My Favourite Things

 

 

After a brief wobble and wallow in my regular programming I am back with my favourite things. Maybe some of them are yours too. 

 

 

 

Roast Chicken.  I took myself out of the house yesterday and went to the grocery store.  I picked up a beautiful free range, organic cornfed chicken (not the one in the photo) that I am going to roast today. I had a £10 voucher for the grocery store and I used all of it on this chicken.  It looks beautiful, all yellow and gorgeous.  I am really looking forward to eating it, and making some fab soup and whatever with the leftovers. I think roast chicken is one of my very most favourite things. 

 

 

 

Victorian Houses.  I wouldn't want to live in one (far too much work to keep clean) but I sure love looking at them!  There are a few in the town I am from, with tall round turrets and loads of gingerbread trim.  I think they are quite beautiful. 

 

  

 

I love a red front door.  The house we built in New Brunswick had a red door.  I painted it myself.  I loved that house and I loved that door.  I can't remember what colour my front door is here.  Be right back.  Bummer.  It's black.  That's probably why I couldn't remember. You never forget a red door.

 

 

Flannel sheets when the weather starts to get colder.  They are like a warm hug.  I used to have sheets just like this when we had our big double bed.  I will have to look for some single sets.  I love this candy stripe pattern. (You often see it on CTMW) They have a very vintage look about them.

 

 

Vintage, Chenille, Candlewick bedspreads.  My sister and I had one on our beds the whole time we were growing up.  I believe they were gold in colour.  They were just plain, not near as lovely as these ones are.   Wish I could get one for those prices now! 

 

  

 

All things Barbie.  I have always loved Barbie.  She could and does do anything!  Of course she has a perfectly unatainable body, but who cares. She's beautiful and smart and has the best clothes.  I am totally fascinated with these newer ones.  I think they are called Silkstone Barbies and they are for the collecter.  Very expensive . . .  but then again I adore Blythe Dolls also. 

 

 

 I have never seen a Blythe doll I didn't fall in love with.  

 

 

 

Mac and Cheese.  I love the baked version, but I really love the stove top version.  I use my sister's recipe which you can find here.  My sister has always been a great cook. 

 

 

Mexican food.  I totally adore Mexican food.  Its typically difficult to find a lot of the ingredients over here, but I make do as much as I can.  Nothing beats homemade Tex Mex.  Although I did used to love going to a restaurant called Chi Chi's.  Not sure how authentic it was, but it sure was tasty! 

 

  

 

Vintage 1950/60's melmac dinnerware.  My mom has a lovely set in browns and whites.  I can remember the day she got them. We had all gone into Winnipeg with my dad and he had to meet some guy in some shop that he was doing business with and we sat waiting in the car for a very long time.  The guy he had the meeting with came out to the car and as an apology for making us wait so long gave my mother this melmac dinner set.  She used to use it on special occasions. 

 

 

 

She also has glasses like this that I love, saved from buying mustard. I think we must have eaten a lot of mustard! 

 

  

 

I love painted glasses anyways.  Painted jugs.  Painted glassware.  I guess I just love 1950's vintage. 

 

 

 

I love the fashions . . . 

 

  

 

The hats  . . . 

 

 

The Dinette Sets . . . 

 

 

I guess I just love the 1950's!

 

  

 

I love classical violin . . .  I could listen to it for hours  . . . 

 

 

And piano music  . . .  I always wanted to learn how to play.  We have never had a piano.  I used to envy my friends who were taking piano lessons when I was a child.  I would have done just about anything to be able to learn myself.  When we lived at the Manor there was an old piano in one of the back rooms of our cottage that I was teaching myself on, but alas . . . it wasn't ours and when we moved back here to Chester that all stopped.  Maybe when I get to heaven, if I get to heaven, I can learn now to play the piano there.

 

or the violin.

 

  

 

I just love music.  Always have

and aways will.

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *.˛.°When you talk you are only repeating 

what you already know,

but if you listen, you may

learn something  new.

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Spiritual Enlightenment 

 

 

 

In The English Kitchen today . . .  Deep, Dark & Delicious Chocolate Cake. So tasty!

 

Have a great Thursday.  Don't forget along the way of your day  . . . 

 

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And I do too!