Grand America

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We had a lovely meal with my father-in-law at the Grand America in Salt Lake.  It's a beautiful hotel.  I had not remembered all of the crystal chandeliers - they reminded us of Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.  (I also did not remember my camera - so I borrowed the chandelier picture from Flickr.)  The flowers in the lobby were beautiful and fragrant, as always.

 

Turkish Pillow

When we were in Istanbul, I bought this pillow cover.  The guy told us that the design along the edge is supposed to look like the fence at Dolmabahce - the palace of the sultans.  I don't have a great picture of the fence, but you get the idea.  Then I bought a yard of fancy fabric at JoAnn's to cover my chair.  It was on clearance for about $4.  (The books are a set of Robert Louis Stevenson classics that my mom sent to me - I'm running out of room for books!)