Showing posts with label tea cups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea cups. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

A Cup of Tea and a Nice Book

Some sewing projects are getting ready. This is another anti-plastic bag recycling one of my sister P's pillow cases:


Today I have been working on these card wallets. There will be a removable string at the top edge for carrying the wallet around the neck, and some more buttons - recycled from quilt shirts - on the tapes to pull the cards up. Something went wrong when I was cutting the bisquit box cardboard, and the middle wallet is too narrow for a credit card. Naturally I noticed it only after sewing everything together.




This disappointment called for a nice cup of tea and some light reading. The Hearty tea


looks like this:


There are tiny candy hearts in it, and summer berry flavours. I pampered myself with the 80-year-old teacup I have shown earlier here. I took my tea out, and because it was windy - it always seems to be nowadays - I chose my current book instead of the magazine. The Miracle at Speedy Motors, by Alexander McCall Smith. I don't like bush tea like Mma Ramotswe, but I like her a lot.


Last night when Mr. K came home and was closing the door, he called me to see and hear something we don't usually see.


The baby hedgehog was making loud noises like Kääh, kä kä kääh, kä kä kä kää-äh, like she was saying "Wait for me" and "I'm hungry", or "I need some milk NOW".


She tried to get to her mama for milk, but the mama was too busy to let her. Maybe it was time the little one learned to eat solids.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Vintage Thingies 29 - Teacup Finale

VTT time again, and time to show the last two teacups from the set my mother gave me when she sent me to the big world on my own. These cups were also painted by Great Aunt Saima, like the rose and Pierrot story from last week.


The Fuchsia cup is from 1930, painted for her big sister, my grandmother.





Her initials SS on the bottom of the cup.



The other cup was for my grandfather. A more masculine pattern and colouring, don't you think?


This cup is from 1929.


I like the symmetry of the decoration, and the thin gold lines.



This was all for this week from me. Let's go and see what others have linked to Suzanne's blog.
The list is long!