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‘de-sir-ous [dih-zahyuhr-uhs]‘ by NovemberRoseAtelier

desirous (dɪˈzaɪərÉ™s) — adj (usually postpositive and foll by of ) having or expressing desire (for); having a wish or longing (for) de’sirously — adv de’sirousness — noun

I love making beautiful treasuries on Etsy and I can’t help but share them when I do!

{New Bridal Headpieces are now available in my shop with more to come soon!}

Lily Linen Ruffle Duvet Cove… FullBloomCotta… $749.00	light fixture lamp metal sig… mwest0425 $165.00
NEW – Old Ship Diagram scree… IScreenYouScre… $25.00	Brooch Bridal Bouquet – Roma… TheRitzyRose $675.00
Butterfly photograph – A kin… irenesuchocki $30.00	It Must Have Been the Roses clairelafaye $1800.00
All White- Wedding Invitatio… BeaconLane $4.50	black Ruggedly Chic wingback… bohemiennes $2400.00
Bracelet, Pearl, Vintage Sty… PemberleyColle… $36.00	Cumulus Lampshade GreenWallNL $185.00
Rhinestone Cuff Bracelet wit… fourhandsNYC $50.00	Antique French music sheets,… lapomme $20.00
Ruffled Tablecloth ruffledlinens $195.00	Vintage Painted Cottage Chic… paintedcottage… $395.00
Snowqueen/ Laser cut Shadow … IsabellasArt $15.50	Roses and Lace Wedding Dress andiemcguire $1195.00

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More bridal pieces are on the way soon!  Here is a sneak peek of what is coming early September…

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Every summer my church has what we call a National Campmeeting.  {The old-fashioned kind.}  We meet, camp, praise and worship, fellowship, learn, cook meals, etc. for 10 days.  Yes.  It is always hot, because afterall it is July and in the Ozarks.  We live 10 minutes from our campmeeting grounds and since a lot of my family attends this function, this is the one time of the year that we get to have them at our house.  We usually have some or all over at one time for a big meal and visiting.  Early in the year I had decided that I would host the ladies of my family this summer - any of them that could or would like to come over for a mid-day summertime tea and luncheon.  I promised them that it would not be fancy since we had listed our house and I had packed several of my things away.  So I planned out a nice fun meal, determined to not decorate the table… to just get together!  I am hopeless and I just can’t help it, but the day before I started making big white tissue puffs and tearing book pages from old text books and dictionaries and gluing old pretty stamps to them, creating placemats.  I cut sheet music into napkin rings and remembered I had some washed burlap that would work perfect for table cloths!  Then there are candles and unprinted newspaper that I use for packing and moving… the paper curls quite nicely with a pencil when torn into thin strips!  {A nephew of mine teasingly told me that he was impressed I could decorate with trash!  LOL}Then a mix of mis-matched plates and bowls!  So I pulled off effortless pretty in no time at all!  So much fun!

SUMMERTIME TEA & LUNCHEON MENU

*Mediterranean Chicken Salad {Recipe Below}

*Smoked Ham & Cheese Sandwiches

*Chilled Summer Squash Bisque {Recipe Below}

*Grandma O’Dell’s Southern Oklahoma Lemon Mint Sweet Tea {Recipe Below}

*Bonita Peach Rooibos Tea from The Spice & Tea Exchange

*Sweet Lily White Tea from Teavana

{Ooops!  I forgot about really taking pictures of the food!  Ha Ha!  This just shows you that I have not yet seasoned in blogging!}

*RECIPES*

{Mediterranean Chicken Salad}

6 TBSP olive oil

2 TBSP plus 2 tsp rice vinegar

1 TBSP chopped dried tarragon

1.5 tsp fresh lemon juice

1.5 tsp Dijon mustard

3 C. cups diced broiled chicken

1/2 C. orzo, rice-shaped pasta

1 C. halved cherry tomatoes

1 can artichoke hearts, drained, squeezed, chopped

1/2 C. coarsely chopped pitted Kalamata olives

1/3 heaping cup dried cranberries

1.5 TBSP tablespoons drained capers

Combine oil, vinegar, tarragon, lemon juice, and mustard in small bowl; whisk
to blend. Season dressing to taste with salt pepper. Place chicken in medium
bowl. Mix in 1/4 cup dressing.

Cook orzo in large pot
of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain. Rinse
under cold water to cool; drain well. Transfer orzo to large bowl. Stir in
remaining dressing and toss to coat. Add chicken mixture, tomatoes, artichoke
hearts, olives, cranberries, and capers. Season salad to taste with salt and
pepper and serve.  (Paulette Sexton/Bon Appetit/Epicurious)

*I cannot say enough about this recipe!  It is wonderful!  Thank you to Emily at Jones Design Company for posting it on her blog and sharing her great find!  BTW, read her blog too while you are there!  It is my favorite!

{Chilled Summer Squash Bisque}

6 TBSP Olive Oil

4 Family Tea Bags (I use Luzianne brand.)

12 Sprigs of Fresh Mint

1 Bottle Minute Maid Lemon Concentrate, Thawed

(In frozen juice section at grocery store.)

2 C. Sugar

Boil  half a tea pot of water.  Place 12 Sprigs of Fresh Mint and 4 Family Tea Bags in a glass heat proof bowl.  Remove water from heat and pour over Tea Bags and Fresh Mint.  Poke as much mint under the water as you can.  Cover bowl with lid or plate to steep.  (15 min.)  While tea is steeping, put sugar and thawed lemon concentrate in pitcher.  After tea has steeped, pour on top of lemon sugar mixture and stir until sugar has dissolved.  Add enough water to make 1 gallon of tea.  Chill and serve.

*This is my favorite sweet tea recipe.  I usually do not take my tea sweetened, nor am I a fan of mint in hot tea blends.  However, when it comes to this tea, it is quite another story.  My super good friend Kelly has these wonderful grandparents that live at Lake Texoma.  When Kelly takes her friends to hang out with the Grands, they love you and feed you and kiss you and hug you and treat you like they are your real grandparents.  They are so great!  Oh to be like that!  Full of love and hospitality!!!  Every time I have been to the lake with Kelly and her Grands, Grandma still whips up a big meal and stuffs you tighter than a tick until you can barely breathe.  When you do finally catch your breath you ask her for her recipes!  She majored in Home Economics and Cooking in college after all!

{Bonita Peach Rooibos Tea}

A few years ago I spent the summer chasing the perfect peach tea recipe.  One that was as good as Olive Garden’s Peach Tea.  I found some good recipes, but never exactly what I was looking for.  Then last winter my sister gave me the Bonita Peach Rooibos Tea which she gets from the The Spice & Tea Exchange in West Monroe, La near where she lives.  It is the best Peach Tea!  I love it hot.  I love it iced!  Simply wonderful!

Most of the ladies in my family.  On the left are my two sisters, my mom, my mom’s cousin, my aunt, me, two more of my aunts and one of my sister-in-laws.

More ladies!  Two of my nieces on the left.  Another niece on the right pretending to be a wild ravenous cave-woman!  {This was me when I was 11!}

Oh! and one last fun photo to leave with you!

Sisters – Aunt Irene, Aunt Bula, Aunt Erona, Nina (my mother) and Cousin Vesta

Thanks for joining my Summertime Tea & Luncheon!  It was so much fun, I want to do it again for more ladies!

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As I mentioned in Part 1 of “Catching Up”, we have listed our house for sale…  Here is a wee bit of history.  It has been seven years {impossible it seems} that I left corporate America to be a stay at home wife.  We had a sweet deal really.  We worked at the same oil and gas company.  My husband in Corporate IT and myself in Purchasing.  Situations in my area were becoming stressful and changing so we decided that I would say goodbye and stay at home – work on projects and develop my creative business.  Also, my friend Christi was getting married on a beach in Mexico that year and I wanted to be able to help her pull that together as much as possible.  At that same time, Brent’s job was outsourced to a large company.  He would do the exact same work for the oil and gas company, but he would have a different boss essentially.  As it turned out he was able to work from home and a year later we moved to Neosho, Missouri to be near his family.  Brent has been able to keep the same job which he actually enjoys quite allot.  However recently he has been physically needed onsite in Tulsa more than usual.  With the amount of time he is spending there and many other factors, we have decided to put our house on the market and move back to Tulsa.  I do love Missouri and all the green that nature provides here, the friends and family, but it will not offend me to move back to Tulsa.  After all I am an Oklahoma Girl!!!  However, we want what is best for our lives and whatever is meant to be will be!

I have found photos of when we first bought our home.  I will provide now and before photos as best I can.  This will be fun!

R.A. Henning Home {Built Circa 1850-1866}

2-Story Italianate Style

1.  Our House in 1874     2.  Our House in 1943

1.  2001 – Overgrown  2.  2003 – Waiting for us to buy!

3.  Old Porch Railing  4.  Replica Balusters getting paint!

About a year after purchasing the house, we discovered that the porch was rotting from within.  The flashing and other things {husband’s area here} that help with watershed needed to be fixed along with other repair.  Once my husband tore into the project, it blossomed into an entire new front porch!  That was not totally a bad thing you see because when we bought the home, the original balcony railing, which I have shown the detail of in photo #3, was not there.  Instead there was square plastic pvc porch railing on the balcony.  Blah.  As my husband removed the porch, he kept the curved arches and corbels to use for patterns to  make new ones.  He also did some online research and found a company in Texas that makes replica sawn balusters out of western cedar {for durability}.  Photo #4 shows a temporary sanding and painting station that my husband made.  {He’s crazy cool like that!}

Our Living Room

I love my bay window, chandelier, and my old front door with its crank brass bell made in Carthage, MO in the late 1800′s!  Last fall we repaired the ceiling above the door {remember the secretly rotting porch} and added electrical wiring to the ceiling for a hanging light.  I think this lovely old lady deserves it after 150 years, don’t you?

Our Living Room – Before the Paint and Repair.  We moved in to someone else’s color scheme and lived with it until we could change it to something we liked.

Our Kitchen – Please excuse the raw wood.  Life has gotten busy.  This will be painted!

1.  Kitchen when we moved in.  2.  Partial re-do to get by.

3.  Dinette  4.  Dining Room

The Kitchen.  I love a good kitchen with lots of room.  This kitchen definitely had the room when we bought it.  And the room for potential.  I wish I had more photos of it from when we moved in, but this is all I could find.  The colors and arrangement of the kitchen was so gloomy, dark and made me feel claustrophobic!  Since I enjoy cooking, something had to change here, or we would be dining out every other day!  {smile}  We started on the stove side and re-arranged the layout a little, but not a lot.  We upgraded the stove.  While gas stoves are great for those who like them and know how to cheerily scrub the burners, I chose a flat surface stove with two ovens.  I love it!  I am not sure how life would be if I had to go back to just one oven!  The dinette is just off of the kitchen and opens into the dining room.  Neither of these rooms has changed much except for the lack of window treatments.  I love the view of our yard and can’t cover it up!

1.  Family Room  2.  Family Room before we painted.

3.  Living Room and Room Behind the Living Room

4.  Guest Bedroom

5.  Guest Bath  6.  Guest Bath before we painted.

The Family Room.  Again dark colors.  Deep blue with a border.  {More on borders later!}  I chose a light pink for the walls with brown undertones {so that it wouldn’t look so pink in theory} that would go well with tan trim {fresh coat of paint on that with slight shade change} and chocolate brown curtains and gold and black accents.

The Room Behind the Living Room.  What a mouth full and funny name, but that is what we ended up referring to it as because we didn’t know what to call it.  The people we bought the house from used it as a dining room.  Perhaps it was a parlor when the house was originally built.  As far as we can tell, the original staircase was directly at the front door and not in this “room behind the living room”.  We know this because of where the widow’s walk/cupola landing is located in the attic and where the stairs would have been to access that before it was removed.  {Oh the dreams of “putting the cupola back!”}

The Guest Bedroom has not changed, except in the minor details of window treatments & the Guest Bath, as you can tell, has greatly changed.  One wall was light yellow and pleasing.  The other 3 were light yellow with a layer of brown paint smeared all over the walls.  It appeared to be smeared by hand.  Ick!  All I can hope is that it was great therapy for the painter and that they loved their end result.    I propped some border back up over the mirror for a photo.

1.  Shop with Workbench  2.  Storage Shelves  3.  Workout Room

This house is loaded with storage space!  When we bought the house, a screened in porch encompassed the Breezeway, the end of the Dinette, and a two car garage.  We love screened in porches!  … so we finished out the old garage.  We have used this space so much!  There is also one more room.  My husband’s office for his work from home job.  This room could be converted into a 4th bedroom.  Note:  I have not included photos of the office!  {smile}

Breezeway.  The breezeway is for literally what it says – at least when there is a breeze that is cool and pleasing.  There are very large windows on one end of the breezeway which can be opened.  On the other end there is a large transom window above the back door for opening.  In the spring and fall we can open the windows on both ends and the kitchen door for air circulation through the house.  … or for when something has burnt to a crisp in the kitchen!  {I wouldn’t do that of course!  Not me!}  After we upgraded the kitchen, we put the old porcelain sink in the breezeway.  I use it as a potting / wash sink.  The breezeway is also the hallway to get to the basement and it is between the kitchen, the shop, workout room and office / 4th bedroom.

The Back Porch.  One of my most favorite places to eat a meal in the fall and spring.  Yes.  Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.  Oh and I do venture out in the dead of winter to sip hot cocoa or coffee and watch the steam rise off of my cup!  This porch was screened in and empty when we bought it.  We purchased the swing from the previous owners at a garage sale they were having a week before we moved in.  The swing was on a large frame and made for the yard.  My husband removed the swing from the frame and hung it in the porch for me.  We also added the bead board on the inside of the porch and my husband purchased and wired party lights into a dimmer switch for my birthday a couple of years ago.

{Photos from Bottom Left to Top Right}

1. & 2.  The huge old maples in this yard are exquisite in the fall.  Every year people stop to take pictures of our trees or of themselves with our trees.

I love yards with lots of flowers.  However I grew up in a large garden {well almost in it} and it just isn’t my thing to pull weeds and shape the soil.  My mother and my sisters on the other hand… that is quite another story.  I tend to like flowers that can babysit themselves, with a little water of course.  Now I wish they would just learn to pull the weeds around themselves!  It would be of great assistance!  {smile}

3.  Purple and White Iris  4.  Peonies {My favorite!}  5.  White Daffodil “Frost”  6.  Belladonna Lily aka Surprise Lily aka Naked Ladies {your preference}  7.  A bit of my back yard not long after we moved here.  {Yes, I do plant some things that aren’t perennials.}

This yard blooms with Redbud Trees, Honeysuckle, Tulips {all colors from white to purply black to pink and yellow}, White and Yellow Daffodils, White and Yellow Narcissus, Grape Hyacinth, English Hyacinth, Iris, Dutch Iris, Belladonna Lilies, Peonies, and Orange and Yellow Day Lilies.  There are also lovely ferns, huge hosta and a little herb garden.

I hope you enjoyed my Now and Before photos of our home!  There are a few projects and rooms that I did not include.  Maybe at a later date!

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Wow!  My life is buzzing with busy!  It has been just over two months since my last post.  Spring went out waving her crazy arms like a wild woman and in stepped Summer, no less the erratic.  May was full of things like Mother’s Day get togethers, end of school year choir concerts for two nieces and a friend’s daughter, an 8th grade graduation of a niece with choir performance and end of year awards assembly, a high school graduation for a niece and a friend’s daughter, and a nephew’s high school graduation.  Two days later the Joplin, MO tornado descended its destruction upon Joplin leaving it knarled, torn, and hurting.  A dear sister-in-law was at the Wal-Mart that was demolished.  GOD spared her life and gave her a story to tell.  We are so thankful for her protection and we are glad to have her with us!  Then… a family reunion, birthdays for nephews, mother-in-law, a sudden death of my cousin’s wife, a 50th birthday party for my brother-in-law, Father’s Day celebration… oh and somewhere about the first week of June we decided to put our house on the market!  We’ve been busy touching up, cleaning up, trimming, finishing projects, clearing the clutter, and doing some of those tasks of life that we tend to put off until another day… 

I will leave you with photos of Joplin.  These photos are only from a portion of the area that was damaged. 

Wal-Mart – Where my sister-in-law was when the storm hit. 

She and many others had to tear their way out of this mess and they helped yet others to safety.

This is my Sister-In-Laws Car that was parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot.  It had been moved 180 degrees and the paint and many other things blew off.

Uhm… yes this still drives.  A bit inconveniently, but it does drive!

My sister-in-law usually keeps her car much cleaner than this!  {smile}  I love the sweet little clementine orange in the back seat!

Seriously?  Yes.  The styrofoam cup was unmoved.  Mind the glass when you take a sip!

Looking at Rangeline.  I am unsure of exactly where we were standing when this was taken.

Burger King

Payless Shoesource

Academy Sports

Jo-Ann Fabrics

Yes, this sign is steel.

Looking down a Residential street.

Apartment Complex behind Wal-Mart.

A semi that had been slung across a parking lot.  Notice the skid/scrape marks.

 Note the Pizza Hut Semi.  It was so touching to see corporate trucks and supply trucks pulling in to Joplin by the droves. 

Supplying food for the rescue crews, displaced residents, and the volunteers. 

Johnsonville Brats Semi in Sam’s parking lot.  I could not get a good photo of this, but it made me smile!

The arms of outreach stretched out to Joplin.  Local churches are overflowing with food and supplies and shelter. 

The HEART of America LOVES!

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I have been searching for the perfect bag for a very long time.  Like so long that I am embarrassed to tell you the extent of it!  I am a born organizer; therefore I want pockets and more pockets!  I have found that pockets on the inside of a bag are hard to come by in a regular store bought purse.  So after much deliberation and hunting, I now have exactly what I have been looking for. 

Lots of Pockets  (six to be exact, plus an attached key fob)

Customizable  (I chose black hemp for the outside and gray canvas for the interior)

Simple, yet Feminine  (I love the pleats and simple bow on this bag)

Professionally Made  (handmade yes, but without that homemade look)

Price (a great price)

Check it out for yourself.  She is excellent to work with and prompt.  Worth the 2 week transit wait from Thailand!!!

Ickady Bag

… just passing along some good info indeed!    Have a lovely weekend!!!

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About six months ago, I discovered a wonderful blog.  Every day or so I get an e-mail with a new post.  The posts are always lovely and always inspiring.  Emily is a busy lady, wife, and mother of four who never stops creating and doing and taking pictures so it seems!  She is a stay at home mother and graphic designer.  She makes sweet little cards, invites and pictures for framing.  She hosts Monthly Give-aways and posts Tutorials.  Last summer she even hosted her own Summer Boutique in a freind’s pretty garage.  Sigh… (an old dream I’ve had for ages)  Today she has announced that she is helping a friend with fundraising money for an adoption.  You can read the lovely story HERE.  If you are in the Seattle area, you could actually attend the fundraiser!  But for those of us who can’t attend, you can buy these sweet little flower pins online this weekend instead!  Aren’t they darling?!!

You can purchase them on her site HERE.

… just in time for spring and Mother’s Day!

Cheers for Emily and her desire to help this family!

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Long over due re-do.  What started out to be a simple and quick touch up and paint job of removing wallpaper border and strange crown moulding, that wasn’t even moulding at all, so that I could paint some of that paintable wallpaper that no one had ever painted… turned into layers of wallpaper and squidgy walls underneath and the need to strip it down and paint the plaster.  So my estimated three day job – 1 day to remove my stuff, 1 day to clean, prep, and paint, and 1 day to move everything back in – has turned into several weeks.  After clawing through no less than eight layers of wallpaper, we discovered many spots of plaster patches, crumbling plaster, and a  plywood patch.  All hidden beneath …wallpaper.  Since our house was built circa 1850, there isn’t any insulation in the main part of the house, except for what we added in the attic four years ago.  My husband saw it as a great time to remove all the lath and plaster on the outter walls of my room, insulate the walls and redo the electrical.  Talk about bone-tiring work!  We are getting closer to getting the sheetrock up though.  *smile*

Well, all of this needed to be done, even if it wasn’t in my original quick plan for a simple makeover of fresh paint.  I will post pictures once I get it all put back together again!  I have all sorts of lovely ideas jumping around in my head for what I am going to do with my new creative spot.  I can’t wait to share them with you!

I hope you are finding time to slow down and enjoy this spring season!

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‘White and Ivory {Daily} and for the {Bride}’ by NovemberRoseAtelier

White makes me happy {Daily}

Ring Bearer Pillow . Iv… NovemberRoseAt… $92.00	lyse lace necklace whiteowl $34.00
Lily Linen Ruffle Duvet… FullBloomCotta… $729.00	Bonzie Vintage Inspired… bonzie $220.00
Last Name First – Thank… EllasPaper $30.00	tariff rates and rules sadieolive $14.00
Oysters and Pearls dres… englishdept $1200.00	The Renault- Signed Fin… AliciaBock $35.00
The Easy To Love You Dr… ArmoursansAngu… $475.00	Scalloped Bridal Shrug-… Rohm $185.00
Romantic Vintage Sheet … paperhill $6.00	Vintage Painted Cottage… paintedcottage… $495.00
1940s Paris – Vintage P… StoriesDivinat… $21.00	HOLLYWOOD REGENCY MIRRO… RevivedVintage $84.00
Emily – Eco Friendly We… threadhead $695.00	White Ranunculus 8×8 Fi… lucysnowephoto… $25.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

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I am so excited to share with you my new Ring Bearer’s Pillow and a couple of fresh Blusher Veil designs!  I have just recently added them to my Etsy shop! 

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