Blue and White Spotty China, A Moment of Calm!

Just a short one today.  

Bit of blue spotty china action. 

Realised I have 36 drafts of blogging I have never finished. So I am just going through them all.  

It completely past me by too that I have been blogging for over a year. 

Yikes that has gone fast. 

So today's blog is all about a mug of herbal tea. 

I know you are all riveted. 

It must have been just a moment of calm.  

Which I can't imagine really over the Christmas holidays. 

But I honestly absolutely loved every busy minute of it.  

So really enjoyed being with the wee ones. 

I am so not one to say I can't wait to they go back to school/creche. 

Why? They will be in it for the next 350 years! 

And paying for it for another million! he he. 

Maybe the moment of calm was when they were in bed. 

A moment of indulgence into a sneaky chocolate brownie. 

I am a big fan of brownies, It must have been from all those years living in America.  My Mom makes awesome brownies but when she's not making them, I indulge from Ruth's

Coco Bean's brownies.  

Oh my word they are absolutely gorgeous and come in a variety of chocolatey flavours. 

Seriously try the challenge and check them out, she can post them to you too.  Which is quite a bonus if you think you don't even have to leave the sofa to buy them, only go to the door. Result!

A little bit of a Coco Bean's brownie above, I didn't want to show the whole slice as it would have looked like I was an Iggy Piggy!

Oh I am.

Orange, mango and cinnamon herbal tea.

Blue and white spots and white and blue spots.

Lonely cup.

Cup sneaking off to the side.

Wow, that is brilliant red.

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom.

I so love this spotty plate, this plate was the start of my love of all vintage china, when I saved it from a china breaking stall in a local fair. 

How could you break this little precious set?

My sister got most of the red spotty set and I got the blue, which is quite obvious as you are looking at a picture of it.

Love this fabric, I keep buying fabric to make things but I can never bring myself to cut it up so end up using it for tablecloths! At least I get a little bit of joy from it for a little while longer!

Again sorry so many photographs, what was I thinking.

Can I sit still at all.

 No, not really.

Hope you are all enjoying your New Year.

So looking forward to this year.

From sunny South Wales,

Oh sorry did I say sun, haven't seen it since last year!

Take care for now, until the next old revived entry, haha.

x

Happy New Year's Day Vintage China Session,

2012

So it's 2012! I Wish you all a Happy New Year to you.

We started the year with some lovely friends and also we managed to do what we like doing best.
We got out our favourite vintage china and had a good old cup of tea. 

One of my loveliest vintage friends was visiting - not vintage in age! But she does love everything vintage and home made. 

So I picked this delicate grey cup (made in Glasgow) for lovely Ness. 

 Really pretty spoon.

Detail on grey "Silver Birch" saucer from Royal Albert.

 Change the lens time! 

 And again.

Cute dinky gold teapot.

Fancy Vintage china x 4.

 Christmas shortbread cookies.

 Loving embroidered tablecloths at the moment.

(well always really)

And my favourite spoons.

Sorry got carried away with photos again!

Hope you have all had a great day and hope this year will be a good one for you.

We are all really missing our lovely friend that past away recently, big time, and somehow New Year's Eve will be so different from now on. Praying that somehow this year we will recover from her loss and carry on remembering how awesome and talented she was.

 Also am so thankful for close friends and family, especially my wee little ones. I am so lucky to have such sweet busy bees that make me laugh so much - and also how lucky that they happen to love china!

(shame about the other half not so keen! haha)

Take care for now and thanks again for stopping by.

xxx

Vintage Blue and Gold Teapot, Part One,

Vintage Blue and Gold Teapot,

I love this blue set so much, I actually have had it for ages and was so pleased when I came across it when tidying up.

How could I loose this blue and gold teapot! I love it.

So when my neighbour Chris came round in her really cute outfit, I had no choice but to get this teapot out as it matched her outfit so well. A few of you may know by now, that I am such a fan of matching an outfit to a good old vintage teapot!

And Chris never seizes to amaze me with her cute whimsical way of dressing.


(see part 2 in next blog)

I love this pretty bright warm coloured floral tablecloth. 

Some random photographs below of views of the blue and gold 

china teapot, jug and sugar bowl.

This teapot is almost a Wedgwood blue colour?

Love these cherry red and pink flowers.

Spots are so seriously cute!

OOOOOH is that banana loaf going on in this photo?

Bit too many blue and gold china jug and teapot shots, 

sorry.

 So loving the orange hand-painted spots on this teapot.

Well,take care for now. 

Part Two should follow this post!

xxx