Showing posts with label Happy Fourth of July!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Fourth of July!. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July- and celebrating our 250th celebration of America's historic milestone- 1776 to 2026! I remember as a child in 1976 being taken to Williamsburg, Virginia at the age of 11 years old to visit the 'Freedom Train" that traveled the United States with all sorts of memoriabilia - the dress Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz, and one of the pairs of the Ruby Red Slippers, Will Chamberlain's sneakers, and other items too, that had to do with sports and movies, but also historic items as well. It overwhelmed as a kid. My husband and I went all out to decorate this year on the house, with red, white and blue bunting and little flags next to the greyhound statues The house really looked nice this year. 


For our table decor, we are using our Staffordshire Liberty Blue Independence Hall plates and the Paul Revere teacups and saucers. I am still working on getting the bowls, and bread and butter plates. This set has different scenes on each plate, etc. The teacup saucers have the Old North Church on them. I purchased the navy blue napkins and tablecloth off of Ebay, as well as the rhinestone flag napkin rings. The flag placemats and runner I got off of Poshmark, they were really a lucky lot find. 









i had already shared the Fourth of July photos of our June / fourth of july doll club meeting, and we had some fabulous doll red white and blue photos from that meeting!
Here is one of my favorites- Linda's Uncle Sam with her 250 eagle plate!




















 

Friday, July 4, 2025

Happy Fourth of July!

 Happy Fourth of July! One of my favorite holidays- mostly because I love the patriotic color combinations of red, white and blue! Also the summer foods associated with the holiday are so much fun to create and cook- hamburgers, hot dogs, fried green tomatoes, potato salad, macaroni salad, deviled eggs, cole slaw, pickles, relishes, fruit salads, watermelon, lemonade, sweet tea, and cake, ice cream, and so on. 

 Here are some photos from the archives. Have a safe and Happy Fourth of July!















                                                                             



















                                               Fourth of July dinner from a few years ago-

                                  from the archives. 























Saturday, July 6, 2024

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July! (belated post!)




I was busy on the holiday and managed to take some new photos of the Gene and Tonner girls that day in their holiday attire out front near our flag. This year we managed to plant our potage garden around the flag pole. This contains our bell and cayenne peppers, our Mr. Lincoln and White Floribunda roses, and our two different varieties of Marigolds, as well as our bachelor buttons/ cornflowers. A potage garden is a garden that contains both vegetables and flowers, in a decorative and useful / pleasing manner. My husband and I have been consulting French and English gardening books and the Flag pole garden was a small way to work on one of these small beds. 

But back to Fourth of July! More dolls enjoying the holidays!














Happy Fourth of July!