Birthday Table

            July just isn’t The United States Birthday , but the beginning of the Birthday Season
    of my children. I thought A Naked Cake would be awesome to make to kick off the Season.
    July also has several family members birthdays and it has been just a month for cakes. Loved
    making this cake unfortunately I lost the photoshoot portion of this cake and the only reason
    this one is here was that I had already put this one here before I lost the pictures. Thankfully!!

               My Mother's dishes, Metlox Poppytrail - Zinnia.  My Mother had these in a storage,
      moved way from the area ( forgot where the storage was) and when she finally got it out
     these dishes where there .....  I just loved them. Thought it would be a nice way to have
    a part of Mom in this Birthday Season.
     
      These are some pre-photoshoot of the Birthday cake and are of the dishes that I used on the table.

             When I saw them again in Mom's (new) storage - Mom had a gypsy heart and loved moving only could never really afford to take her whole house so she would put what she couln't take in storage, I brought them home with me.

           On one of my Thrift shopping; I found these green desert cups and knew I needed
    these too. What I didn't know was how well it goes with the Zinnia dishes. Perfect,
   believe they are both made in the 60's so pairing them works.



                       I have to share...
    I want to express that I love you for still checking out what I have been doing here while I
stumble through missing my Mom. This post was suppose to be 2 weeks ago - posted; and projects
 are taking longer to do because I have been either at Retail or binging on YouTube, and it is some-
thing I love but don't do - Gardening. Though I have been thinking of new content and get back
to this vision of mine

             Screenshots from Pinterest Victoria Magazine board. Soon.... this will be my life and taking you on this journey will be a joy. Thank you for sticking by me as I go through the mess of life.






                    until next table,
                                    Mia

    

The Fourth Table

                       My 4th of July Table .....

  

                   The inspiration - the Red plates. I got to work last week and realized that I
         combined time and day of 2 different days resulted in me being at work an hour early
        for that day. To kill time I wondered around Walmart, found these 4pk plates for a
       buck, added blue placemats (4) for 2 bucks, and the round serving plate for 3.50, so for about
      $12 dollars I have  Red White & Blue for the table.

      
               As for the center piece, I have been collecting Hydrangeas for a while - have
         been wanting to do a Nantucket Beach table & Hydrangeas makes me think
        Nantucket. Well, I thinking I have reached my budget on the table and getting new
       flowers was not a part the spending (only I never really made a budget.... ummm
      something else I Need to Do). I made use of the Hydrangeas for this table.

                        Table done : check??..... run to store to pick up lunch : check.

             While I was at the store I realize that what was keeping me from truly thinking
      Red White & Blue was done - there was no Red in the center piece. I had Red on the table,
     I had tried some Pink Roses - Nope didn't like....
   

                     It's pretty but no; then I remembered my Star. A Christmas ornament that is
         doing double duty for holiday decorating.

                And works well with the star votive candle dishes.

                     Lunch - 

                   Cheese Burger and Fries. A perfect lunch. Though this is a lunch just for me
         I didn't fry up a lot of fries and that second burger is just a Tomato sandwich, which
         was saved for a later - reheated burgers are not that tasty, too dry; I thought for 'photo
         pretty' the use of the serving plate would be great but food for 1 would make it skimpy,
         so I added the extra 'burger'.

                     I may have to rethink my Food - photographing, styling, and menu.

           I enjoyed my lunch in the festive decor. I pray that your 4th of July festivities are full
     family and fun.

                                until next table,
                                                   Mia