Tea Time Tuesday and a Summer Cloche party

Welcome to my windy Tea Time Tuesday, it was so hot-not complaining though. The wind kept it tolerable, but then it kept blowing my tablecloths off, when I was setting up for my tea. I am joining the Tea Time Tuesdays and getting ready for Beverleys birthday bash with pink and yellow theme.

the wind blew my umbrella over

it's yellow though

an old bridge cloth that I have had around for years, no idea where it came from except an auction. Love the embroidery work with the ladies along the flowered fence. Two different colours on other side, which I will show again another time.

this teapot is Royal Winton ?-just drew a blank. I have shown it before, but keeping with the pink and yellow

these girls were joining me, but more interested in what was blowing across from them.

If you remember Daisy the dog laying down lost a leg in Jan. her hair is growing back in, she was groomed last week to even it out. Dog in front is Sasha, full sister to Daisy (my grandsons dog) but a year younger.

The tea cup and saucer below is a Royal Albert "Rosedale Series" my tea was a chai.

yellow hobnail eperngne got a couple of weeks ago-yeh at an auction-where else?

I was putting Angels lace in the tiny,  vasesbut it was getting windier by the minute so was

rushing (and see the blue handled scuffler in the background-tacky)

Oh well, I had ran my table and chairs over to another side of the yard out of the wind or so I thought.

relish dish -auction-Schwarnzenburg, poot picture sorry

my favorites grapes and cheese (I should add that I was already at the tearoom in Port Hope with my daughter at 12:00 and had quiche and a banana desert with caramel).

                                      The dish had more in it, but had disappeared somehow?

                        my handsome grandson Damane we call him D'man or the Main Man,
                               joining me for tea. His tea cup was a Shelley "Daffodil Time",
                                         he has his baby finger down right or should I say up...

he didn't enjoy his Chai tea -he got one sip and the skys opened up

we haven't had a good rain for weeks, so  it was welcome, but it was the end of our tea party in the garden

didn't go to waste though, I carried it all back inside and drank it standing at the kitchen sink, watching the rain

I am sharing my tea with

Tea Time Tuesday
Tea Cup Tuesday
Tea Cup Tuesday
Tuesday Cuppa Tea
Tea in the Garden
Heart and Home
A Return to Loveliness
Table Top Tuesday
Tea Cup Thursday


                                                             Summer Cloche Party

I am going to share my cloches below here, not pleased with my tea above and the cloches aren't doing it for me either. I have used my cell phone camera which takes good pictures but sometimes good doesn't cut it.

where I store them on top of my china cabinet and the wall is a navy blue so doesn't show good. The cover of the cake dish is large and has gold embedded in swirls, very pretty

this is a large bulbuos shape, very narrow bottom though and doesn't cover a lot -further down with Royal Doultons

This one I just love and we sold one exactly like it at an auction two months ago and I was snoozing and didn't get it, then I buy one from Amazon. It covers everything, three tiered dishes, I could do with two, as I have two of these tiered plates

Here is the one on a delft style cake stand, with Royal Doultons Elaine

My absolute favorite, never seen anymore like it, pink (old cranberry piece inside) the cake stand is scalloped.

Their is a cake stand and lid behind the pink one in this picture, have many cake stands, square, scalloped, plain, large, fancy and not so fancy, and many lids for them.  Wanted to show the corner of the green cake stand and I had had a cloche for it, but lent it out and yes it got broken...

this one I have had for forty years and have my grandfathers pocke watch inside.

Thank you for visiting with me, about a month ago I spent three nights on ebay and amazon looking for cloches, no idea that I would be blogging them. One I had bought came poorly wrapped and it was smashed, that was disappointing.

I am sharing with Marty at a stroll thru life, link is above at the beginning of this post a return to loveliness...