Tea Time Tuesday ~ Sweet Friendship~

Happy Tea Tuesday Dear Friends!

Today I am joining my wonderful hostess

Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage!

Sandi I so appreciate the time you take each week to

prepare and make this such a fun Tuesday event.

There are also links on my sidebar to other Tea Events...
please check them out.

My post today is all about Friendship.

I have a dear friend Mary who is 83yr old.  She had hand surgery
4 weeks ago and could not drive so last Wednesday

I took her to her Dr appointment.  Then afterwards was
shopping and lunch...2 kindred spirits and LOVE

to shop, so dangerous! lol. 
My Tea goodies I am sharing today are 

from a little consignment shop Mary spied nearby where

she lives and hadn't yet had a chance to visit!
I was HAPPY to oblidge.

So the story starts when I spied this darling Demi

Cup/Saucer...  I could tell it was hand painted and when
I turned it over...it said lefton!

Snagged it for a little over $2!!! Can you believe that?

Being a painter myself of roses I do have a HUGE appreciation

of other mediums and handpainted roses.

This darling cup SPOKE to me!!!

Tucked it into my lil Butlers Pantry shelf.

But it didn't stop there...as we walked through the

consignment shop, I saw this amazing tray.  Now, usually these tray

are so out of my price range that I just have to admire and move

on...but when I saw the price on this jewel...well

for $10 it came home with me!

JACKPOT...again this is another collection I have

because I adore the hand painting on them.

For now, I decided to keep it in my kitchen so I could gaze at

its beauty as well as the colors on it go so well in my kitchen.

Those were my 2 lil goodies I snagged, I used refrain

as I have so much.  But, there's more to my

story.  When I went home with Mary we began to look around her

home.  She has the most darling apartment that is just full of charm.

(I did a post early this year  so be sure to check it out here, if you wish.)

So she takes me to her 2nd bedroom and shows me

3 darling lil demi cups

and a gorgeous small tea set that was her mothers!

Of course I oooooh and aweeeeed over them and then...

 she wanted me to take this blue chintzy one home with me.

Squeal!!!!

I was so tickled...this is marked Occupied Japan.

Does anyone know about this type of Chintz?

I'd really love to know more.

In finishing up today, I looked up some wonderful Bible verses

all friend related that I wanted to share!

  I have been so blessed by treasured friendships.

I just love how GOD brings poeple into our lives when

we need it the most! He certainly has done that for me.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

Ecclesiasticus 6:16

A friend loveth at all times.

 Proverbs 17:17

This is my commandment, that ye love one another,

even as I have loved you.

Greater love hath no man than this,

that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12-13

May you be blessed today!

Happy Tea!

Lorena