Escada Rose Dress with Butterfly Shawl Tutorial

 Just would like to show you the silk Escada Rose Dress...

Wearing it here with Butterfly Shawl

Below post you will learn how to do that yourself!

Of course wearing my Majorica pearls...

This photo perfectly reveals the sleeveless dress as the 'Butterfly' did kind of slide off...

My hair in a ponytail with a silk rose barrette...

My Pieter found me this shawl when we were at a Rotary Club District Conference and I did check out the Escada Outlet.

Was grateful for Pieter spotting it as the banquet was a very cold happening with the airconditioning setting way too low!

Wore it gratefully with my Escada silk evening dress with roses, see post below...

The butterfly has full wingspan!

Pieter in his Burberry summer wool suit with silk tie in roses...

Haha, our Speckie girl did rough-up Pieter's suede shoe, the foot he's placed foreward.

So much for living with kitties!

A better view of the silk tie with roses.

Those were always the perks of working as international consultants!

You know that I love roses and angels...

Good enough for a blissful relationship! 😉

As promised, showing you how to obtain such a butterfly shawl.

It is in the Hermès Carré book of shawls...

This is it; you tie the ends together, than turn it good side out and wear it!

Voilà!

This is from an Echo Scarf Booklet...

Works of course perfect with a wool shawl for winter time.

So that is the outfit I wore with the 'Hat Elastic' shoes from previous post!

Related link:

Hat Elastic for Preventing my Shoes from Sliding OFF | previous post showing dress with small tote

{Back Home from a Wedding in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France} | wearing the silk evening dress with roses  at a wedding in France

{Angels engraved on lucky calendar coin of 1969} | previous post with photo of Escada evening gown

Five out of Six Swinson Brothers died while serving during Civil War

 Yes, at times history can be very cruel...

This happened also to one family, here in Laurens County, Georgia; the Swinson family where FIVE out of six brothers that served, died during the Civil War.

Yes, they all SIX served in the military... Imagine the pain it caused for the Parents! 

Here are Mom & Dad, visiting this historical site on April 10, 1996.

Swinson Family Cemetery Memorials ←click on link and on each name

Only brother Starkey Warren Swinson did come back home alive, after his service during the Civil War.

Gabriel G served in the Georgia Infantry and died in Vicksburg, Mississippi

John A served also in the Georgia Infantry and died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Starkey W served also in the Georgia Infantry but was the ONLY brother that survived, and he died in 1914 in Broxton, Georgia

Thomas Elliott served as Volunteer in the Georgia Infantry and died in Raleigh, North Carolina

William Pinkney served in the Georgia Infantry and died in Laurens County, Georgia

Young Woodward served in the Georgia Infantry and died in Richmond, Virginia

FREEDOM has its price...

The often HIGH price of being AWAY for Consulting

 Whenever we went to Indonesia, due to the long journey in itself, we were gone for 3 weeks.

Also for India it would be around 2.5 weeks and 2 weeks for Mexico.

Not so good for home and garden when being absent that long!

Consulting often resulted in an unexpected HIGH price of being AWAY

How we kept our HOUSEPLANTS alive...In our kitchen bay window area, I kept many Delft white pots with houseplants, as well as in our veranda with its long windowsill on both sides and planter tables with larger pots.We had friends offering to water them and they did, mainly on the final day before we would return home... to proof they DID water! My collection of 16 beautiful orchids shrunk rapidly.A neighbor once insisted she would water while we were gone, so Pieter brought the most delicate houseplants over to her home. She placed them in her laundry room, Pieter thought she would place them later into the light, and in their final spot...NOT SO, upon his return for picking up the houseplants, they ALL came out of her laundry room, without any window. She sure watered them but they looked all brain dead and yellow; many of them did not survive...So we looked for better solutions.

A programmable Gardena Water Computer...

On March 17 of 1994, Pieter bought our Gardena Water Computer and also a heater for the greenhouse, so we never again would loose our tomato plants to frost in March!

Old spray caps being inserted in pipe, for misting plants from above, using the Gardena Water Computer.

On March 25 of 1994, Pieter worked on a system in the greenhouse with hanging pipe from above and using the old spray caps of Dad's greenhouse in The Netherlands.For being able to do so, Pieter had extended the water pipe, outside on our garage wall, for use on the driveway with a faucet and eventually a hose. So he could use a valve for bypassing the piping system that he'd dug in over our entire garden, and not using the water being pumped up by our pump, but coming directly from our home water system.Pieter hung all plants and checked if they got adequately water, even changed some that needed more than others.It got all PERFECTED and once more we were off to Indonesia for 3 weeks.Feeling at ease with all our precious plants being watered inside the greenhouse.When we came home, we went to the greenhouse and both of us were SHOCKED!We were staring at some skeletons hanging down... ALL DEAD!Then, going inside and wanting to step into the shower, after such a long journey from Jakarta to Atlanta, we noticed we had NO WATER!Great welcome home — what a feeling for hitting the mattress like that.Only in the daylight of early morning, Pieter figured out that the teenage boy, who did cut our grass, had run over one of the pipes with faucet for attaching the water hose for sprinkling. Since Pieter had reversed the system on our main water pipe from the HOME, it kept flooding. So he brilliantly turned off the MAIN VALVE! Killing all our green children in the greenhouse by doing so...He'd cut off more often a pipe so our dream of having our houseplants safe and cared for was out of the window.We ended up instead, putting those Delft white pots in the trenches that Pieter dug alongside the Wood Trail to the left of our Gazebo area where it was rather wet in early years.They were always wet from some underground wells and water was running constantly and there was shade from the trees above.Worked perfect, except my Delft white pots were no longer WHITE... It was quite a task of cleaning them one by one and taking them back inside!So that is what you see in this short video. So many challenges and right now I have no more houseplants... We gave up after all those years.
Related links:{Fall & Winter Preparations} | previous post by me{New Heater for Greenhouse} | previous post by me where you see the nozzles on the overhead pipe