Inside and Outside

It`s Thanksgiving long weekend. Hurray....three days off :) Sunday I`m doing up a meal. A sort of Beef Provencale but not stew with tiny potatoes maybe broiled in olive oil and garlic. For desert, a rich chocolate torte with warm fudge sauce, raspberry puree and a scoop of Haagan Daaz coffee flavoured ice cream on the side. If you`ve never had Haagan Daaz ice cream, you`ve never tasted real ice cream. Made with all cream. The coffee and the Caramel Cone Explosion are totally out of this world! Expensive but worth it for a treat. I didn`t feel like doing the traditional turkey dinner and I can`t wait for that desert! I made the raspberry puree a few minutes ago and stuck in in the fridge.
I ended up putting my old kitchen sheers back up because the other were too dark a beige for the fabric and making curtains that went with the two blue side chairs. What do you think? I like it :) Would prefer less dense sheers but I`m using what I already have.

The chicken picture went above the sink.

Put an old lace runner on the table....

Had to make cushions to accomodate Teddy and all his fur he leaves behind. Easier to keep clean rather than spoiling the chair.

And you remember this guy.....

Recovered this in scrap fabric and it`s where the pull out bed couch used to be. Those two tiny pillows were $1 at Value Village, a huge used goods store ..

Look at all these leaves. I really need to sweep them up. That book is called " The Sisters Mortland" by Sally Beauman. Really well written and I`m almost finished it. She`s a good writer and I`ve read a couple of others. Got carried away at the library and I`m glad I`m able to re-new books online from there...

The roses don`t have anything on them at the moment but they are getting tall. Next year I`ll train that one to go above and across the door. Then I`ll have "Roses Round My Door" :) That was a good book too. Sweet and thought provoking. By a Welsh lady who`s name I would have to go and dig up. And I`m not at the moment because I`m taking forever to post this due to leaving it and coming back....multi-tasking you could say LOL

Some of these pictures click bigger and this one does below. The Delphiniums died out and now seem to have resurrected themselves in this balmy October weather...

The herbs are still looking fairly good. The purple basil is slowed to a halt though. I sooooo want to have these pots in the kitchen. Whwn I can`t leave them out any longer, I`m going to haul them in. I know they won`t live in here, but I`m going to try anyway....

Hope everyone has a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it.
** On a side note if anyone had any fancy recipes that they`d like to share, my hubby`s http://www.ratebistros.com has a spot in the forum part. And I`d like to say thanks Sara at http://www.farmingfriends.com/!!! She added a Roast Guinea Fowl recipe. You can also add and link your blog or web page url :)