A Valentine Tea Party 2016

My friend Tracy hosted a lovely Valentine Tea party yesterday. Every detail was attended to with such loving care.

The tables were beautifully set

Each guests received a bejeweled frame as their Valentine present

Our hostess with the mostest Tracy with her mother Sue

 "New friends, old friends near and 
far,
Cherish good times wherever we
are.
Let us take time to chat and sip
As wes hare the joys of this life's
trip."

Each dish was home made and presented so beautifully.

 Cucumber sandwiches

 Gaspacho

 Buttermilk Panna Cotta

Thank you Tracy for such a loving beautiful Valentine gift to all your family and friends. 

 Happy Valentine's Day to you!

Serving Beauty

"Art always
serves beauty." - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

 "Granada" 1953 Helen Frankelthaler


"What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?"
-Helen Frankelthaler

Bling Makes Everything Better

 
“What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.” -Jasinda Wilder, Big Girls Do It Better