{Antique Christofle Toast Rack + New Ideas for You!}

Probably you will pick up an idea or two for putting a toast rack to more uses. Have you ever served waffles in them for a breakfast in bed or a lazy Sunday brunch? Look at this photo from an old Victoria magazine where you can see the example. 

Bet you like that!

Here you see an antique silver plated Christofle Toast Rack being put to use as a card or letter holder.

This one was available at my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics. 

This 1912-1914 model does have 4 slots.

And yes, I picked fresh blueberries today from our garden...

Using my English Rose by Royal Doulton China. The hyperlink will bring you straight to Replacements Ltd.

From Table to Desk...

Next tip is to use the toast rack for holding napkins! Folded into a triangle seen here are cocktail napkins that can be used for a tea or hors d'oeuvres.

Of course you can easily fold in two napkins per slot, I used only one for each opening.

Here you can see it without anything inside...

The Christofle hall mark and that number 7 in a square frame stands for 7 grams of pure silver laid on the alloy (probably brass).

To the right there are more numbers.

From an old Christofle catalog.

Shown is one with 6 openings, it was available in two sizes.  

Sorry Sold out...

{Our Jasminum Nitidum 'Royal Jasmine'}

Our Jasminum Nitidum 'Royal Jasmine' which we got from +Logee's Greenhouses (link you find below post) is another exotic and highly fragrant flower. We keep it in a large planter in the greenhouse during winter. But come spring and summer, it is outside and shows off its perfect blossoms. Have a look at this beauty!

Related link:

Logee's | search under fragrant flowers with several jasmine varieties being listed

{Did I loose my strength?... Like in Samson and Delilah?}

Often I wonder if I might have lost my strength when I had my LONG braid cut off at once... You certainly know the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, where she cut off his long hair, which made him loose his strength. After having worked and lived in Indonesia I wanted to have short hair and get rid of the 'weight' of that long braid. For hygiene reasons I did wear it like that, pulling all hair back and tied together. But the weight of such a long braid is not really that much as hair is very light. It was more the idea.

Here she is... in a shadow box framed on French graduating ombré silk velvet from Britex Fabrics in San Francisco. The framing was done by Irok Gallery as usual.

Thick braid...

Quite a length!

Peet Kleeven from Happy Hair chopped it off like that...

Off came my long hair and gone was my strength...?

Irok Gallery did a remarkable job with the shadow box!

I've made a blouse from the remaining French ombré silk as I had to buy it by the panel.

My Dad did snip off one of my hair locks when I was 3 months of age... My color did not change since than.

Do you have some baby locks saved? Or a braid?

Saving for that braid...

Getting there slowly. This is all in Indonesia. Wearing here a Kashmir dress that a friend did bring me from India.

Long Kashmir dress, hand embroidered in a royal blue.

Only during weekends I could let my hair down...

Hair reaching my hips...

This is it...

Minus braid... It sure felt light!

This is in Horst at my parents' in their sun-room.

So do you believe that I might have lost my strength too?