Tea Cup Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday!

Spring is definitely here now. All the flowering trees have dressed themselves in their finest. Our flowering Cherry looks like heaven to me. By Easter Sunday the dogwood will open its gorgeous flowers and as it sits right outside the large dining room window it will be a beautiful display during our family celebration!

The tea cup I am showing today is from Austria. I bought it when I was up in Canada.
I am fascinated by the history I find when looking up one of my cups. This cup, made by Moritz Zdekauer, seems to have been made in the early years after he bought the china company from someone else in 1884, a new stamp was used in 1891, so it appears that this one was created between those years. Which would make it around 120 years old!

It is a very delicate piece of porcelain, you can see through the cup and saucer if you hold it up to the light. I do love the green and pinks and especially love the intricate gold trim.

I love to look for special cups when I travel and I was lucky to pick this one up when I was in Canada. This cup is perfect for a fine black tea with cream and sugar!

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Hugs,
Terri

It is time for Tea Cup Tuesday!!!

It is that time of the week again!

I want to thank each one of you for your good wishes from my last post. When I was able to get to the computer again, they really warmed my heart! You are all so dear and kind!

So, what is more helpful than a lovely cup of tea?
Chamomile is my all time favorite tea to drink. If goes perfectly with chocolate and so it suits me just fine. I find the best quality tea tastes far better than cheaper ones. I have had Chamomile in restaurants that tastes like warm dishwater, and if that is the only way you have experienced it then try a really good quality like Traditional Medicinals.



The cup I am showing today is new to me. My dear daughter gave it to me for my recent birthday. I was thrilled to open the box and see it! It is made by a company called Paragon, which was also made in Stoke-On-Trent in England just like my previous two cups. And, the original company was Star China Co. Unfortunately many of their pattern books were lost. Since they were not strict with their backstamps (often using old ones until they ran out), and since they also did not name many of their patterns (they made over 30,000) it is difficult to come to any solid conclusion about many of their cups today. If any of you out there know more about this I would love to hear it.

So as far as I can tell, this cup and saucer could have been made anywhere from 1933-1952. I love the gold pattern over the pale mint color, and the rose is just beautiful! Such a pleasure to drink from!

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Hugs to all!
Terri

Thrusday Night and All Is Well

Good evening all!

Today was just pure lovely! The sun was out and the temperature couldn't have been more amiable. Spring flowers have opened up everywhere and birds were sitting on my porch warbling happy tunes! I am so thankful for all the many beautiful things to notice in my day.

I was blessed with spending the afternoon with my dear friend. We picked up groceries for a couple new recipes and then returned to my house to create them. That was fun! And the food ended up tasting very delicious! I am so thankful for my dear friend and the sharing we do!

Having good friends is one of the greatest of treasures! And here in blogland I have met so many wonderful people and become great friends with them too. What? You say..."how can you be such good friends with someone you have never met???" Well, it is interesting, you would think that couldn't be possible, but it is. I have grown close to people here on the net I have never met. I would like to meet them, but even if I never do, I know our friendship is unique and valuable. I treasure them.

In the many swaps that I do, I get to meet beautiful people. I learn so much from them, and from making the swap item. I am often just amazed at what someone creates!
This photo is of a Chatelaine that I am swapping. I had never made one before and I have wanted to make something in all creams and pearls for a while, so this was a great opportunity.

Hugs to each of you!
Terri

Tea Cup Tuesday

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

This will be our second Tea Cup Tuesday. Martha and I really enjoyed last weeks and we appreciate all of you who joined in. Your tea cups were beautiful as were your posts!
This week we will be trying out Mr. Linky, and his wonderful widgets. See at the end of this post you can automatically join the list for T.T. at any time on Monday or even Tuesday. Just type your name in the first box, and then your blog address with http:// before it.
(ex. http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com) then hit enter.
Let us know what you think of this advancement.

For this Tea Cup Tuesday I am sharing a tea cup from England. Again, I believe I purchased it in Ontario, Canada.
I love the print on this cup!

It was made in the same town as my cup last week, Stoke on Trent, in England.
From what I can find out it seems to have been made around 1952, so it is a little younger than my cup last week. Rosina China manufactured it. Rosina China was formerly G. Warrilow and Sons Ltd.

Oddly enough, I found out that the cup and saucer are not original to each other. When I turned them over to photograph the makers mark, I saw that they had different markings! So somewhere during the last 50 years a cup missing a saucer and a saucer missing a cup came together to make this beautiful pair!

And The Winners Are......

Ginger Gift Box and Earrings

Ozstuff Flower Kit

Ann Paper Pack

Congratulations to each of you!

I want to thank everyone for all your good birthday wishes. You are all so SPECIAL to me! I wish I could of had a prize for everyone. I am so thankful for all of you!

Hugs,
Terri

Celebrating Life!

It is spring, I just know it is! The trees are budding, the daffodils are blooming, and bird song is everywhere.
Aaaahhhhh. That feels good!

With all this spring in the air I was moved to create this small assemblage to celebrate this lovely time of year.

I love spring because it just seems to be so full of new beginnings. It brings me a sense of starting fresh, with new thoughts, ideas and desires. What fun!

And tonight I will pick 3 winners!!! I can't wait! You can still enter a comment to win.
Have a glorious Sunday and check back tonight to see if you won!
Hugs to you all,
Terri

Birthday Giveaway!

Hello Everyone and Happy Saturday!!!!!

Yesterday was my 51st birthday. I want to thank you all for your good wishes for the day. I did indeed have a fabulous day! Thank you all so very much.

I went antiquing and found a few treasure, among them, this pair of Vintage "pearl" ear bobs! They have aged beautifully, and the rhinestone rondells are gorgeous! They will be in the flower gift box for the giveaway. I was going to make a pair, but I thought these were precious and a good choice.

Thank you also for all of you who have entered so far in my Giveaway. I will pick the winners on Sunday evening. It is not too late to enter! In the post below you will see I am giving away a paper pack, a flower gift box (earrings inside) and a kit to make 2 crepe paper flowers! So there will be three winners. One winner for each item.

My art room has taken the ususal turn of getting quite messy. So today I am enjoying sorting and organizing....again..... But, I am totally thankful that I have all this "stuff" that I need to take care of. I find "stuff" inspiring...do you?