{Raphael Angel Boxes in Heart Shape}

Valentine's Day is nearing fast and these nesting  
Raphael Angel boxes in a heart ♥ shape would make a perfect gift!

Click on this hyperlink to go to my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to  Basics.

Sorry Sold out...

This is a large trunk sized box with Raphael Angels that is also available at my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics.

Sorry Sold out...

♥

{Buon Natale - Our Christmas Eve Dinner at Ristorante da Maria}

Christmas Eve was very special for us. We had a delicious 5-course dinner at the authentic Italian

Ristorante da Maria, together with our best friends John & Becky. 

Those friends that stood by our side, when Pieter was in Intensive Care... 

♥

Starting off with a bubbling Prosecco, from the region where we used to live and work in Italy. 

Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier is from South Tirol and we lived only about two hours to the east, towards Venice. 

Eating in her restaurant is like going back to our life-in-Italy era. 

The culinary side we loved so much.

Two days ago, Pieter was not doing well at all. His blood pressure had dropped to an alarming two-digit low. So I called the doctor in the evening. He suggested to stop taking a particular prescription drug as obviously through his rehab he'd recovered so well that he didn't need this drug anymore. Contrary, it made him feel miserable. So on Christmas Eve I was so happy that he had fluffed back. Our house was clean and we were ready for a great dinner with dear friends at Ristorante da Maria.

Ristorante da Maria ~ the dining room.

Ristorante da Maria ~ entrance dining room.

On the left you see the evergreen Southern Magnolia.

Inside the entrance door of Ristorante da Maria.

Across from the dining room at Ristorante da Maria, leading into the B & B; 

Dublin Farm Come Home to the Country. 

 In an earlier blog I did write about their  Agriturismo.

Ristorante da Maria dining room overview.

Our table for four at Ristorante da Maria, elegantly set with real linens.

This is also where I do round things up for my 'Manners Do Count' Classes from Learn from Mariette.

Our 5-course Authentic Italian Dinner at Ristorante da Maria.

Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier from Ristorante da Maria with Heinz.

What is Unique at Ristorante da Maria is her ever-changing menu!

Choice of three Entrées. 

Click on images to enlarge!

Ristorante da Maria's exquisite ever-changing Italian menu is the most talked about cuisine in Central Georgia!

That explains a little bit better why we LOVE to live here and what is available in this town.

We left feeling fed very well and went all four of us to Church for Caroling and a Festive Mass.

Ending with the song Silent Night - Holy Night, this made for a perfect Christmas Eve!

 Bodily and Spiritually fed, we slept like roses under our down duvet...

Thankful for so much!

{MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010}

From Rebecca Nelson at A Gathering Place, Gathered Thoughts and Cottage Style Living,
the pillow that I won, did arrive timely.
For us indeed, 2010 has been a Gathering of Thoughts...

Wrapped in a plastic pouch with lovely pink ribbon and her sticker, that's how it arrived.

Here it resides in our Veranda.

Merry Christmas to ALL!

 Rehab for Life (Pieter)

2010

The reflection of a blue sky today, is hopefully a good sign for Pieter's Healthy 
 ♥

HEART in 2011. 

In one month he is done with his rehab...!