Tea and Roses

Since it is almost autumn I want to share a tea with you - and roses

We start with roses

My friend Julee came to visit last week.  She is from Ketchikan, Alaska, but lives nearby in Sedro Woolley.  Her friend Lynn was down visiting from Ketchikan and came along - and brought me this pretty miniature rose.

Just the perfect color to go with my Sears Cattail tea set

This dish set was made in in the early 1940s; the teapot sold for $2.98 and a cup and saucer was fifty cents

Let's have some Fresh Apple Cake with our tea

Green Bakelite handled flatware is perfect for these dishes

Come, sit, enjoy, there is tea and cake for you too

And lovely roses to scent the room

Ready To Waltz    

Friends Sharing Tea  

Tea Cup Tuesday 

A Return to Loveliness  

Artful Affirmations - Tea Cup Tuesday 

I See The Moon

Last night

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand -   Frederic Lawrence Knowles

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door -  

Irish Blessing 

May the moon  softly restore you by night - Apache Blessing

Sliding down a silver moonbeam

They danced by the light of the moon,

The moon, The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon - Edward Lear

summer night

the moon and the stars

walk me home

painting the world silver

Goodnight Moon!

Favorite Dishes

                                            

I've had a few plates of this pattern for many, many years.  The corral colored platter under the rose bouquet is like a very large plate, I've heard them call chop platters.  Then one time my cousin bought me a serving bowl and some dessert plates as a hostess gift when she was visiting.  And we found a large, round platter.  I've always wanted more of these lovely dishes, but  there are no markings on the bottom, and I'd never heard the  name or the maker.

Then I saw this blog - from Linda - and look what she has on her table.  A pretty green plate that matches my pretty corral platter.  Go ahead - go look at her pretty table setting - I'll wait.

Well, that made me want to find more of these dishes - so I set off on a quest.   I searched Ebay for "rimmed plate" and there they were - MacBeth  Evans is their name - and there were lots of them - plates, bowls, oh the glory of it all.  Reasonable prices on Ebay get me every time - and soon these babies were winging their way to me (you didn't know dishes could fly, did you?)

I now have three colors of Mac Beth Evans dishes 

Corral

Little bunnies add to the fun. The tablecloth is another Ebay find - seems they are not as popular as they once were, so hand crocheted tablecloths are really inexpensive on Ebay

The little blue plate is one of a set of multicolored plates I found at Value Village recently, they fit right in.

Yellow

Yellow plate and bowl, with the same blue scalloped edge plate, crystal napkin ring and vintage Bakelite handled silverware in butterscotch color 

Crystal goblets add to the  place setting 

And Green

Green Bakelite silverware with a vintage embroidered napkin

Add one of the scalloped pink sandwich plates and a milk glass dessert cup  

Or switch to red handled silverware, an apple napkin ring and a yellow scalloped plate and you have a completely different feel to the table setting

The table with three different place settings - which is your favorite?

Cottage Style Party  

September Note Card Party

It is nearing Autumn now - our temperatures are cooler and the rains have come back.  Time to cozy up indoors with a good book, a quilt for hand quilting or some other wonderful indoor activity.  After a long and wonderful summer it will feel good to have a quilt across my lap and a cup of hot tea nearby.  Maybe get out some note cards and send a few to friends.

September Note Card Party  

I have my note cards printed up each month and send them to friends - a nice way to stay in touch and share photos too.

I've Looked At Clouds

This area of NW Washington is mountainous, coastal, valleys and plains - we have clouds that change with the terrain.  These photos were all taken on the same day - while on a drive of about 60 miles round trip.

Clouds gathering over an old barn

A rain shower that never reached the ground

I've looked at clouds from both sides now

Clouds show some wind action

From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall

High rainstorm and misty clouds

Puffy white clouds above, dark rainclouds below

Bright blue skies and white clouds

Wispy 

Puffy and broken up

Gathering over the  hills

The clouds change in a minute

Sitting atop the hills

Puffy and circling

Smudged by winds

I caught a crow flying - in the upper left corner

More crows as they fly home for the night

I really don't know clouds at all.