Fresh Freezer Food

It's Foodie Friday over at Designs By Gollum, come join the fun!

A few weeks ago I made several batches of cheese-less pesto for the freezer.

No Cheese Pesto
4-5 C basil (packed firmly)
4-6 cloves garlic
1/2 C pine nuts
1/2 tsp salt
1 - 1 1/4 C olive oil
Add all ingredients except oil to food processor and pulse a few times to mix it up. Slowly add the oil and process until smooth. Taste for desired saltiness. You can use this right away or freeze it. Just thaw and it can be used on salads, in dips, or tossed with pasta. Oh so very yummy!

The salad tomatoes and basil are actually "fresh" from the garden shed.

I washed them when I was doing a final harvest a few weeks ago.

Some became the most beautiful "red sauce" that also went into the freezer 

..... check out the lovely color below!  The others were put on open racks in the garden shed, where weeks later they are still firm and tasty for salads.  It hasn't dropped below about 38F, so the shed is acting as the perfect cold storage area for the last of this year's veggies. Even some of the basil hanging in bunches is still fresh enough for garnish on today's salad. I'll be combining the thawed sauce with a bit of the pesto and tossing it on some pasta to go with the salad.  

Thanks for stopping by for a bit of "freezer food."

Inspired By Yo-Yos

More often than not my vintage tablecloths are the inspiration for my tablescapes.  The cues come from the graphics and/or the color scheme of the tablecloth.  Today's tablescape is different in that the inspiration came from my Grandmother's yo-yo pillow.  Look at the tiny little prints used for the yo-yos.  Each yo-yo is just about 1½ inches in diameter. The pillow is probably about 80 years old and it led me to today's tablescape.

Grandma's Yo-Yo Pillow took 64 Yo-yos, that's how many!

Next came the flatware, again the mix of multiple colors and prints.

And January roses from my garden.  They are not happy campers with temps
in the high 30s F, but aren't they little troopers?

Puffy little stuffed bow napkin rings with a tiny print,

and a tablescape came together.

Afternoon tea on a chilly day.

Vintage linen tablecloth, with an embroidered corner detail and hand crocheted edging.

Lovely French knots.

Tablecloth - vintage

Flatware by Present Time

Napkins, tea pot, sugar, creamer, rose vase, chickens - Home Goods

Votives and topiaries - Michael's

Glassware - Pier 1

White china - "Medallion" by Rosenthal, my wedding china

Cookie tray and luncheon plates - vintage depression glass

Clear glass plates - "Manhattan"

Berry bowls - vintage German

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The Yo-Yo was a popular style of hand sewing in America from the 1920-40s. Yo-Yos are circles of fabric gathered up at the edges and sewn together to create a three-dimensional effect. Yo-Yo projects were popular because women could carry the little circles of fabric with them and make Yo-Yos whenever they had a free moment.

Fresh new ideas for Yo-Yo Projects from Country Living, are these just too cute?

Photography by Joseph De Leo

Yo-Yo Projects from Country Living


Thanks so much for coming by to check out what's on The Little Round Table!

I'm joining all these wonderful linky parties!

Favorite Things over at Bargain Hunting

Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday

Between Naps On The Porch for Tablescape Thursday

Coloradolady for Vintage Thingies Thursday

Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday

Plumed Pen for Tuesday Tea For Two

Lady Katherine Tea Parlor for Tea Time Tuesday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rose Vignettes for Fresh Cut Friday

Cindy's Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

Jenny Matlock for Alphabe-Thursday

This week's letter is "M" How MANY Yo-yos does it take to make this pillow?

There are MANY of them!  Get it? "M" is for How many?

White Christmas

I'm joining White Wednesday over at Faded Charm, come join the fun!

The grands in the mountains, just 90 minutes from my cozy fireplace.

Grandma and Grandpa took a pass on this activity.

Thanks for stopping by for this very WHITE Wednesday.

This Week In My Garden: Morning Sun and Roses

January roses from the garden will appear for Tablescape Thursday this week.

Wordless Wednesday

Outdoor Wednesday over at A Southern Daydreamer

Tuesday Garden Party over at An Oregon Cottage

Thanks for stopping by the garden again this week.  

That Striped Mirror

I get so many inquiries about my striped mirror, so here's a little history

and some additional images especially for bj, who recently showed it on

her blog Sweet Nothings with her post A few more favorites

I've had it for about 20 years and purchased it from either Horchow or Ballard,

I truly do not remember which.  It is rustic and would be simple enough to construct from stock wood you could purchase at any lumber yard or even Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.

It is a simple rectangular beveled mirror with a large wooden frame surrounding it.  Some stacked molding and simple boards would do it. The curlicue piece on top is wrought iron, with a stock wooden finial.  Then get out your paints and some tape and you are good to go in recreating this same look.

This image certainly doesn't need TWO watermarks .... just call me sloppy!

Hope this helps you bj and everyone else who has asked about this mirror!

If you are NOT handy with tools, just get Miss Mustard Seed or Donna over at Funky Junk Interiors,  to build you one! LOL

Mr. TLRT could throw this together in a couple hours and I'd gladly do the painting part, but I'd do a different size/shape and colors for the bathroom I think.

If you need measurements for proportion or whatever, just leave a comment

and I'll get out my handy-dandy tape measure.

This mirror has been in our last 3 houses, here it is in a prior life.

This Week In My Garden: Winter Garden

Join Mosaic Monday over at Little Red House