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Showing posts with label My Petite Maison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Petite Maison. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Martha from MJ Ornaments


A few months back I was the lucky winner of a sweet crystal charm from Martha from MJ Ornaments. I was so surprised as I had just won 2 other prizes from her good friend Rosemary and Tracie. Aren't bloggers great? They must have thought wow what's up with this girl??
Isn't she a little piggy winning everything. I'm sure they didn't really think this ......but I did feel a little guilty. I never win anything normally......I've never had that kind of luck.

Anyways with all the things going on and doing White Wednesday and Black and White Sundays I couldn't seem to find the right time to show it to you.
Until now!!!
I've been leaving it displayed at home on an old bottle and wanted to show it to you in the way I get to enjoy everyday even when I'm not wearing it.



This is the back of it made from copies of her great grandmothers journals. Just as pretty as the front.







I took the liberty to show you some of her other charms. She offers a slew of different designs, shapes, seasonal and everyday.






Can you believe how tiny this little fairy is??? so adorable
Not sure if "Magical" fairy dust is included? Doesn't hurt to ask!!!




Right now she's doing a ton of really fun Halloween charms but with Christmas fast approaching she has many Christmas themes too.



Martha has one of the prettiest blogs around with the most exquisite images I've ever seen as you can witness from the pictures above. The detail and magic is there to drool over.
What's also fun about her blog is that she takes you thru some of the best places Southern California has to offer.

Even if you were not into charms (but who doesn't like charms????) you would still be completely enchanted with her and the creativity she shares with everyone.

If you want to take a look at her website click

HERE
Thank you Martha
your beautiful inside and out!

Friday, August 7, 2009

Tomato Time

Quite some time ago I won a give away. This one from the lovely Tracie of My Petite Maison. I wanted to share it with you all right away but soon after Tracie took a well deserved blog break and I wanted to wait til she got back to show you all the things that were in the parcel I received. The gift was an heirloom tomato recipe book but so much more.


A classical music CD~ love classical music and knowing Tracie she probably looked at my profile and saw that. A jar of french sel gris (gray salt) with the most adorable wooden spoon to scoop it with. How did she know I love salt. I haven't bought Morton type salt in ages......well since I realized it wasn't really salt at all.

Organic golden peach tea (again always look for organic when I can).
I'm much more a tea drinker than coffee drinker.
Shea butter lip balm from Pre de Provence which I immediately tried on. Bit of a lip balm addict I'm afraid. I lick my lips all the time when I'm stressed and get horrible chapped lips. Tracie and I laughed about our little "addiction" to lip balm. We never go anywhere without it.

This book is so much better than I even imaged. It's got the most beautiful pictures and recipes and even history of the Tomato.
I knew that when they were brought to North America they were thought to be poisonous but I never knew why. They are in the Solanaceae family which also includes petunias,peppers,eggplant and potatoes as kissing kin. The deadly Nightshade is also in this family hence why they were thought dangerous to eat.



It wasn't until the 1820's that they made their way into the cookbooks and at last on to becoming a staple of American cuisine.
These are but some of the wonderful pictures in the book. Recipes I know I will make over and over again.
~Fried green tomatoes
with arugula pesto and cherry tomato relish
~Tomato Bisque Soup
~ Tomato Avocado Salad
with garlic toast and chevre cream
just to name a couple.
Finally it's August and we have TOMATOES!!! We grew a lot of heirlooms this year. Too numerous to mention. I'd would love to know which tomatoes are your favorites to grow and why and if you grew any heirlooms.
This morning while I was taken a picture of some of our these red, plump, juicy fruit and other veggies I was preparing our lunch.
***Chicken stir fry with vegetables and couscous. ***Yummy !!!
No not really..... it's Tofu with peppers, tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic and couscous just "sans le poulet." Just add lots of parsley and basil and you'll never miss it. I of course added my sel gris from Tracie and Voila
perfect lunch for two.
What did you have for Lunch?????
Thanks again Tracie for everything....
you spoiled me rotten but I love it!
xo
Carole