A Quick Summer Dessert with Fresh Strawberries

It’s strawberry season here and the last ones that I bought are possibly the best I have ever had in my entire life! Let me show you the quick dessert that I whipped up with strawberries. I started with a small pound cake that I purchased at the store. I sliced the cake into 1/2” slices. Next I used the dessert dishes like a cookie cutter to cut each slice. I put a layer or slice of cake in each dessert dish. Next I sliced fresh strawberries and placed them around the outside edge...

Home Tour: Charleston Symphony Designer Showhouse 2017

I have had an unusually busy spring this year and am just now getting to sharing my photos from the Charleston (SC) Symphony Designer Showhouse. This is an annual event held each spring and  it is always a delight. The main piazza right by the front door was spectacular! Don’t you just love that sofa swing? Just inside the entry to the left was a parlor. There was an unusual wall treatment on one wall. It had a framed panel and had some type of raised painted stencil as seen in...