Tea Stands for Tuesday - 12/8/2020

Every Holiday Season I pull out my set of red glass dishes.  I'm drinking my coffee in a red glass cup this morning.

The dishes were originally my Mom's.  They are marked on the bottom  "Arcoroc, France. " I think she got them sometime in the 50's.   I know they went with her from house to house over the years.  She had more expensive china and even prettier cups but she liked her coffee in a red glass cup.

Do you have a favorite cup or some dishes passed down through the family?

Join me at the Tea Stands for Tuesday party on Elizabeth's blog.  We are sure to see some pretty cups there.

Tea Stands for Tuesday - 11/13/19

It is Tuesday.  Is everyone ready for a tea party?  Elizabeth is hosting the party as she does faithfully every week.  Join us, you will find a great group of people who post nearly every Tuesday
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I pulled out a vintage tea cup for my tea this morning.  It seemed to fit the book I'm going to tell you about.  Doesn't everyone match their cup to their reading material?

My friend Laurie (blog here) writes book reviews.  Sometimes she generously passes books on to me.  This came in the mail recently.  Her review made me want to sit right down and read it.

"Harry's Trees"

Jon Cohen.

This is a magical book, a perfect break from out troubled times. Below is a bit from Laurie's review.  She says it much better than I can.

"It’s a brilliant story, a fairy tale on a modern scale, where the trees are as important as the people, where a little girl with a red coat is the bravest, and where the Wolf talks to the dog. The writing made me feel like the world was illuminated with golden light despite the people who were greedy. I was so sad when the book ended; not because it ends sadly but because I had to walk away from that world. Five stars." 

What book would you recommend?

Tea Stands for Tuesday - 10/17/17

Look closely.  Champagne!  Ok, it is a little early in the morning for bubbly but you know we need a drink of some sort on Tea Tuesday 

I use this old "champagne" hatbox to store a stack of vintage doilies and handkerchiefs.

Several craft stores sell plain white totes for decorating.  I bought one thinking I might use some fabric paint on it.  Then I thought of my vintage bits and pieces.

I'm showing you my basic idea here.  The hanky and doilies aren't attached to the tote at this point.  I'm just in the "thinking about it" stage.  Of course there would be other embellishments like buttons and ribbons and so forth.  What do you think?

Or maybe I'll go with my original idea and paint something.

While we think about that lets go visit Elizabeth  and see what the rest of the Tea Tuesday people are talking about today.

Second on the Second - 11/2/16

Every month Elizabeth at Altered Book Lover hosts the Second on the Second.  She invites us to look through older posts and bring back one we would like to share again.  I like old postcards.  I only have a few.  I think I may have brought this post to the top once before, not sure.  I do know it always amuses me though.

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014

Postcard # 2

A couple of weeks ago I said I would share some old postcards.  This is the second one.

This is perhaps my favorite of the old postcard I have.  Of course when I shuffle through them I find another goody and then that immediately becomes my favorite.  You can see this postcard has suffered some wear and tear.

postcard front

MARRIED BLISS

postcard back

Dear Sister all is well hope you are as happy as this pair seem to be

Your sister

Martha

The postcard is dated 1909.  Sent from sister to sister and once again no street address needed.  I don't know which I enjoy more, the old pictures on the front or the special messages on the backs of the cards.

Send someone a postcard today.  You will probably need their street address and zip code.  Just be careful what you write on the card.  Who knows, maybe someone will be reading it over a hundred years from now.  Reading it and trying to explain to their children that these pieces of paper were sent through a process that ended up with someone walking around and hand delivering the card to the recipient's mailbox.  Then they will have to explain what a mailbox is (or was).

Do you have an old post that deserves a second look?  Join us!