by Helen Kain | May 9, 2020 | Cakes, Desserts, Holiday, Recipes By Season, Spring Recipes
Our neighbour’s flowering cherry tree is just breaking into bloom. For a few glorious days, its graceful branches festooned with pink blossoms toss in the wind, beguiling us with their beauty. (I will skip over the subsequent unholy mess of disintegrating petals...
by Helen Kain | Apr 23, 2020 | Brown, Featured, Pink and Red, Spring Tablescapes
This china pattern reminded me of a song my daughter Stephanie sang when she was just a little mite: “Spring, spring, spring is in the air I can feel it everywhere And the pussywillows bloom And the pussywillows bloom And the pussywillows bloom in spring.”...
by Helen Kain | May 9, 2011 | Antiques, Ballgown, Cobalt, Pink and Red
It all started with the cobalt urn. It belonged to my grandmother Emily, a calm, serene Yorkshire woman, whom I never heard raise her voice in the entire time I knew her. A survivor of both WWI and WWII, she was steeped in practicality and the art of making do. She...