Tea Time Tuesday ~ Blue and White

Good Morning My Wonderful Tea Friends!!!

Let me get the business stuff out of the way so I can

get going on my Oh So BLUUUUUE and White Tea.

Be sure to Check out the many Tea's that

are presented on Tuesday...and my Hostess today is

Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage!

You will NOT be disappointed in seeing all the

amazingly different ways to enjoy tea.

For today, I decided on using a theme again. Sharing with you the

many Blue and White goodies I have around my home.

I have put together a very eclectic setting but am sure

my Tea Loving company will not even notice that nothing

matches because we having so much fun! lol

First off, I am sharing yet again another gift...

the Tea Cup(s) and Tea Pot

was a gift many years ago.  My sweet friend found this set at the

Cracker Barrel!!! ( Luv that Store) 

It's *New* made to look Old Flow Blue!

It is really rather ornate in shape and all the beautiful detailing

inside and outside of the cup, saucer and pot.

See? even the insides are pretty!

This sweet set came with 2 cups/saucers..won"t you join me today?

 I also pulled out a vintage Dutch Delft Blue Ceramic piece that is made

to use as a Center Piece, it has 3, 1/2 dollar sized holes in top

to hold your blooms.

The sweet salt/pepper shakers are part of a larger set of

canisters that were my mom's.  I remember these growing up in

her Blue and white Kitchen...she loves blue too...and when they

moved 12 years ago from the home I grew up in...she brought

me many of her blue and white pieces from her collection,

in a box, by plane!  Needless to say, I was speechless!

 

This creamer/suger set was a Thrifting find.  I love how they stack!

Now, as I have shown you the blue and whites I picked for

our Tea... come sit, so we can enjoy a piece of my

Amish Cake I made up yesterday, using the last of my

starter.

I have placed my cake on a larger white dollar store find with a

blue/white Staffordshire lunch plate...looks pretty good, huh? YUM!

Oh and I could NOT let my blue and white theme go by, without showing

you a sweet lamp I have in my kitchen .

It's such a sweet lil teacup/saucer and I love it so!

Well, that's it for this Tuesday!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I love and read ALL of your comments!

Blessings to All!

Lorena

Pink Saturday ~ Some of This n That ~

GOOD PINK Morning to YOU my Saturday Friends!

I found so more pink goodies to share with you.

Be sure to stop by our wonderful

Hostess, Beverly of How Sweet the Sound

to visit the many other wonderful

PINK

participants we have this week.  It is

sure to please the Pinkness in you!

When I moved and organized my craft studio 2 years ago I

began to collect these wonderful vintage

Quilted Hankie/Glove Boxes for storage.

Which inside each box are various colors, especially PINK,

of my hand made clay roses that I sell in my etsy store.  These

roses can be used to adorn your own craft projects or

just sit on a shelf all pretty by themselves.

So I said these roses can be used to adorn goodies...this

8 Inch letter *L* was done up for a dear friend and if you

look reeeeeally hard I have even painted my own roses

on it too...

in PINK!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Now that my llife is getting somewhat back to

normal I am hoping that I will get out to

visit my many PINK

loving friends!

Blessings...Lorena

Bloggerette Sorority Party *RUSH* ~ Baby Gift Project ~

Hey there friends!

Welcome to our Sorority Party.

We were asked to copy a sweet picture

of 5 gals and then create something with it...

So...

I  decided to put mine in a picture frame.

Now this picture frame needed a little bit of work

since it was cracked..but you would

never know it now!

Okay, we were also asked to show

a picture of ourselves with our

finished project.

I had my daughter take my my picture and

then I narrowed it down to 2 pictures.

Well as things go in my life, hubs like one

of the pictures and dd liked the other.

So...that's why I am showing you both, is that okay?

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Today I worked on a Baby Gift Project

I had swirlling around in my head.  I really LOVE

those Photo Boxes that you can find

at the Hobby Stores.  I usually

paint my roses on them..but I

knew that my friends daughter loves

vintage images.  I found some vintage baby

images and began covering the lid.

I then covered the box with cute stickers

that I found at Hobby Lobby (love that store!). 

I started with a White Box

Some pretty papers and images

I also found a cute Momma Brag Book for Pictures

that I also embellished to go with the Box.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lorena

A Treasure Hunt ~ Sharing Found Goodies

Hello Bloggy Friends!

I know so many of you out there are like me.

You loooooove the thrill of a treasure hunt!

Well, my sweet friend Susie, who is a kindred spirit and is like

a big sister to me, called me up on Tuesday to see

if I'd Like to meet at Starbucks...

well, my wheels were turning cause I had left some

pillows, I mentioned in another post, at my

favorite thrifting place.  So I called her back and

we changed our plans. Now, we still got our

Starbucks fix, but were off for our

treasure hunt!

It did NOT disappoint me in the least!

Do ya want to see what I got?   Okay, here goes!

Aren't these sweet? These are Martha Stewart Pillows...a steal at $3 each!

Here's 3 bags of GORGEOUS Laces, that I can't wait to go through!

All 3 bags cost a total of $4!!! Amazing huh?

One can NEVER have too many PRETTY Boxes to

store treasures in!

Oh and I just couldn't pass this by...it needs a little sprucing,

but will be better in no time! $2 is well worth a little time

to make it shine!

I never pass up a pretty tray! This has beautiful edging!

I have an idea for this one...stay tuned.  Then I

found some sweet lil bling while digging through a

large tub of jewelry!

I am pretty sure that is a NEW plate of Old Chintz, I paid

$5 but feel it was worth it...this is larger so I am assuming

it's probably a cake plate!

There are 2 of these plates, and the picture does not

show their amazing tealy, aqua color with bits of splattering.

Very unusual and I have an idea for these with some

of my white and aqua roses!

And last but surely NOT least, this sweet white

hankie with pretty pink edging...only 99c!

Thanks so much for visiting with me today

and allowing me to share some FUN

found treasures! I can't wait to get going on

some of the projects I have in mind for them!

Hopefully I will remember to do a

Show N Tell

with I am finished...

would you like that?

Have a blessed day!

Lorena

Tea Time Tuesday ~ Found Treasures

Yay, I am finally back to blogging!

I have missed being a part of this fun

Tuesday event.  Please visit my sweet friend

Sandi and Rose Chintz Cottage Inspirations for

 our weekly Tea Time fun!

Today I am sharing a collection of

*Tea for One*.  These sweet sets

 have all been given to me and I cherish each

one and their givers!

First up is a deep red set, a birthday gift many
years ago from a friend which fits so well into my

English/French Cottage themed kitchen.

With this sweet set, I have shown a Large Cup

that my darling daughter bestowed upon me last

year for my birthday...I do have Roosters all

over and she knew just what her momma would love!

This lovely mug has had many cups of tea and coffee in it
since it was given to me.

Another more delicate but equally beautiful set
was given to me recently by a dear friends.
It fits well into my bone china goodies doncha think?

Pretty huh?

Then there are two others that I have out right

now on my mantle for display.  They both

are so unique in there own way and also

special because they were given to me by

sweet peeps in my life.

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Oh bloggy friends have I gots some amazing finds

 from my treasure hunting to share with you

today. 

Have you ever seen a vintage handpainted tray in this shape?

I have not.  And guess how much I paid for this treasure?

$1.99!!!

Then I found this sweet pillow for...$0.99!!!

Saw 2 other pillows that I am kicking myself over

not getting...hmmm I'm feeling another

trip to my favorite treasure store coming on.

Thanks so much for stopping by and

I do enjoy reading your comments and

visiting with each of you!

Lorena

Happy PINK Saturday

Good Morning

My PINK Loving Friends!

I am sharing once again more PINK

goodies that I have made and sold in the past.

I guess you can tell I have have a *thang*

for Pink in roses? Yep, its my passion!

Cork Board above adorned in PINK roses.

Lovely Suitcase all done up in Roses!

Curvy Pink Shelf.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I am planning on getting to each and every

blog in the next few days as I have been

absent due to Graduation

festivities.

Thanks to our hostess

Beverly of How Sweet the Sound

Check her out to see the many other

PINK

Participants!

Have a Pretty PINK Day!

Lorena

Due to Technical Difficulties

Hi Friends,

Well you all are so sweet!

So many would like to see pictures of our party...

but

my *other* puter that I keep my

pictures on is doing the

CRASH

thing...especially

when I am trying to load pictures for you all to see.

Hubs is working on fixing things

but until then...

I am waiting to see if its

working properly and then I will

download the few pictures I did manage

to take before things began to blurrr

in the crowds...

Love ya!

Lorena

I'm Back!

Hi Blogging Friends and Followers!

Oh my, to say I have been busy is an understatement!

Thanks for being so understanding and

sticking with me!

(my Neice Ambra/my dd Michaela

both 2010 Graduates!)

In this time since May 20th, we have been to Florida

to help my neice celebrate her graduation from High School.

Came home to have my sis and neice come here

to help us celebrate my daughters graduation on

June 3rd.  In between that time my

parents who had traveled also to Florida,

then visited family in S. Carolina came

up to Michigan to stay with us as well to help

be a part of the festivities.

We also planned and carried out a wonderful

celebration party for my daughter on the 12th of June.

So... YEP we were busy?

(Grad Party day!  Michaela's friend WHO made her cake!)

The last of family left Monday.  I have slowly been getting

my home back to normal.  It was 3 weeks of stress, fun, a house FULL

of family and I would NOT have it any other way!

In the midst there is always MURPHY's law...

my blender, coffee pot, garbage disposal and hand mixer went caput!!!

I lost 1/4 of a molar.  Then I also ended up 2 separate times in

Urgent Care with each parent.  Both have recovered...but they did end up

having to delay their flights and I was so happy to

have them here for Michaela's party.

Never a dull moment in my home..that is for sure!

So hopefully life can get back to normal...whatever that is for us! lol

I hope to be back with my normal post in the next week!

Blessings...Lorena