Giveaway Winner

We have a winner - from names written on teeny tiny scraps of paper and picked by an uninterested observer (my daughter!)-                 the
                                             
                                                                WINNER
                                                                        
                                                                         IS


                                 ANGIE
                                in Yanchep 


 Email me your address and I will get your book in the mail on Monday!! 

And, thanks to everyone for dropping in and looking and sometimes commenting!!!

Just a Quickie...................

A little hand stitched chatelaine of sorts- first try.

 

I saw a fancier one in Julieanna's and thought I'd try one out of scraps I had.

I cut a heart out of a cardboard PopTarts box (recycling!)

The vintage muslin scraps were from the thrift store- I have dyed several with different kinds of tea - this one was tea dyed with yerba mate tea - made it a light sagey green.

Very old rickrack, with vintage rayon ribbon, and a very vintage mother of pearl button,cover the lily of the valley print pocket.

Underneath is cotton batting, front and back, so it can be used as a pin cushion also.

The loop is from a thrift shop curtain tie back - I meant to have the tassel from the tie back at the bottom of the heart,

but 

was watching tv,

got distracted,

and 

forgot to sew it in........

The little sewing scissors were also a thrift store find- so the cost of this was probably less than a dollar.

This heart was the 1st try - the others will be better!!!

threesixtyfive

Robyn Gordon posted a wonderful video on her Facebook page( which I shared on mine) that has inspired me to get back to posting on my threesixtyfive blog.

Taking a photo a day and posting it every day is NOT as easy as one would think it should be!!

                                               At least not for me!!!

Drop by and see the two new photos posted, and please become a follower, if you are not already - the more followers, the more inspired I will be........................

PS - don't forget to enter my drawing on the previous post - a name will be pick tomorrow nite.

DING, DING, DING!!!!! GIVEAWAY!!!!

Bells are going off- my blog counter has informed me I have reached a total of




                                                  11,111  visitors




                                                I think THAT calls for a giveaway!!!!!






I think I will give away the book   

                              ART & FEAR    
Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of ARTMAKING


                     by Bayles and Orland


And throw in a few other little goodies, and of course, some tea, to celebrate so many visitors..!!!


Thank you for dropping by, and please keep coming back!!


To enter, just leave a comment, and become a follower, if you are not already. I would love to have more followers - I'll follow you, if you follow me!!! Oh, and winner will be picked Saturday, June 18, after 5pm EST.

Tumblr Tea on Tuesday

Having recently discovered the wonders of Tumblr , a website full of shared art and photos, I thought I might just share a few tea related ones I found there!

I am sipping a tall glass of ice cold, southern sweet tea, made with Red Rose teabags, lots of sugar, flavored with fresh mint and stevia from my garden.

                                         What does the well dressed press wear to Tea on Tuesday? A lovely knit    sweater, of course!!

                              If we stitch, while we sip, we must have a pin cushion like this, if it is Tuesday!!

                                 

                        What to wear, what to wear, for Tea on Tuesday????????

 

Everyone should have a blue willow pottery shard dress like the one above and a teacup made of hide!!!!

The perfect ring for Tea on Tuesday member!

                            And we can all sip our tea, by the light of a Tiffany style teapot lamp............

Click on my Tumblr , for the credits, websites, and artists for all these photos.

Please feel free to join us, every Tuesday for tea. Visit Patty and Kimmie for list of other tea fanciers!

Thriftin' and Porch Sittin'

                   I'm in love with vintage silver and silverplate!!! I use          it, alter it, recycle and upcycle it!!

This is a recent score from the thrift store- multiple sizes of Paul Revere repro footed bowls- they will look lovely filled with floating flowers, lined up in size order down the table, or in a group.

The tea kettle is too badly worn on the inside to use for tea - (altho I wish I could use it!), so it will be upcycled with vintage flateware "chimes" and chandelier prisms.

The little measuring scoop above  I am absolutely in love with- I'm guessing it is one and two tablespoons - haven't actually checked the accuracy yet! But, I will use this - it's kind of unique.

Scored two large iron wheels for my garden - rusty farm equipment is too good to pass up when the price is right!!!! I'll show you them both later - when the garden is fully weeded!!LOL

 

Here is my daughter's dog, behaving very well, surveying the property from the front porch.

This was the other day, after I lugged those wagon wheels to the garden, and before the hay was cut.

I joined Luna on the porch, with a glass of iced mint water, and a good book - The Dirty Life- about a city girl who became a farmer - hhhmmmm!! It is a really good and quick read - with some yummy recipes included!!

A view down my porch - the rusty child's wagon leads the parade of vintage watering cans- one can NEVER

 have too many watering cans....................

A Quilty Tea on Tuesday

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending one of Julianna's evening tea classes. 

                               Altho', this one had a different twist!

The ladies decided to have a tea version of a dinner theatre, by staging a mystery theme tea party-

                                     THE CASE OF THE CRAZY QUILT CAPER

We all received printed invitations, and when we arrived - the room was hung with an assortment of gorgeous vintage quilts. The quilts were owned by Julie and Susan and were made by their mothers, grandmothers, and husband's grandmothers.

Several attendees volunteered to act out a part (I was NOT one of them!) Quillinda, the Quantam Quilter (portrayed by shop owner Julie), was trying to discover who stole Grandma's prize winning quilt from the quilt show. It was a  fun  evening- I did not guess right - actually, only one person guessed who stole the quilt!!!

This mystery was from a script from Maxine's Mystery Tea Parties

Here are more than a few photos from that evening! You can click on all pix for a closer look.

All tables were beautifully set!

 

The tea room part of Julieanna's shop is a work in progress- it is not quite ready to be opened. So, the quilts hanging managed to cover up the unfinished walls quite well!! The shop is housed in an historic building, owned by Julie. We all can't wait for the tea room to be opened!

Julie (above) played the part of Quillinda, mistress of the quilt show and quantum quilter!

 Each place setting had a tiny teapot pin, made by "grandma", a wooden spool place card with a  name tag. The mix and match teacups were so gorgeous! Quilt theme items from the shop were brought in to double as centerpiece decorations.

                                                                    My friend, Judy

                                                        Our table's beautiful decorations

                                               My little place card - which I got to take home!!

                                        Simple decorating - fabric squares angled across the center of the table - a piece of orphaned china repurposed into a fancy pin cushion, a sewing scissor chatelaine (I'm making one of these!)

                                                Teapot lapel pin (some are still available at Julieanna's!)

 

Above is "my" lovely teacup

Menu

Another teacup fitting in perfectly with the backround  vintage embroidered quilt

                                                                     First course!! ham and apricot pinwheels, fat quarter sandwiches, pineapple flower sandwiches, cucumber cups with tzatziki.

                                      Raspberry scones - forgot to take the pic before I dove into them!!LOL

                                                Key Lime mini trifle and minted strawberries and pound cake

                                                        Chocolate- a perfect ending!

 

I hope you enjoyed "attending" the tea mystery party with me!!!
Please join us for tea every Tuesday- drop by to visit Patty and Kimmie for a list of all the tea partiers!!