Bernideen's Tea Time, Cottage and Garden: March 2017

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

SPRING INSPIRATION for "Friends Sharing Tea"

This week I was ready

for some Springtime

inspiration at my house:

Last year, I found this pretty

napkin (above) over in a little

shop in Boonville.

Pansies, daffodils, bunnies, chicks

and tulips - just naming a few

things that speak of Spring!

Although we had a very mild winter,

we are very ready to see green outdoors

again. Even though it was cool out

yesterday, my husband went out

and mowed the front lawn.

I hope you can join me below for my

"Friends Sharing Tea" Blog Party.

An InLinkz Link-up

Monday, March 27, 2017

SPRING IS HERE AND MR. RABBIT IS BACK

Last Monday was the first official
day

of spring and we'll take it!

Here in Columbia, Missouri, the Bradford

Pears bloomed about a week earlier than

last year! They were beautiful all over
town about 2 weeks ago -
it's just to bad the tree bares no pears.
These Forget Me Nots will be blooming soon:

Forsythia was another one

that that I have seen that came early.
Ours was quite modest because
we gave it a severe haircut last year.

We have so many birds here now that
the backyard sounds like a birdfest!
I keep the feeders full to make
them happy. Last Friday was the
first time I saw the bunnies on
the ground beneath the feeder
eating what the birds spill.

Mr. Rabbit is already eating
things
in the yard - NOT good.

Missouri had a very mild winter and
at least one lady told me the bugs will
be bad because of that.

We have had about 3 days of rain -
yes - rain. I know too much isn't good
and some are experiencing that but
we needed it.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

ANTIQUING IN PARIS

Today I went antiquing in Paris....that is

Paris, Missouri - not Paris, France.

These are the dishes I got today that I

am displaying with other cottage

items I already had:

In the little town of Paris there was an annual

antique show at the rural high school. I

thought some of the displays were really nice.

There were many quilts, etc. I bought some

75 year old cottage dishes that came

from the Burslem,

England Crownford Pottery.

The pattern is called "Surrey".

Most of the pieces are pretty stained and I

could not get the stains out but just picked out

a few of the best to keep. They were

inexpensive as they all have a ton

of crazing so I need to think of a craft

project with the remaining ones -

would be cute on

some birdhouses for sure.

And lastly I am sharing what the creek out

back looks like with 2 days of rain

and see how things have turned green:

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

ANOTHER VERSION OF LEMON CREAM CHEESE SCONES

I imagine that many of you are like me and

change recipes after baking something

quite a few times!

I have baked these scones many times and shared them on this blog and always seem
to change something. I purchased the
little American Beauty cream and sugar below from another blogger.

This time when I baked these scones
(click above to see recipe)

I used buttermilk instead of heavy cream

and I added 1/4 cup of lemon juice

in them along with the lemon zest.

I also recently found this little

hand painted tray above!

I put some strawberry

jam on your scone for you:

Things are starting to pop up here

in our Missouri yard - I know that

it's going to be a fun year in the garden.
Last year the "foundation" was dug out
but this year I can move on to the plants so
I have 20 flats of seeds growing in the
basement now...... and so much to learn!!!!