How delightful it must be to be invited to your home. With your sweet touches, attention to detail, cohesive colors.....all are a feast for the eyes and the heart. I am sure there was lots of good food and laughter. Just lovely!
Blue and white anything is a winner,and those napkin rings,then the small gift boxes.Forget the food ,I could could just stare at the table,feast for the eyes.All the best,job well done!
Mary, your table is stunningly beautiful. I love blue and white and use it as accents in my house. I envy your book club and wish I could join. When I have book club, I serve a quiche, pastries that I bake and of course, tea, flavored ginger & orange water and coffee. I wish you had shared your menu. I have read that book and enjoyed it. Cheers, Patricia
You truly are a wonderful hostess. The tablescape is a feast for the eyes. I am sure your guest will appreciate the effort you put into it. Blue and white are favorite colors for decorating. It's no surprise that most of my clothes are comprised of those colors :) I just finished reading the latest edition of Victoria magazine which featured Blenheim Palace. The interior is just as extraordinary as the exterior. Perhaps you can ask Lady Spencer Churchill how far back are the oldest books in that extensive library. Thank you 🌹
Hello Mary, Such a beautiful table scape!! It's Stunning! I Love the blue and white pieces you used. Love your tea cups as well! Your napkins are beautiful!! What a great gift and gift box you chose!! Hope you have a Wonderful time! Enjoy!
Mary your room looks ready for royalty! Wow! You’re such an inspiration and those gifts are a wonderful idea. Bless you for sharing that talent with us🤗❤️Blue & White forever new!
Oh Mary it’s truly beautiful! I’m a blue and white lady since I can remember. Blue willow reigns supreme in my house among other things blue and white. Well done 👍💕
Love 💗 Love 💗 the table Setting, I love blue and white like most people and pink and green. Combinations that are so timeless ❤ Thank you Mary, I hope that you had a very nice time with your friends. See you next week ❤
How beautiful - the table setting, plates, cutleries, everything really! Right up my alley. Love white and blue combo, my absolute favourite! And enjoyed the book review, too, as always. (a follower from the Philippines)
What a superb review of a gorgeous book. I love your tablescape, and have ordered The Lost Bookshop, too. So glad I got to watch this. Blessings on your head.
Hi Mary ! The book ... welll who doesn't love Blue&White?? your table setting is stunning ! room for one more ??haha . Have a joyful weekend friend ! Paula
Hello Mary, I enjoyed this review of Blue and White Done Right. I also enjoyed watching you set yet another beautiful dining room table. I love hosting and setting a beautiful table and you Mary definitely has that magic touch! I loved the story of your flatware and how you acquired it. Such beautiful napkins and napkin rings and those beautiful and thoughtful favors!! I just know your guest were impressed and had a wonderful visit. I look forward to next week and hope you have a wonderful one! Hi to Dan! Hugs! :)
I have collected blue and white chinoiserie for 30+ years and thoroughly enjoyed watching you set your table. Beautiful touches! Loved your pagoda napkin holders!
Beautiful table setting, I really like the pagoda napkin rings. I love blue and white it's what I have in my kitchen, breakfast nook and family room areas with ginger jar lamps and accessories. The book this week was interesting, some of the decor was a little heavy for me but that's just me. I look forward to next week very much, I remember many years ago visiting the Churchill estate of Blenheim palace, a beautiful place. I have enjoyed Ms Churchill's designs in other publications. I hope your book club get together goes very well. Take good care and see you next week
I will not be able to share the book about Blenheim until September, but I needed to get the questions for Lady Henrietta in advance of the review. Thanks for watching and I hope you also have a great week! 💗
Exquisite tablescape!! I'll watch this video many times. I'm so excited about your next video...I can't think of what I'd ask, but I'm very much looking forward to it. Thank you so very much for this lovely video!!
What a lovely, lovely book club table!!!! And sweet place setting gifts as well! What lucky club members ... perhaps they need another to make it six? 😄Thanks also for your mention of both books you've enjoyed and the one the club is scheduled to discuss. Please continue to mention books you enjoy; your comment about hating to see the story end represents the type of books I like to read. I've ordered both! Thank you, Mary!
Blue and White Done Right…. Such a great book ! Like many people I love this classic color combination. My home is done in these colors, Nantucket Fog ( by BM) is my go to accent color to the point I have to stop myself at times. My friend says that I just like the name. Your table setting is so beautiful. All your wonderful details ! I’m sure your book club friends felt so flattered and welcomed when they saw it. I love the story that 35 years later your mother in law remembered that you liked it and gifted it to you. I have a similar pattern my mother gave to me from Gorham. She use to give me full freedom to set our dining table for holidays and special occasions with a few hints from her along the way. I cherish them. Thank you Mary for another lovely video and book. Have a lovely weekend.
I searched online for the Benjamin Moore Nantucket Fog- what a dreamy blue. The freedom of setting the table is something my grandmother let me do and I loved her gentle encouragement. Thank you for sharing this comment and your memories! I hope you have a great week!
Be still my heart! Blue and white is a long-time passion of mine. I was unaware of this beautiful book, so thank you for sharing it. And I ADORE your blue and white table! I know this is a video I’ll return to again and again!
I have to watch my favorite videos in 3 speeds. Slow, slower, and normal, and after watching with sound I put it on silent. I am going to paint the great room with 30 foot ceiling and the walls after the floors are polished sh he’d this week.
As usual, everything quite exquisite. I have somewhat of a similar story to your silverware, but this involved an emerald ring. May being my birth month emerald is my gemstone. I had noticed my supervisor at work one day had this gorgeous emerald ring on her finger and I said that is the most beautiful ring. A few short years later when she was going through a divorce I showed up to work and she had popped that ring on my desk and said this is for you. I said what the heck? She said you are the only one who ever complemented it, and it wasn’t even the emerald ring I wanted. I could not believe my eyes. I accepted it gratefully, and prized it, for it was the only gemstone I owned. After 25 years, I still carry that ring around. It’s packed away in a small little Coco Chanel bag with a couple other heirlooms. However, I hid it somewhere in this camper and for some reason cannot find it. This is breaking my heart but when I move over to the small little house I’m building I’m going to tear this camper apart and I mean literally lol because this camper is not going to be hauled away until I find my prized emerald ring. And if that doesn’t work, I’m considering Hipnosis. L O L.
I love blue and white. I have three sets of blue and white and I sometimes mix and match. I have blue and white Lochs of Scotland by Royal Warwick, each piece depicts a Loch in Scotland, you would love them. This set belonged to my grandmother.❤ I also have blue and white Liberty Blue, depicting a different colonial scene on each piece such as Washington Crossing the Delware, Paul Revere on his horse, Betsy Ross, Independence Hall and a few others. Finally, I have Blue Willow. I love each set. I have four other sets of dishes, but the blue and white are my favorites. I loved everything about your table setting. As always a great review. Linda
Linda, your loch plates intrigued me, and I searched online to find them. I LOVE THEM. The Liberty Blue has always been a favorite of mine. Thanks for sharing this comment and thanks for watching!
What a great book, my kitchen is white with lots of blue flower arrangements and accessories 💙... and your table looks beautiful!! Thank you once again for another inspiring video!!
Loved this book review and will be adding this little book to my own 'collection'. I feel sure these authors appreciate your reviews and helping to sell their beautiful books. Your own table was pretty as any picture I have seen. How lovely, fun and enjoyable to prepare for your friends...they won't want to leave. We all love and appreciate you Mary! Next week!! My question would be to Lady Spencer Churchill ~ her thoughts on wallpaper and how long does she think this popular trend will continue, perhaps on and on?
Sweet Mary, The book on blue and white makes me so home sick. My family home in Wallace that I sent you the picture of had over a 100 blue and white platters between the breakfast room and the kitchen. They were enhanced by blue and white toile fabrics. It was so beautiful and I too loved anything Napoleon and Josephine and visited the largest exhibit ever of their lovely thing including the throne room in Memphis Tennessee!
Mary, your table was absolutely beautiful. Where did you find those pagoda napkin holders? I would love to have even one. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us.
How bizarre, I’m hosting a dinner party for eight tonight for my husband’s birthday…….you guessed it, blue and white Spode and Noritake dinnerware mixed together, with white chargers, and cobalt blue water glasses, a blue & white chinoiserie tablecloth and white linen napkins. I’ve recently discovered your YT channel, and I have been going through your backlog of vlogs at a rate of about 3 a day…. Great concept for interior design aficionados. Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. 😊
I hope the dinner party went well. It sounds like it was beautiful and classic. I hope you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching and sharing your comment.
What an enchanting table scape for your book club Mary! My personal style is blue and white and pops of color with it. As such I enjoyed the book and just had to watch it 3X for the delightful 'eye candy' that we get to enjoy weekly thanks to your exceptional filming and editing, production. When watching each of your videos, I never want them to stop! I enjoy them so much, and hope you enjoy making them for us as much. RE Blenheim: Please ask what is her favorite part of owning such a world renowned "home" and does she ever wish to run away from the constant upkeep and taxes on it?? Is it raining as much there as it is in The Golden Isles this summer? I still haven't been up to Savannah. I heard about a new hotel and it has a restaurant. I think I will check it out when I get there. XOXO Bren
Ooh Mary I want to be in your book club and go to your house for a lunch! My youngest niece is called Josephine and Ive been thinking of what little gift I could include in her care package that references empress Josephine, those cameos look so cute!
Mary, this was a clever finish to a beautiful book review! I love it all! Blue and white ginger jars! And white hydrangeas! Is there an extra place at this stunning table for one more reader? 😁
I love Blue and White and have some sprinkled throughout our house here. I really like the Delft pottery with the sailboats. I do have this book and LOVE the building with the blue/white tile on the outside [pg 11], except the cherub’s - we have a no cherub rule in our house which helps keep me from buying some items honestly. I always love your dining room wall mural and wish I could use one in our house here but our house is a 1935 art deco bungalow in Miami with textured walls that make it hard to add paper and hand painting has it’s costs. Your table scape with the little gifts. You are always a very thoughtful hostess.
The "no cherub rule" is cracking me up. YOU are the only cherub your house needs! I'm not sure how effective they are. I have heard that 2 cherubs guarded the gates into the Garden of Eden, yet somehow, a snake was let in! 😃
@@thetartantopiary we have a couple sets of Foo Dogs for that. Cherub’s just look like chubby little children and sometimes with wings. Just a little creepy. HAHAHA.
Question: I would like to know who or what inspires Lady Spencer-Churchill’s work. The book review, well yet another book I so want! Great ideas in this one. The table setting, absolutely gorgeous! Blue and White has to be a big favorite color palate of mine and I have a rather large collection of blue and white urns that I ADORE! I might have to source some fabric and do a runner like yours, I love that. Brings the whole table together. Your gift idea for the book club guests is so thoughtful and appropriate. What a lovely idea. Thanks again Mary.
Quiche Lorraine, asparagus, orange & cranberry muffins, with a small fruit salad. Instead of using ham, I made the quiche with turkey and it was great!
@@Al-cd2bk www.jayesstudio.com I’m not sure if they still have those particular napkin rings available, but all of their Fall related items are 50% off.
Quiche Lorraine, asparagus, orange & cranberry muffins, with a small fruit salad. Instead of using ham, I made the quiche with turkey and it was great!
Question for Lady Churchill: how do you avoid over decorating when a house is finished (and you love it)? Do you move on to a fresh canvas, do you restrain your creative urge, do you start over, do you limit acquisitions to one in/one out?
Be still, my heart. We Southern girls love our blue and white -- although it's trendy, most of us old fartlettes grew up with it...but as I live and breathe -- never saw napkin pagodas like these. Can you source them? Do tell!
www.themonogramshopnc.com/ They actually have my Easter napkins on the first page of their website. I had a set monogrammed with Daniel's initials and my initials.
Question for her please: what do you want or see for the future of this great home moving forward?Its place or relevance in design as well as culture here and abroad?Thanks!
I found them at Jayes Studio (online) but I do love The Enchanted Home! The Carolyne Roehm selection has some Lily of the Valley glasses that I have fallen in love with.
Hello, I would like you to ask Lady Spencer-Churchill, how she really feels to have tourists invade her home. I had a tour decades ago, on a bus tour and so many women back then, disrespectfully took the tour with curlers still in their hair and I was horrified for the family who might be looking out their windows!
Most of these suggestions are so overdone that it brings up question marks about the mental state as well of the person decorating like this as also those who publicize it. This is NOT decoration, this is a nightmare for every normal person. If you think this is beautiful get a shrink.
Love blue and white. Your table scape is beautiful
How delightful it must be to be invited to your home. With your sweet touches, attention to detail, cohesive colors.....all are a feast for the eyes and the heart. I am sure there was lots of good food and laughter. Just lovely!
Love your beautiful tablescape, especially the adorable napkin holders and gifts. Your style is maaaahvelous, Daaaahling! 😂
No, YOU are maaaahvelous, but seriously, you are!
It's good to see your calming video in this world of chaos... blue and white, my very favorite design element... heaven for me!
Thank you for that kind encouragement. I love that I can provide a moment of calm!
Blue and white anything is a winner,and those napkin rings,then the small gift boxes.Forget the food ,I could could just stare at the table,feast for the eyes.All the best,job well done!
Thank you very much. I really do appreciate that.
It was so fun to watch you set your table! What a treat your guests will have!
I appreciate that and thanks for watching!
I just love the way you do the presentations. It gives me so many new ideas, while it is so classic.
I'm so glad!
Love the blue and white
So beautiful! Please from where you got your napkin ring ?
Mary, your table is stunningly beautiful. I love blue and white and use it as accents in my house. I envy your book club and wish I could join. When I have book club, I serve a quiche, pastries that I bake and of course, tea, flavored ginger & orange water and coffee. I wish you had shared your menu.
I have read that book and enjoyed it. Cheers, Patricia
P.S. love the background music
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You are a "gift" in the UA-cam environment.
Thank You.💎
What a very thoughtful thing to say! Thank you.
You truly are a wonderful hostess. The tablescape is a feast for the eyes. I am sure your guest will appreciate the effort you put into it. Blue and white are favorite colors for decorating. It's no surprise that most of my clothes are comprised of those colors :)
I just finished reading the latest edition of Victoria magazine which featured Blenheim Palace. The interior is just as extraordinary as the exterior. Perhaps you can ask Lady Spencer Churchill how far back are the oldest books in that extensive library. Thank you 🌹
Hello Mary, Such a beautiful table scape!! It's Stunning! I Love the blue and white pieces you used. Love your tea cups as well! Your napkins are beautiful!! What a great gift and gift box you chose!! Hope you have a Wonderful time! Enjoy!
Thank you so much.
The table is beautiful. You’re an artist.
I don't know about that, but I certainly do appreciate your encouragement!
Your tablescape is charming and a feast for the eyes. I like blue and white everything! Thank you for sharing your love of all things beautiful.
Thank you for the kind comment!
Beautiful table and lovely silverware story 😍
Fabulous table! Wish I could be there and be part of your book club!
Oh My!!!!! Lemon Squeezy, Part Deux!!!! Bravo!👏👏👏
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And we can't forget Blooming Meadows! 💐🌷🌼
I just love Blue and White! Thanks for the delightful video!❤❤❤
I wait for it every Friday!
I appreciate that, thank you!
Mary your room looks ready for royalty! Wow! You’re such an inspiration and those gifts are a wonderful idea. Bless you for sharing that talent with us🤗❤️Blue & White forever new!
Oh Mary it’s truly beautiful!
I’m a blue and white lady since I can remember.
Blue willow reigns supreme in my house among other things blue and white.
Well done 👍💕
Thank you very much!
Love 💗 Love 💗 the table
Setting, I love blue and white like most people and pink and green. Combinations that are so timeless ❤
Thank you Mary, I hope that you had a very nice time with your friends.
See you next week ❤
Thank you, Dulce. I love pink and green also. That color combination deserves a book!
The gift boxes are a wonderful addition!
How beautiful - the table setting, plates, cutleries, everything really! Right up my alley. Love white and blue combo, my absolute favourite! And enjoyed the book review, too, as always. (a follower from the Philippines)
What an amazing table set up 🌸🌸🌸 right up my alley!
I pretended I was one of your guests at the table 😁😁😁
Love your gracious placement of the two dining chairs.
What a superb review of a gorgeous book. I love your tablescape, and have ordered The Lost Bookshop, too. So glad I got to watch this. Blessings on your head.
Love the pagodas! Great program!
Your table is just so lovely! Love it all!❤
Thank you!
Love your story of the silver from your mother- in-law, I am retiring my silver and giving to my granddaughter !!!!
This will be such a special gift. I see "the passing of the silver" as momentous, and almost worthy of ceremony!
Dear Mary you always put a smile om my face.🌼🌼🌼and inspire me❤such a summer breeze your table🌞
Thank you, that makes me happy.
Hi Mary ! The book ... welll who doesn't love Blue&White?? your table setting is stunning ! room for one more ??haha . Have a joyful weekend friend ! Paula
Of course I have room for you! Don't be late. 😄
@@thetartantopiary haha so sweet !! I'm never late , I'm an early bird !!
Hello Mary, I enjoyed this review of Blue and White Done Right. I also enjoyed watching you set yet another beautiful dining room table. I love hosting and setting a beautiful table and you Mary definitely has that magic touch! I loved the story of your flatware and how you acquired it. Such beautiful napkins and napkin rings and those beautiful and thoughtful favors!! I just know your guest were impressed and had a wonderful visit. I look forward to next week and hope you have a wonderful one! Hi to Dan! Hugs! :)
Thank you so much for sharing your blue and white table. Very delightful!
This was so beautiful from the book to your gorgeous table setting. Thank you for sharing
Beautiful tablescape Mary!
I have collected blue and white chinoiserie for 30+ years and thoroughly enjoyed watching you set your table. Beautiful touches! Loved your pagoda napkin holders!
I so enjoy your videos! The table scape is so lovely! I’m sure your guests were in awe of how beautiful it looked! 😍
I appreciate your kind words. Thank you!
Beautiful table setting, I really like the pagoda napkin rings. I love blue and white it's what I have in my kitchen, breakfast nook and family room areas with ginger jar lamps and accessories. The book this week was interesting, some of the decor was a little heavy for me but that's just me. I look forward to next week very much, I remember many years ago visiting the Churchill estate of Blenheim palace, a beautiful place. I have enjoyed Ms Churchill's designs in other publications. I hope your book club get together goes very well. Take good care and see you next week
I will not be able to share the book about Blenheim until September, but I needed to get the questions for Lady Henrietta in advance of the review. Thanks for watching and I hope you also have a great week! 💗
Love the beautiful blue and white tablescape. The napkin holders are adorable; ditto for the book boxes.
Who doesn't like blue and white!! Beautiful
I absolutely love your table and the gift boxes are so cute!!
Read your book club book....loved it ❤❤
Exquisite tablescape!! I'll watch this video many times. I'm so excited about your next video...I can't think of what I'd ask, but I'm very much looking forward to it. Thank you so very much for this lovely video!!
Love blue and white. Caught a glimpse of my favorite Azulejo tiled Portuguese buildings in the book! I have a small collection of Portuguese pottery❤
What a lovely, lovely book club table!!!! And sweet place setting gifts as well! What lucky club members ... perhaps they need another to make it six? 😄Thanks also for your mention of both books you've enjoyed and the one the club is scheduled to discuss. Please continue to mention books you enjoy; your comment about hating to see the story end represents the type of books I like to read. I've ordered both! Thank you, Mary!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I also hope you are staying cool in this heat.
Whats for lunch and can I come? Nice job Mary. Can't wait for the next book😊
Yes, you are certainly invited, and don't be late! We are having Quiche Lorraine.
Blue and White Done Right…. Such a great book ! Like many people I love this classic color combination. My home is done in these colors, Nantucket Fog ( by BM) is my go to accent color to the point I have to stop myself at times. My friend says that I just like the name. Your table setting is so beautiful. All your wonderful details ! I’m sure your book club friends felt so flattered and welcomed when they saw it. I love the story that 35 years later your mother in law remembered that you liked it and gifted it to you. I have a similar pattern my mother gave to me from Gorham. She use to give me full freedom to set our dining table for holidays and special occasions with a few hints from her along the way. I cherish them. Thank you Mary for another lovely video and book. Have a lovely weekend.
I searched online for the Benjamin Moore Nantucket Fog- what a dreamy blue. The freedom of setting the table is something my grandmother let me do and I loved her gentle encouragement. Thank you for sharing this comment and your memories! I hope you have a great week!
ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL!!!!
I love blue and white! Delft and English transferware are my favorites. Your table setting is gorgeous.
Thank you!
Lovely table< Mary! You have an excellent eye for decor. I look forward to your and Daniel's antique hunt next week.
I appreciate that!
Charming, sumptuous, classic tablescape!
Thank you!
Be still my heart! Blue and white is a long-time passion of mine. I was unaware of this beautiful book, so thank you for sharing it. And I ADORE your blue and white table! I know this is a video I’ll return to again and again!
Thank you!
I have to watch my favorite videos in 3 speeds. Slow, slower, and normal, and after watching with sound I put it on silent. I am going to paint the great room with 30 foot ceiling and the walls after the floors are polished sh he’d this week.
So elegant 🪺
As usual, everything quite exquisite. I have somewhat of a similar story to your silverware, but this involved an emerald ring. May being my birth month emerald is my gemstone. I had noticed my supervisor at work one day had this gorgeous emerald ring on her finger and I said that is the most beautiful ring. A few short years later when she was going through a divorce I showed up to work and she had popped that ring on my desk and said this is for you. I said what the heck? She said you are the only one who ever complemented it, and it wasn’t even the emerald ring I wanted. I could not believe my eyes. I accepted it gratefully, and prized it, for it was the only gemstone I owned. After 25 years, I still carry that ring around. It’s packed away in a small little Coco Chanel bag with a couple other heirlooms. However, I hid it somewhere in this camper and for some reason cannot find it. This is breaking my heart but when I move over to the small little house I’m building I’m going to tear this camper apart and I mean literally lol because this camper is not going to be hauled away until I find my prized emerald ring. And if that doesn’t work, I’m considering Hipnosis. L O L.
Oh so beautiful and charming 😊.
Thank you!
I love blue and white. I have three sets of blue and white and I sometimes mix and match. I have blue and white Lochs of Scotland by Royal Warwick, each piece depicts a Loch in Scotland, you would love them. This set belonged to my grandmother.❤ I also have blue and white Liberty Blue, depicting a different colonial scene on each piece such as Washington Crossing the Delware, Paul Revere on his horse, Betsy Ross, Independence Hall and a few others. Finally, I have Blue Willow. I love each set. I have four other sets of dishes, but the blue and white are my favorites. I loved everything about your table setting. As always a great review. Linda
Linda, your loch plates intrigued me, and I searched online to find them. I LOVE THEM. The Liberty Blue has always been a favorite of mine. Thanks for sharing this comment and thanks for watching!
What a great book, my kitchen is white with lots of blue flower arrangements and accessories 💙... and your table looks beautiful!! Thank you once again for another inspiring video!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching.
I loved the table!
Thank you!
Stunning!
Tell us about the napkin “rings”. They are so lovely and unique. You set a very high bar for entertaining your book group. Everything is perfect!
Thank you! The napkin rings are several years old, but were purchased at www.jayesstudio.com I would also check enchantedhome.com/
Love your gorgeous table setting. So beautiful wish I could be attending.
Thank you!
Wow, Mary you have really out done yourself with this gorgeous table scape!!!💙🍽🎁📘💛☕Wonderful book review too! I wish I was in your book club‼💯💙
You are more than welcome to drop in! 😄Thanks for watching.
Loved this book review and will be adding this little book to my own 'collection'. I feel sure these authors appreciate your reviews and helping to sell their beautiful books. Your own table was pretty as any picture I have seen. How lovely, fun and enjoyable to prepare for your friends...they won't want to leave. We all love and appreciate you Mary! Next week!! My question would be to Lady Spencer Churchill ~ her thoughts on wallpaper and how long does she think this popular trend will continue, perhaps on and on?
Great question!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing
Lovely! 🌼🌸🌺
Thank you!
Please add venders of napkin pagoda holders and napkins. Just lovely!
www.jayesstudio.com and www.themonogramshopnc.com/
@@thetartantopiary thanks!
Thank you for including your sources!
Love love love !
Very beautiful ❤❤❤
Sweet Mary, The book on blue and white makes me so home sick. My family home in Wallace that I sent you the picture of had over a 100 blue and white platters between the breakfast room and the kitchen. They were enhanced by blue and white toile fabrics. It was so beautiful and I too loved anything Napoleon and Josephine and visited the largest exhibit ever of their lovely thing including the throne room in Memphis Tennessee!
I love the insights and stories you tell about your home in Wallace. Thank you for sharing them. You have some intriguing family memories.
Mary, your table was absolutely beautiful. Where did you find those pagoda napkin holders? I would
love to have even one. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us.
Thank you- I got the napkin rings from www.jayesstudio.com
How bizarre, I’m hosting a dinner party for eight tonight for my husband’s birthday…….you guessed it, blue and white Spode and Noritake dinnerware mixed together, with white chargers, and cobalt blue water glasses, a blue & white chinoiserie tablecloth and white linen napkins. I’ve recently discovered your YT channel, and I have been going through your backlog of vlogs at a rate of about 3 a day…. Great concept for interior design aficionados. Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. 😊
I hope the dinner party went well. It sounds like it was beautiful and classic. I hope you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching and sharing your comment.
I only wish blue and white were a Longer book!
Oooowee----Royal Daulton, but no hand painted periwinkles, what would Hyacinth Bouquet (Buckett) ever say.
The table looks beautiful.😍
What an enchanting table scape for your book club Mary! My personal style is blue and white and pops of color with it. As such I enjoyed the book and just had to watch it 3X for the delightful 'eye candy' that we get to enjoy weekly thanks to your exceptional filming and editing, production. When watching each of your videos, I never want them to stop! I enjoy them so much, and hope you enjoy making them for us as much. RE Blenheim: Please ask what is her favorite part of owning such a world renowned "home" and does she ever wish to run away from the constant upkeep and taxes on it?? Is it raining as much there as it is in The Golden Isles this summer? I still haven't been up to Savannah. I heard about a new hotel and it has a restaurant. I think I will check it out when I get there. XOXO Bren
Your comment is very thoughtful and I thank you! I appreciate the question, that's a great one. I'll try to get in as many as I can.
@@thetartantopiary ♥ Many thanks.
So beautiful Mary! One of my favourite colour combos. Love your runner. Can you share where you acquired it?
Ooh Mary I want to be in your book club and go to your house for a lunch! My youngest niece is called Josephine and Ive been thinking of what little gift I could include in her care package that references empress Josephine, those cameos look so cute!
The Josephine fragrance by Cire Trudon is a soft scent with a delicate blend of florals. I do love it.
Mary, this was a clever finish to a beautiful book review! I love it all! Blue and white ginger jars! And white hydrangeas!
Is there an extra place at this stunning table for one more reader? 😁
@@Rj4cg Yes, now don’t be late! 😉
Oh my, your monogram is absolutely gorgeous!!! Are you able to share who created these scrumptious little works of delightfulness??? ❤❤❤
www.themonogramshopnc.com/
Fabulous... Thank you, thank you!!! 😊 🎉
I have added blue and white to our home. Added a couple of pieces to our front porch area as well.
I actually think this color combination calms the nerves and soothes the soul.
Oh how I love this table! Where did you get the white pagoda napkin holders? Fabulous!
I found these several years ago www.jayesstudio.com
Other sources for the table I enjoy are www.enchantedhome.com and www.mrsalice.com
I love watching your channel but, didn’t hear you mention Spode Blue Italian plates. It is such a beautiful pattern and looks lovely on your table.
You are right- I didn’t mention that. Good eye, and thank you!
I love Blue and White and have some sprinkled throughout our house here. I really like the Delft pottery with the sailboats. I do have this book and LOVE the building with the blue/white tile on the outside [pg 11], except the cherub’s - we have a no cherub rule in our house which helps keep me from buying some items honestly. I always love your dining room wall mural and wish I could use one in our house here but our house is a 1935 art deco bungalow in Miami with textured walls that make it hard to add paper and hand painting has it’s costs. Your table scape with the little gifts. You are always a very thoughtful hostess.
The "no cherub rule" is cracking me up. YOU are the only cherub your house needs! I'm not sure how effective they are. I have heard that 2 cherubs guarded the gates into the Garden of Eden, yet somehow, a snake was let in! 😃
@@thetartantopiary we have a couple sets of Foo Dogs for that. Cherub’s just look like chubby little children and sometimes with wings. Just a little creepy. HAHAHA.
Question: I would like to know who or what inspires Lady Spencer-Churchill’s work.
The book review, well yet another book I so want! Great ideas in this one. The table setting, absolutely gorgeous! Blue and White has to be a big favorite color palate of mine and I have a rather large collection of blue and white urns that I ADORE! I might have to source some fabric and do a runner like yours, I love that. Brings the whole table together. Your gift idea for the book club guests is so thoughtful and appropriate. What a lovely idea. Thanks again Mary.
Thank you. Blue and white is fun and I relatively easy as a table setting. I appreciate the question also and I'll try to get as many in as I can.
Stunning table! Can you give any information on the book favor boxes? Cire Trudon are my favorite candles- you’ve inspired me! Again!
Beyond Verve is the Etsy shop and I think they also have a website. It took a while for them to ship, but I was very happy with the product.
@@thetartantopiary thank you so much! I’m on it! I so look forward to your Friday chats!
Fabulous! Would love to know what was served to guests! 😁
Quiche Lorraine, asparagus, orange & cranberry muffins, with a small fruit salad. Instead of using ham, I made the quiche with turkey and it was great!
Love the blue and white runner! Where did you purchase?
Williams Sonoma - I'm not sure if they have this exact one, but they do have several blue and white runners available.
Hi! Love everything. Please provide where to find the gift boxes as well as the bracelet you had inside it. Thank you!
www.beyond-verve.com and enewtondesign.com/
Mary where did you get your pagoda napkin rings from ,they are adorable. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
@@Al-cd2bk www.jayesstudio.com
I’m not sure if they still have those particular napkin rings available, but all of their Fall related items are 50% off.
The mural in your dining room is stunning. Could you share who makes it?
www.etsy.com/listing/649042008/chinoiserie-floral-birds-wallpaper
@@thetartantopiary thank you🙏🏻
What a beautiful tablescape and book review! I must know more. What did you serve?
Quiche Lorraine, asparagus, orange & cranberry muffins, with a small fruit salad. Instead of using ham, I made the quiche with turkey and it was great!
@@thetartantopiary Sounds wonderful!!!!
Mary,love the pagoda napkin rings. Where can those be purchased? Always live your videos .Connie Shull
Connie- I got them from www.jayesstudio.com several years ago, but I would also check enchantedhome.com/
What is the wallpaper in your dining room? It's lovely.
Thank you- this is it.
www.etsy.com/listing/649042008/chinoiserie-floral-birds-wallpaper
What year was the estate built
Question for Lady Churchill: how do you avoid over decorating when a house is finished (and you love it)? Do you move on to a fresh canvas, do you restrain your creative urge, do you start over, do you limit acquisitions to one in/one out?
Thanks for the question!
Please ask Lady Churchill . . . What is your favorite season of the year? . . . Thank you.
Great question!
Be still, my heart. We Southern girls love our blue and white -- although it's trendy, most of us old fartlettes grew up with it...but as I live and breathe -- never saw napkin pagodas like these. Can you source them? Do tell!
www.themonogramshopnc.com/ They actually have my Easter napkins on the first page of their website. I had a set monogrammed with Daniel's initials and my initials.
Question for her please: what do you want or see for the future of this great home moving forward?Its place or relevance in design as well as culture here and abroad?Thanks!
Thanks for sending the great question. I will try to get as many in as I can.
Do the pagodas come from The Enchanted Home?
I found them at Jayes Studio (online) but I do love The Enchanted Home! The Carolyne Roehm selection has some Lily of the Valley glasses that I have fallen in love with.
Hello, I would like you to ask Lady Spencer-Churchill, how she really feels to have tourists invade her home. I had a tour decades ago, on a bus tour and so many women back then, disrespectfully took the tour with curlers still in their hair and I was horrified for the family who might be looking out their windows!
Wow- I have no words for that! Good question though.
Too busy. Way too much with the wallpaper
Most of these suggestions are so overdone that it brings up question marks about the mental state as well of the person decorating like this as also those who publicize it.
This is NOT decoration, this is a nightmare for every normal person.
If you think this is beautiful get a shrink.