WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY for "Tea In The Garden"

It's a beautiful day and right now 
 the shade is on this north side

of the house - so let's sit and 

chat over a nice

cup of tea!

I thought I'd share the picnic basket I stained and decoupaged with Edith Holden's art work from the "The

 Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady". 

 I have really enjoyed revisiting

 this old craft of decoupage.

A bouquet made with

 flowers from my garden:

It is so thrilling having some of my

foxgloves come up that I planted last

year.  They would never come back
 in Colorado so this is wonderful.

I love old vintage linens - 

but most of you know that.

There is a work table for decoupage set

 up just inside this sliding glass door

 and I can sit with the door open

and hear the pond and enjoy the garden.

It's hard to believe it is almost June!

SUNDAY CELEBRATION

UNDER THE PEACH TREE for "Tea In The Garden"

We are all so busy these days

 and now we have summer activities and

 gardening to keep us busy too.

With rain in the forecast this week, 
I went ahead and did a quick photo
shoot on Monday because I wanted
to share a little table set we found
on Sunday.  We are out under the peach
tree on the other side of the pond today.

I am also sharing this little Royal Albert

Coffee set that I found at an Estate Sale a few

weekends ago and yes we can use

it for tea if we want too.  

Last fall my husband and I gave our peach tree
a major pruning.  I think it is 15 years old and
had never been pruned and was in bad shape.  
I have quite a few bird houses in the tree and
a house wren lives in the pink one. She's not
real happy with me today so here she is.

Please help yourself to tea.

I have to tell you something funny that

 happened Monday.  A big yellow lab must 

of gotten loose from who knows where. 

 He came up in our yard and got into the

 back yard as I had the gate open. In no

time he jumped in our koi/goldfish pond. 

 He made a mess knocking some big

 rocks into the water so you can imagine

 my husband and I chasing him around the

 yard and he was having great fun.

  We had to block up the 2 openings

 where we have yet to put in gates in

 the back.  You can see that in this photo.

If you would like to join me today I
 would love to have you participate
 in my tea related blog party at the bottom
of this post.

And a little sign on my front porch:

Sharing at other blog parties as well:
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A PEONY BOUQUET & ESTATE SALE BIRDBATH

Today I decided to pick peonies rather than

letting them hang to the ground
 in 80 + degree weather knowing 
they would be quickly spent.

It's time to put away that spring daffodil

floral on the front door......all the

daffodils are long gone here.

This is when those cool Colorado nights would

come in handy as they kept flowers from "progressing

along" to full bloom and ending.  I heard it

might snow tomorrow in Colorado though.

Have I showed you the bird bath I

got at an estate sale on the 1/2 day?

Very heavy concrete too for $25.00.

If I was giving out free advice it would
 be this - enjoy
every day of summer as it goes so fast.

A LOVING BIRDS TEA for "Tea In The Garden"

Sunday on Mother's Day - we had our

very first Hummingbird arrive by our deck.

It seems like a good time to celebrate

all the wonderful birds we love!

We have lovely singing house wrens
 in 3 birdhouses hanging in our yard
 and there is a Nuthatch in the teapot
birdhouse......I can hear tiny babies inside.

The Spider Wort was from my
 Daughter In Law last year.
All the flowers she gave me to
help me get started in a new
garden - are doing well.

I am happy to report there are no 
screaming "Chorus" frogs in
our pond right now. 

If you would like to join me by posting a link
to your tea post - just link at the bottom.

I always enjoy sharing at:

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MAY GARDEN

I love having a vase of flowers on

our entrance porch to greet guests!

I want to really enjoy every step

of the garden journey this year:

My biggest garden challenge lately is

learning to recognize seedlings.  I

find some of them to be harder.

Yes, I marked them but when we had

some terrible rain storms my

system got a little discombobulated!

sharing this post at:
Home Sweet Home

IN CELEBRATION OF MAY for "Tea In The Garden"

I am so happy that May finally arrived.

Happy spring days are here again.

Almost every birdhouse in our yard

is occupied and unavailable.

We don't have to depend on the 

market for  flowers for our bouquets - that's

always nice isn't it?

It is so wonderful to see the sunshine too.

Today I am using my Bavarian

 tea set

with wildflowers on it.

 A little collage showing what's blooming:

I recently have enjoyed reviving

an old interest in decoupage and this

was an old hat box I did with Edith

Holden's art by cutting up one of her books.