Bits And Pieces

My painting from Lauren came a few days ago! I love it in person even more than I did from the photograph. I hung it above my little dresser where I have all my jewelry.

It was wrapped beautifully.

And she even included a little extra something which made me extra happy. Thanks again Lauren! (note new stripey sheets in the background)

A couple extra pictures of my room.

A silly woodpecker drinking from the hummingbird feeder.

A cute little caterpillar.

Saturday And Sunday

One of my favorite places to have tea is the comfy window seat nook in my bedroom. It is quite large and sunny, and after I went on a full-out-bedroom-cleaning-tear today, it was especially nice and dust free.

The nice thing about having many tea pots, tea cups, and tea accessories is that I can choose which ones I want to use based on my mood that day. Today I was feeling a bit nautical crossed with English countryside. So I chose a nautical tea pot, an Englishy plate, and a sunny yellow tea cup (rescued from Chantilly, they were just going to throw it away because it was a little worn and chipped!)

The apple fritter was a surprise treat from Mister B. He has only recently decided he likes coffee (and I only drink tea) so we don't actually own a coffeemaker. This means that he has to go across the street to the coffee shop when the mood strikes him. For some reason this time he decided to bring me home a treat! I was surprised and pleased.

The guy you see peeking in that last photo was also from Mister B. He doesn't usually buy me a ton of unnecessary things for no reason. This is good for two reasons, first: I don't really need a ton of unnecessary things, and second: it makes it extra special when he does! We were recently at the grocery store and I took a very strong fancy to this huge, cuddly, lamb. I was ranting about how cute he was and how much I loved him, and out of nowhere Mister B decided he was going to get it for me. I know it sounds silly, but I was SO excited! I had a huge smile on my face for the rest of the night. Oh and I love my lamb. He is adorable, but also quite functional as he is the perfect size for a big comfortable back pillow.

There were a bunch, but I picked the one with the wrinkliest face because I thought he was the cutest. I haven't decided what to name him yet. What do you think? Any good name ideas? He fits right in on my window seat where some of my other cuddles sit in the sun.

Speaking of sitting in the sun....

haha, Cuppa Tea will get into any position if it means soaking up those warm rays. Did I mention he also makes silly faces?

So that was my Sunday, now let's work backwards to Saturday.

I think that my nautical/English countryside feeling of today was inspired by Sarah over at A Beach Cottage. Her blog is SUPER lovely and so nice to visit. I just discovered the Saturday Club last night, but only after coincidentally having a perfect Saturday Club kid of day. The highlight of my Saturday was going to an estate sale and finding this beauty (which for those of you familiar with her blog, fits right in over at A Beach Cottage).

Lovely no? I also got this awesome vintage airline lighter still in the box, and a wonderful book about carousels. Good tea time reading!

Well that was my weekend. Hope yours was splendid too!

Storms And Super Excitement!

I am just bursting with excitement and I will tell you why! If you are a fan of Lauren over at Fair Rosamund then you will have seen the adorable cat painting she did for Cameron. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to have one of my two furries. I promptly asked Lauren if she does commissions and she said yes!

So today she sent me the pictures of the finished painting and I LOVE it. I am SUPER excited! She did such a wonderful job capturing the personalities of my kitties.

Eek! Isn't it wonderful? Thank you Lauren!

It was quite stormy here yesterday and the day before. A nice change, we even got a little rain.

You know when it is cloudy and stormy in the evening and there is that yellowish tinge to the air from the diffused light? I love that. Anyway I tried to take a picture, but of course you can't tell at all in the photo. I guess it is more of a human eye sort of thing.

The rain made the plants happy. Oh and remember my sprouting garlic cloves that I planted? They have taken off quickly!

Grow little garlic sproutlings, grow like the wind! (Sproutlings, I think that is a Fanciful Twist word that has worked its way into my vocabulary!)

Oh and I managed to take a photo of someone using the hummingbird feeder. It wasn't actually a hummingbird, but still a cutie.

Until next time!

Happy St. Patty's Day! And I Found The Pot Of Gold....

....well it isn't quite a pot, but close enough!

 

So awesome right?! We just got a batch of vintage tea cups in today and it was my job to price them and put them out. Most of the ones I really wanted were the expensive ones (I guess I have good taste in tea cups?), but this one was SUPER cheap, I think because it is so crazy and doesn't have a maker's mark (it just says Germany on the bottom). I normally prefer silver to gold, but this was just so ostentatious I couldn't resist! I mean every lady pirate needs a gold treasure tea cup to drink her tea with rum out of right? Good ol' Chantilly, making me spend money again.

And speaking of Chantilly we have a lot of Irish themed food there right now for the month of March and yesterday for an early St. Patrick's Day lunch I brought this home to have with tea.

It is honey-lime chicken salad, with an Irish soda bread muffin and Irish butter on the side. Oh man, let me tell you about this butter! So I always thought that all butter tasted pretty much the same, right? Wrong! This is a weird thing to say, but that butter was the best butter I have EVER had. It was delicious! I can not even describe how yummy it was with the muffin. I wish I could send you some so you could try it, I just know you would love it too.

Okay sorry, butter rant over. Here are some more photos of my St. Patty's tea. Note that I used all my green accessories.

Cuppa Tea really wanted some too.

And what afternoon tea would be complete without an issue of Victoria?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Sun And Brunch

It is so lovely and sunny here, it just makes me so happy! The flowers are blooming...

and my herbs are growing. I even had a couple cloves of garlic in the kitchen that were starting to sprout so I planted them in here too. Hopefully they will do well!

I also got a hummingbird feeder to attract all the beautiful hummingbirds we have around here. It is really funny though, even the regular birds drink out of it. There is this big woodpecker that lands on it all awkwardly and eats to his heart's content. I will try to take a picture next time I see him!

I got a really awesome book used from the library recently. I love it because it is all Caribbean inspired food, and I have actually been to Tortola, the island that the restaurant is on! I loved it.

I decided to make the rum french toast today and it was delicious!

Here is the rum I used. Margaritaville baby!

So yummy!

And that was my day!