Tuesday tea

Welcome to my Tuesday tea, it's so dreary outside, what we need is a cup of chai tea to pick us up... Itsy bitty teenie weenie yellow bikini is playing in the background. Not related to tea, but find myself typing to the beat. Back to the tea. I don't have any autumn dishes so my chapel hill is the closest I can get. I started these dishes when I was fourteen (a long time ago-might be considered antiques). I was led to get as much white on the plate as I could-food looks better and I am thankful for that advice.

Iam still working with my iPad.  Trying to get this down pat for Ireland and england. I find the pad won't move down  properly on the page when I add pictures. So bear with me...
So come in and join me for tea. Going to stick with my theme using my bestest dishes. Join me

Iam back to my cheese and grapes. Too many sweets lately. Looking at Sandi's biscuits puts weight on me

This is my china set that my mother started me on and I have added too through the years.  Chapel 

hill by Royal Worcester. Silver edge -fluted with a jade and blue leaves. Still love it after all these years-even though jade isn't a favorite color. Also after 42 years of selling china and cups and saucers weekly we have never sold a piece of it. Doesn't say much for my taste. Still love my roses china-

sometimes we need quiet in our life, these dishes do that for me...

This teapot holds a lot of tea. Good size for company. 

 

 

Wll I had to revert back to the computer, don't know, if I do the blog while I'm away, I will have to do two pictures at a time and not sure how to add the links. I will persevere, has to be simple? But then I can't pick up a button from other bloggers, so maybe not.  Have a good week....

Iam joining these ladies

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

Pink Saturday

Well I'm back going to try on my ipad again. Have to have all the kinks out before we get to Ireland and England. Read different blogs and so many are happy that fall is coming   I'm not although love the fall weather, this summer was just glorious. Loved loved it. We went out to our deck every morning and came back inside at dark. This has been my first couple of days that I have had to sit inside. ( I did come in and vacuum,but sometimes I did it late at night).  We didn't want to miss a second of the weather. Also, we have a great wrap around deck...
Well I did a walk around yesterday and took pictures of all my pinks. Sad so sad.

above and below, finished

 

was a gorgeous white and a pink hue to it now

all the rocks in this area are pink with the odd white

My large pink rock

the walkout to our basement has pink rock in it
thankfully it won't fade away with autumn

another smaller pink rock

 

that's my walk around with the end of the pink flowers, raining today, so might get a little longer out of them. But feeling like autumn, so that pink charm fades

I am joining Beverly at

 

Pink saturday

Tea time Tuesday

Had a great tea yesterday, with Serena. Fudge from our local fair and butter tart. Got a new iPad so took pictures of the tea with it. In the meantime I had downloaded pictures from my computer to this new iPad - not realizing how many I had 9205 in all. They go back to 2000 and covered weekly auctions that I had taken pictures for the website. As well as weekly grandkid pictures. So here I was with all these pictures on Facebook, no big deal I would just erase what I didn't want-NOPE- NOT-ipad3 doesn't allow deleting of pictures if they have been synced from your computer. I was sick 3/4 of my space taken up with silly pictures that I didn't want...like teapots and cups n saucers.  So I stewed and stewed about it all day and decided to restore the iPad back to what it was on Sat. when I bought it-so lost my pictures. But I do have some today - minus the tea.



Now I put this on with my Ipad and I can't get the pictures off it. Doesn't open. So I'm typing now on my computer, but the pictures aren't here. Sorry will get this figured out.
We are going to Ireland and England the first of October, so I got this Ipad so I didn't have to carry a heavy computer and could keep up with my blog and plan on visiting tea rooms over there.

I am using the two different Serena's again, I can't decide which one I like the best, the roses on the outside of the teacup or inside.  

I managed to have these pictures taken with my phone,   before I went outside to the garden, but that's it for the pictures.  It was a good tea and the fudge was great. Our weather is simply wonderful, today was so comfortable, the next two days are to be hot, which will be great...

Iam joining

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

Tea Time Tuesday

Tea time again, pouring rain today, so I enjoyed my tea on the deck under a roof. The rain is so needed, couldn't have came at a better time. So thank you for joining me, hope you enjoy our tea...

I was trying to decide on which teapot to use, have a lot of red transferware, but sold all the cups and saucers, because they were so marked. So I used the yellow with the gold to match or go with the cups n' saucers.

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this is a tole tray, was actually tv trays and I took it apart. Works great

 

another new Royal Albert cup n saucer, gold and white, very dainty

it has a pretty design in the cup and saucer

love this tea, especially the smell

this other cup n saucer is one my grandmother gave me before I was married, 42 years ago.

 

no markings on it.

one of my new books-High Tea

used this pretty bowl for my grapes

another rose from my garden, notice I don't show the leaves,

wonder why?
any hints on what to do to get rid of the slugs??

 

thank you for joining me for tea today, the tea seemed a little sluggish, not enough roses I think.

I will be joining

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

Tea time Tuesday

Welcome to my tea today. I was going to use my Serena pieces for tea, but then got thinking Sandi is looking for the teacup and saucer, so won't use it, didn't want to rub it in. I was actually going to send her a cup n ' saucer. Don't need to now, but my intentions are good.
Sandi wonders how many cups n saucers we have. I must count too. An auctioneer friend was telling hubby that his wife was checking out a website of a lady in London Ontario who has over a thousand cups n' saucers. When I get off here going to look for them.
I have mentioned that at auctions tea cups don't sell anymore. If they are non-named brands we tray them and they go for two to six dollars. Better names-Aynsley/Royal Abert/Wedgewood/Copeland etc. they bring a little bit of money, even Shelley doesnt bring the high money anymore. Really sad, I do hope it turns around.
Enough of the small talk, lets have a cuppa

another new teapot, not as nice as last weeks, but still pretty. This I could use everyday and not worry about it breaking. Roses, never enough roses.

A Sadler, see the sticker is still half on the bottom

Finally my roses are back again, although not as many as some of you have,  but should have some for the next couple of weeks.

Going to use some of my Shelley Cup n saucers, have a set of two cups/saucers and cream n sugar, but going to use a different cup n saucer that is very similar. So pretty with pink trimming on the lip and saucer edge and the pink handle. Love it...

My handsome grandson Damane joining me for tea again. It's the treats he wants.

this one is trimmed with gold, and a pink handle, but so close to the other that is called

Rose & Red

the creamer has a little rose on the spout and the creamer below has the

rose on the inside of the lip

here is the other cup n saucer that matches, one has the name on the

bottom and the other just Shelley and the number

sharing my gold fish with you, lots of little black babies, gold fish and my one Koi at the top of the picture-yellow one. Had five but the heron got the four, lovely bird...

Went to homesense today and they had these chairs - I love them, the backs are pink and grey striped material. If I only had room. They are so cheerful, the walls in my living room are grey, and I love pink. Have to share this with Pink Saturday, I'm ready already.

Now Sandi I love Lady Carlyle that is the cup n saucer that I think of right now off the top of my head.

 Iam joining these posts for tea today and the rest of the week. Thank you for stopping by, I enjoyed your visit...

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
pink Saturday