Tea Time

Dear Friend...
I have been very, very busy crocheting these past few weeks...
And did think it was time to just relax and sit for a day...
A quite time to just take it all in and have a tea...and bicscuit...
Oh well the truth a few biscuits...But I know you aren't counting so that's ok...

and planning of course what is to come...
Yes some very big news soon...
I am so excited I will burst but all will be told by the end of May...
and I know you will just be as thrilled as me...

We are starting to clear a little area for a outside spot...
To sit in the mornings and read the paper and chat and relax...
It just so happens to be the very spot where I take most of my pics so I am begin
very careful to instruct "digging Husband" just where to dig and where not to dig...
as I really love the ivy on this wall and would hate it to be chopped up...
and he does have a tendency to dig willy nilly...
and all of a sudden I end up with something total different to what I had planned in my mind...
Oh those husbands have to be watched closely...don't they...


and I did manage a fabby thrifty trip this week too...
The outfit was completed all in on op shopping trip...
Tights...just kind of like Tif's...less the pretty lace...
Wrap dress...
Singlet underneath...to keep me warm...
and shrug that although mass produced it has a lovely crocheted panel in the back
and is a very sweet colour...
Shoes from previous op shopping trip but still from the same place...
I get so chuffed when an outfit just falls into place...So I don't have to think too hard
about it all...
as I really hate spending ages wondering what to put with what...
And my sea of clothes seems to be a mile high as I think the amount I can get from
op shopping and the price I can manage to get more for my money than buying new...
and find lovely things that I know I would never be able to afford new...
Which also means that "penny watching Husband" doesn't mind either...
Well I think we both like putting our spare change into projects for around the house...
so it works out quite well...

But I really couldn't go past a thrifty find that is just amazing...above...LOVE!!!
Really needs a wash but I am rather worried about doing it myself...
That might get put aside for the dry cleaners...
I have only ever been to the dry cleaner twice in my life so I will be waiting
for the time when I have a few things to take...and that way when they all come back clean and smelling just lovely I will be able to tell myself that,"that wasn't so bad"...
and maybe not leave it so long the next time...
I do hope that your week is as thrifty as mine...
But if not maybe sitting with a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits in a pretty spot
will be just sweet and lovely...
Regards my dear...
Michelle...
Loving The Vintage...

Tiny Tea Anyone

I found this little set here in town
and it is so very cute...
The cups and saucers are tiny!!!
I didn't even think they made small ones like this eons ago...
The milk jug is a normal small size of about 12 cm...
So that gives you an idea of the size of the others...
The brand is Grindley England...
and I do have other plates with this same brand
so my collection is slowly growing...
But I think at the moment these are my new fav's...

On other news I am making progress with my
little caravan sketches
and hopefully you will see a few more real soon...
and maybe something special with one of them?

Loving The Vintage...

Tidying Up

I was lucky enough to get one of these trolleys given to me a while back...
and even in my favorite colour...
the vinyl is a little torn on the edge but I'm not too worried by it...
After a quick clean it came up a treat...and ready for a much needed outing...
I really wish we had markets like they have in Melbourne where a trolley like this would be perfect to take and just stroll around picking up fresh veg's and even a bunch of flowers on the weekends...
I think if I lived near these places it would get plenty of use...like every weekend...
And here is my crockery stash...after a much needed clean...
Most of the cups wouldn't fit in the picture but I do seem to have more saucers than cups...
It is a odd array but uniform in the pastel palette...
blues,cream,yellow,green and pink...
mix and match and they work well...
I thought with the weather change and the feeling that spring is nearly on us I would get a heads up in the tidying up department...

Loving The Vintage...

Crocheted tea set mark 100

Yeah I think I have finished...
Well maybe!!!
I have rounded the base on this one...
and put a different handle on it...
and put a lip around the base...
and well just changed it several times...
but ha! isn't that what being creative is all about...
Now how hard can a tea pot be?
It should only take me about 200 goes...lol...

Loving The Vintage...

Hand painted

This is a beautiful tea set
that we have...
It was my husbands mothers..
and it is hand painted egg shell china...
It amazes me that it has survived 4 moves and still
is in one piece...
There are 6 cups and saucers and side plates
in total...
and i have no idea of when it was made
or anything about it...
I really need to research it...
It's a shame I have to have it up in a cupboard
and not appreciate it like it needs to be...
But I would be really upset if anything happened to it...
I really like to enjoy all my vintage crockery
and use it all whenever I can...
but sometimes there are exceptions...
Loving The Vintage...