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Our favorite recipe is what we call special drink - invented by my mother who is our logo photo.

SPECIAL DRINK

Fill a glass with 1/2 ginger ale and 1/2 cranberry juice.  Drop in a scoop of orange sherbet.

We serve this every Thanksgiving and Christmas - Enjoy

Love Art Deco

I have always loved Art Deco.  The shapes, the designs, the furniture, the buildings - the style just fascinates me.  When I first moved to Cincinnati I was driving in the car and I saw the Union Terminal Building.  I was enthralled.  I tried to figure out how to get there and I drove out front and took pictures.  At the time the building was not open to the public.  I couldn't wait for my chance to see it on the inside. It was opened in the 1930's a beautiful train station with wonderful murals.  It now houses the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Our son Danny and his wife Monica had their wedding reception in my other favorite Cincinnati Art Deco landmark, the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza formerly the Omni Netherland Hotel. It was opened in 1931.   There is beautiful Egyptian decor, flower motifs, ceiling murals, Rookwood fountain with matching seahorses.  Their  reception was housed in the Hall of Mirrors that was  modeled after the Palace of Versailles in Paris. The Continental Room, has striking floor-to-ceiling windows, gorgeous chandeliers and amazing frescoes of the four seasons.

Someday,  I will have a room in my house that is all Art Deco.  I think it will be the office for SVintageCollection.  I guess I will just have to keep collecting.

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Recipe favorite from the Art Deco Era
Mimosa

Ingredients:

• Sparkling Wine, Cava, Prosecco or Champagne (1 bottle)
• Orange Juice (1 carton) or fresh squeezed (much better)
• Triple Sec (optional)

Preparation:

Fill half of a champagne flute with chilled sparkling wine or Champagne (about an ounce) and top off with chilled orange juice (again about 2 ounces), gently stir. If you'd like to add triple sec, just a splash to taste.

Sparklers and Shine for the Holidays

The holiday season will soon be here and everything will be in full BLING.

Sparkly lights on trees,
Candles glowing in windows
Jackets and dresses with lots of sparkles and shimmer
My favorite of course - rhinestone jewelry.

When I was young, I never appreciated the jewelry of the 1940's and 1950's.  I didn't think about the craftsmanship or beauty, being too young to have the fine appreciation.  I find the history of jewelry so interesting.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Hollywood inspired a demand for gorgeous gowns and costume jewelry - it was the glamour era.  Coro and Trifari were the pre-eminent American costume jewelers of the 1940's successfully imitating Art Deco (my favorite era) precious jewels.  Albert Weiss learned to design and make costume jewelry at Coro and in 1942 he founded the Weiss Company.

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Joan Crawford, a famous Hollywood actress helped to popularize Miriam Haskell's designs which by some are considered an art form.  Louis Kramer founded Kramer Jewelry creations and created glistening, exuberant designs.  Lisner, another top designer was known for their much-loved aurora borealis rhinestones.

The next time you look at a vintage designer's jewelry - take a better look.  Notice the shape of the stones, the glisten, the prong sets, the clasps; just like old homes, they just don't make them like that anymore.

My recipe is from the glamour era   This salad just like vintage jewelry is now very much in fashion.



Classic Wedge Salad

Take the outer leaves off an iceberg head of lettuce.
Do not core
Cut in half and then half again or as small as a wedge as you would like.
Top with crumbled bacon, chopped tomatoes and chopped green onions
Dollop creamy blue cheese dressing on top.

Meet the Gardeners - Jeff and Linda

Wow, it's been since last Fall - since I last posted.  We have had a lot going on since our last post in October 2012, but we are now back on track and moving forward with SVintageCollection and the things we enjoy in life.  Gardening has been both our passion for a long time, long before we met each other.  I remember my garden as a young girl next to our corral on West Lake Road on Owasco Lake in upstate New York.  I have always experimented with some success with carrot tops, potatoes, lemon seeds and avocado seeds, pineapple tops and just seeing if I can grow random things.

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So our gardens(s) are planted - tomatoes, corn, potatoes, beans, peppers, beets, carrots, peas, lettuce, greens, chard, watermelon and whatever we can find space for.   One of the things I enjoy is that Jeff and I have a common practice, we plant wherever there is sun and where it can fit.  We mix herbs and plants in our flower garden - front yard/back yard - no matter.

This jewelry selection reminds me of gardening - pretty flowers and birds.  My husband may not always bring me cut flowers, but he plants beautiful flowers and plants what he knows I will enjoy.  Many time he will plant yellow as he knows it is my favorite color.  He knows how much I enjoy watching birds, so he always brings  peanuts home for the bluejays and seed for everyone else.

Jeff loves Rhubarb, so in honor of our very first harvest today, I have published the recipe I baked today for Strawberry Rhubarb muffins.

Serves: Makes 12 muffins.

Ingredients

Rhubarb Muffin:

• ½ cup Greek yogurt (or you could use sour cream)
• ¼ vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1⅓ cups flour
• ⅔ cup brown sugar
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup diced rhubarb & strawberries combined

Pecan Streusel Topping:

• ¼ cup chopped pecans
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp melted butter or margarine

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. First make your streusel: Just combine the pecans, sugar, cinnamon and melted butter, then set aside.
3. Now to make the muffins: In a mixer combine the yogurt, oil and egg. Mix well then set aside.
4. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt.
5. Then add the rhubarb & strawberries and the yogurt mixture, and stir until just combined.
6. Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin liners, and fill each cup about ⅔ full.
7. Add a spoonful of the streusel mixture to the tops of each muffin (distribute it evenly between the 12 muffins).
8. Bake for about 25 minutes.
9. Enjoy!

source: http://www.aprettylifeinthesuburbs.com/2013/05/strawberry-rhubarb-muffins.html