A FINE ROMANCE for "Tea In The Garden"

On Sunday, September 21st, I flew home to Virginia to visit my step father.  September 24th would have been my Mom's 87th birthday and their wedding anniversary.  Since my Mom passed away last October, I wanted to be there during what would have been her birthday and spend the week visiting my family.

Yesterday I purchased this old Sadler teapot in  Denver - yes it has lots of crazing but I love it.  I am not a perfectionist.  I love old things which are well worn with time!  And it was cheap.

During my visit to Gloucester, Virginia, I took this opportunity to reread Susan Branch's 2012 journal and book about  her 2 month visit to England.  I have not been to England myself so this was my reread of her enjoyable book.  

Please help yourself to a cup of tea and one of these Krispy Kreme Donuts.  We love to stop there on our way out of Denver and eat them on the way home in the car.

 Lastly, I am sharing this old vase I also found yesterday.  My garden is winding down but a few blooms remain here and there.  

KEEPING COZY WHILE READING "A FINE ROMANCE"

I don't know about you but with all this snow I would love nothing better than a big stack of cookbooks, magazines, etc and lots of time on my hands to pursue and waste away hours and hours dreaming through the pages.  Actually this just isn't my life. I don't have a lot of time to relax.

  After hearing about a book others have read I had to find one. (I had sold her cookbooks in my shop for years.)   I am referring to Susan Branch's book and the fact that I just picked my ordered copy up last evening: "A Fine Romance". Today is "Friends Sharing Tea" so I want to share this book too. You would love it and wintertime is the perfect time for a good read. 

  Not every room in my house is full of teapots,  Our den is actually the one more masculine room.  I have a new teacup and saucer and it is English Elizabethan.  The colors are yellow and blue with lots of gold.

A leather sofa separates the kitchen from the den. My tea cabinet is armed and ready there as I do my reading.   

I have not been to England but doesn't everyone have a right to dream of going there? I know many of you have been there.  Susan takes us there in this book and journals each day with her artwork.