A CRINOLINE LADY AT THE PARIS STREET MARKET for "Tea In The Garden"

For years I have wanted to attend an outdoor artisan and vintage market know as "A Paris Street Market" in the Littleton area of Denver.

  Located in a lovely shopping area, this market is in it's 15th year.  I finally got to go Saturday because I am officially RETIRED!  On Friday I worked in my backyard all day and by the end of the day I ached all over.  I loved every minute of it!

I am sharing a little crinoline lady cookie jar (I guess a cookie jar?) that I found at the market.  Isn't she cute.  It was fun walking through the market although it was very hot.  I just checked later to see just how hot it was Saturday and I was right as it was 93 degrees in Denver (only 83 degrees in Colorado Springs at the same time). We don't have much humidity here but it was still very hot for me as I have worked in air conditioning for years.  

My husband and I promised each other that straw hats will now live permanently in the backseat of our car.  How in the world did we leave home without them?  We did find an umbrella in the car.  I guess we were more prepared for rain but the umbrella helped with the sun.

So welcome to "Tea In the Garden" and I hope you can join in the fun by sharing something tea related at the bottom from your blog.   Some of you remember I made this little seat cover last year.

Please pour yourself a lovely cup of tea. 

 Lately, I have been drinking lots of Yorkshire

 Gold iced tea.  Because of the caffeine,

I do have a cut off time of 2:00 pm.

I hope you are having a wonderful summer.  We had trouble over the weekend remembering what day it was.   As we were out on Saturday  we keep thinking it felt like Sunday afternoon and we would have to go to work the next day.
  Oh my, this will take some getting used to
 but I'm sure we can do it!

STRAWBERRY BUTTERMILK SCONES FOR "Tea In The Garden"

I love old vintage linens and  doilies and keep them organized by season and theme.  I decided to pull out the strawberry ones and found I had several so I am enjoying tea time with them this morning in the garden.

My garden is bursting forth with Queen Anne's Lace and I am loving it!

I am sharing some Strawberry Buttermilk scones today.  Please have one and also pour yourself of lovely cup of tea.  The scone recipe came from The Smitten Kitchen Blog.  I did substitute buttermilk which I do a lot as it is cheaper than heavy cream.

You could make these scones yourself

 as they were easy to make!

Jeremy Fisher would love to

 help you make them!

I would never have the patience to this embroidery work.  I am not a long term project person.

A BOUQUET IN THE GARDEN for "Tea In The Garden"

Because of some very busy days, I am posting

 "Tea In The Garden" a little late:

Today is a beautiful day in the garden and I decided to make a bouquet for my blog posting.  I hope you can pour yourself a little cup of tea.

I am sharing a couple of my teapots:  A Sadler and an Arthur Woods.  I am sorry to say the yellow teacup and saucer have a problem.  I failed to "test" that one first and the saucer rocks terribly so please be careful.  My husband showed me the problem this morning that the saucer isn't flat on the bottom.  I think I have made about every mistake possible when looking over teacups and over the years I have missed chips and cracks and more.

I recently found this 1999 garden book and think it is wonderful:

I hope your summer is going well.  I see the naughty squirrels have been eating my Clematis Blooms:

I have shared before that this summer I am closing my shop after 28 years.  Things have gone really well and we are winding down our GOOB Celebration (Going Out of Business).  We are excited to be approaching retirement.

ENGLISH RED TRANSFERWARE for "Tea In The Garden"

Today I am sharing some of the red transferware I have been collecting in several patterns.  I pick up a piece here or there when the price and quality are right.  I don't mind pieces with crazing but not so much the ones with brown stains.  I also saw a whole bunch at an antique mall but it was all chipped and stained so I passed it up.

I ordered my first (and maybe last) piece on on Etsy.  It was listed as red transferware.  When It arrived it was dark pink (not shown here) and lovely but really did not match the red.  I was disappointed that the lady listed it as red as I would have called it pink.   I am sure many of you have stories to tell too.

  I will keep looking and use this

 coffee pot for tea!

My favorite patterns in red are Mason's "Vista", Spode "Tower" and I also love  Enoch Woods "English Scenery".  As you can see I was out in the garden early as the sun was rising.

Last year we moved the bird house to the other side of our yard.  I am happy to see the Clematis beginning to climb back up it.  I hope you have a wonderful summer week.

NATALIE'S BIRDHOUSE for "Tea In The Garden"

Last week one of my customers gifted me with a 

darling little birdhouse teapot or I guess I should call it a
teapot birdhouse.  Thanks so much Natalie!
  I will miss her but always think of her when I look at it!

I don't want to pretend all these flowers suddenly bloomed in my garden.  Sunday I was at Lowe's and they had their gallon perennials for just $4.00 for the day.  I loaded up the SUV as they were the nicest plants I'd seen in town.  My own delphiniums were coming up nicely but not yet blooming, so now they are multiplied.

There were lots of shadows in the garden

 this morning as the sun came up.

Today I am sharing two of my beloved teapots. 

 I love the romantic floral ones.