My Grandmother's Tea set

Hello everyone,
It's Sunday evening, and I am sitting in the living room watching the
2018 Olympic Games and writing the story of my Paternal Grandmother's tea set.
 The photos are from the selections I used for January 2019 Tea Time calendar.
 January I am featuring my Lenten Rose flowers from my winter garden
 and my grandmother's tea set and garden scissors. 

As you browse from one photo to another,

you will see different styles with the cups

and the flowers. I try several methods and check

where my eye goes the moment I look at 

the photo on the computer

The golden scissors with the detail on the handles and the delicately embroidered
tea towel and the lenten rose with a bud on the stem makes an eye-catching statement.

The tea set is a gift from my mother. My paternal grandmother inherited the tea

set from her mother-in-law (my great-grandmother) They are marked RS Prussia on the back

I have six dessert plates and six teacups and six saucers.

The teacups, saucers and dessert plates are displayed on the wall in my guest room.

I dearly treasure my inherited gift. 

Thank you for visiting today

Have a great week. 

Joyously,

Betty 

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Tea Time in the Guest Room

Hello everyone,

Our home is back together after the December decorating frenzy.
I love having our house more cozy starting the New Year.
I showed you my Winter Wreath HERE.
And now let's move into the the house and take
 a look at the guest room. (you know my favorite room).
 You ask why is this my favorite room?  Well,
 every afternoon at four o'clock I come into my favorite
 room to read or rest for a hour before I start dinner.
 I bring my tea cup and saucer and my newest favorite book.
 As you know my husband and I are retired.
 In our living room it's very cozy with a fireplace and a
 BIG chair for my husband to recline and watch TV.  I love my time
 alone to reflect, read or dream for an hour a day.

I moved the bed and added a new comforter and shams.
To see before GO HERE I added a little table to
put my tea cup and saucer and a place for my tea pot
 or my book and glasses. I found this vintage tea cup at the
thrift store. The little flowers in the tea cup are beautiful.
The blue lace handkerchief was my mothers.
 I can't remember where I found the  blue and yellow tea cozy.

While I was taking the photos I was dreaming of painting this room.
 It needs to painted and new carpet installed.
I might get to this room sometime this fall.

I put the comforter over the bedspread and added a neck pillow
and my little lamb from Williamsburg, Virginia.
The comforter and shams I found at the thrift shop for $12.00 dollars.

Do you like the comforter completely covering the bed or 

the comforter at the bottom of the bed?

Shelley Tea Cup and Saucer

My romantic guest room in the afternoon.
The vintage mirror with the candles on it
 was my paternal grandmother's keepsake...

I found the 'Lenten Rose' blooms and two daffodils in the garden.
It is pouring rain and I looked out and saw two lonely yellow daffodils
standing in a wet and soggy flower bed.

A mosaic to pin

Thank you for visiting My Cozy Corner and

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Joyously,

Betty 

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Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

No Place Like Home at Rose Chintz Cottage 

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

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♥My Favorite Tea Cup♥

Hello everyone, 

This past week the weather has been very dry for January.
 The dining room is so nice and sunny in the early afternoon this time of year. I picked one of my favorite tea cups today.
 This tea cup is very special to me because I am a GRANDMOTHER to six beautiful girls. When I found this  prayer for Grandmothers I knew I had to share it with you.

A Grandmother's Prayer

Dear Lord,  Thank you for sending my husband and me six girls the second time around. Please make the girls strong and healthy. Size 10 will do, thank you.  And see that they play bridge, tennis and the piano-the zither, if they insist.  

And learn to cook and dance and have inquisitive minds and be good citizens. And please, Lord, give them a sense of humor, too. 

A dear friend of mine visited France and brought back a box of tea for me. I love the lavender color printing on the tea bag tag and it matches my tea cup. The french words on the tag are beautiful.  

Beautiful detail inside the cup when I sip my tea.

Lenten Rose, Fern, Ivy and Dutchman's Pipe Vine fill the pastel flowered  vase. 

Lenten Rose

Dutchman's Pipevine

'Queen's' Rosina China Co. Ltd. Made in England

IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE A GRANDMOTHER

I have quite a generational thing going on here today. A Grandmother's tea cup and my great-grandmother's tea spoon. Two lumps of sugar for my french tea. And chocolate under glass...   

Thank you for your wonderful comments.
Joyously,
Betty
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Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home

Mosaic Monday at Lavender Cottage

Tea Time Tuesday at Rose Chintz Cottage 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

A Return to Loveliness  at A Delightsome Life 

Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups

Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday
Cedar Hill Ranch for The Scoop!
Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday

My Lusterware

I'm in Love

with

Lusterware

I know I'm fickle.

 I fall in Love with so many pretty things.

The beautiful petite blue and yellow Lusterware teapot seen here with its luminous diamond design has cups and saucers that are so delicate and thin as to be almost translucent, and especially refined touch. The tea set was made by the Phoenix China company and bears the mark "Made in Checho-Slovakia."

I looked around my home to see if I had any Lusterware and I found two tea cups and saucers that have the same iridescent appearance as the tea set in the photo.

As Mary from A Stroll Thru Life would say "Yip-Skip" and I agree Yip-Skip!!!!

One is mostly Pink and the other is mostly Yellow.  The sun is shining into my dining room and I seized the moment for this photograph.

I love the pearled look inside the cup.

Never can have too much Gold.

Just a Note: The tea cups and saucers have no markings on the bottom and

I bought them at a yard sale last year. Yip-Skip.....

I Love Lusterware!!!!!!



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Post Script: To see more about the flowers in the vase. Please press the My Garden Tab at the top of this page.

xo

Betty

My Lenten Rose

Hello Everyone!

I'm excited about my new plant.  I saw this bloom in a bouquet on a tablescape from a blogger in Sweden at Between Naps on the Porch "Tablescape Thursday" about a year ago.  I have wanted to buy this plant from the first time I saw it.  I also love the name.  'Lenten Rose' It belongs to Hellebore's family.

'Blue Lady'



This is an evergreen perennial that flowers when the weather is cool.  It has an exceptional long blooming season, and is useful in shady woodland spots under the canopy of deciduous trees.

We had a frosty night and the plant got a little frost bite.

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xo

Betty