Love Day at Evi’s

One of my favorite days of the Winter Season is the day I come to Evi’s house

to celebrate Valentines Day with my favorite gal pals.

I always look forward to seeing how she's decorated the table.

Paula and I arrived a little late.

We got talking in the car and missed the turn.

Not a big deal but I didn’t have the time to take many photos of the house….

but we all took the time to smell the roses!

and there are still a lot of photos

The perfect shade of blush pink.

The table set with sweet gifts for all of us.

The last time I was here the living room was decked out for Christmas and

now it was ready for Spring.

Evi changes out the pillow on the sofa’s often and are now a soft sage green floral.

Oh yeah, also the curtains are different.

(I just noticed that)

She switches them out with these red and white ones edged with pompoms.

She kept the birch planters on the mantel but

added the green pompom branches.

Aren't they cool?

Bunnies are one of Evi’s favorites.

I have a soft spot for them too.

It’s good to be Queen

and we are the queenettes.

ok maybe Ladies in Waiting.

You may ask what are we waiting for???

Soup of course.

One of my most favorite soups….Cream Leek and Potato,

and Evi doesn’t wimp out on the cream…..she uses the good stuff.

I can diet later.

We then had a wonderful salad with heart of palm

which I dug right into and forgot to photograph.

But I didn’t forget to take a picture of these shrimp kabobs with

papaya, pineapple and zucchini. It was complimented with Jasmine rice and roasted vegetables.

It made a beautifully colorful plate and most importantly

DELICIOUS.

Evi had wanted to try a torte from a

recipe book of famous German chefs given by her niece.

Multi layered cake filled with cherries and edged

 in roasted almonds.

We all went nuts over it.

We all took some dessert home.

George ate it all the next day after he’d already

 eaten breakfast.

Left me a morsel!

said he was helping me diet!

thanks

We were also treated with heart shaped chocolate cakes

with fresh raspberries.

Fantastic

Little chocolate mice made with hersey kisses and fresh cherries.

So clever.

Then the presents came out!

Woo hoo

Evi decoupaged these cute boxes with script paper and filled them

with Toblerone candies.

and beautifully wrapped sweet little notepads.

Laura gave us all a wonderful gift bag with a tin bird and covered

egg cup holder from Pottery Barn.

Don’t you just love Pottery Barn?

Love soft boiled eggs!

Debbie gave us a very needed self therapy notepad

and homemade pink meringues.

I ate them all by the next day : )

is that bad?

George never saw them.

Paula gave us an adorably decorated

tin pot of paperwhites

and hand stitched paper heart tied with ribbon and filled with

homemade caramels from Gather in Ivoryton 

and antique crystals.

So clever!

I hadn’t taken any photos of what I had made for Evi

 until I was there.

It was a kit from Cathy Pendleton.

I’ll share more about it on another post.

Hope you all had as good a Valentines Day as all us girls did.

I feel so lucky to have such good friends in my life.

My only wish is that we could see each other more often.

Don’t worry we all went home to our

Sweeties that night !!!

Hugs

Carole