Janette Mallory’s Holiday Giveaway!!!

Hi there!

Check out my friend

Janette Mallory’s Holiday Giveaway!

Dear Santa,

I want another pair of these

Aidan Gray Candlesticks!

Hosted by the wonderful

Morning T 

Have a great day!

Always,

Our Thanksgiving

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful safe Thanksgiving filled

with love, family and friends!

Here is a simple table setting.

In a big Italian family

you may set a setting for eight (two went on the end),

then you never know.

At the last minute double arrive!

I used orange tulips and just gathered vintage French jugs in

different sizes. I used my white Vietri Italian dishware!

Its my favorite!

It was simple and quick!

I took images as I could, people were hungry and

ready to visit.

I started cooking at 8 a.m. and did not finish until

4 p,m. Everyone arrived at 3.

Here are a couple of sides and a 22 pound bird but,

I couldn’t take all of them

my family was hungry and so was I. Lol..

We have a traditional secret family stuffing we always

have every year.  I use Martha Stewarts method,

using cheese cloth to cover the bird and baste with butter

every hour. I have used other methods before but, find this

is the best way!!! This bird came out perfect!

I made extra, extra stuffing and everyone had leftovers

to take home!

Simple carrot salad, cook carrots until tender,

toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, dash of vinegar,

parsley and chill.

Corn with melted butter, salt and pepper!

Simple and sooo good!

Green beans with bacon! Need I say more!

We also had mashed potatoes but…..

And just because… my sweet hubby bought me flowers!

He is so awesome and loving!

I couldn’t ask for a better man!

Ok, all this talk about food has gotten me hungry. Must be

the baby. I need to get me some more stuffing. Lol, and

suit up for Black Friday!!!

Off to shop for Christmas now!

Be back soon.

Have a beautiful day!

Always,

Dorothea Lange & Giving Thanks

Dorothea Lange

Photographer, 1895-1965

This time period reminds me of why we should give THANKS!!!

 

Look at her camera!

This is one of my favorite images she created,

of the families working in the fields in the great depression!

“This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?”
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. She studied photography at Columbia University and worked at a New York portrait studio until 1918 when she began to travel. Stranded in San Francisco, she continued studio work during the 1920’s. With her husband, the painter Maynard Dixon, she traveled the southwest, photographing Native Americans. She believed that the camera could teach people ”how to see without a camera.”

The social upheaval brought on by the Great Depression led Lange to take her camera into the streets where she documented the sufferings of the dispossessed, in breadlines and labor strikes, in the wrenching drama of endless waiting. In 1935 with her second husband, Paul Schuster Taylor, a labor economist, Lange was employed by the California and Federal Resettlement Administration (Later the Farm Security Administration) to record the Dust Bowl exodus when drought and hard times forced thousands of farm families to move west in search of work. Her most familiar image, “Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1936,” now in the Library of Congress collection, derives from this assignment. Of her work during this era Lange said: “The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, ’how did you do it, where did you find it, ‘ but they would say that such things could be.”
During World War II Dorothea Lange documented the internment of Japanese-Americans in camps and then turned her lens on women and members of minority groups at work side by side in California shipyards. Following the war, she covered the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco. The first woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (which she was unable to complete because of illness), Lange traveled widely during the 1950’s and 1960’s. She visited Vietnam, Ireland, Pakistan and India, doing many photographic essays for Life magazine.
Dorothea Lange’s work reflects insight, compassion and profound empathy for her subjects. Her photographs are reproduced in books and housed in museum collections, most numerously in the Oakland Museum of California. Although she did not consider herself to be an artist, she said of her work: “To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable…But I have only touched it, just touched it.”

We are still in history of photography in school and it is my favorite.

In these times, photographers where hired to document what was going on.

I wanted to leave you with a bit of history of one of my favorite photographers.

I am busy with the fixings of Thanksgiving and will be back with photos soon.

I want to share some of my Christmas decor after Thanksgiving. I don’t want to rush through it,

I want to give thanks for my life and everything in it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Be back soon

Always,

Getting Ready for Christmas & 805 living…

I love Thanksgiving and the

stuffing is my favorite part of the whole

lovely meal!  Being pregnant, I am

already craving it! I am going to make extra, extra!

Each year I make the turkey, stuffing,

carrot salad, green beans, pumpkin soup and

much more… I will take lots of pictures, yummy!

Did you see one of my Thanksgiving tablescapes here?

Christmas is my favorite now! Especially, now that Dustin is

2 and half he is really beginning to understand Christmas!

I love this 

vintage German grain sack Christmas tree from A Beautiful Mess.

Kimberly Fraser and I  styled and photographed this image

for 805 Living Christmas Edition.

Although I have done work for this magazine before,

this is my favorite image!

Email Kymberly if you would like one, they are going fast!

Threefinegrains@yahoo.com

This image has really got me in the Christmas mood, and

I have begun my own decorating!

Each year they do a local Christmas tree lighting ceremony,

and it’s tonight! But, only in hopes that it does not rain. They

go all out for it and I hope it happens tonight so Dustin

can see it and I can take some pictures. It’s

pretty cold out and I love it!

Be a back soon!

Always,

Sewing 101 & some exciting news…

Hi friend’s!

Hopefully you have been reading my blog and

you know I love school! I am The Forever Student.

I  will be continuing my education next spring with photography. I am

almost done with beginning photography and will be heading into intermediate!

My final project will consist of 10 photo’s in which it will need to tell a story.

I will share it with you when I am done.

Well, to get something new under my belt my sister and I

decided to take a sewing class! We have

never laughed so hard! My sides still hurt!

Bobbin winder and case, presser foot feed dog (what)

upper tension control, thread take-up lever,

extension table, reverse sewing button, needle plate, thread guide,

whewww, just to name a few. There is a lot to remember. Practice, practice!

I love having my sister as my best friend, we are super close.

My wonderful husband is my biggest support…he supports and encourages

me to do and follow all my dreams and passions! So, when he surprised me with this

Singer beginner sewing machine and kit

I just about screamed with excitement!!!

That’s why I love him so much!

He knows me like know one else!

My new love! Sewing! I want to sew and try and make everything now!

Pillows, duvets, baby booties you name it I going to try and make it.

Yes, my personal exciting news is we are now expecting our second child!

I am on cloud 9! I am so grateful and happy! Blessed

1000 times!!!

I am so picky with fabrics but,

now I can do whatever I want…off to search for

amazing fabrics!

Be back soon

Always,

An amazing photographer & blog!!

I needed to share my friend

Betty Jo’s photography with you!

She is so talented and has the most amazing eye for

creating stunning images!

Check it out for yourself!

Betty Jo’s View!

 

I have never seen images like these, and the way she uses

textures and photo shop is hand down the best!

 

 

 

 

Have a blessed day!

Always,

My Favorite Shabby Images

 

Hi friends!

I wanted to some of my

favorite images for Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic Couture!

Check out Shabby Chic Couture gorgeous bedding!

Stunning!!

I want it all!!!

(Images for bedding line by me)

Have a great weekend!

Always,

A simple fall table setting & the winner!!!

Hi ALL!!

I have been busy with many, many projects!

Here is one of my fall-thanksgiving table settings

that I used as a back drop for the Aiden Gray giveaway announcement.

I found this vintage cornucopia at a flea market.

I used antique blue and white

transfer ware as dinner plates, with vintage ironstone dishes

as the chargers,  and

old, creamy, white forks and knives. My favorite.

I found these gorgeous vintage burlap

place mats at A Beautiful Mess product of

3 Fine Grains! Did you know Kymberly has a blog too???

Email Abeautifulmess@yahoo.com if you would like some!!!

I love to use natural elements when I decorate! I adore these peacock feathers

and the blue color.

I am itching for new ideas to decorate and trying to think outside

the box!

 

 

I removed the top part

of my hutch and turned into a

buffet! I love it!

More on that later!

And now the for the

winner of the Janette Mallory Interior Design Blogspot

Aiden Gray giveaway!

Thank you to all of those who entered!

Thank you Janette for such a wonderful gift!

Drum roll please…

Congratulations to Morning T!!!!

You are the winner of the fabulous Aiden Gray candlestick giveaway!

Please email me your information!!!

I have so much coming up and feel so much better now,

thank you for all your emails and well wishes!

Stay tuned!!

Have a beautiful day!

Always,