LYNN BEAN'S ORANGE CRANBERRY BREAD for "Friends Sharing Tea"

Last year I shared this lovely tea bread
from a recipe I saw on  Lynn Bean's Blog 
so I am sharing it again.  I baked this
 one yesterday on Thanksgiving Day.

I enjoyed getting out some red

transferware yesterday to begin the
 Christmas decorating.

We saw the most beautiful Holly with
red berries a few weeks back in St. Louis
in front of a business.   I wish I had some
 in my yard.  It was all 
I could do to stop
myself from cutting some of it.

I love this older Victoria 

Magazine book

for Christmas .  It is
fun to just sit here by
the fire and read.

I hope you can join me today 

and share 

a tea time posting

from your blog below.
I am also sharing at:
Vintage Charm
The Art of Homemaking Mondays
Tuesday Cuppa Tea

An InLinkz Link-up

WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL VISITED MISSOURI - 1946

This post isn't exactly about tea but it is about

 someone from England.  Last weekend we were

 invited to visit the historic Churchill Museum

 on the campus of Westminster College nearby

in Fulton, Missouri.

This is the Tuttle House which houses the

Churchill Institute and you know how I love

these Victorian homes.  Our friend, Dr. Kurt Jefferson

who invited us has his office located here:

Here is a collage of some of the home's features.

Across the street is a church dating back to the

 17th century which was completely

 moved piece by piece from London, England to

 Fulton, Missouri and reconstructed stone-by-stone

on the campus of Westminster College.

  These pictures are of the upper level:

 .......the lower level houses the Churchill Museum

as my husband Keith, his brother Paul and Dr. Jefferson

prepare to enter:

  

Some of you might recall Winston Churchill's

 famous "Iron Curtain"

Speech was given on the Westminster College

 Campus in 1946.

  (not that you were around then of course)

The collage below

shows him riding in an open car with President

Harry Truman:

My husband and I have recently experienced a

 renewed interest in history - how about you?
Sharing at:  Share Your Cup

TEA NEAR THE FIREPLACE for "Friends Sharing Tea"

Hello blogging friends!
Today I am sharing a seating area just

 off the kitchen with a gas fireplace which I am calling
my Victorian Parlor.

  The old telephone
 chest is where I keep my teas:

In between the 2 areas is my armoire with 
the fall transferware still out.  I will
be happy to see Thanksgiving finally
come next week and then decorate
for the Christmastime!

This has been a busy week,
as we are getting
 a new roof on our house and  we have 
company for the weekend.  It is
bang, bang and more bang all day!

Do come sit and have a cup of tea:

I am looking forward to putting all these fall things away - 
time for Christmas - right?

I hope you can join me for my party below.
I am sharing at these parties:

Tuesday Cuppa Tea
Home Sweet Home

An InLinkz Link-up

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANICE!

Today I went with 2 other bloggers to celebrate 

Janice's birthday this week!  Janice has

the blog "Curtains In My Tree" and

Gina has the blog "Victorian Wanna Be".

Janice is on the right in the first photo outside

of Miss Aimee B's Tea Room.

After going to 2 antique malls and enjoying lunch

 we thought

we had a pretty fun day indeed!

These gals are great fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK JANICE!

SMALL TOWNS ALONG THE KATY TRAIL

Here in Missouri there is a bike trail that goes for

hundreds of miles.  Not that I am a biker but I

do still have my bike from the 1970's.  It is in

good shape because I don't ride it. (Ha!)

Have you been to any really small towns

lately?  We drove to some yesterday that

the Katy Trail passes through.

The first one was Tebbets, Missouri:

then on to Steedman, Missouri:

and on to Rhineland, Missouri:

See that old house above.  It is in Rhineland - 

another small town.  I noticed that it

 had 2 front doors and remembered something.

Old stage coach stops used to have 2 front

 doors as the ladies went in one door to a parlor

 and the men waited in another parlor. 

 I wonder?

After a while we crossed a bridge over the

Missouri River:

On the first street one of the old homes

 has an old ungroomed garden:

It reminds us of the "Secret Garden":

Hope you enjoyed the trail and you didn't even

have to ride the bike!

A PINK QUEEN

What is it about the color pink 

that makes us so happy?

  Last Sunday I found this vintage pink "Queen" in a case at the Warson Woods

 Antique Mall in St. Louis, Missouri.
She takes me away to another time and era. 

I made the buffet runner or seat runner years back by sewing
Crinoline Lady and Sunbonnet Lady Vintage Linens together.
Here was my original post of that

 back in Colorado.

I am down in the  
 "Tea Room" today at the Buffet.

 There are no markings on my "Queen"

 but she has lots of

crazing and looks really old.

Wednesday night we had our first frost so I picked some
 of the last flowers before the frost.

I am sharing a simple dessert that I think
you would love from Clarice Fox-Hughes' book "Wishes Are Like..."  She has wonderful Italian recipes in this romantic book so I made the Lemon Ricotta Cake with Strawberry Sauce Topping.  This is her easy recipe I made for dinner tonight with some ricotta cheese and strawberries! 

Perhaps you would like to use this teacup
and have some of the cake.