Like at a great wedding, there will be that final moment, biding adieu with one last toast and best wishes to the 'New Life' together. New Life together in 2012 for all of us, as we make A LAST Toast to 2011. Was it a good year to you? Do you have fond memories that you want to frame inside a sterling frame? Let's hope each one of you has at least a few of those special 'Hinge-Moments' that we want to remember for the rest of our life. To pick us up, when times are dark, difficult or lonely... Fond memories for lifting us up at times of sickness, or while healing from our wounds; be it physical or emotional.
I do hope that you will have the best of everything and are looking forward with full expectations and high hopes to yet another year on this planet. Wishing you good health above all and a strong family bond because with that, one can over come a lot of problems that might be coming our way. We are not living in paradise 'yet'... and there might be some angels among us, but we better watch. For framing such a sterling 2011 moment, I can offer you this Giovanni Raspini 925/000 silver frame with Angel. It is available at my Zen Cart powered boutique on line. Let's Toast to 2011, as I would like to thank you for your visits and for leaving sweet comments! Those are my little STERLING MOMENTS...
For your fond memories, available at my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics.
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- Like last year around Christmas time, this year we also had some lovely fragrant blooms from our Wintersweet or Chimonanthus praecox (Calycanthus p.) (C. fragrans).
- Therefore I want to share these blossoms and buds with you here...
- The light in our kitchen was just perfect for taking these photos.
- We kept only a few blossoms ourselves and I did deliver a small vase to a dear friend that is recovering from her knee replacement.
- Hope she was able to enjoy them.
- Hope you enjoyed these beautiful winter blooming Chimonanthus praecox (Calycanthus p.) (C. fragrans).
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Our Garden's Winter Blooms for Christmas (mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com)
Last year we did start already the tradition of having a delicious Italian Christmas Eve Dinner at
Ristorante da Maria. Since our family on this side of the ocean consists of only the two of us, that's the very best we can do. It was again a great evening. We enjoyed for about three hours the five-course, elegant Christmas Eve Dinner, cooked by Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier.
Next we went to Church for great organ music with caroling before the actual Midnight Mass. A perfect Christmas Eve for us. Pieter got sick the next day with the flu but right now he's doing much better. For all those living near Macon, Georgia or anywhere near Central Georgia, there is still the option for New Year's Eve to have such delicious five-course dinner. What better ending of the year 2011?! Just to show you how the menu for Christmas Eve looked like, for making you mouth water... Everything on the menu is made from scratch; using the best quality fresh ingredients!
Sure, for both of us having lived and worked near Venice, this is HEAVEN! Maria is from the city of Bolzano, the northern part of Italy and she is quite a Lady Chef!
Guess my readers from Italy will recognize these yummy dishes!
It makes us quite happy and that's why I want to mention Lady Chef Maria here.
By the way, it is her husband Heinz who helps serve her delicious food... Heinz is from Innsbruck, Austria.
Do you also have such a great favorite restaurant nearby?
