this is what i call a real find for teacup tuesday.  only .69 cents each piece at the neighborhood goodwill store.  they had the whole set with tea plates but i just bought one cup and saucer.  can you believe, under a $1.50.  although made in china (what isn't these days) it is signed in gold by a designer that i can't really make out.  it has the most beautiful flowers in the happy colors i cherish so much.  so there, my humble little teacup. 

i photographed it against my latest art technique discovery which is a transfer of a vintage paper image onto fabric by using gesso and letting it dry overnight and then peeling the background paper.  if you would like instructions, i would be happy to explain it to you.  still sewing bundles and crocheting since my fingers can never be still

and the person i'd most like to have tea with today, another blogger of an amazing talent who lives in cornwall, england carolyn saxby.  be sure to visit her blog, i guarantee you are in for a treat.

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it's Teacup Tuesday again and for the longest time i have been wanting to do a post on english cornishware.  having grown up in england and spent many a summer in cadgwith, cornwall, i naturally grew up with this tableware.  i still remember my mother making us soft boiled eggs for breakfast in our cornishware cups,

although we later insisted on getting the noddy cups, a cartoon character very popular in england during the 60's.  if there is any middle class tableware par excellence, it is cornishware.  simple and yet beautiful with that english country cottage feel.  it looks gorgeous on hutches when you put all the pieces together. ironically i have not one piece of cornishware in my home although i've bid on a few milk jugs always having lost to a higher bidder.  so most of the photos here are from Flickr. maybe it's time to renew the search in spite of my vowing to do with what i have for the moment, trying desperately to de-clutter the house.

Cornishware, as it is correctly known, has been in production since the 1920s when Tom G Green bought a pottery and started making breakfast ware. Now, there are collectors all over the world and rare and vintage pieces trade for hundreds of pounds. The factory had closed down in 2007 but was purchased recently and production is in full swing again with innovations; cornishware will now also come in red and white.

 
 
 
 
 

 

hoping martha is feeling better and thanking all my blog friends had  a happy week in expectation of an even better one coming up.

and the person i'd most like to have tea with today: julie arkell isn't she a doll?

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since i am, after all, a creature of habit and the best of habits are hard to break even more so than bad habits, i join again in celebration of tea and teacup collecting courtesy of Teacup Tuesday.

although this is not a vintage cup (it's not even bone china and we know tea should only be drunk in bone china) i fell in love with this french red and white ceramic cup while visiting a beautiful little town north of where i live called carpinteria. it was the one and only one they had left so thought it was on it's way to becoming vintage.

and as promised, i share with you the twist: who i'd most want to have tea with today and that would have to be Kathy of Spot on Cedar Pond whom I have become very fond of over the weeks sharing at TCT.  Her blog is so refreshing to read every day, funny, spontaneous and filled with family love and values as well as a blessed life close to nature.

just in passing, i also share an assemblage crown i have been working on for months titled "the crown of heaven" after the famous religious poem.  i highly recommend this poem of which i've only included the first stanza.

I FLED Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter. 
Up vistaed hopes I sped;
And shot, precipitated,
Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears,
From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.
But with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
They beat—and a Voice beat
More instant than the Feet—
‘All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.’

Happy TCT in deed!

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it's teacup tuesday over at

TCT and i decided it might be a good idea to do something different.  i love to find challenges that invite us to share, a chance to visit other bloggers, to see their homes and read about their lives and how they see the world. and if there's anything more inviting it's their kitchens also known as the hearth.  from here flourish all the hues of love.

so here is my teacup, a gorgeous violet themed cup i ultimately gave away to a dear friend who lives across the pond in australia meet the wonderful jo

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