God Bless You!

We are always trying to come up with ways 

to use our vintage pieces around the house!

Here is one of the ways we use vintage that

 EVERYONE ohhhhs and ahhhhhs over...

Get rid of those horrible tissue boxes immediately

and find yourself a pretty pitcher!

Open up the box of tissues and put the tissues through the opening 

and pull the first one out and voila! 

A creative and much more attractive 

than "the box"

Oh, Happy May!!!

We had such a lovely day yesterday ~ we held our annual spring tea party...

 "The Language of Flowers"

One of the delicious items on the menu were these cucumbers with herbed cream cheese.  

They were super easy to make, and everyone enjoyed them!

We thought they'd be a lovely recipe for you to try out...

easy to make and an excellent option instead of carrot sticks and dip!

Cucumbers 

with Herbed Cream Cheese

Ingredients:

1 English cucumber

8 oz Cream Cheese, softened

1/4 minced fresh dill

2 tablespoons dill pickle juice

1 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Minced chives for garnish

Directions:

Combine together the cream cheese, dill, dill pickle juice, 

onion powder, garlic powder, and black pepper 

with a mixer on high until smooth.

Place mixture into a pastry bag with a tip of your choice,

 or use a zip-lock bag and snip the corner of the bag off.  

Take a peeler and peel some of the cucumber skin, 

making a striped pattern.  

Then slice into 1/4 inch rounds.  

Pipe the cream cheese mixture onto the cucumber.  

Sprinkle minced chives over the cream cheese cucumbers. 

Serve immediately.

Enjoy your day!

Karla & Karrie

The Summer Kitchen Girls

Tea for Two & Tea of the Month

We wanted to show off a few of our new vintage tea cups...

and while we were at it,

 we thought you'd like to sing along with us

"Picture me upon your knee

Just tea for two and two for tea

Just me for you and you for me alone

Nobody near us to see us or hear us

No friends and relations on weekend vacations

We won't have it known that we have a telephone"

"Dear, day will break, you'll awake

And start to bake a sugar cake

For to take, for all the boys to see

We will raise a family

A boy for you and a girl for me

Can't you see how happy we would be?"

 Doris day turned 95 this month...

can you believe it?!

We just love her!

How about a cup of tea?

Our Tea of the month is 

Tea S'il Vous Plait

It is a delicious blend of Almond, Peach & Orange

YUM!

Take $1 off when you come in or call to order a bag!

50 Years & Counting!

Last weekend our family celebrated

a very special event!

Our parent's 

50th Wedding Anniversary!

Isn't this the cutest invitation?  

Well...probably because they were

just the CUTEST couple!!

 We transformed dad's barn into a little something special!

A little elbow grease and quite a bit of painted plywood 

and paper lanterns transformed the shop into

something quite special!

 The weather even cooperated and the tent was pleasant to sit in!

Mom's colors were turquoise and pink so we got 

turquoise table sashes to put down the tables

and added LOTS of paper doilies 

(because mom LOVES doilies...almost as much as she loves pillows lol!)

THE FLOWERS!

Peonies, Roses, Hydrangeas & Succulents...

need we say more???

Well...we will say that we've been collecting a LOT of

Hobnail Milk Glass and it was 

EVERYWHERE!

We had printed off all of her pictures from 

mom & dad's  wedding album...

and put them in either gold or black frames 

to sit on the table with the flowers

These little succulents were just darling...

we had to share another picture!

  We also used a lot of bedding plants in shades of pink 

to line the tables with...

that way we could use them in mom's outdoor pots after the party!

One of the "HITS" of the party was the life-size cutout

of mom and dad's wedding picture...aren't they adorable?

They had their picture taken with people ALL night long!

On the table in front of them, 

they honored their parents with their pictures...

Up top is mom's dad Billy and her mom Norma,

 next is Dad's mom Betty and dad Paul, 

next is mom's stepdad Harmon with her mom Norma.

The picture up front is this one with their parents.

Keeping with the hobnail theme...

mom wanted her cake to look like hobnail as well...

 and it was too cute especially sitting on

that milk glass ruffled plate! 

Cupcakes!  

There were tons of beautiful cupcakes!

Vanilla, Chocolate & Carrot Cake...

In fact....it was the 

never-ending tower of cupcakes...

there were a LOT of cupcakes eaten that night!

Although they did cut their cake...there was no feeding each other

pieces of cake...per mom!!!

Another fun spot was dad's request to have the 

Hornet + 3

or "MQF" ~ NASA's Mobile Quarantine Facility

so that everyone would be able to:

1. Learn a little Airstream History

2. Have fun taking pictures in it!

This was a pretty popular spot that night...

We couldn't even begin to tell you 

how many people 

wanted their picture in the Airstream!

That evening was a great memory maker...for sure!  

Everyone had a blast...and to remember the night

 we had a guest book made up for everyone 

to give their good wishes in...

it had all of their pictures from their wedding in it, 

so it will make a wonderful keepsake for mom & dad!

 

 Thanks for visiting...and sharing in our

HAPPY DAY

with us!!

 Karla & Karrie

The Summer Kitchen Girls

Getting A-head(board)

Projects!!!

That's what we did a lot of this winter...

how about you?

We wanted to show off one of our favorite projects...

Karrie's Headboard!

How many of you have headboards?  

That is one of the last things both Karrie and I did before finishing our rooms...

searching for the right headboard...not coming up with anything...

and then it hits us...

"let's just make our own!"

after all...many of the headboards Karrie was looking at 

looked kinda like a

  five-paneled door....

and it just so happened that we had

 an extra one lying around at the family farm!!!

 

So off we went to pick out some

  trim and molding

    Drug the Dad and Hubby 
into the project... 

and their tools;)

We had in our head pretty much how we wanted to do it, 

but we also did some research on Pinterest 
and we discovered lots of other people had the same idea...Duh!

We did discover from that, though,
what we did and did not want.  

We knew that we wanted those panels centered,
so we trimmed the bottom off of the door....

We also wanted posts on either side... 
we didn't want the "floating headboard" look

 

We sanded it down, 

primed it and painted it black...

Then sanded some more to distress it a bit.

We love how it turned out
and just how perfect it is for this room!


Stop in and join us for DIY by Design 
for some awesome inspiration today!

Enjoy your week!!

Karla & Karrie
The Summer Kitchen Girls

Vintage Clay

One of the first places we head to at an Estate Sale

is the GARAGE...

We are always looking for some great vintage 

Clay Pots

We LOVE the look of these pots...

and can't get enough!

You can't find patina like this 

on new pots....

Nothing beats the great distressing 

of Vintage Terra Cotta pots...

but we have seen where you can take new pots 

and "age" them to look like older pots here.  

These new  distressed pots look a little better...

but can never compare 

to the weathered years on these beauties!

Love the "W" on this one...

Wonder what it was for?

Not only do we love collecting them and appreciating their

vintag-y goodness, Karrie uses them to hold 

beautiful flower arrangements in....

And...Spring is coming...so that means

that this week Pots are being prepped 

with some lovely moss....

and will be waiting for some 

 pretty flowers to brighten your day!

"It is always exciting to open the door 

and go out into the garden for the first 

time on any day."

~Marion Cran

A Culinary Trip Down Memory Lane

Happy 2016 Everyone!!

What a wonderful year 2015 was...

we are looking forward to spending some time with you all this year!

While out and about last year we found this

adorable recipe box

(we LOVE old recipe boxes...don't you?)

So we thought that we'd share some of the contents with you...

because it really is fun(ny) and interesting

First there were lots of 

menu ideas 

for the week...

What do you think?

It doesn't sound too bad....

UNTIL you get to Friday's lunch of

Individual Spinach Rings!!

There were several hand written recipes

like this Quick Nut Bread

Stuck in the recipe box were some 

Games for Adults and older Children!  

This Impromptu Scavenger Hunt might be fun

at your next get-together!

(our favorite part is where it says "make necessary rules against tearing pictures 

off the walls and about returning things afterward to their proper homes

 and respective corners" ~ LOL!!!!)

And then...there were the 

PRIZE RECIPES

cut out from the paper....

They MUST be delicious...

these ladies both won a dollar for submitting the winning recipe...

We just might have to try one for fun...what do you think??

Thanks for coming down a Culinary Memory Lane with us today!

Join us for What's it Wednesday

with Patti & Paula from Ivy & Elephants

for some great inspirations!!

Have a great week!

Karla & Karrie

The Summer Kitchen Girls