Tea Cup Tuesday Again

Time for Tea Cup Tuesday............

 

After you visit my site be sure to visit the others at 

http://www.marthasfavorites.com/

or 

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com 

And I am now participating in another Tuesday Tea blog hop.  Here is the link to the main page.  From there you can visit other participants.
http://tea-diary.blogspot.com/


This week I have another tea cup that I bought while traveling.


This one is Centenial Rose by my favorite tea cup maker, Royal Albert.
It is definitely of the season in color.  And you can never go wrong with a rose!

I am not going to put this one in my shop to sell.  I am keeping it!


And here is a bit of season decor from my kitchen.

Tea Cup Tuesday

 Time for Tea Cup Tuesday............

 

After you visit my site be sure to visit the others at

http://www.marthasfavorites.com/

or

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com 

Back in August when we were traveling through New England and New Brunswick I wrote about some of the flea markets I found.  While at the one in Sussex, New Brunswick I found quite a good group of Tea Cups and saucer sets.  I bought 4 for myself and for the next four weeks I will be showing them.

 This week I will be showing you this VERY SCOTTISH one.  I don't find this style very often so had to get it!

This is a Queen Anne bone china set featuring a Scottish bagpiper, Scottish castle and the quintessential Scottish symbol, the Thistle.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this set.

Gothic Arches

Wow, I am here for the third day this week.  Usually I am lucky to do 1 a week. 

As you all have probably figured out I enjoy making art things.  Have loved it since I was a kid and I keep finding new ways to express myself.  I think making collages is my favorite form. 

        Some months ago I discovered the relatively new art form, making Gothic arch collages.  I like the fact that it is a limited space to work in and the shape of the arch sometimes determines what you can do.

I belong to another art group on line called  Roses on my Table.  Actually, it is a group of art groups.....
I am a member of a couple of them.  Each does different types of art and some have swaps as well.

The one I am enjoying right now is the one where everyone makes Gothic Arch collage examples.  There is no swapping involved but we post pictures of our monthly work.

The most recent one I did was with the theme of Orange and Black.  I used a graphic I got from The Graphics Fairy Blog.   Here is a picture of it.

In August the theme was "Animals"  Since we live in a houseful of cats that was an obvious choice for me. Here is the one I made. Some of the arches the group does are really elaborate.  I seem to tend to simplistic but seems to be my preference

 And here are two that I completed earlier in the year for a swap.  I don't remember the theme but I  like these.  I have an excess of scrapbooking papers and that is generally what I use for the backgrounds.

 

   If you click on them you can see them better.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing this new kind of art.  If you want to see more just google gothic arch and art and you should get a LOT of variety.

And check back with me on Tuesday when once again I show off some of the teacups I have recently added to my collection.

Speckled Egg Group Match Box Swap

One of my favorite activities is to participate in a group swap of art work.  This is the third time I have been
involved in a swap sponsored by the Speckled Egg Blog.  This time it was called Curiosities Inspiration Box Swap! 


We were in groups of three and the idea was to create a Curiosities Inspiration Box using a paper match box. We used the larger size.  Here is a picture of the type I used. You can click on to see it bigger and a better perspective.

Although it looks small, it is amazing how much stuff you can include in the box.  And of course you get the fun of decorating it too.
    Below I will show you the two boxes I received and then finally I will show what I sent.


This first box is from Leanne S.  It is loaded with goodies for me to use in some of my altered projects.

 Above is the box, just opened a bit and next one you see all the goodies that were included.

And this next one is from Teresa S,  

And finally,  here is the box that I sent off.  Actually I made two so each person received one.

As you can see each of us interpreted the swap theme differently.  That is why it is so much fun to participate.


Come by tomorrow and you will see my Gothic Arch attempts.

Off to the races at Dover.

Sorry, I have been away for a while.  We did some traveling and then my neck decided to go into spasms for a few days.   After a lot of rest and some muscle relaxers that is now behind me.

We were able to attend one more Nascar Race this year, our fourth!  Unfortunately it was very cold but at least the rain held off this time.  And while we had some free time one morning we went to FLEA MARKET!!! Yes, we found one.  It was in Dover Delaware.  What fun we had. 

I didn't buy any tea cups this time but managed to take a couple of pictures of some of the things I saw.  I will probably include them in my next Tea Cup Tuesday blog next week.  I should also have taken pictures of the great produce we found but alas I didn't.  We are still enjoying the fresh sweet potatoes and the Butternut Squash.

The really best thing we did while at the races was visit the Camping World store in the fan fest area and we bought a generator.so now we don't have to worry if a campground doesn't have electricity as many don't.  I will be able to use my computer more AND it should be a help making sure our sump pump keeps running if we run out of electricity during a HEAVY rain fall!

  I wanted to show a couple of pictures of the event and our campsite.

Here is our camper, ready to use!

When we attended the Dover Raceway Fan Fest we got to see many interesting things but this was our favorite!  If you look closely that is a biker "showing off."

And this is another picture of a different bike rider.

This is a view of some of the racetrack from where we sat.  The cars are getting ready to race!   If you click on the picture you can see the cars better.

Be sure to check back on Thursday as I will have pictures of a swap in which I participated.  And on Friday I will have some pictures of some gothic arches I created for another group I belong to on line.

Tea Cup Tuesday

Time for Tea Cup Tuesday............

 

After you visit my site be sure to visit the others at

http://www.marthasfavorites.com/

or

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com 

Before I get into my tea cup Tuesday entry I want to mention what has been going on in my area the past few days.  We have just had Historic Highs Flooding in my town and many other towns along the Susquehanna River and its Tributaries here in Pennsylvania.  It also affected a LOT of towns in Southern New York as well. After all the problems from Irene the Red Cross and National Guard didn't need anything else to do but they are here in full force.

I wanted to say that my house is high and relatively dry.  The cellar took on water when the sump pump stopped working for a couple of hours.  There was a LOT of rain coming down here.  My husband and I have spent the last few days drying out everything we could save.  There is still a pile out front waiting for taking to a dumpster.  We are also extremely lucky because we have a well for our water.  The town water has been off since last Thursday I think.  And will be for another day or two.  

All that being said, here is a link you should be able to take to see pictures of the flooding in my immediate area... Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.  It is from the local newspaper, Press Enterprise.  This area often gets floods but this is the highest the waters have even gotten.  Not a pretty picture.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.275638549115927.75837.122253831121067&type=1

 But now back to the real purpose of this blog entry.

I collect a lot of tea cups but you really need to have sugar and creamer sets to have a real tea party.  Here are a couple of sets I saw at the flea market in New Brunswick.

This first one is a dainty looking set which you could use anytime, or save for St. Patrick's Day.

It reminds me of the Beleek china which also has the tiny clovers but this is a bit more sturdy than that one.

And another one features yellow roses, I have had the cup and saucers that go with it. But couldn't find any today to add to this.

Hope you enjoyed seeing some of the sugar and creamer sets.  Next week I will get back to cups and saucers.  I have a number of them I bought to add to my collection.  Can't wait to share them.

It's Tea cup Tuesday again!

 Time for Tea Cup Tuesday............

 

After you visit my site be sure to visit the others at

http://www.marthasfavorites.com/

or

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com 

I took off a couple of weeks from Tea Cup Tuesday but should be back for the next several weeks as I have lots to show from my travels to Maine and New Brunswick.

Today I am showing a couple of Christmas Items.  The first is a cup and saucer.  I have never owned any tea cups for just the holidays but this would be a good one.  For some reason I completely forgot to see what kind they were.  And I saw them up in New Brunswick so won't be going back any time soon.   LOL

And If you are going to have a holiday tea you will need sugar and creamer and so I found this set.  I think they are lovely.  I am not sure the maker on these either but they are nice

 

If anyone know the maker of either of these I would love it if you would add the info in a comment.