late night ramblings

Dropped in to read some blogs and catch up… I have been very busy and as I go about things I do think of things I’ve like to share…I just can’t seem to get there
re: Junquegal’s recent entry on a meltdown day and someone’s comment on the refreshing quality of honesty–we ought to have an [...]

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A Heart Stopper!

As I was taking this chair apart to redo, I caught a little glance of a plastic bag with paper inside it stuffed into the mess that was the inside of this chair. My breath caught. Is this it? Is this the day a discover a zillion dollars inside an old wreck of a treasure? [...]

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Friday Night Tea

This evening let’s have our tea on the Game table before we pull it out to use it. I want you to have the “Best Wishes” cup and saucer. I’ll use a cup and saucer from my china, Dorset by Haviland, passed down to me from my parents. I’ve never seen a teapot to this [...]

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Would you like another cup?

After four days of tea parties I wasn’t sure if you would want another cup. You must be like me. You just can’t get enough. Tonight’s tea is served to you from a variety of English Cottageware. The teapot is a Price Bros. pot. For a water pot we are using the smaller Crofter Cottage [...]

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Tea Carts Continued on the Porch

I hope you can join me on the porch this evening for a cup of tea. We’ll use the charming little 1920’s porch tea cart. Sometimes because there is wicker on many of these they are thought to be Victorian.  But when they are so diminutive they are usually from the 1920’s when tea carts [...]

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Tea Carts

My greatgrandparents, my grandparents and my parents all had tea carts in their dining rooms. I have two tea carts in my house. The funny thing is that I have never ever seen any of them used for the intended purpose. It is a little sad. We’ve all kept too many things on them to be able [...]

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Kitchen Tea Notes

Just because you are having a quick cup of tea in your kitchen doesn’t mean you can’t take out your favorite chine teacup.

However, even everyday dishes can be so charming. For the shop tea I chose mismatched plates and cups on purpose because I like the color combination. These cups don’t even have saucers, but [...]

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Cherished Kitchen Teas

While studying at Wroxton, several times I was able to travel to Wales to visit relatives for the weekend.  Once on a fearfully wet and windy fall day I was taken to see all the sites around Betws-y-Coed, Swallow Falls and Fairy Glen. I thought the wind was cutting right through me that day. How [...]

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More Memorable Tea

Several weeks before my eighteenth birthday I arrived in England to attend Wroxton College, the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University. I thought when I arrived that I already knew something about drinking tea. I was wrong.
      With breakfast I had a cup of tea. Then between the two morning lectures they would have what [...]

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Memorable Teas

I can distinctly recall my first cup of coffee. But I have no memory of life without tea.  And I have so many memories attached to it. It was probably my first drink other than milk. I remember the mystery of my grandmother’s gunpowder tea. It was green compared to all the other teas and had [...]

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