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A French-Inspired Garden and Home by Judith Stringham
Showing posts with label presents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presents. Show all posts

French Country Blue Christmas Presents

Monday, December 16, 2019


Blue gift-wrapped presents sit in a French country white pedestal urn at the end of the stone fireplace in my country home. Presents do not have to sit under the tree awaiting Christmas Day to be opened. No, presents can sit in a beautiful white urn with garland decor and be part of your holiday decorations. 


French country blue Christmas presents displayed in a white pedestal urn
Blue and white Christmas decor includes gift-wrapped packages on display. Using gift wrap paper and bags is an easy, inexpensive way to add a splash of your favorite color to your Christmas decor. 

Collect over years, and save to re-use time and time again. My family all know to save their wrappings and hand them back to me if they don't want to keep them.  A little eye rolling on occasion, but good-naturedly. 

Or, gift the presents without saving the wrappings, and collect different colored bags and paper for next year's Christmas decorations. This is an easy way to change your whole color scheme for Christmas from one year to the next. 

Exquisite Birthday Party

Monday, April 22, 2013

An exquisite 
Birthday Party
Pour moi
(for me)
given by my sister!

My creative, generous, talented, loving sister
gave me a belated birthday luncheon on Easter Sunday.
She went all out...

Cake
This special, just-for-me cupcake was chocolate with strawberry jam inside. 
Yum!
The fresh mint and blue muscari flower made my heart sing.




Fresh flowers

Perfectly color coordinated with the cake, presents, dishes...



Place cards with menu


Gourmet food
Appetizer course

Too beautiful to eat, but we did!

The other courses were delicious, also.
Beef bourgignon, green beans, rosemary roasted potatoes
Spring salad with goat's cheese and pears
Chocolate cake with strawberry sorbet served in chocolate wafer shells


Presents
A shadowbox was a present, filled with other presents...
Love those straws!

Each gift was wrapped in such a special way.

Specialty chocolate Easter eggs...

A gorgeous shopping bag tied with a peach ribbon...

Such an exquisite bird on scrapbook paper...
My sister knows me...paper is one of my passions...

Exquisite wrapping paper with an elegant sealed wax fleur de lis...

Fleur de lis sealed feather and ribbons adorn a beautiful package.

Such an elegant party with good friends...
A belated birthday celebration to recall forever...

Sisters by chance,
Friends by choice
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Sweet Magnolias Farm has a great Give-Away in progress until
April 27, 2013.
In honor of Ball canning jars' 100th anniversary,
Sweet Magnolias Farm is giving away 
6 sets of 6 commemorative canning jars.

Christmas Memories 2012

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Christmas reflections...
Now that the hustle and bustle are over,
I can slow down to reflect and to enjoy quietly 
~
Christmas 
~
before moving into the new year.

Santa on the mantle looks up
with a wondering gaze upon his face,
filled with hope and anticipation.


A reindeer also with an uplifted head and antlers...
Another symbol of hope...

Starry votives nestled among white magnolias in dazzling sunlight...



An empty silver coffee server brightly reminds of friends and family
who shared meals, games, and companionship...

More stars as reminders of the 
*  radiant star  *
that led wise men to a lowly manger
that contained the 
hope of the world...

Packages and presents lovingly wrapped for loved ones...


Antique Christmas cards on the coffee table
express Christmas greetings in timeless words and scenes...




Christmas is the 
milestone which
marks the names and 
nearness of friends.
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Wishing you 
memories of a joyous Christmas
and 
hope of a more joyous new year!

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