BAKERS RACK gets a NESTING makeover...and CHERRY PIE for dessert

I am linking to THE INSPIRED ROOM and FOODIE FRIDAY..

NESTING continues at SWEET NOTHINGS cottage....

I've been working on my dining room...getting things changed around...

adding a little freshness here and a little spice there....

getting all ready for a new season...

I must say that I am having to force myself to do this..it is still in the mid 90's here and summertime things are STILL on my mind.

My son and his family still visit the lake each weekend...some of my summertime flowers are still blooming...

MR. SWEET and I are still eating ICE CREAM !! :)
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This is what my BAKERS RACK aka DISPLAY RACK has looked like for the last couple of years. It was ok...it fact, I've enjoyed it very much.....it was painted in a nice cottage green but now...it sports a beautiful, smooth, FRENCH BLACK...

It holds lots of "stuff" and, believe me, I have LOTS OF STUFF.....

One of these days, when SOCIAL SECURITY is feeling extra generous, I may just find that perfect, pine, olden, hand-rubbed finish, HUTCH that I pine for...(pun intended...:O)

......but, in the meantime, I just wanted to give this little fragile looking rack a new dress...
and, of COURSE, that meant moving it from one side of the room to the other.....*shrugging shoulders.."beats me..."

I AM JUST BESIDE MYSELF with this PRECIOUS sign that SUSIE HARRIS made for me. She is so talented and her work is absolutely A-1 PLUS.

YES, MA'AM...she is very good at what she does. ...and once you order, she has it out to you so fast I can't believe it. MY THANKS TO YOU, SUSIE...

I laughed at her little note to me that said, "I am about to learn your address by heart!" ....I have bought several CHRISTMAS gifts from her...I haven't been able to blog about them as they are for people that read my blog every day or so....Be sure to stop by Susie's blog and take a look in her ETSY shop. She has some of the cutest things...always coming up with the BESTEST ideas. So many of her things are ONE OF A KIND which is what I love to give as gifts.

BUT....THIS SIGN IS MINE !! I am sure it will find it's way all over the cottage, at one time or another, but for now, it's new home is in the NESTED DINING ROOM......

My two brass french ladles are looking mighty fine in their new home...just hanging out with the bottom of this rack...I guess I don't have a collection of these ladles...I am thinking someone famous said THREE OR MORE constitutes a collection....OR...is it TWO OR MORE ?

(Is it just me or is the one on your right almost like one of those pictures you have to really look at and concentrate on to see if it is backwards or forwards...?...When I first look at it, it looks like the INSIDE of the ladle...stare at it a little bit and it becomes the BACK side....which is correct...I have been looking at it all evening...I don't know...maybe it's time to tweak my meds and....go on to bed...!!

GOOD GRIEF !!

Only a little change to this rack...not much at all but just enough that it feels fresh to me....
I like that feeling. Plus every single thing on it got a good washing and that ALWAYS makes me feel good.

I made another Cherry pie the other evening and realized I didn't have enough dough made up for a top crust. Sooo, I just made a CHERRY PIE CRISP out of it and may I just say......O HONEY...
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Just your regular crisp recipe....oats, butter, pecans, sugar, more pecans, cinnamon...sprinkle over the top of the cherries and you are on to something GOOOOD...

It was all MR.SWEET could do to keep from slicing it before it cooled in the window.

He was afraid it would be like in the olden days when people put their pies in the window to cool and some little naughty boy would come along and snitch it and run like crazy...

I said " noooo...first of all, there's no hungry little boys around here and second...

there's a storm window on there...remember!!?!!"

.....we cut it anyway, while it was still warm and put a couple scoops of

Vanilla Bean ice cream on it...

I mean, you only pass this way once...right !!

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Yep, I'm gettin' silly here so ...

see ya later..

HAVE FUN NESTING....

bj