Gizmo Tech Support: table setting

This is my bar.
I have a bar, so that when booze hounds
(you know who you are!) come to my house,
I can offer them something other that Crystal Light, or Diet Coke.

Although I showed you this yesterday.....
I just thought I'd show the before picture again.....

when I went to the liquor store to stock up on a properly supplied bar, I was standing in the isles, looking at aaallllll those bottles.
I was trying to figure out which brands to buy.
Now that I only have the occasional cocktail, I don't care as much about which brand of inebriant I purchase.
SO.....
I did what any decorator in her right mind would do.....
I chose the bottles in the prettiest colors!!!!!

I'll show you a closer shot!!!!

I love the color of the gin bottle.
I could claim that it's a little low, 'cuz June and Larry just visited me....
but they were drinking vodka.

A well stocked bar needs a bottle opener.....
and a well stocked tropical paradise bar needs a parrot bottle opener!!!!

Here he is all excited (this is an r-rated reference)
('course, the cork screw is sticking out the wrong way!!)

Maybe not......
It's been so long since I dated.......

Here's my shot glass.
My brother is an ophthalmologist,
I bought this to give to him.....
but being the generous person I am, I kept if for myself!!!

I love collecting cocktail shakers. I know lots of folks do. I have never used mine, I just look at it. I don't want to have to hand wash it. If I make a mixed drink, I do it in a pitcher, although.....
I am like James Bond.....
I prefer my martinis shaken, not stirred.

This is a stainless chrome plated Art Deco shaker with a bakelite handle and knob.
Ah thank it is vera cooolllll!!!!!

These birds are stamped Brazil on their bottoms.
I don't know anything else about them, except I bought them on ebay, they are pottery, I like them.

I bought these lamps a long time ago, they have been in several houses with me. The poor lamp shades are hanging on by a thread,
(ok, not a thread, by a piece of tape)

The bases are carved jade, and go great with my tropical theme.....

Sometimes, If I hang on to something I like long enough, it ends up having someplace to call home!!!!!

Sooooooooo..........
I wanted a pair of wall brackets that had the west indies vibe.
Ya know what I mean????
I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for, so I just kept poking around ebay, trying to keep an open mind.
LOOKY WHAT I FOUND!!!!!
Talk about your tropical flavor!!!!!
I got them really cheap, 'cuz no one else wanted them!!!!!
THE FOOLS!!!!!

I was up north when I found them, so I had them shipped to my friend Lissette's house. I told her to go ahead and open them up.
She thought I had lost my mind.
But when she saw them hung on the wall
she changed her tune!!!!

What good is a wall bracket without a pair of parrots?????

Just one more pair of birds to add to my collection of 1940's pottery.
I love these guys so much, I found another pair that I put in my guest room.
(Pictures to be shown in the near future!!!)

Of course.....
in the middle of this whole mish mass,
is my sunflower painting!!!

This is an original Van Gogh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REALLY!!!
(OK, I'm lying)

And to top it off is another majolica plate. I wanted some sort of
tropical leaf,
but a different one than my water lily plates.....

I think these are cool, they look like banana leaves.

Now, going back to my table setting.....

The bowl, of course, is from Anthropology.

The plate I already talked about,

it's from England, called "Forest Flowers"

made by Woods Burslam.

But I got questions about my flatware.

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT MY NEW FLATWARE!!!

Thank you for being interested, because I just found it!!!

At my very exclusive boutique.....

Home Goods.

There was one package of 4 place settings, and I needed eight.

Soooooooooo.....

I'm thinking "#$%#$%#$%"

I finally have found flatware I want......

I finally have found flatware that will work.....

I finally have found flatware that is well priced.....

and there are only 4 sets of it!!!

Soooooooooooo.....

Being the terrier like decorator that I am,

I went digging through all the boxes.....

AND FOUND ANOTHER BOX OF 4!!!!!!!

YIPPEE!!!!

So on that uplifting note,

I will end here.

Have a lovey rest of your Sunday,

and I'll see you guys Tuesday.

Later, Gator

Partying with:

I just finished off a big bowl of low cal microwaved popcorn, so I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and blog, baby, blog!!!

Thanks for the wonderful response to my Q&A this past Tuesday.

NOW ON TO THE DECORATING!!!!!

I will continue with my dining area.....

This is my dining area.
It is where I dine.
But when I eat, I sit in my TV chair, watching Judge Judy.
My TV chair is where I eat.
Eating is different than dining.
Dining means using utensils.
(I don't always do that)
(If we weren't supposed to use our fingers,
why do we have 10 of them???)
(just sayin')

This is a picture of what my table would look like, if I dined.....

This is a picture of me, earlier today, eating my low cal microwave popcorn..

This is a picture of my usual dinnerware.....

I realize that this is just a bunch of cheap jokes, but I spent a #$% load of time today taking pictures and editing them, and I am bushed, and not up to spending a whole lot more time in front of this infernal contraption called a computer!!!!!

However!!!!!

Before I go, I have to share with the class.....

I know everyone has been freaking out about Picnic closing, but some of the folks at Picnic have started their own company called PicMonkey.

Right now it's free, and I have been having a ball using their software.

Here's a picture before I edited it.....