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Angelina November 22, 2016 Uncategorized

Holiday Gift Guide for the Glamorous Girl for Every Budget

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I am back once again with my annual gift guide! Since Black Friday is at the end of this week, I know all of us are going to be out shopping.

I rounded up a few of my favorite picks for the glamorous girl.

And, even if you don’t see yourself as “glamorous”, we gals all have a bit a glamour inside of us, so there is something here for everyone. I also picked out favorites in all price ranges.

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Handbags

1 \ Longchamp Le Pliage Shoulder Tote Bag – I have one of these and I *love* it.

2 \ Tory Burch shoulder bag – this is a perfect bag for everyday

3 \ Chloe Bag – beautiful “splurge” bag

4 \ French Wallet – Is this not the cutest wallet ever?

Beauty and Fragrance

5 \ Diptyque Perfume – If you love the Baies candle, this is the perfume version of it!

6 \ L’Occitane Hand Cream – This is seriously the best hand cream ever made.

7 \ Flowerbomb Perfume – the bottle is super cute and I love the fragrance. I own this, but they have a special holiday bottle!

8 \ Essie Sparkle Nail Polish – Add some sparkle to your nails! Great stocking stuffer.

9 \ Mac Makeup Brush Set – a nice brush set for makeup is always a nice gift.

10 \ Honey Bath Set – For those that love bubble baths this honey bath set is perfect.

11 \ Clarisonic Mia Travel – The Clarisonic is on my gift guide list year after year for a reason: it is SO NICE for your face. My skin has never been better since I’ve started using this 5 years ago. They have come out one that is small enough for travel. I cannot sing enough praise about the clarisonic.

12 \ Jo Malone Perfume – Although recently I’ve been only buying Diptqyue perfumes, I still love Jo Malone and especially the orange blossom scent.

Shoes and Accessories

13 \ Silver sparkle smoking slipper – super cute smoking slipper and it is a great price!

14 \ Floral Nike Sneakers These floral Nike sneakers are perfect for running errands and they so super cute. They are going to sell out.

15 \ Colorful Kate Spade Watch – Love this colorful watch – this is a perfect gift for a teenager if you are struggling to pick out something for that age group!

16 \ Alex and Ani “Prints of Love” charm bangle – This company makes tons of different charm bracelets at ar reasonable price. You can mix and match them. This one is the one for pet lovers.

17 \ Check scarf – super cute budget friendly check scarf!

18 \ Ralph Lauren Tartan Scarf – Ralph Lauren always has the prettiest tartans and this scarf is no exception.

19 \ Tory Burch Sandals – These are my favorite sandals and are extremely popular!

20 \ Colorful Socks – These heart socks are super cute and are perfect stocking stuffers.

21 \ Tory Burch Faux Pearl Earrings – These earrings are super chic.

22 \ Burberry Scarf – Every fashionista should own a Burberry scarf.

23 \ Michele Deco Watch – This watch is a splurge but it is so pretty. I love the mother of pearl and mixed metals. The watch bands are interchangeable so you can choose from many different types!

24 \ Louboutin Ombre Heels – These pumps are beautiful. What else is there to say?

25 \ Ugg Bling Bailey Boots – I have the non-bling version of these and I LOVE them. I never thought I’d wear Ugg boots, but they are so comfy! I wear them around the house in Winter!

26 \ Dior So Real Sunglasses – These are the most fashionable sunglasses out right now and are for the super fashionista.

For the Home

27 \ Diptyque Baies Candle – this is a splurge candle but it is the most beautiful scent. This is my absolute favorite Diptyque candle. It smells of roses and blackcurrant leaves.

28 \ Pineapple Pencil Holder – Cute pencil holder that looks like a pineapple!

29 \ Glass Display Box – perfect to display your jewelry and a good deal!

30 \ Mackenzie Childs Courtly Check Teapot – Super stylish on the stove – I own this.

31 \ Bon Voyage 2017 Calendar – Super cute 2017 Calendar!

32 \ Juliska Berry and Thread – beautiful blue dinnerware! Love the ruffled edged teacup!

33 \ The Magnolia Story Book – The story of Chip & Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper fame.

34 \ Pendleton Wool Throw – I am obsessed with blankets and Pendleton makes my favorite wool blankets and throws.

35 \ Polka dot Stapler – Super cute stapler for your desk!

36 \ Selfie Button and Key Finder – Perfect for the selfie-obsessed and those who lose their keys!

37 \ Portable Battery Pack for your Phone – This is cute travel battery pack – perfect for on the go, traveling, or for those who suck the battery life!

38 \ Notecards for Every Occasion – I thought this was so clever – a pack of notecards ready for every occasion… birthdays, thank you, get well soon…

Clothing

39 \ Beautiful Blue Wool Coat – This wool coat is beautiful in such a pretty blue.

40 \ Pretty in Pink Panel Duster Coat – This coat is a great deal and is in a pretty pink.

41 \ Lace Bow Tie Shirt – This lace bow tie shirt is hitting all of the current trends!

42 \ Sparkling Silver Tunic Top – What’s not to like about a Tory Burch Tunic?

43 \ Cashmere Black Sweater – Everyone always can use a black cashmere sweater. This one is a great bargain and I have it in several colors.

44 \ Blush Silk Kimono – Feel extra glam at night wearing this pretty silk kimono.

45 \ Barefoot Dreams Robe – This is my *favorite* robe ever. It is so warm and soft.

46 \ Ralph Lauren Knit Pajama Set – I love Ralph Lauren PJs. They are classic and comfy.

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Angelina November 20, 2016 entertaining

How to Get Your Coffee Bar Ready for the Holidays

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I thought I would share with you today on how to get your coffee bar ready for the Holidays! Now, the coffee bar doesn’t serve just coffee. It serves up tea and hot chocolate too! There is something to please every guest here!

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Clean it Up

The first thing you need to do to prepare your coffee bar for the holidays is to clean it up! Clean your coffee machine, clean your counters, add your Christmas cheer!

Provide a Variety of Teas, Coffees, and Hot Chocolate!

The next thing to do is to stock up on everything!

First, I have a selection of various teas, including Christmas themed teas. I love Tea Forte and they make the cutest tea bags, but really any selection of teas will work.

Second, I have a selection of hot chocolates – a peppermint hot chocolate and a regular milk hot chocolate.

Third, I have a selection of various coffee flavors, both decaf and regular. We use Nespresso at home as our preferred coffee and we love it. (Side note – used to have a Keurig, it broke, we switched to nepresso and have been in love with it for 4 years. We just got this new machine which steams the milk and we love it. Like seriously – no more Starbucks).

Add a Variety of “Mix-Ins”

We have several different coffee syrups (caramel, sugar-free vanilla, and white chocolate).

We have different types of honey and marshmallows. We also have cinnamon sticks, granulated sugar, Splenda, raw sugar, and agave syrup.

Don’t know where to find those extra mix ins? Well, some of the extra sugars/agave syrup are from when we ordered things to go at various restaurants and didn’t use them, but we didn’t want to waste them, so here they are!

I also like to serve my coffees with an espresso bean on the side. It makes it seem like a coffee shop!

We also have some biscottis for those that like their coffee and biscotti. I buy the espresso beans at Trader Joe’s and biscotti at Costco.

How to Get your Coffee Bar Ready for the Holidays!

A “Vanilla Steamer” for the kids topped with a marshmallow

Below, various syrups are seen! There is hot chocolate hiding in the cookie jar (for now… Will someone make some cookies??)

Provide a Selection of Mugs and Stirring Spoons

I have several different types of holiday mugs to choose from that accommodate different types of drinks! Big one is for drip coffee, one in the middle back is for lattes and latte macchiatos, little French one in the front is for cappuccinos, and the tartan ones are for espresso!

Additionally, you can see some spoons in an espresso cup in the middle shelf on the right. Those are antique sterling spoons. The spoons are all mismatched from different patterns that we’ve collected here and there. What’s funny is that people pick through that cup looking at all of the different spoons until they settle on one they like! It’s funny because almost everyone does it! I mean, I still do it!

Other Tips

A three-tiered tray makes a great display for your coffee bar! You can store a whole bunch of different items on it and you can turn it around to get to the back!

a cappuccino and my attempt at latte art! ha!

I hope you find my tips helpful! We host Thanksgiving and frequently have people over during Christmas and this is a great way to entertain guests! Oh, plus we also use it everyday and like it too!!

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Rustic Three Tiered Tray (or this cute holiday Red three tier tray)

Reindeer Games Mug

Tartan Coffee cups in red (white tartan version here)

Tartan Espresso Cups in Red

French Brasserie Espresso mug

Snowman Marshmallows

Browse Nespresso Machines

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Angelina November 18, 2016 Thanksgiving

Five Thanksgiving Recipes

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This week’s Five on Friday consists of Five Recipe for Thanksgiving. We will be making each one of these next week!

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This apple, onion, and gruyere tart bite is our #1 Thanksgiving appetizer. It is so delicious and flies out of the oven!

We make our own bread rolls from scratch. They aren’t too hard to make; you just have to prepare for them! We usually make these onion rolls.

I know that this picture isn’t the prettiest, but this salad is delicious! It consists of mixed greens, apples, cranberries and pecans. It is the Fall Harvest salad.

This pumpkin soup is so delicious. We initially made it “for the vegetarians” but then everyone ate it!

This is the best apple pie recipe. It tastes so good still warm with a little vanilla ice cream on the side!

I won’t be posting a Five on Friday next week due to the holiday weekend. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Angelina November 17, 2016 Thursday Favorite Things

Thanksgiving Tablesetting Ideas – Thursday Favorite Things

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I don’t know about you guys but I have been busy cleaning up the house, setting up Christmas, and getting ready for Thanksgiving with meal-planning!! I am sharing a round up of pretty Thanksgiving table settings from last week’s party. If you missed my Thanksgiving table this year, you can go here.

The Sweet Sensations shared this pretty Floral and Feathers tablescape. I love the colors here.

Views from the ‘Ville shared this kid-friendly Thanksgiving table. I love the little fox!

The Southern Seazons shared this pretty traditional Thanksgiving table.

Dazzle while Frazzled shared this easy-clean up Thanksgiving table.

Raven Would shared this DIY Thanksgiving table runner.

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Angelina November 14, 2016 Desserts

Pumpkin Tart Recipe

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A pumpkin tart! Every Thanksgiving for the past several years, my husband and I have attempted to make pumpkin pie from scratch. I mean, like FROM SCRATCH… like grow the pumpkins in our garden, roast the pumpkins, harvest the fruit, make our puree, and then bake a pie (with homemade pie crust, of course).

And EVERY YEAR we have failed… I don’t know what happens. The thing explodes. It cracks on top. Or it’s too watery. I don’t know. I don’t get it. We can make pecan pie, apple pie, and shoot, even lemon meringue pie *from scratch* without difficulty. So I don’t know why the pumpkin pie is so elusive.

So I thought, wait a minute. I can bake tarts. Why not… make a pumpkin tart.

So we set off on a mission to make our own pumpkin tart from scratch. I used the standard French tart dough recipe below that is very easy to make and found a promising looking recipe on Martha Stewart (of course).

And guess what?! We nailed it on the first attempt! WHAAAT? Take that, pumpkin pie! And honestly, this tastes exactly like a pumpkin pie.

So what’s the difference between the pumpkin pie and pumpkin tart? They taste the same. But the pumpkin tart has more crust than the pumpkin pie. Granted, tart crust is tastier than the pie crust. I suppose I could have made the crust thinner if I wanted.

Would I make this again? YES! Plus, it’s cuter than a pumpkin pie.

Tart dough (recipe from David Leibovitz, I recommend reading his recipe on his site – it’s funny)

90 g (3 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into pieces

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

3 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

156 g (5oz, or 1 slightly-rounded cup) flour

Preheat the oven to 410º F
In a medium-sized ovenproof bowl, combine the butter, oil, water, sugar, and salt.
Place the bowl in the oven for 15 minutes, until the butter is bubbling and starts to brown just around the edges.
When done, remove the bowl from oven (and be careful, since the bowl will be hot and the mixture might sputter a bit), dump in the flour and stir it in quickly, until it comes together and forms a ball which pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
Transfer the dough to a 9-inch (23 cm) tart mold with a removable bottom and spread it a bit with a spatula OR transfer the dough to your mini tart pans. It doesn’t matter the size of your tart pans. Save a raspberry size piece of dough and set it aside.
Once the dough is cool enough to handle, pat it into the shell with the heel of your and, and use your fingers to press it up the sides of the tart mold.
Prick the dough all over with the tines of a fork about ten times, then bake the tart shell in the oven at 410F for 15 minutes, or until the dough is golden brown.
Remove from the oven and if there are any sizable cracks, use the bit of reserved dough to fill in and patch them.
I find it best to pinch off a small amount of the reserved dough, roll it gently between your fingers to soften it, then wedge it into the cracks, smoothing it gently with your pinky.
Let the shell cool before filling.

Pumpkin Filling (recipe from Martha Stewart)

15 ounces (1 can) pumpkin puree

1 cup heavy cream

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1tsp coarse salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp allspice

2 large lightly beaten eggs

Preheat oven to 325F. Whisk together all of the ingredients.
Pour into your prepared pie tart crust.
Place dish on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, rotating halfway through, until filling is set and slightly puffed but still a little wobbly, approx 55-60 minutes.
Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. Refrigerate uncovered for at least 6 hours. Serve chilled, with whipped cream or ice cream! It will keep for 2 days.

I use my AWESOME instant whipped cream maker to make the whipped cream. I *love* that thing.

I decorated it with some pumpkin seeds too. You can impress your friends with this pumpkin tart, and frankly, I thought it was easier to make than the pumpkin pie (no explosions this year!).

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Angelina November 13, 2016 tablescape

Natural Farmhouse Thanksgiving Table

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Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sharing with you this year’s Thanksgiving table! This year I was inspired by the cornucopia… while I don’t have a cornucopia, I was thinking of elements that may be inside. So I turned to the Fall harvest and what is currently being harvested around me.

That’s why I’ve called this the natural farmhouse Thanksgiving table. The walnuts, pomegranates, pumpkins and eucalyptus are either from my garden or the farm just down the street. The pine cones are from a hike some time ago.

The plates are one of my favorite Thanksgiving plate patterns… Spode’s “Woodland”. The goose plate was new this year.

I set up the pheasants flanking the grand ol’ turkey.

The little wheat stalks I just found at Napa Valley Vintage Home this past weekend. I love the little size.

I keep the little bow on the turkey; it didn’t come with it.

Although I took this picture “for the blog”, based on Thanksgiving RSVPs, I need to squeeze just a few more place settings in!

One last look at this table. I’ve really grown to like it and will miss it when I take it down. Although, I’m excited already thinking about the Christmas table!

Have a lovely Thanksgiving!

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Spode Woodland Bird Plates

Spode Woodland “Fox plate” (super cute, I have one of these!)

Similar Turkey Centerpiece (it is a soup tureen, looks similar, mine is retired)

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Angelina November 11, 2016 Uncategorized

The Crown, Antique Show, and more – Five on Friday

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The Crown

Did anyone else start watching The Crown this past weekend? I did! I didn’t binge watch it and finish the whole season like I know a lot of people probably did.

Have you ever of it? If not, it is about the life of Queen Elizabeth.

The TV show is on Netflix only and it is also the most expensive TV show ever made! After seeing the costumes and sets, you will see why!!

If you are a fan of period dramas and are looking to fill your Downton Abbey void, this is for you!
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Apparently the replica wedding dress cost $37,000 to make!

Hillsborough Antique Show
I had fun strolling the antique show last week. Here are just a few pictures ( would have taken more, but I was busy browsing and not shooting pictures!) I liked this cat.

I thought this was a good idea for home decorators…. a plain lamp with an antler wrapped around it.

I liked this little vignette.

Giveaway!

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Pretty Dresses

Sometimes I like to look at pretty dresses and pretend that I have an unlimited budget and that I have somewhere fancy to wear them to. Do you ever do that? If not, dream with me…

Which one would you wear?

Dress 9 (this one is inspired from porcelain!)

Dress 10

I would choose…. Dress 8 I think. Or maybe dress 6.

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Angelina November 10, 2016 Uncategorized

Inspiration for the Holidays – Thursday Favorite Things

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Rosemary & Thyme shared this elegant Woodland Tablescape! This is so perfect for Thanksgiving!

Gluesticks Blog shared a tutorial on how to make these evergreen topiaries!

The Boondocks Blog shared some beautiful natural Thanksgiving centerpieces.

Sweet Parrish Place shared this beautiful Thanksgiving vignette.

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Angelina November 8, 2016 French Country

Tour a Beautiful French Château!

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As I was doing some traveling for business this month, I finally had a chance to read this month’s Architectural Digest. I read this wonderful article about this beautiful French Château that Flore de Brantes (a decorative arts dealer) has remodeled. I just HAD to share the pictures with you all.

The chateau was built in 1770 and is on 1400 acres! Don’t you love the tapestries below?

I love the powder blue of this room. Not sure I am a fan of the gold trees, but the painting is marvelous!

I love the painted panels in the back… and don’t you like how the coffee table is actually an antique sundial?

Beautiful antique tapestries!

This fireplace mantel vignette is lovely.

A beautiful chinoiserie desk!

Isn’t this lit à la polonaise wonderful? I would love to have a little nook in the house for one of these!

Wouldn’t you love to have a cutting garden like this?

And here is a look down the driveway with the limestone pavilions lining the drive.

Read the full article here.

Images are from Architectural digest with photography by François Halard.

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Angelina November 6, 2016 Christmas

How to Create a French Country Vignette for the Holidays in 5 minutes!

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So today I thought I would share a few simple ways to create a French country vignette for the holidays… and it should only take you a few minutes!

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Start with a French Floral Centerpiece as a “base”

My focal point is this pretty bouquet of roses and seeded eucalyptus in a French pitcher. Flanked on the sides to balance the scene are some antique French candelabras. If you have a French teapot, vase, pitcher, etc just fill it with flowers and voila! Instant centerpiece!

French Country style frequently has flowers and floral motifs so a bouquet of fresh flowers is perfect! Mix old things and new things. The pitcher here is new while the candelabras and French buffet are antique.

Now that you have your “base centerpiece” as above, here is how you can change it for the holidays.

Fall

Add some white little pumpkins. That’s it! Done! Your Fall decor does not have to be over-the-top. Just a few pumpkins here and there is enough. These ones actually came from our garden. They are the only pumpkins that grew this year!

I told you it was easy and fast. It still looks French Country, doesn’t it? This works for Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving. You don’t have to choose pink flowers, I just happen to love pink.

Christmas

For Christmas, I simply went outside and cut a few small sprigs from our redwood trees. I then tucked in a few little ornaments into the sprigs to make it a little more elegant.

If you have any evergreens in your yard (or nearby), just clip a few little sprigs and you are pretty much done with this vignette! This took me approximately 5 minutes, walking to and from the tree included!
(And, ironically, these pink ornaments just happened to be at the very top of the very first ornament box I opened! ha, what luck! Because that could have turned into an hour adventure!)

Creating a French country vignette for the holidays is really quite easy. You can copy the look with a white pitcher and fufu candlesticks too! I think the key here to the French country holiday look is using natural elements.

Pretend you are walking out of your Maison de Maître into your garden to pick your flowers, pumpkins, and pine tree sprigs… you know, your French country style also needs to have the right attitude!

Valentine’s Day

You can carry this into Valentine’s Day too. I have these cute little French boxes that I set next to them… let’s pretend they are full of chocolates from my valentine! Also a little velvet bejeweled strawberry adds to the scene.

Overall, these different holiday vignettes were actually very cheap to create! Most of the items came from the garden, and I could have simply picked some roses from my garden too but my pink ones aren’t blooming right now. I owned all of the items already, so just go rummage through your closets (or “shop your house”) and create a little vignette!

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Angelina November 4, 2016 Uncategorized

Give Thanks Giveaway!!

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Today I am cohosting a GIVEAWAY!!! I do not usually participate in giveaways, but since this is November and the Season of Thanks, I would like to say THANK YOU to my readers with this giveaway!

These cute candles and candlesticks will go perfectly with your Christmas decor. I personally have at least 12 (that I can count!) of these candles that I use for decorating during this holiday season. And if that weren’t enough… also $80 in CASH to spend on something for yourself!!

I’m joining my friend Katherine from Katherines Corner for her annual Season of Giveaways. She has several going on now! This is the Give Thanks Giveaway and is hosted by Katherine and some of her bloggy friends.

One winner will receive a set of 3 flameless candles and candles sticks valued $50 and $80 in cash or Amazon gift card (winners choice cash or amazon gift code).

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Angelina November 3, 2016 French Country

French Farmhouse Style – Thursday Favorite Things

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Happy November!! Is everyone still recovering from their stomachaches from candy??

Welcome back to this week’s Thursday Favorite Things. If you’re new to this party, welcome! This party is great for those bloggers looking to increase their audience… and also to find other bloggers that you love! Our party has a variety of different types of posts, so there is surely something you will find that you like! I always have fun hopping from one blog to the next!

This week I’m sharing some of my favorite posts from last week’s party in the French Farmhouse style!

How clever and cute is the Cinderella Pumpkin?? Decor to Adore shares a wonderful tutorial! This could work for themed parties, not just Halloween!

Fall Farmhouse Style in the Bedroom by Penny’s Vintage Home! How could I not include this picture, I totally thought there was a real lamb sitting at the edge of the bed!!

And two cute end table makeovers…

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Angelina November 1, 2016 entertaining

Thanksgiving Dinner Plate Selections!

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My Christmas China post from several years ago continues to be very popular, so I thought I would do a Thanksgiving china round-up this year!

Update October 2017- most of the plates they still make today but some have been discontinued. I have added new plates to the line up this year!

#1 – Juliska Forest Walk Leaf Plates aren’t they cute??

#2 – Herend Rust Bouquet Dinner Plate – a classic style

#3 – Harvest Dinner Salad Plate – add some color to your table!

#4 – “Oro Bello” Dinner Plates, I love the gold trim here!

#5 – Glen Lodge I just love the tartan pattern, don’t you??

#6 – Woodland Bird Salad Plates – I confess I love animal plates!

#7 – Gilded Woods – these a more simple and are perfect for more contemporary settings!

#8 – Juliska Forest Walk Dinner Plate, these were inspired by a walk in the woods! The owner’s children went for a walk in the woods and like to pick up things along the way and this is what they found!

#9 – Spode Woodland – Pheasant set and the Turkey Set. I just love the Woodland Spode for Thanksgiving and this is what I use too! You can also get the Moose Dinner plate or Woodland Rabbit.

#10 – Give Thanks Plate – for those of you that love plates with words on them!

#11 – Plymouth Pumpkin Dinner Plates, Set of 4 these are pretty cute!

#12 – Berry Dinner Plates – These are great if you are looking for a pattern that can be used for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

#13 – Acorn Dinner Plates with matching pumpkin salad plates – perfect for Fall decor.

#14 – Squirrel Plates are pretty dang cute, aren’t they???

#15 – Gilded Forest Dinner and Salad Plates – I love these beautiful gilded plates!

#16 – Embossed White Turkey Dinner Plate – Great for Neutral Decor!

#17 – Metallic Lace Dinner Plate – This plate can take you from Thanksgiving through New Years!

#18 – Turkey Dinner Plate – another great Turkey plate for you traditionalists!

#19 – Colorful Turkey Paper Dinner Plate – Can you believe that these plates are made out of PAPER?! Talk about stylish! These are the prettiest paper Thanksgiving dinner plates I’ve seen – perfect for those of you who do not want to spend their post-turkey coma doing the dishes!

Did you find some Thanksgiving china that you liked? What pattern do you use? Do you break out the fancy formal wear???

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Restoration Hardware and Aidan Gray Copycat Chandeliers

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Today’s post is about Aidan Gray Chandeliers and the copycat versions that Restoration Hardware has! I first realized a similarity in my French Farmhouse Tour post! I erroneously thought the chandelier was Aidan Gray, but I was informed by the designer that it was actually Restoration Hardware.

As I am building a French farmhouse, I am extremely interested in lower cost copycats!

Then, some months later, my mom was looking at another chandelieand noted it was almost exactly the same as the Aidan Gray one.

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So then I got to thinking, what other chandelier did Restoration Hardware (RH) copy? I found several more!

I noticed two of the big differences: Aidan Gray puts a fancier light bulb in its chandeliers. Additionally, the paint/texture is different from each company. But either way, you’ll have to admit, they are very similar!

Example 1:

Restoration Hardware “Nataline” Chandelier (no longer produced).

Aidan Gray “Chateau Beaulieu” Chandelier – $1147

Example 2:

Restoration Hardware Acanthus Leaf $693 (member)

Aidan Gray “Grand Ane” Chandelier (affiliate) $1399

RH “Laurette” Chandelier $287

Aidan Gray “Garden” Chandelier (affiliate link) $420

Example 3:

RH Baby “Emile” $481

Aidan Gray “Grenoble” Chandelier $1056

Edit: As someone mentioned in the comments and I forgot to include, Quorum’s “Salento” line looks pretty close to the Aidan Gray lights. They are not *quite* as copycat as the RH versions, but very similar indeed.

Quorum “Salento” version, $296

example 4:

RH “Emile” Sconce $201

AG “Lafayette” Wall Sconce $281

Below is the Salento Wall sconce, it is $149.

To see all of the Quorum “Salento” lights, you can search here.

While I was on my little mission to find Aidan Gray copycats, I ran across the lantern below! WHOA!

These two look IDENTICAL. I couldn’t figure out which one was which at first. I wrote about the Darlana Lantern in this post, so I immediately recognized this design. Visual Comfort also makes a Darlana Wall sconce, as below.

RH “19th C. English Openwork Sconce” $296

Visual Comfort “Darlana Wall Sconce” (affiliate) $379

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Holidays, Instagram Party, and more!

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Disneyland during Halloweentime

Well, last weekend I went to Disneyland! We spent 1 day there. It was a little weekend trip. We met some family down there and had a blast. The park was super crowded but that was okay. Have you ever been during Halloweentime? If not, you should go. They decorate the park with pumpkins and it is super cute. See, look at it below (picture is from the Disney website!)

Thinking about Thanksgiving
So I have been dreaming of different tablescapes I could put together for the Thanksgiving table this year. I love French Country Decor, so I was thinking, what is a French country Thanksgiving? Then it occurred to me, wait, Thanksgiving is actually extremely American. Do they have Thanksgiving in France? No, of course not! So perhaps the proper wording would be, French-Canadian Country Decor for Thanksgiving. As French speaking Canada celebrates Thanksgiving. Well, whatever.
Now it seems silly to call my Thanksgiving table “French country”!

Is it time for Christmas yet???
I am SO EXCITED to decorate for Christmas but I promised my husband I wouldn’t decorate until after October 31. Which means I can officially dig out my Christmas decor in just several days. I see it creeping in the stores and I am trying not to buy things just yet because I have so many boxes I can’t even remember what I have!

I was thinking about getting a few of these cheap wreaths to hang in our window for outside decor. I am going to string some lights in them.

Spotted… Diptyque Christmas Candles!!
I was shopping at Nordstrom’s this week when I spotted the Holiday limited editions of Diptyque candles!!!! Aren’t they SO ADORABLE. The boxes are fantastic all by themselves. Then you open them up and the candles are in vibrant colors with cute drawings on them! Just look at the gingerbread man below!
The red candle is épices et délices, which is a spicy gingerbread scent. You can get the big one here and the little one here. I bought this one mainly because I am a little obsessed with that gingerbread man.

The next candle is Le Roi Sapin… it smells of pine forest. You can get the big one here and the little candle here. It smelled really good, but it did not beat my FAVORITE Christmas Pine Tree Candle which is Thymes “Frasier Fir”.

The last candle is Un Encens… it smells of vanilla, incense, and wood. You can get the big candle here or the little candle here. This one had a really nice scent, didn’t have an overpowering holiday scent to me.

There is a holiday trio gift set of all three candles here.

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