1860s and though the Sanfords were farmers, they were actually quite well-to-do. Attractive furnishings and lovely patterned carpeting are shown here.<br />
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Sanford House has quite a large " butler's pantry", with plenty of shelves for the family's dishes, glassware, serveware, prep bowls and crocks, as well as silver pieces, and enough room for storing plenty of dry goods and even a bath tub for bathing!<br />
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A pantry could be large or small, elegant or utilitarian. Some wealthy homes would have a locked silver safe in the butler's pantry to keep the good silver in. Those types of homes probably had an actual butler that oversaw the pantry and it's contents. Some pantries just had open shelving, like this, or they might have glass doors. Some would have a dry sink, or perhaps counter space and a pass-through to a dining room, for food to be served from. People who were not wealthy often did not have a butler or stewards, but many 19th century homes, even middle class homes, had one or two domestic servants, often employed as kitchen help. Perhaps a cook and a scullery maid would make up the kitchen staff in an average home.</div>
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After we left the Crossroads Village, we arrived in the "German Area". Here we visited the Koepsell Farm, c.1880. Just outside the farmhouse, we could view their vegetable garden (and outhouse!). Typical of most 19th century farms, they also had an herb garden. A kitchen garden or herb garden was popular even for urban homes in the 19th century.<br />
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Surrounding the Koepsell farmhouse were some apple orchards, enclosed in these curious fences.<br />
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Inside the Koepsell farmhouse we viewed the family sitting room. Note the patterned <i>portieres</i> over the doorway at the right-hand wall, next to the desk. Portieres were commonly used in the 19th century over a doorless entry to a room, but were also sometimes placed in front of actual doors. They were often used merely as decoration, but sometimes they were used as a way to mitigate drafts as well. They also were a useful and attractive way to screen private rooms (such as bedrooms or family sitting rooms) from the view of public rooms ( rooms that were used for entertaining guests).</div>
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This bedroom demonstrates some of the typical furnishings that might be found in a 19th century bedroom. A bed with a feather mattress and small table with a chamber pot. A wardrobe, or clothes-press, for storing clothing. In the foreground you can see a basin and pitcher on a washstand.<br />
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The Koepsells had a number of boys and this was the bedrooms that the boys slept in. It also appears that laundry was done in this room, as evidenced by the drying rack and washboard in the foreground. Most people, when viewing 19th century beds, note that the beds appear to be very short and often wonder if people were shorter back then. This is not actually the case; beds were shorter because for most of the 19th century, people believed that it was healthier to sleep in an almost upright position. It was thought this was better for breathing and for the lungs.<br />
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Stepping into the kitchen of the farmhouse, once again I am struck by how different kitchens were then, as compared to how they look now. Most kitchens had no built-in cabinetry or long gleaming countertops like today. Free-standing tables and cabinets and shelves were used to store bowls and utensils used for prepping and cooking food. Clean towels were laid over prepared food or bread dough set out to rise to protect from flies and dirt, and cheesecloth, secured with twine or string, was tied snugly over the tops of large stoneware crocks that contained butter or lard.<br />
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Just opposite the big stove is a work table for preparing food. On the day we were visiting, the rhubarb in all the gardens was ready and in all the homes where 19th-century-costumed volunteers were working, they were all preparing rhubarb pie. Note the bucket underneath the work table with kindling sticks for the stove, and also a large enamelware coffee pot. Even though this is a farmhouse and is probably a little more rustic and plain, even in regular urban homes kitchens weren't much different than this. This farmhouse was built in 1880, only a few years before our house was built. I imagine that our kitchen might have looked similar to these here in Old World Wisconsin.<br />
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Just behind the farmhouse were a number of barns and buildings and sheds. Here we found two of the number of draft horses that live and work at Old World Wisconsin. These are Percherons; they are a very large, well-muscled French breed of draft horse, and are known for their intelligence and willingness to work. They are the most populous of draft breeds and were used extensively throughout the 19th century in both America and Europe. Popular with farmers, they were also extensively used in large cities to pull carriages, buses, stagecoaches, used in forestry, in circuses and railways. Originally bred to be war horses, they eventually began to be used in agriculture and hauling heavy loads and began to be imported to the U.S. in the 1850s, with the largest number imported in the 1870s and 1880s. My mother's father, who had a farm for many years, used Percherons on his farm as well, even into the 1960s.</div>
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Just down the road from the Koepsell farm, is the Schulz Farm. This farmhouse had a very lovely front garden (literally, a garden) with this fanciful fence made of branches.<br />
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The garden was laid out in this grid-like pattern, with square beds, which seems sort of like "square-foot gardening". It was a very warm, dry day, so one of the ladies of the Schulz house was out watering.<br />
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Adjacent to the Schulz farmhouse, a pair of oxen came over to the fence to take a look at us.<br />
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One of the oxen says hello to Erik. Like all the other farm animals at Old World Wisconsin, these oxen are a working team and are used for farming here.<br />
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Today they had a day off, as there was no plowing to do, I guess. It was a nice Sunday in the pasture, grazing on the new grass.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my little jaunt into Wisconsin in the 19th Century!!!<br />
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-48943964962189946832012-06-02T17:53:00.002-05:002012-06-02T17:53:17.859-05:00Going Back to the 19th Century at Old World Wisconsin<br />
Just recently, for Mother's Day, actually, I attended a Mother's Day brunch with my mother and sisters at a very special place.<br />
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It's an "outdoor history museum" called <b>Old World Wisconsin</b> (click <a href="http://oldworldwisconsin.wisconsinhistory.org/">HERE</a> to learn more.Click on<br />
the "Explore Old World Wisconsin" and then click on the Interactive Map for more pictures and info about the buildings), which depicts the life of 19th-century rural pioneers and immigrants, and includes 65 historical buildings, most of which are from areas in Wisconsin that were painstakingly dismantled, moved to the site and carefully rebuilt.<br />
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The historic structures include ethnic farmsteads, rural outbuildings, furnished homes and an 1870s crossroads village, complete with traditional, small-town necessities ( a church, blacksmith shop, carriage-maker shop, general store, boarding house/inn, cobbler's shop, town hall and one-room schoolhouse), all set in a beautiful prairie and woodland setting that looks very much like south-eastern Wisconsin would have looked to the early pioneers.<br />
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Costumed volunteers and artisans work and farm in the outdoor museum and there are many popular events, including Barn Dances, Vintage Base Ball weekend ( a base ball game played by the rules of 1860), Day Camp for children, interactive work shops and much more. It is also a very popular place for school Field Trips.<br />
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I visited Old World Wisconsin as a fourth-grader for a school field trip, back in 1979, which was three years after it opened in 1976, but that was the last time I had been there. Now, 33 years later, I made my second visit for a Mother's Day Brunch that was being held in the Clausing Barn. (below)<br />
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There used to be many large trees that shaded the area around the barn, but about three years ago a tornado came through the area and all of the big trees went down. Miraculously, none of the historic buildings were damaged, although many people's homes were destroyed nearby.<br />
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They had the inside beautifully set up with tables and a very delicious brunch buffet. Afterwards, we all bought tickets to tour the "museum".<br />
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One of the first areas to visit is the 1870s "Crossroads Village", and the Thomas general store, pictured below.</div>
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The Four Mile Inn is also in the village; a boardinghouse and inn.</div>
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In St. Peter's Church, some of the church ladies were having a "sale" of hand-crafted items to benefit the poor. One was kind enough to play a few hymns on the pump organ for us.<br />
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I had a special interest in taking pictures of the kitchens and pantries of the historic homes. This was the pantry in a house called Hafford House, which was a very small house. I am always trying to envision what kitchens looked like in the 19th century. I often have people ask what the kitchen in our house probably looked like when it was built in 1886. The houses in "Crossroads Village" are rural and from the 1870s period, but the way kitchens looked by the 1880s wasn't probably hugely different. People don't often understand that kitchens of the past were<i> nothing</i> like we know them today.<br />
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I also love to see the dishes and cookware! Everything in the village is authentic, or if it was rebuilt (like a woodworking bench that is used for workshops in another building or the fences) it has been built with materials and in the way that it would have been made in that time period....meaning, made by hand with hand tools of the time period.</div>
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This is the kitchen in another house that was called the Benson House. The building names are the actual names of the owners who originally built them and they all have a known history to go along with them. </div>
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This type of stove shown was the most common in use during most of the 19th century. They were mostly wood-burning stoves. Every spring they would be "blacked", using "stove blacking", which was a type of polish. Blacking the stove prevented corrosion and rust of the metal. </div>
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The Benson House sitting room has wallpapered walls, a desk, comfortable chairs, it's own stove for heat, a table by the window that was handy for serving refreshments for guests ( there is a lovely water tippler on the table) and decorative ingrain carpeting. Ingrain carpeting was the most popular carpeting in 19th century rooms until about the 1880s-1890s. To learn more about the types of carpeting and other decorative elements popular in the 19th century, click<a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2011/06/vintage-voice-re-creating-victorian.html"> HERE</a> to read a post I wrote about Victorian period decorating.</div>
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In an adjoining room you can glimpse a small parlor organ (also known as a pump organ or harmonium)</div>
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The stove in the center of the room was probably a coal burning stove. Our house once had them in every room that didn't have a fireplace, as evidenced by the flue holes that are still present, albeit covered over.<br />
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This is the Sanford House. The Sanford House is actually about c.1860s. The Sanfords were farmers but were quite successful and well-to-do and they had a large family that included six children, I believe.<br />
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Mr. Sanford's study and desk were quite impressive. Erik was quite taken with this desk and would love to have one like this in his Victorian gentleman's study!<br />
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This elegant piano was placed in a front room of the Sanford house.<br />
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Across from Sanford House is a historic barn, Loomer Barn, and many beautifully fenced fields. A rural village in 1870 would have looked very much like this, with great spaces of fields between the few houses and buildings that made up a tiny little village. There are farm animals at Old World Wisconsin; mostly oxen and horses of the breeds that farmers of the 19th century depended on for farm work. Just like everything else here, all the farming is done using authentic historic farm equipment and implements and traditional farming methods. You can even take a workshop to try your hand at it yourself if you want to experience, first-hand, how to perform domestic chores, such as clothes-washing, plowing, preparing meals and working in the fields!<br />
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-50304679792025629632012-05-30T22:14:00.002-05:002012-05-30T22:25:07.208-05:00Amazing Lace<br />
I just love lace.....or in this case, lacy trims!<br />
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These were some recent purchases; crocheted lace trimmed doilies.........<br />
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Ahhh.....so pretty. (<i>Can you see my reflection in the silver creamer? Ha ha....No matter where I stood, I was reflected...blue sweats and all!</i>)<br />
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This one I put on top of the piano in the hall........ Look at those gorgeous roses!<br />
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This one was extra tight and extra thick....it must have taken a hundred years to make!!!! (<i>Well, if it was me making it, maybe it would have!</i>)<br />
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I have never tried thread crochet. Years ago I bought a pattern book at a rummage sale that had some patterns for thread crochet; doilies, a tablecloth etc. I looked at the pattern instructions and thought my head was going to explode. The intricacy! The delicacy! I presume you have to keep your tension very tight when doing thread crochet; my tension is not so good because my hands get tired so fast.<br />
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Needless to say, I never made anything in the pattern book and I don't think I even own it anymore!<br />
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Oh well, when I can buy these beautiful vintage labors of love, made by much more patient people than I, and only have to pay less than $10 usually for these.....that is worth it!<br />
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Most people also remember that Memorial Day is for remembering; for remembering those who have served our country and also those who still do and honoring them and their sacrifices.<br />
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My father passed away only a couple of months ago and as a Marine who served in the Vietnam War, his stone at the cemetary will certainly get a flag, just like all the other veterans who have passed on.<br />
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But, he will also get a special honor from me, his oldest daughter, whom misses him so much<br />
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I made this special wreath to take to the cemetary this weekend to place where he rests.</div>
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-64474089177116689692012-05-21T08:30:00.000-05:002012-05-21T08:30:02.656-05:00A Landscape Plan<br />
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Like most people who own an older home (in our case, a home about 126 years old), there's <i>a lot</i> of work that often needs to be done. This goes double when the home has been neglected, for the most part, for many years and has had many, many owners (like ours) that did nothing with it.<br />
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One of the bigger projects that we want for the house is to give it new life with beautiful landscaping.<br />
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I often take pictures of my flower gardens for my blog, but I don't usually show anything other than the flower garden I'm featuring or small parts of the yard and shots of our big front porch. There is <b>quite</b> a bit that I leave out when I take pictures.<br />
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There is good reason for this.<br />
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The majority of our yard is terrible looking. Not in a weedy, unkempt way, but just a whole lot of nothing or a whole lot of ugly and old.<br />
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Our house sits on a small knoll; we live in one of the oldest sections of town and the land must have been quite hilly there. Many of the homes sit on a small rise above the street. Some have retaining walls, some have yards large enough where they have engineered the yard to slope softly down to the sidewalk and street.<br />
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Our lot is rectangular; it's longer than it is wide. This is a very common shape and size for the neighborhood we live in. Ours has a retaining wall that encircles more than half our lot. Because our house is on a corner of two intersecting streets, we have nearly 250 feet of retaining wall.<br />
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The retaining wall is very old; it's concrete. It looks like old Depression-Era WPA concrete. It probably is from about that time period, because that's when they widened the streets and put in sidewalks, and probably cut off the long, gently sloping yard into an abrupt hill that required a retaining wall.</div>
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We also have a smaller porch in the back, with a walkway and another set of steps. The walkway and steps were probably done at the same time as these, but don't look nearly as bad. In that walkway, the person who did the concrete pressed a penny into it when it was wet. I can't remember now the exact date on the penny but it was sometime in the late 1960s. </div>
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In the above photo, I was standing on the sidewalk by the back steps looking at our back yard. It is very evident the poor condition the concrete wall is in. There is also this perfectly hideous chain-link fence. I have nothing against chain-link fences, they have their uses and their purposes; but I did find it extraordinarily strange that someone would choose this type of fencing to encircle the entire back yard of the house and wouldn't plant anything around it to screen it's ugliness. The people we bought the house from had only lived in it for two years. They were the ones whom had put in this fence. They had a young child; presumably they wanted the yard fenced so the child could play in the yard without wandering into the street, however, I wonder why they would have chosen this type of fence. From what I understand, chain-link fencing is rather expensive or, at least, no more expensive than a wood privacy fence. A wood fence would have looked much more attractive, and also would have provided privacy. </div>
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They are going to be part of my "Before, During and After" posts regarding a VERY big and expensive project that we are finally in a position to do here at Le Beau Paon Victorien!</div>
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A NEW RETAINING WALL! </div>
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We chose a landscape company, after shopping around for the last two months, and have finally given them the "go ahead". It is a family-owned business and one of the sons is a landscape architect. Because we are doing such a large and expensive project with them, he offered to draw up a landscape design for the rest of the yard at no cost. Most of the time these kinds of services cost some money; I have heard of people paying $300-600 for a complete design.</div>
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He took pictures and measurements of our yard and then he and I looked through a stack of gardening magazines that I have been collecting for years ( and marking with sticky Post-It notes) to see what I liked and what I wanted to have in my yard and to get an idea of my style. </div>
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Above: My Stacks; kitchens on the left, gardens on the right.</div>
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We knew it would be really helpful to have a professional put everything together as far as the layout and what to do with "trouble spots". And, what's nice about it is that we can pick and choose what things we may want to have a professional landscaper do ( like a patio and pergola) and what things we may want to do ourselves. They can also lay out and prepare all the planting beds for me and then I can do all the plantings myself, using transplants from family and friends or whatever I like. We can also do areas in piecemeal, as we are able to afford it, but still have a cohesive design and know where to put what. </div>
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It's very exciting.</div>
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A couple of weeks later, our landscaper brought me this lovely design.</div>
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The big grey area in center is our house, the smaller grey square, upper left, is the garage. This is looking at our house from the side. The front is actually on the right.<br />
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Our landscape architect did some research on Victorian gardens, also and used elements that would reflect a Victorian style. He said he really had fun with it; he doesn't get to do many designs like this.
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This is a close up of the back yard. I love how he did a circle patio, with a half-circle pergola. He also made a potting area for me behind the garage! This design pretty much has all the elements that I want (including <b>two</b> gates with arbors over them! woohoo!!) and is really very much like I envisioned how I wanted the yard to look like.<br />
No chain-link fence! No overgrown weigela! No old concrete! A wood privacy fence with two gates! A rose arbor! Patio! Pergola! Lots of flower gardens! <br />
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Of course, we can't afford to do ALL of this right now, even though it would be nice to have them come in and do it all!<br />
And, we can change anything about this plan that we want; we are not <i>beholden to the Plan</i>, so to speak.<br />
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But, it's fun to dream, and to plan....and to see ideas from my head take form on paper!<br />
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For right now, the only part of the landscaping project that we are doing is the retaining wall and the front walkway and front steps because they are in such bad shape. When they demolition the concrete wall, they are also going to be taking the chain-link fence out.<br />
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Our landscaper guy is going to price out some of the other areas in the design for us also, just in case we save up enough money that we might be able to have them put in the planting beds in the front that are on the design or extend the ones that I already have in place, maybe yet this year, in the fall. We'll see!<br />
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The stone we chose for the wall is called saw-cut Lannon stone. It comes from a local quarry and takes about two weeks for the quarry to cut it. I think he said we needed 3 tons or something! Yikes!<br />
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I'll have more pictures as soon as the project is underway! Thanks for stopping by~<br />
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-13338423814720976692012-05-20T16:10:00.002-05:002012-05-23T21:28:17.513-05:00Everything's Coming Up Roses....Well, maybe not <i>everything</i>!<br />
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But, one of my climber roses is blooming profusely!<br />
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Because this climber rose was already here when we bought the house, we have no idea what kind it is, but from looking at pictures of other climbers, we suspect it might be a "William Baffin". </div>
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This climber was in sad shape when we first bought the house. I pruned it way back and it has grown very much in the last few years. I've been trying to tame it's unruly nature with difficulty. It has wicked-big thorns!<br />
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It usually doesn't bloom until June, but with the early spring, it too is starting much earlier this year. I normally will prune it after it blooms the first time and can usually get more blooms throughout the summer until fall.<br />
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A few days later and it's <i>exploded</i>.....................<br />
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In the "sun garden" by my back porch, my Asiatic lilies are blooming....I have red ones with orange in the middle! When I bought these lilies they were supposed to be all red ones, but I got an orange one by accident I guess.<br />
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My other climber rose has many buds on it, but hasn't bloomed yet. Here is a picture of it from last year:<br />
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I had to prune this one quite a bit also at the end of summer. This climber rose is also a "mystery rose". It has much smaller leaves than the other one and does not get rose hips like the other. The thorns are small, but very sharp. It has no discernible fragrance and judging by the massive base with multiple, thick canes, it has been here for a number of years.</div>
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The flowers on this climber are much smaller than the other and are very "full", with densely packed petals. When they first open, they are this pretty watermelon-pink color, but they seem to be a lighter pink color after they've been open for a few days. I have tried looking online for similar ones in an effort to learn the name of this climbing rose, but have not been successful yet. I think I might have to visit the library and look at some climbing rose books. This climber rose is even more vigorous than the other. </div>
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In the larger picture above, from 2011, you can see some of the trellis that we added the year before, in 2010,which added another six feet for the rose to climb on, but this rose has already covered all of that trellis and is now sending mains and laterals well past the trellis. </div>
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I think soon it will reach past our second-story bedroom windows. I think it means to take over the world!</div>
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This climber seems prone to get powdery mildew. Last year I had no issues, but this year, because of the early spring where we had warm days followed by very cool, damp nights, it has a bad case of it again. I've been spraying it with a fungicide, but I may not get as pretty of blooms this year.</div>
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<br />Katie@LeBeauPaonVictorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875430484358625924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846427411507336451.post-88212095611065933472012-05-18T12:33:00.000-05:002012-05-18T12:33:30.177-05:00Vintage Voice: A Favorite "Movie Kitchen", Part 2Last spring I did a post about one of my favorite "movie kitchens", click <a href="http://lebeaupaonvictorien.blogspot.com/2011/04/vintage-voice-my-favorite-vintage.html">HERE</a>. In the post I showed numerous screen shots from the 1989 movie, <i>Driving Miss Daisy</i>, which featured a house I have always adored, including the<b> very</b> vintage kitchen that I love.<br />
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At the time I had promised to do another post about another favorite "movie kitchen", from another beloved movie of mine, <i>Fried Green Tomatoes</i>. The 1991 movie is based on Fannie Flagg's popular 1987 novel,<i> Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</i>, and featured a well-known cast of actresses, including Mary-Louise Parker, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Mary Stuart Masterson and a young Chris O'Donnell. I loved the book and the movie also; it was a great story.<br />
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In the book and movie, The Whistle Stop Cafe, opened in the 1920s/1930s by characters Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, had all the lovely details of a bygone day that I adore and it has been one of my favorite "movie kitchens" ever since.<br />
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In this picture of the interior of the cafe, you can see the high celilings, the beautiful wood floors and the wooden clapboard walls. At the back wall, you can see a pass-through to the kitchen.<br />
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In the movie they did a great job "re-creating" Whistle Stop and the cafe. Later, this movie set cafe was actually turned into a real restaurant, and is located near Macon, GA. The inspiration for the Whistle Stop Cafe is actually the Irondale Cafe, located in Irondale, AL. a suburb of Birmingham, where Fannie Flagg grew up.<br />
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This is how it actually looks...............<br />
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It was difficult to find many pictures of the inside of the cafe and the kitchen.......<br />
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Here Ruth and Idgie are playing poker in the cafe. I love Ruth's apron over the back of her chair.<br />
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This is just before Ruth and Idgie have a big food fight in the kitchen. It's hot and Idgie is trying to learn to cook fried green tomatoes, but she burns them. What I loved about this kitchen was the big work table and the glass-fronted coolers in the wall behind it. I also spot many wonderful large crocks and bowls in this kitchen!<br />
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Right after the food fight, Grady comes in and gets chocolate frosting down his shirt after admonishing the girls for their silliness.<br />
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I wasn't able to find many screen shots of the interior of the cafe', so I tried to do a few screen shots from my TV myself....In the cafe kitchen, there are only a few glimpses of these fabulous wood cupboards behind Idgie in this scene.<br />
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In this scene below the camera was panning quickly, so it's a little blurry, but you can pick out all the fabulous tin advertising signs on the wall behind Idgie, and to the far left you can glimpse a wonderful tall coffee urn. One of the things I loved about the cafe were the clear glass cake pedestals with covers that you can see in the foreground, in which there are pies displayed. I have one that looks almost exactly like this one; the minute I saw these in the movie I had to have one for myself! Also slightly visible to the far right are the straw dispensers that were popular in diners for many years. </div>
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In this scene Sispey has set out plates of food on the pass- through from the kitchen while Idgie fills a cup of coffee from that fabulous urn. I love all the fans mounted on the walls!</div>
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I loved this scene in which Ruth and Idgie are getting the cafe set up for business. They are dressed in their "working clothes"; bib overalls rolled up to the knee, hair tied up in a scarf. It must have been fun to be a set decorator and stylist on this movie set!<br />
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In the earliest scenes of the movie, Ninny (Jessica Tandy) recounts "The Tale of Idgie" to Evelyn (Kathy Bates) and she talks about Leona Threadgoode's wedding, which took place after 'The Great War' (WWI). As she tells the story, we get to see the Threadgoode house.<br />
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After the church service, a reception at the Threadgoode house; I loved this scene of the refreshment table laid out with linens, silver and delicious goodies, including the wedding cake. All the ladies are dressed in lovely Edwardian fashions and hats. Here you can also see Sipsey (Cicely Tyson) on the left wearing a fabulous apron with red fruits on it. On the right, Mama Threadgoode (Lois Smith) wears a white fine lawn apron over her dress.<br />
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This is where we also meet Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker) for the first time. I adore her gorgeous summer hat and matching dress.<br />
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At the end of the movie, we get to see the Whistle Stop Cafe all closed up and abandoned. There were a great many old advertising signs, chippy and rusty and fabulous, on the front.<br />
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It was actually on April 27th, and it fell on a Friday this year, just like our wedding day. I put together a special table for dinner for two:<br />
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A chalkboard sign on table that reads "Happy Anniversary!" was a must. Behind it, a bottle of champagne chills in my silver wine bucket.<br />
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I brought out our peacock toasting glasses from the china cabinet. They are pewter and when placed together like this, they form a heart shape! We bought these after we got engaged and they were used at our wedding reception.<br />
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I set two places using my good Noritake china (pattern is<i> Knottinghill</i>), and vintage place mats with matching embroidered napkins. The silver plate flatware was an anniversary gift from Erik a few years ago.<br />
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This was the bouquet of flowers that Erik brought me, which had to be placed in the center of the table.<br />
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Part of our meal included chicken cordon bleu that I made in my crock pot. It was a recipe I found on Pinterest. It was quite yummy!!<br />
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For dessert I had picked up a box of dessert truffles from our favorite chocolatier shop.<br />
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Bubbly champagne! Delicious!<br />
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Erik's band had a show that Saturday night, so we decided to go to brunch on Sunday morning at our favorite restaurant, Lake Park Bistro. Located in Lake Park is also the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club.<br />
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Lake Park Bistro is part of Lake Park and sits on a little bluff. This is the front of the restaurant.<br />
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The back side of the restaurant overlooks Lake Drive and Lake Michigan.<br />
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I always have the cream of asparagus soup when we go here. It's the most delicious soup in the world!<br />
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I chose poached eggs Benedict on top of crab cakes for my entree.<br />
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Erik chose the regular eggs Benedict for his entree. Both came with potatoes <i>Dauphinoise</i>, which are delectable, creamy and absolutely delicious! I dream about these potatoes!<br />
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For dessert, Erik chose the <i>Gateaux Chocolat..........</i><br />
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While I had the <i>Gateaux D'Ange </i>with fresh berries.....<br />
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Erik made sure to make a reservation for us and asked for a window seat. They put this nice little sign on our table.<br />
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Our view from the window at our table; looking down the bluff to Lake Drive below.<br />
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My hubby....the sweetest man on Earth!<br />
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After we had brunch, we walked around the park a little.<br />
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Lake Drive and Lake Michigan in the background.</div>
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Lake Drive is also where all the old mansions are....and lots of newer mansions as well! This one is just one of many along Lake Drive. I love this house! I wish my house had a<i> port-cochere</i> like this one!<br />
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Yes, please! I'll take it!<br />
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Delicious detail!<br />
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Across the street.......<br />
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Side view...........<br />
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Can I have this beautiful terrace?<br />
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There are lots of houses along Lake Drive, both big and small. I loved this one's gorgeous flower gardens!<br />
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Recently I came across these tables in an antique store near my house...........<br />
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Aren't they just lovely??? As you can see, they are sitting in my parlour in this photo, so yes.....they have found a home here at Le Beau Paon Victorien! On April 27th, Erik and I celebrated our five year wedding anniversary. To mark our very first "special" anniversary, I wanted to buy him something special and I wanted it to be wood, since the traditional 5th anniversary gift is wood. These tables fit the bill perfectly.<br />
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Both the large table and the small table have rose marble tops. When I saw the pair, I knew I wanted both of them and didn't want to split them up. The price for both of them was a little out of my budget range, so I tried talking to someone at the store to see if the dealer would be willing to negotiate with me. At first they weren't helpful....the person at the store was a little bit short with me and I went away feeling annoyed, but not ready to give up. I kept stopping back in over the next few weeks and checking on them....finally this last weekend I lucked out! The antique store is moving and many of the vendors were having sales in their booths to try and move merchandise so they wouldn't have to haul it all to the new location, which is across town. This dealer was offering 20% off, but even at 20% off the price was still a little steep.<br />
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When I stopped in last week Friday I bought a vintage lace tablecloth for my dining room and then talked up the tables with the lady at the counter. It was a different woman than the one I had tried to talk to last time and this one was very willing to call the dealer to see what he'd take for the tables. Apparently there had been a lot of interest in them, but nobody was taking the bait. I dangled a price, I left my name and number. He must have thought about it for an hour or two, then decided he didn't want to have to lug them to the new place and that they'd have a good home with me ( I made sure to mention that we have a 1886 Queen Anne Victorian and that we are trying to recreate and decorate in the Victorian style and have a number of antique pieces), because he called me and let me have them for the price I wanted. Score!<br />
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In some past posts I have mentioned that our house has five bedrooms; one we use as an office, one is a guest room, one is our room and two others are unused. One of the larger unused rooms we plan on turning into a Victorian "man-cave" for Erik. He is very excited about the project, which we hope to do at some point in the next year if possible. In the meantime, we have been keeping our eyes peeled for things that we can put in his "Victorian gentleman's study". These tables I thought would be perfect for his room, which is where they will eventually go. The dealer told us they are probably late Victorian period, c.1890s-1900-ish. They came from a very large house on Lake Drive in Milwaukee which is where all the big old Victorian mansions are. They are "Chinese-Style" tables, made for the American Victorian market, which during the later part of the 19th century was obsessed with Turkish, Egyptian, Chinese and Japanese-style decor elements. Having a "Turkish Room" or a "Chinese Room" was all the rage at that time, or "all the crack", to use the popular slang of the time.</div>
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