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 am showing a little teacup I found at the flea market.  I didn't buy it but did take a picture of it to show this week.  I thought it was pretty.  I learned after checking it out on line that this is one of 6 motifs in the Woodland Series.  Each had a different bird on them.  Wish I had known when I saw it, I probably would have bought it and looked for the others.
This one is the Baltimore Oriole.  Other ones include Blue Jay, Goldfinch, Hummingbird, Red Wing, and Robin.  Click here to see all of the teacups in the series.

 

If you click on the pictures you can see a larger size.  Hope you enjoy my entry today.

A revisit to the flea market

While at the flea market this past week I also took a lot of pictures of the tea items that were available.  I admit I bought a cup and saucer or two or three...........   But mostly I just took pictures to show the variety of things available.  If you want to buy teacups to start a collection or to add to a collection a flea market may be just the place.

 The dark roses on the above set at lovely.

 I think this little sugar and creamer set is Royal Albert because of the shape and style but I admit I forgot to check.  I have a couple of sets with different patterns that are the same style.

 This tea pot and sugar and creamer is by Sadler which makes my favorite kind of tea pots. 

Nice to have the matching sugar and creamer as well.

 This tea set has the moss rose pattern.  Again didn't get the maker name.

And here is one more grouping of cups and saucers that were available.  I love the variety of patterns and cup styles.  You can click on any of the pictures to see a bigger picture.

Be sure to check back here on Tuesday for my Tea Cup Tuesday entry and the links to check out other ones.

All the stuff you may or may not "need"

We went to our favorite flea market a couple of days ago.  We bought a few things for the antique shop,  had some good food to eat and bought a lot of produce.  I took quite a few pictures to share with you all.  These aren't things we bought, just stuff that I thought was interesting for one reason or another.  I also saw a lot of tea things.  I will do a blog just about them tomorrow. 
        Here are the pictures I have chosen to show you this week.
This first picture shows a table that was overflowing with clocks.  I have a feeling the guy was a clock repair
guy since there were not only clocks but repair items as well.

 I needed a few geraniums for a new flower cart I bought at the market.

  I found this group for sale and ended up buying one of each type. 

 There are always a LOT of tables of jewelry available.  This is one such table, Kind of messy looking. 

You would need to really look hard to find any treasures. There are two views of it.

At this table they took a bit more care and made a nice display for the upcoming 4th of July holiday.

 Keys were for sale everywhere.  They must be highly collectible right now.  And pricey.

  They were selling for $1.00 and $2.00 a piece.  Wow.

 Here is a pretty lamp from the Depression Era.

 Here is a souvenir from Florida I imagine.  Lots of shells. And the ubiquitous flamingo.

 And some tins.

This is only a small look at what was there.  You never know from week to week what you will find.

weekly flea market report

Yesterday we went to our favorite flea market, in Leesport, PA.It is a bit of a drive but oh so worth it!. You can buy old stuff, new stuff, food, plants and pretty much anything you need.  Tomorrow I plan to show some pictures of what I saw there.  But for the moment I will do something a bit different.

At this particular flea market there is a wonderful store set up, selling many great decorative accessories.  I love to stop in to see what great things they are showing.  Today was a particularly good enjoyable visit for me. Stuff I love.  The name of the shop is Cocalico Creek.  They have a website if you want to see more, or even buy from them. Just click on their name.
   When I walked up to the shop I was greeted by this beautiful wreath and a couple of floral arrangements.  As I went inside I found several more displays featuring floral arrangements and in country settings.  You can take a tour now and if you love what you see check out their website. If you click on each picture you can see them bigger.

 I think the thing I like best about the little shop here at the flea market is that it is loaded with inspiration!!!!
Can't wait to go back again.  Hope you enjoyed the visit.

Making PaperTape

A few days ago I mentioned a tutorial I had found on line telling about making paper tape.  In order to do it myself I had to order some adhesive paper which finally arrived.

Today I set about to try it out.  The nice thing is I will be able to make it up any time I like.  I can also use fabrics and ribbons to do the same.  It is especially nice now that I am working on various art type journals.

This is the scrapbook paper I used for my first attempt.  I chose it cause it had stripes and there for would be easy to cut and use.

 And here is one of the sheets of paper I will use for the journal with the tape joining two different papers. The tape is pink.

By the way the blue flowered fabric is my ironing board cover, not a part of the project.  (LOL)

Paper I used was a little stiff so it didn't wrap well around a spool like I would have like.  But it sure works well on the paper which of course is its actual purpose.

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.)

Here are pictures of the two tea cups and saucers I bought at the flea market this weekend.  They are decorated wth violets which are my favorite flower.  When I was in my college they were my sorority's flower so have double reason to love them.

My sorority was founded in Maine and I lived there for many years.   Violets grow wild there in spring time.  Happily, when I moved to Pennsylvania I found more.  My back yard is filled with them in the spring time.

Here are the two sets I bought.  The first one has no name on the bottom so probably was made in Japan, maybe in the 40s or 50s, and it is just missing the sticker.  It is a dainty size with a nice edge.

The second one was made in Japan for sure as you can see from the label on the bottom.  It is such an unusual shape and almost demi-tasse size and of course covered with sprays of violets.  Just had to buy it.

Now I normally just buy bone china cups and saucers but for some reason I was really drawn to these two.
I will have them on display just as soon as I decide where to put them.

So what do you think of the teacups and saucers I chose this week.

What I found when cleaning up my studio

You never know what you will come across when you work on cleaning up an art space!  I was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of home made papers and projects I had made a number of years ago.  When we lived in Maine one of interests was making homemade papers.  I was quite gung-ho for awhile and even got involved in a few swaps.  But as with a number of my interests once I have learned to do it, I am off on something else.
Amongst the homemade papers i found these few little projects I had made using paper and some pressed items from my gardens.  I think I will probably use them in my new FTB garden journal.  They should add an interesting contrast to the other papers I will be using.

If you click on the picture it will get larger and you can see some of the details better. There are dried daisies, pansies and something else I don't remember.  And a lot of the paper was made using inclusions of dried herbs from my garden.

An aside to this story:

One day a friend of mine and I decided to make some paper using cat tails and didn't realize we shouldn't "cook" the stalks in the house. (Cooking is how you can make them "mushy" enought to press into paper.   My dear, normally patient, husband was not at all pleased! The smell was awful.  Since I didn't have a good place to cook outside I sort of changed my way of making paper and didn't do so much anymore.  Here is a picture of a bit of cat tail paper that I still have left.
It isn't very pretty is it. I suppose it would look interesting as a layer of a project.  I may end of using it in the journal and tell this story again.