Rose Garden Tea Set

Hard to believe January is almost over.
Valentine's Day is right around the corner.
This year I added this friendly Owl to my Valentine decorations.

I thought I'd invite him to tea! 

I found this trio before Christmas at Marshalls.

It is called Rose Garden - Fine China Afternoon Tea Set by

the English Table.

Lovely roses, a beautiful bird on one side of the cup and roses on the other.

It is quiet around here.

Cloudy again.

And warm -- high today in low 80s.

Bodes ill for Ughust! 

I'd like some more cool! 

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Tea Talk

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing you well, much joy and a lovely cup of tea!

This and That

I've been waking up to foggy mornings.

Once the fog burns off the bird bath and fountain gets busy.
The robins have really enjoyed the fountain.

I added a pop of color to Musashi's Garden with a couple of geraniums.

The crochet baby blanket is finished.

This was a kit from Herrschner's called: Lil' Lullabies Baby Blanket.

The crochet group meets Saturday and I think I'm going to use this pattern

to use up some stash yarn ... with a few changes.

I have a thing for lapghans and think this pattern will make a very good one.

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I had a lovely lunch with some museum friends this week 

and while I was there I visited the Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces From The Prado.

The exhibitions closes March 31 and then is off to Brisbane, Australia. 

The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia by Alonso Sanchez Coello

greets you as you enter the exhibition.

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Lastly, I have another postcard for you from the kiss box.

Just in time for Valentine's Day!

Thank you to the lovely Beth for hosting Postcard Friendship Friday.

Wishing all of you well and much joy!

Wednesday Wisdom

 

Wishing you well and much joy!

A Rose Tea Celebration

Today is a special day.
Sandi is celebrating the third birthday of her Tea Time Tuesday Party
with a special rose party.

I have shared both of these teacups and roses with you before,
but I thought they were perfect for Sandi's celebration.


The first is an Elizabethan Fine Bone china tea cup with a rose from the balcony garden.

This is a Paragon teacup with a rose from Musashi's Garden.

One of my favorite rose quotes:

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
Eleanor Roosevelt 

And, this quote for Sandi:

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Sandi, thank you for being our tea friend!

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Tea Talk

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing you well, much joy and a fine cup of tea!

Blooming In Musashi's Garden

Early last week it was rainy, dark, dreary and finally the sun appeared

bringing the first morning that the city saw a freeze.

I dashed out the door in the early morning to feed the birds

and caught the sun spotlighting the Bill Warriner roses.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. 

 ~Emma Goldman

Inside the house, the sun was shining on the Minerva Amaryllis.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

I'm joining Sunlit Sunday and Mosaic Monday.

A big thank you to our hosts.

Wishing you well and much joy!