Tag: tea time
Red Pepper Soup Recipe
is healthy and easy
There were eight of us in that 1st Wednesday Tea Group and we all loved this recipe so much Barbara graciously shared it with us.
And now I share it with you.
🙂
Sharing with
Wow Us Wednesday ~ Savvy Southern Style
Inspire Me Wednesday ~ Adventures of Mel
Spring Blooms ~ Color Choice Inspirations
“Ethereal blooms
Barb Chapman, your blog author,
April 2016
Ethereal spring!
Verdant with blooms magical…
Doesn’t your heart feel light when spring erupts
in this majestic massive menagerie of blooming hysterics??
[F]lowers… adorn our lanes, fields and fells, and… smile upon us and cheer and bless us in our country rambles…. the lovely blossoms… kiss the clear brooks and mountain wells… ~James Rigg, “Preface,” Wild Flower Lyrics and Other Poems, 1897
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I know I’ve shared this photo via Instagram, but I hadn’t yet shared it on my little rambling blog, so today I thought I’d share this “bougainvillea bouquet” in its pick~up~truck~vase with you! |
here in the spring,
I think about how much these colors influence our
design decisions:
what we are going to buy and wear this year,
what fabrics we will pull out of our textile piles and sew,
or new textiles we will buy from the fabric store to fashion
into new pillow covers or tablecloths.
And, I like to think about what colors we will put on our walls
when what was that perfect shade of paint
no longer looks so fresh and inviting…
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Our new yard, for however long… 😉 |
Style Teachers ~ Meet Sandy and her Style!
and the best cook and baker I know!
So, when she had a
Valentine’s Tea…

I was ever happy
to come to her ethereal home as I love her decorating style!
She loves Shabby Chic, Victorian, lots of florals
and china with violets or any purplish flower transferred onto
their pretty edges and sides.
Every tea Sandy has is different ~ she NEVER serves the same thing twice!
This is a talent of God, I am sure, and not one that I really have.
She keeps a diary of the different sandwiches, sweets and savories
and desserts she has shared with all of her friends
through the years,
and
I am always amazed that she hasn’t really duplicated a meal!
She might remake a favorite sandwich but only because
one of us requested it!
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taken with my old iPhone 4 |
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loved this little basket of “fingertip towel roses” |
Decorating Tip:
Fingertip Towel Rose ~ tutorial
So easy to create!
* Just fold your washcloths and hand towels in half lengthwise
(you can also fold them into thirds)
* Begin rolling from the end with the tag on it
(if you don’t cut them off; hide any raggedy ends)
* Roll slightly off-center creating “the rose”
* Arrange in your prettiest basket, on a tea tray,
whatever lovely container you can come up with!
Done!
🙂
Sandy is one of the original members of the
Victorian Tea Society
and has held various positions on the board.
She is most notably known for hostessing the yearly
Christmas and Spring Teas.
She bakes thousands of scones and lovingly helps set the tables
for each of the attendees.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no Law. ~ Galatians 5:22-23
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Our table set for tea ~ in the foyer between the kitchen/sitting areas and the covered patio |
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We weren’t in her new dining room today, but isn’t it lovely?! This was her “staging area” for today’s tea. |
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Sandy’s parlour |
I have known Sandy through
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Sandy opening a little gift from Gloria, seated. |
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Sandy’s super cute patio with her writing/sewing desk and a daybed for when one of her two “boys” comes home to visit! |
Birthday Tea, a Backstamp, and Mom
{the hutch was her father’s cabinet and she inherited it.}
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The saucers show a blue back stamp, the teacups are completely blank, the dinner plates also have blue back stamps. {sorry the picture is sideways} |
grandmother and grandfather
small fruit bowls and a large bowl.
Really, really cute!
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Emma Louisa (Hine) and Hearly Everett Fudge and their son Raymond Fudge, aged 5 Mr. Fudge was a conductor on the trolley line in Joplin, Missouri during those years photo circa 1914 |
from the backstamp is that Crown is an American company
and this particular china pattern
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Love this photo! My mother-in-law today. She is a joy and beautiful in spirit and body to me and to my hubby Charles. 🙂 |
Teacups, Treasures and a Recipe
Teacups…
Lovely…ethereal…tasteful…useful…practical
But, mostly
Incredibly Gorgeous!!!
How many teacups do you have in your home?
What are your favorites?
How do you share yours?
Today I thought I’d share a few treasures with you…
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Do you have teas for family or for special friends? |
so we had lovely mornings during school breaks
to bake
chocolate chip scones
and have
a little tea party with lemonade tea, hot chocolate, or just
a cup of milk.
🙂
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
🙂
Anyway, I thought I’d just share
“my treasures”
with you today…
What are your treasures??
🙂
Tea Time Tuesday ~ Rose Chintz Cottage (twice! :))
http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com
Feathered Nest Friday ~ French Country Cottage
http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/2015/05/feathered-nest-friday_14.html#more
Share Your Cup Thursday #151 ~ Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson
http://jannolson.blogspot.com
Happy treasured memories
and blessings to you!
After Easter Tea…
to set up a little tea table for you!
with a cute Easter-themed tea,
but
due to fixing things around the house,
that just didn’t happen.
😉
Then yesterday while I was out clipping some of the long
canes to tidy the
Cecile Brunner climber,
I saw all of the lovely blooms on our
Winchester Cathedral
standard…
You know when a rose bursts into bloom
and it is just calling your name.
Yep,
that was what happened.
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The Winchester Cathedral standard is the tall rose to the left along the fence, and to its right is a Mary Rose in between the WC and the monster Cecile Brunner climber. |
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A sweet little bird I found last year at Michael’s Craft Store. I bought a green one for my daughter and this one for me. |
Tea with the Duchess
nuts for royalty!
When my friend Cheryl and I found out that Macy’s
was hosting Sarah, the Dutchess of York,
in a meet and greet back in 2001
We Had to Go!!!
I am not a royalty snob but I followed
Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mum,
Prince Charles and the whole crew
back then
buying and collecting
People and Majesty magazines
whenever they had
Princess Di
on the cover.
She was my age and generation,
after all…
😉
I, like many of you, was devastated when
Princess Diana
was killed in that terrible auto accident in France.
I had seen her wedding to Prince Charles
when I was 19 years old
and in Germany on an
exchange program.
on a Saturday afternoon,
the family let me take over the television and
stare dreamily at the screen as Diana,
shy and beautiful in her voluminous gown and
sparkling from the camera lights
bouncing off the pearls and diamonds
in her tiara,
she married her prince.
***
Flash forward to 2001…
Meeting the Duchess was like getting to meet
Princess Diana for me…
She was wonderful!
Gracious and funny, Sarah Ferguson
gave a talk about taking a china tea service
wherever she goes
as she really dislikes taking tea
in a styrofoam cup!
(Her lady in waiting would prepare tea for her
when there wasn’t a nice tea service around.)
She and the representative from Wedgwood
showed us all how strong their bone china is ~
that you can quite literally flip a teacup over
and stand on it!
It will not break.
It was really cool when the man did that.
Everyone seemed quite impressed!
Has something to do with the way the cup is shaped,
and the strength of bone china.
We still were impressed!
Having the same first name as the first Duchess of York
was one of the reasons Wedgwood asked Sarah to be
their spokesperson and to help introduce and promote
this ethereal line of botanical china.
Personally, I love the realistic look of the
fruits and flowers, butterflies and bees!
Soooo cute!
I use this china a lot at my teas. The salad plates are
standards in my cupboard for serving cake, muffins, whatever!
They are used daily.
The teacups come out when I want to visit with
one friend and have a
heart to heart.
🙂
🙂
This week we are having super hot days ~ over
in the rain with the weather slightly cooled
and have a nice cup of hot tea!
Happy tea to you all!
Wednesday Tea ~ Peacocks and Pink Roses
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It was my turn to host our monthly tea today and I was still setting the table as my friends from the Victorian Tea Society
group I am involved with in Riverside County, CA, arrived.
the while as I was going on with getting the tea and scones
ready to serve and out on the table…
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Similar scones ~ photo “stolen” from a later tea tablesetting. 😉 |
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A little stack of silverplate platters and a teacup decorating the buffet. |
Next, we ate smoked turkey and avocado sandwiches served
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The beautiful rose strewn teapot given to me by the ladies when we first moved into this house in 2004 ~ it’s a favorite! Here it is paired in all of its peacock blue goodness with tea-stained linen napkins found in Idaho on a track and field trip. |
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it turned out well for baking it for the first time!
{sorry, no photographs…}
The ladies enjoyed all of the courses and we talked about all kinds of things (like usual!) ~ about our kids and grandkids
who was heading back to college (my kids)
upcoming weddings and school beginning soon.
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A little rose craft I copied from one I’d seen ~ hanging off a floor lamp. |
Caroline, Julie and Patsy ~ sitting on the just finished
settee cover.
We were having fun looking at blogs and Pinterest.
I hope this tea has inspired you to try some
themes at your next teas and with your tablesettings!