Tea Cup Tuesday Again

 

Here I am again on Tea Cup Tuesday.  Be sure to visit the other sites after you visit me.
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This week I made a quick trip around my own antique shop and found some pictures of tea cups
to show you.  Hope you enjoy them.

 

 This is a child's tea set, possibly from the 40s or 50s.  You can also buy a full adult size set of dishes with the golden wheat pattern.  Homer Laughlin was one of the companies that made that set.  This child's set was made in Japan. Wouldn't it be fun to have both sets.

 

 This is a bone china set, made by Queen Anne.     

Pretty blue pansy like flowers

Another bone china set.  This one is called Winter and is made by Dutchess.

And finally here is a cute set to use as you serve tea.  On the bottom it says Holland.  

Hope you enjoyed this quick look at items in my shop.

BlueGrass in the Endless Mountains of PA

        If you follow my blog or know me personally you know my husband and I both enjoy attending BlueGrass Festivals.  This is something we discovered later in life and I guess we are making up for lost time, attending as many festivals as we can.


This past weekend we went to the NEPA Bluegrass Festival.  It is held in Tunkhannock, PA which is in NE Pennsylvania, hence the title I imagine.  Tunkhannock is located in an area called the Endless Mountains. It is beautiful country and makes for a great place for a festival.

Lazy Brook Park is the venue for the event.  Although I couldn't find much info on the web, I have been told that the area was formerly a small subdivision or neighborhood  that was flooded a few times.  It was finally decided to remove all the houses and turn it into a city recreation area.  The streets are still there, some of the planting from the former houses as well.  It is nestled right on the river so that enhances the place.  I don't know if it has flooded recently but if it did it wouldn't take long to get it back to the beauty it is.

It is situated on Tunkhannock Creek which feeds into the Susquehanna River.  The creek seems a "small" name for the size.  But it is lovely.

Here is our camper set up in a shady grove.

And here is a picture of the stage people setting up for the concerts to come.

We were pleased to be able to see one of our favorite blue grass groups, Aspen Run, perform.  We have followed them for a number of years and actually were at their first festival appearance several years ago.  They just get better and better.  

Another group that played at the event was

Larry Gillis & His Hard Driving Bluegrass Band

  

They were quite a few more groups performing but I was generally too busy listening to take pictures.  I will "try" to do better at our next festival.

A Visit to a Group Antique Shop

Today while we were in Tunkhannock  a quaint little town in the northern tier of Pennsylvania, we stopped in at a group antique shop we had just learned about. It is called the Bridge Street Market Place.  The building was huge and set up beautifully.  Several areas were done up as rooms, displaying the items they had for sale.  I went around taking pictures of some of the things I enjoyed most.  I didn't buy much but had a great time.

Upon entering the store  this great little white dinette set caught my eye.  Wouldn't be great in a small kitchen?

Nearby I found this amazing mirrored room divider.  Too bad it wasn't for sale because it was stunning.

 

 

Turquoise and coral compliment each other so well, don't they?

I was quite taken with this bedroom .  Everything goes so well together and makes the room quite inviting.  All the old, mismatched furniture painted white makes it such a cheerful space.

 

And here is a scene that would look great on a porch.  The chairs, shabby chic for sure, were just begging to have someone sit in them for some relaxation.

  The lady who owns the shop has a great eye for what goes well together and makes the room settings so inspiring.  I started taking pictures to remind myself and then realized I should share them on this blog.
Hope you enjoyed them.  Would love to see your comments.

Tea Cup Tuesday

  

Here I am again on Tea Cup Tuesday.  Be sure to visit the other sites after you visit me.
(Just click here...  to go to the site that has the list of those participating.)

And I would love your comments as well.

We took another visit to one of our local flea markets on Sunday.  I found a lot of teacups available although I didn't find any to buy. Here are pictures of some of them.

 This pretty blue one looked like a Shelley and I got quite excited when I saw it.  However it wasn't. 

It was a name I had never heard of before so I didn't buy it.

 This brown and white one was quite old but it had a good bit of roughage.  I might have bought it if it had been in better shape.

Here is a group of Japanese (I think) demi-tasse.  

They didn't have any name on the bottom but they were nice.\

 This is a group of several types.  There is bone china and several of the copper luster style.

And finally here is a collection already started.

I love to look at all the tea cups. I have so many now though that I probably won't buy many more.

  BUT!!! never say never.

Comeback next week.  I will have some things to show that are presently in my antique shop.

I feel like we are living in a RAIN FOREST

Having lived in Puerto Rico for three years, not too far away from the El Yunque Rainforest, I am having deja vu type feelings as I look in our yard.  Because of all the rain we have had our yard is so lush and green.  I think our flowers are the happiest they have ever been.  And my poor husband is nearly worn out from mowing.  Well maybe not.

Here are some of the pictures I took yesterday.  If you click on each picture it will get bigger and you can probably see it better.

 The chives in my herb garden are going crazy.  I should cut some!

 I love the colors in this big basket. 

This picture shows the boy planter I got a couple of years ago.  AND a "stump" planter that has hens and chicks in it. I got this last summer from a lady over in Reedsville, PA at a flea market.  I didn't have to do anything special to have them winter over.  Just left them in the stump and placed it in a corner of the house, outside.  It was a bit protected but don't know that it even mattered.  They have come back with a vengence.

 Here is the girl planter that I bought at the same time as the boy planter.  

 Here is a single Purple Iris competing for sun and space with a large group of tiger lilies.  

They will be ready to bloom after the Iris has done its thing.

 I tucked a small six pack of these little pansies, or maybe Johnny Jumpups in a planter and tucked it into a garden that is filled with black eyed susans.  They will bloom in the fall.  I hope the pansies will keep on doing their thing.

 More Purple Iris.  These are in another garden.

 and here are some Yellow Iris.  I didn't get a good picture cause they are in a shady area in the garden. They don't seem to mind the shade though.  There are more pretty areas.  I will save them for another day.

Full Tilt Boogie

If you have been following my blog for awhile you know that I seem to jump from one interest to another. I also like to take on line art classes.  A while back I took a class from Mary Ann Moss called Remains of the Day and have done two different journals using her methods.  Here are the links to the pages I did about this class:
http://agardenersart.blogspot.com/2009/12/altered-art-and-christmas.html
http://agardenersart.blogspot.com/2009/12/continuing-with-remains-of-day-project.html
http://agardenersart.blogspot.com/2009/12/we-are-going-to-have-white-christmas.html


She is now preparing a new class called Full Tilt Boogie.  Click on that title to go to her blog to learn about it.  She hasn't gotten around to doing the full description or the price yet but I will be there when it begins in June.

I have picked up a couple of antique picture albums on Etsy and have already a collection of cabinet cards from the era.  A while back I did some altered work on some.... Click here to see the pictures of them.

Here are pictures of the two photo albums I bought.  I imagine they won't look like this eventually.

 And here is a picture of a couple of pages in the above book.  they aren't in great shape but after I learn Mary Ann's techniques they should be great.

This class won't be started until some time in June,  so won't have any more reports until it does but thought some of you might like to check it out.

Tea Cup Tuesday

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I haven't been here in awhile which is obvious.  Just too much going on in my life I guess.  I seem to take pictures with the plan to do a blog entry but then get sidetracked.

This past weekend while we were in upstate New York for Mother's Day we attended the CNY Regional Market on Sunday morning.  A must place for us to visit when ever we are in the area.

I did a blog entry yesterday about it.  While taking pictures I found several that would be good for a blog entry on Tea Cup Tuesday so here they are.  I have no names of companies that made them but I thought I would show them anyway.

This tea set shows tea cups and saucers and such that are silver luster.  Very elegant.  They would need to be cleaned up a bit but would make a great looking table setting.

This is a sweet little teapot.  A cup for one or two.

This cup and saucer do not match but do look pretty together.

 And this pink pretty demitasse was nice!

Here are the other things you would need for a tea party. 

Included are a couple of copper luster pieces from Czechoslovakia.

I didn't buy any of these but did enjoy seeing them.  Hope you do too.