Karen's Cottage and Castle: January 2015

Saturday, January 24, 2015

A Favourite Tea Time!

Welcome My Lovely Teacup Friends to

A "Favourite" Tea Time!

This week Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage has invited us to share our "favourite" teacups or teapots at her beautiful blogspot
"Rose Chintz Cottage". She is celebrating five years of blogging!
http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.ca/

This was a very difficult task for me since I love each and every teapot and teacup in a special way and really all of them are my favourites.

After much thought and careful consideration I have chosen Royal Albert's Old English Rose.

This beautiful, elegant teacup has a rose floral design surrounded with beautiful gold gilt. The gold is vibrant.

This teacup is in the Avon shape.

Royal Albert has produced teacups in a variety of shapes.

This is the Countess Shape.

And the Hampton Shape.

The pattern is even on the inner cup of this rich black cup too.

My mother was missing the teapot from her collection to her set but my sister and I were fortunate enough to both find one during our thrifting to complete our mom's collection.

Apparently the vintage crown china stamp
1927 - 1935 has more gold trim than those produced in later years.

It is one of my favourite china patterns because of the beautiful rich coloured pink and red roses with greenery ~ just stunning against the white background.

Does beautiful china make you happy?

My favourite tea is Red Rose Orange Pekoe.

Try one of my favourite pastel mints.

Or a favourite cookie?

This week was my birthday and my family and friends treated me to another of my favourite things.......

Beautiful Flowers!

The roses were from my son and his wife.

As I am taking pics of my Old English Rose dishes, I ponder as to whether any other blogging friends may show this pattern as their favourite too.

I am very eager to explore everyone's blogspot this week to see what your favourite teacup or teapot may be.

Thank you for joining me today Teatime friends

for

"A Favourite" Tea Time!

See you next week Dear Friends!

Karen

Thank you Sandi for planning a special tea time!

This week I will be joining these beautiful blogspots:

Bernideen's ~http://blog.bernideens.com/

Friends Sharing Tea

Beverly ~http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
Pink Saturday

Martha ~ http://www.marthasfavorites.com

Tea on Tuesday

Ruth~ http://www.antiquesandteacups.info/

Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Sandi~http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.ca

Teacup Tuesday

and Judith - http://www.lavendercottagegardening.com/

for Mosaic Monday

Hope to see you there!

Friday, January 16, 2015

A Winter White Tea

Welcome My Friends to

"A Winter White Tea"!

White is such a calm and relaxing neutral tone.

White blends with every hue and always looks clean and fresh!

White is the color of fresh snow and milk, the color produced by the combination of all the colors of the visible spectrum.^[1]^[2]

As a symbol, white is the opposite of black, and often represents light in contrast with darkness. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, white is the color most often associated with innocence, perfection, the good, purity, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning, the new, neutrality, lightness, and exactitude.^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White#cite_note-3