VALENTINES DAY TABLE

 

This is the time of year that I keep busy.

The truth is that when I am not busy,

I am bored.  I am looking for 

inspiration for my coming garden

 season or making something delicious

in the kitchen (this gets me in

 trouble here).

I spend time looking at new 

decorating ideas or making something.

I have been working

 on a Valentine

table:

Last year I found the middle plate but

recently I found 6 more of these

vintage Adams ENGLISH plates:

Each one has a different

couple.  Last year I found this

lovely lace old Quaker

tablecloth with cupids

and Colonial couples.

I made this tea cozy a while

back with vintage laces

and crochet:  it is available

on Etsy

Lady Madeleine and Lord

Chumley are ready

for tea:

I will use these vintage

napkins for our meal (I 

will replace the fancy

ones for actual use):

Do you love setting up a

pretty table for dining?

CHECK OUT MY TEA COZIES

 I invite you to check out my

tea cozies on my 

Etsy site:

I posted 2 Anne cozies and both have

sold quickly.

VINTAGE QUAKER LACE AND CROCHET TEA COZY

 

Size Large Original

Drop in Snuggie Tea Cozy

 

Vintage Quaker Lace tablecloth piece sewn over off white muslin and embellished with a lovely old crochet

 doily piece.  There are multiple layers

 of inner thick polyfil batting.  The 

lining is a tone on tone beige and

white cotton print. 

details

CROCHET DESIGN TEA COZY

 Available on Etsy...made from old crochet

and decorated front and back.  Size large Drop In Snuggie Style which

 fits your 42-48 Oz teapot:

NOW SOLD

WHO NEEDS AN ANTIQUE LACE TEA COZY

 

This has sold!  

CHECK OUT MY TEA COZIES

 Please check out my tea cozies

made from vintage crochet, lace

and embroidery.

Bernideen's Tea Time on Etsy

TEA COZIES ON ETSY

 

and with Bible verses:

I hope you can check them out on Etsy

LAST DAY OF THE YEAR WITH JANE AUSTEN TEA COZY

I am sharing my Jane Austen

Tea Cozies I made on this last

day of the year.

I love Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion"

which is the love story of Anne Elliot

and Captain Wentworth:

Please check out my site

on Etsy.
 

LAST CHANCE LAST CALL

 My Nicol Sayre Snowlady Doll 
 is available for sale on

Ebay here. (click)

ALL THESE ITEMS ARE 

SALE PRICED TO GO!

Remaining Snowmen tea set

items are available here on my Etsy

site. (click)

Remaining Christmas Tea 

Cozies are sale priced:

I recently went through all my tea cozies

and completely converted all of

them to DROP IN SNUGGIES so 

none of them now have elastic bottoms.

Here are just a few that

 are left

that I am

sharing.

SALE PRICES ON SELECT CHRISTMAS TEA COZIES

 

I have a few elastic bottom tea cozies

that are ON SALE and ready to

ship.   Do you have a Christmas

Tea Cozy and if not, here is

your chance!

I also have a large Christmas

Cats:

(see link above)

TEA COZIES ON ETSY

 I hope you will check

 out my tea cozies

on Etsy:

Everyday Paris -

 Eiffel Tower: 

I just shipped the large 

blue toile one

below:

For the Nutcracker fans:

BRITISH ICON DROP IN SNUGGIE TEA COZY

These Drop In Snuggie Tea

Cozies are a favorite on my

Etsy site.  The fabric comes

from England and has a British

Icon theme.

Find them here

 

SOMETHING SPECIAL: TITANIC TEA COZY

 Just a quick sharing of two new

tea cozies that I made.  I don't know

if you ever saw the book "Last Dinner

on the Titanic" but it features many

great ideas for having a Titanic dinner

with recipes of foods you can make yourself

that were actually served on the Titanic.

You can also recreate an Afternoon Tea

using the recipes.  These are my two

newest tea cozies I just listed:

They are available here.

Other Titanic posts here

CELEBRATING QUEEN VICTORIA'S 202nd BIRTHDAY

 Monday, May 24 was Queen Victoria's birthday. (1819) 

I decided to invite some special ladies for an Afternoon Tea to celebrate.  I did some special sewing for the occasion and this

is the back of my large tea cozy:

 

I also made some napkins.   I will be posting some of these cozies to sell on my Etsy site this week. My tablecloth topper was a print copied from a tablecloth with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration motif.

 I was being tight with my fabric so

I made a couple toppers as I really

wanted us to sit outside on the deck.

We have had cool weather but the

projected day was expected to be hot

so I wasn't so sure about being outside.

  I love the 

history of Queen Victoria. I am also

very interested in the character

and integrity of Prince Albert.

I am sure you probably watched the

PBS television series "Victoria".  I

purchased the CD music on ebay

to play for the

 ladies during

 our tea.

You may recognize these ladies who

I knew before I moved to Missouri as

I "met them" through blogging!

I love the little finger foods for

Afternoon Tea.  As you probably know

this is often mistakenly called "High 

Tea" but that is not the correct term.

I am sorry I didn't get a picture of my

food items.  We started with a salad of

mixed greens, peas, crunchy onion rings,

cheeses, mushrooms and nuts.

Then 3 savories were:  Ham biscuits with hot pepper peach preserves, little asparagus, mushroom, onion and parmesan quiches and cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese and dill.  My scones were lemon with cream.  For dessert we had a Queen Victoria Sponge Cake.

I have shared my 1851 Great Exhibition

souvenir pieces already on this site.

Karen has these pieces and after seeing

her's, I got interested in finding some myself.

Most of mine came from a gal in the 

Netherlands.

First we enjoyed iced tea and then 

with dessert we had hot tea.  The tea

was a gift from Donna Hardin at

Miss Spenser's Tea Room in New Virginia,

Iowa and it was a black tea with orange.

It was delicious!

When these friends come to my house or I go to their's, we always bring a little hostess gift which is so fun.  It just wanted you to see the bag Janice (Curtains In My Tree blog) made  with her gift:

And now available on Etsy:

Do you like learning about

Queen Victoria?