flowers for the living room

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending most of my free time in the garden. Planting a few more climbing roses, starting a little vegetable patch, tending to my hydrangeas and enjoying the amazing bonus of always having fresh cut flowers at home.

Plus, I always have my favorite herbs on hand! They're scattered throughout the garden. Most of my favorite recipes include fresh herbs. They add such depth of flavor to food, and they're pretty nutritious too. One of my favorite dishes that combines plenty of tasty herbs is this recipe for French Onion Soup includes fresh sage, thyme and bay leaves from the garden.

The snapshot above of a corner of my living room captures the snowball viburnum I brought in from the backyard. I love how the flowers turn from soft lime green to creamy white. If only they had a longer blooming period! 

I’d love hear from you... 

How have you been spending your time this spring?   

What are your favorite flowers? 

What’s your favorite recipe to prepare at home? 

What do you miss the most about freely roaming this world? 

Just leave me a comment or let me know via email.

xoxo    fabiana 

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“I live vicariously through my own imagination.”  -- Lavinia Teagarden

a fall table set with pears

Happy Monday! 

Today, I'm sharing a little table I just set in our sun room. 

When I was a little girl, my cousins had two pear trees in their yard...  

I’ll never forget us all climbing on the roof of their garage to pick the biggest and juiciest pears in the world! 🍐  

This table is dedicated to my cousins Carly and Sandy who I love and miss so much. We’ve got to get together soon!  

And you know me, I love vintage goodies, and this table’s inspiration started not only with the pears, but with these darling placemats, which I would guess were made in the 1970’s.  

I also have a collection of these fruit plates that belonged to my mother in law, and I thought the apples and pear plates would work well here.  

At the center of the table we have PEARS instead of flowers! 🍐 

Sammie says "Hi!"

ciao! fabiana 

P.S.  Did you notice I switched out the glasses? 

I started with the light green for the overhead shots,

and switched out to the deeper green glasses

for shots of the whole room

which looked better with the artwork 

and fall leaves.

🍂🍃

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fall in the sun room

Happy Wednesday! I'm just here for a quick hello...  

and to share the latest of what’s going on here at my home this week. 

We recently cleaned out our sun room that sort of had become a dumping ground for extra "stuff", and of course I couldn't miss the opportunity to put my favorite little table in a corner of the room.  

More tablescaping options for sure, but this door leads out to the garden, so this week it's a staging area for the backyard.  

While I was at Roger’s Gardens on Sunday, I picked up these three gorgeous cabbage plants with purple veining, but it's been too hot to plant them in the ground, so here they are as part of a fall vignette.  

Chairs, tray and bar cart by Serena & Lily and most everything else is a flea market or thrift shop find. 

I hope you’re having a wonderful week.

I’ll be back soon with some more fun fall décor! 

ciao! fabiana