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Crossed Wires

30 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Misc

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Dear Readers,

As you may know, Son #1 created this website for me.  What you may not know is that he works for a huge interactive ad agency all while managing his own websites, one of which is Trojan Wire.  (Please give him a few days before trying to link to this site, he’s in the process of moving the site to serve his readers better).  Trojan Wire is a football site dedicated to USC Trojan fans—I hope this admission didn’t just cost me any UCLA (or other competing football schools) readers!

In any event, he recently moved my site to a new, better server and subsequently moved Trojan Wire.  Some of my subscribers may have gotten an email from Trojan Wire (that showed Garden, Home and Party) in the RE: line.These are little glitches that Son #! is working to remedy.  Thank you for your patience and Fight On!  {Sorry, once a part of the Trojan Family, always a part!}

A wedding shower and beautiful antiques, what more could a girl want?

30 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Antiques, Decorating, Entertaining

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accessories, antiques, Entertaining

I recently attended a wedding shower at a good friend’s home.  We started with a choice of raspberry blini, Champagne and/or iced tea.  (Who can pass up raspberry-anything?).  The two hostesses did such a beautiful job with lunch (Mandarin chicken salad, fresh popovers and strawberry butter; killer cupcakes from a specialty bakery in Newport Beach called Susie Cakes).  Due to my love of antiques and wonderful décor I failed to take pictures of the table with the fabulous meal, sorry.

An overview of Anne's living room

This print and wall sconce is in Anne's dining room.


The bride-to-be was in attendance with her mom and her maternal grandmother and all three women are delightful.  It was also fun to see a few friends I haven’t seen in some time.

…but the best part for me was getting to visit my friend’s beautiful home.  Anne has always had a way of creating a warm and welcoming ambiance while featuring amazing antique pieces and accessories.  She graciously allowed me to shoot a few pictures and while this is but a sampling of her home, there are a couple of antique secretaries with an interesting story (that’s part of the fun in having antiques, right?).

Anne's antique Dutch secretary---this photo doesn't do it justice. I love the blue and white ginger jars on top.

Anne explained, “The Dutch secretary (below) is late eighteenth century (and should probably be in a museum some where) and was given to us by Marr’s grandmother whose father was an antique dealer in Los Angeles.  It has beautiful inlaid marquetry of fruit woods into a walnut veneer.  It is all original except for the brass hardware which was replaced many, many years ago.  One of the fun things about it are the little wooden trays that pull out that would have been used to set candle holders on – simple eighteenth century lighting!  When the doors on the upper portion are closed over the shelves you are able to see the fine marquetry work in all its glory”.

The finish on this English secretary is amazing. Antiques give any room a sense of history and provide a warm and welcoming look, don't you think?

The English secretary (above) is as beautiful as the Dutch piece and stands out in Anne’s living room.  It has such a wonderful story as Anne shares, “The English secretary is, I believe, from the Sheraton period and is all in original condition including the glass.  The only change made to this piece was also the hardware – also done many years prior to our ownership.  We bought this piece from an estate sale when we were first married.  The woman who had the sale owned an enormous, beautiful old home in the Hollywood Hills.  Her husband had been in the film industry in Hollywood and had passed on. She was, at that time, quite advanced in years and was selling the contents of her home and moving to Paris to spend her remaining years.  She had a companion secretary that was just like the one we bought but a bit larger, and that was the only piece she was moving with her to France.  I wish now that I had taken time to know her story more thoroughly, I think there was quite an interesting life history there”.

This little painting (left) catches your eye when you pass it and I had to ask Anne if the artist was famous, she explained, “The little seaside painting is one I gave ML (Anne’s hubby) for his birthday some years ago.  It is by a local artist but I don’t know anything about the person.  I liked it because you could almost feel the windy day and smell the salty air from the way the artist painted it.  I also liked the people in their nineteenth century dress standing on the shore and looking out to sea”.

The painting above the mantle has a story as well---if I remember correctly, Anne's grandma purchased this little painting at Harrod's when she was young. I love the art in Anne's house---she has such an artistic flair.

Her kitchen looks very European---quite an accomplishment when you think about the tract look all of these houses originally featured.

Dining room.

I’m going to be a Grandma!

27 Friday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Uncategorized

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grandchildren, parenting

I have some exciting news to share!  Son #1 and his lovely wife, are expecting a baby girl in November.  This will be our first grand baby, you may know how this feels, unbelievable!

The fun part, at least for me, is that it’s a GIRL.  I get to think pink for the first time.  We have 2 sons and I loved raising boys.  They have been eye opening to an only child (moi) and perfectly delightful, although I will admit, sometimes living with 3 men (hubby made 3) I felt outnumbered.

Now I get to think about dress-up trunks, Fancy Nancy books (I hear little girls love this book!), tea parties and Little Mermaid.

You can buy this book on Amazon, which is why there is a “Look Inside” on the top.

The other fun part is that I’m already thinking of how we can carve out a little space for this grand baby and hopefully future grand babies.  I want to pull down the children books (currently stored in the attic) and set up a bookshelf with all of the books and toys I saved.  Girls don’t mind playing with trains, do they?

Image via Victoria Magazine

I can pull out the Beatrix Potter china that Son #1 used as a child.  This will be so much fun! {smile, sigh}

Image via Victoria Magazine

Now if only I can figure out a way to buy an extra house in Austin, Texas (which is where they live) or buy a plane so I can fly between California and Texas quickly and easily! {smile}

Okay, any of you readers that are grandmas, please give me a clue…I’m going to need some guidance here.

Trader Joe’s — Theo Albrecht, RIP

25 Wednesday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Entertaining, Food, Simple Meals for the Avid Cook

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recipes, Trader Joe's

As some of you may know I love Trader Joe’s.  When I posted this, I mistakenly thought the market was unique to the western United States.   As it turns out there are 340+ locations in 25 states, including Washington D.C.

You can search their website for additional recipes and/or visit a Trader Joe's near you...no, I don't get paid to advertise. I just believe they have such good service and their products and recipes have made meals (when you don't feel like cooking) easy!

Trader Joe’s was founded in 1958 and it has an interesting history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe’s but in 1979 Theo Albrecht purchased the chain, and as co-owner the store has grown and received a nod from Consumer Reports ranking it 2nd Best Supermarket in the U.S.  By the way, Albrecht is my maiden name; do you think Theo could be a distant cousin?

Trader Joes has new items in their store and so that you are encouraged to try them they often have a sample chef cooking and tempting shoppers.

Theo Albrecht passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 88.  I’m sure there is an excellent team of people in charge and Trader Joe’s will continue to provide delicious food that makes entertaining and meal preparation easier, but I did want to take this opportunity to share a bit of history in memory of Theo Albrecht and his involvement with Trader Joe’s as well as a copy of this easy and delicious soup.  I picked up this recipe from their sample chef and have used it many times.

Trader Joe’s Easy Vegetable Soup

Soup

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Ingredients

  • 2 onions, chopped
  • ½ bag frozen 3 pepper medley (available at TJs/frozen food)
  • 1 tablespoon Trader Joe’s crushed garlic (or substitute fresh garlic)
  • 1 package Yves veggie ground round (available at TJs or substitute ground round)
  • 1 28-ounce can red & green pepper marinara (TJs)
  • 1 can bean medley (drained and rinsed – TJs)
  • 1 32-ounce Organic veggie broth (TJs)
  • 2 tablespoons of Tomato splash seasoning (TJs
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Note that all of these items are available at Trader Joe’s but if you don’t have a TJs nearby you can substitute.

Preparation Instructions

Place all ingredients in a large stock pot and simmer for 5 minutes.  When you prepare this using the TJs items it is vegetarian, vegan, low fat and low sodium…and delicious

Serves 8-10

Be _ _ _ _ _ (fill in your name)

23 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Antiques, Decorating, DIY (do it yourself)

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personal style

Melissa Michaels over at The Inspired Room recently posted a great piece on decorating in your own personal style.  Read her piece HERE.  She recommends that you ignore some of the designers who publish their views that certain colors, furniture styles, room arrangements are “IN” or “OUT”.  I get it, there are trends and styles that come and go.

image via Traditional Home

I totally agree with Melissa, her wisdom on decorating one’s home the way you want brought to mind one of the “commandments” of happiness Gretchen Rubin shared on her sight the Happiness Project…to be truly happy you must be _ _ _ _ _ (fill in your name).  It seems to be overly simple in concept, but the truth is, if we can get familiar {and comfortable} with the real person you (respectively} are, the rest comes easy.

image via Coastal Living

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t question the talent or considerable knowledge of most trained design professionals but when it comes right down to it, shouldn’t your home be comfortable and inviting to YOU?!  That should be first and foremost.

Bold choices can come in many guises, paint color is one.

If you struggle with finding a direction for your home may I suggest a search of publications that can plant the seeds of design identity?  Some of us are visual learners {moi}, if we see rooms with colors and furniture styles we like it can provide great insight into our personal style.

Being K.A.R.E.N means a few horse paintings, even though I don't live on a ranch or own a horse.

There are more websites than I can begin to post links  to here, but sites like Mustard Seed Creations, Cote de Texas, Things that Inspire, paper{whites}, The Lettered Cottage, French Kissed, Holly Mathis Interiors, Centsational Girl and The Inspired Room and full of great ideas and a good place to start your search if that’s what you feel you need to determine your own personal style.

Art is a great way to reflect your style and interests.

If you are already in tune with your tastes, these sites and others can give you the inspiration to tackle that design project to continue your adventure in feathering your nest.  It may take time but you will succeed!

Simple Summer Meal

20 Friday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Dessert, Entertaining, Food, Simple Meals for the Avid Cook

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Entertaining, recipes, tablesettings

I live in Southern California and somehow we were cheated our summer!  To be perfectly honest, I don’t miss the heat, but the sunshine, which SoCal is known for, is missing as well.  We get a burst of it sometime around 1:00 PM daily but honestly, is there anything better than waking up to a sunny morning?

So, I decided I needed to move my casual dinner for good friends indoors on Saturday evening.  We enjoyed our appetizer in the atrium and found it was relaxing and comfortable—but the idea of sitting on the patio for dinner seemed out of the question.  Its August for goodness sake!  We shouldn’t have to worry about cold this time of year.

My menu was:   Appetizer:  Skewered Greek Salad by Giada De Laurentis, roasted almonds.  Dinner:  Grilled Citrus Salmon (recipe below), Roasted Baby Potatoes with Herbs (Giada De Laurentis) and Barefoot Contessa’s Panzanella (from her Parties cookbook/her 2nd) and Dessert:     Mocha Alaska Pie (recipe below).

This is delicious and easy and you can assemble the skewers the morning of the dinner. Thanks to my friend Alison at paper{whites} for introducing me to this recipe.

Sorry for the slightly blurred picture.

This picture doesn't do this recipe justice---I really have to learn to take better photographs of food.

Since dessert was my favorite part of this particular meal I thought I’d start with that recipe:  Note, I couldn’t find my pie plate (I’m wondering if I got rid of the Corning pie plate in anticipation of purchasing an Emile Henri pie dish from Williams Sonoma, and then never got around to it?!)  In any event, I prepared this recipe and put it in a glass loaf pan—it really looked nice and the taste certainly didn’t suffer.  So here goes, super easy:

Mocha Alaska Pie (Loaf)

Mix:

1 cup finely crushed chocolate cookie crumbs (I used chocolate cat cookies from Trader Joe’s in the food processor and made crumbs).

¼ cup butter, melted

1 tablespoon sugar

Press into the bottom of a 9” pie dish or a Pyrex loaf pan or  (if you use a loaf pan, generously line the bottom and side of the pan with plastic wrap so that when you are ready to remove the dessert you can get it out of the loaf pan without problem, you will not be able to bake it using this method but it didn’t seem to matter.  The crust held together perfectly and tasted delicious)

If you use a pie plate you can bake the crust for 10 minutes at 350° then cool completely.

Meanwhile, let ice cream sit on counter for about 10-15 minutes to soften slightly.

1 pint of coffee ice cream (you can substitute the coffee ice cream with chocolate if you don’t like coffee flavor)

1 pint of vanilla ice cream

1 jar of hot fudge sauce

Once the ice cream has softened spoon the coffee ice cream over the crust and press to even it out.  Then repeat with the vanilla ice cream.  Freeze.

Just before serving add hot fudge sauce over top and serve—yummy!  If you wanted to kick it up another notch you could roast almonds and sprinkle those over the top of the fudge.

Grilled Citrus Salmon (recipe from a 2004 Bon Appetit magazine)

Serves 6

1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

4 cloves of garlic, minced

2 dashes ground red pepper (cayenne)

2 dashes salt

1 teaspoon dried basil (fresh can be substituted)

2 teaspoons capers

3 pounds salmon, fresh, cut into serving size portions

In a small saute pan over medium heat, combine the lemon juice, olive oil, butter, mustard, garlic, red pepper, salt, basil and capers.  While stirring, bring to a boil.  Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Place salmon pieces skin side down on a piece of heavy duty foil with the edges folded up to make a pan.  Pour the sauce evenly over the fish.

Prepare your BBQ to medium fire/heat.  Place the foil pan (with fish) on the grill and cover with a lid.  Barbecue for 10 to 12 minutes, depending on thickness of serving portions.  The fish will be light pink and flaky when cooked.

More recipes next week.

A cottage…love at first sight

18 Wednesday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Antiques, Decorating, Designer

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antiques, cottage, design, Randy Boyd

I first met this cottage (okay, I know you can’t really meet a home, but I feel you can make a connection with certain houses and/or rooms) when I opened the November 2004 issue of Cottage Living Magazine (which has ceased to exist {sad}).

This is the dining room that captured my attention in Cottage Living Magazine. Since the addition it looks as though the dining room is in a new location in the home.

From the first page of the feature on the Laguna Beach cottage I knew it was love.  As it turns out this cottage is not very far from where I live.  It’s located in Laguna Beach; I live in Irvine—a short drive from this coastal slice of paradise.

 

The cottage is owned by Randy Boyd, a designer who has a rich family history tied to Laguna Beach.

This is the cover of Cottage Living Magazine—the warmth of this room won my heart!

You can visit Thurston / Boyd Interior Design website HERE which features their work.  But its Randy Boyd’s 1930s, shingle-clad cottage that is charming beyond words, with a comfortable and inviting sophistication that has captured my heart.

I even love the car in the driveway!

This is the living room before the remodel.

“Ocean Peek” as Boyd named it, is now 1,5__ square feet but the Cottage White walls and exposed beam ceiling make the home appear larger than it is.  The house, when it appeared in Cottage Living Magazine was only 970 square feet.  Romantic Homes Magazine, November 2009 features the remodeled, enlarged home.

Master Bedroom

One of my favorite features of the Cottage Living piece was the original dining room off the patio and had ceiling to floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.  Boyd uses antiques but there is a relaxed, traditional ambiance about the rooms, nothing stuffy.  The use of lanterns was inspired.

Accessorizing…icing on the cake.

16 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Antiques, Decorating

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accessories

As a follow up to my post of last week…more thoughts on accessorizing.

The components of an inviting home are many.  A house can have “good bones” as they like to say and still not be warm due to an ineffective layout of furniture, proportion / scale of furnishings and/or any number of other factors.

My friend Carla has a talent for not only finding wonderful antique accessories but for displaying them as well.

That said, I do know,  for me personally, accessories can make or break my impression of a home.  I believe that accessories should be personal and reflect the interests / history of its owners.  The accessories are always my favorite part.  If items are placed well (grouping small items has a greater impact) they create interest and a beauty that for me makes the room sing.  The mementos of ones travels or family pictures make a home seem inviting.

My library features my favorite accessory, dogs!

I realize that this is a topic that has as many opinions as there are homeowners who care enough to ‘feather their nests’.  I don’t like accessories that appear to be too matchy-matchy, too plastic (you know, fake age), or are too contrived.  I prefer interesting items that look as though there was some story to tell…something with history.

Isn't this a beautiful piece?! Carla is Queen of eBay.

You can always add a little history by collecting vintage or antique items that appeal to you.  Collecting is so much fun and the hunt is about 75% of it!  Tag or garage sales, thrift stores and some antique stores that host several vendors have a great many things that aren’t expensive.  Shop your parents, grandparents and relatives houses for items with a family history and many times they will be so pleased you are interested they will give you the first item for your collection.

Accessorizing can be fun and truly provide the “icing on the cake (home)”.

Recipe of the week: In-n-Out Burger

13 Friday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Food

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In-N-Out Burger, recipes

If you love good burgers (and who doesn't?) this truly is delicious!

With my commitment to more recipes I am posting one that some of my more sensible friends won’t want to try—I mean, does this look healthy, low calorie or low fat?  And they (smart friends that I know) would be right, that the answer to the above questions are, no, no and no.  But I’m here to tell you, this is worth extra time on the elliptical machine or jogging track!

I prepared the recipe (link) after Son #2 requested it.  {I love it when my family requests a specific recipe!}  It later appeared on Son #1’s blog site so it must be a hot ticket item on the web.

Hubby, Son #2 and I all agree, it really does taste like In-N-Out (for those of you east of Utah, this is a small, family owned burger stand that has been around since 1948 and their burgers are legend!  They now have over 200 locations and when you drive by they always have a line at the drive-thru.

Note, it’s important (I believe) to have your butcher grind the chuck roast for these, as the recipe calls for—my market butcher was happy to accommodate my request.  Also, Ore-Ida makes some frozen fries called “Fast Food Fries” and they were a pretty good side for these delicious burgers.

So lace up your jogging shoes and once you’ve tried this recipe you can run off the calories!

Details: Accessories or Knick knacks?

11 Wednesday Aug 2010

Posted by Karen B. in Antiques, Decorating

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details of a home, home accessorizing

I love accessories, I don’t especially love clutter.  I realize that one person’s accessories are another person’s clutter but I don’t think I’d enjoy my home nearly as much without the “stuff” that I treasure.

Sometimes something as practical as an umbrella stand can add the touch that an entry may need. Image via Southern Accents, Carol Glasser home.

I take my lead from a lot of magazine pictures {Veranda, Traditional Home, Southern Accents before it closed}, blog sites {Cote de Texas, French Kissed, The Lettered Cottage} that inspire and friends whose homes I admire.

For me, Charles Faudree of Tulsa is KING of accessories.

Who knew a picnic basket on a sofa table could add charm to an already lovely room? Image via Country Living Magazine.

But…there is always a little self doubt that plays in my mind when I’m arranging my “stuff”…like is my house starting to look like my Grandma’s used to?  Loaded with knick knacks?

I love the simplicity of these silver items and only one of the footed pieces has anything on it, so pretty.

I guess we all have to figure out what we love and arrange things and maybe even change them out as seasons come and go to create interest and to avoid “over accessorizing” if there is such a thing, right?

I love using natural items in the grand scheme of accessorizing.

Plates as wall hangings, wow! Image via Country Living Magazine

Framed prints can make an ordinary wall look amazing.

What do you like to accessorize with?  Do you like clean lines and minimal fuss, or do you love to display your treasures?

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