Valentine's Day Tea Time

Happy Valentine's Day 

Wishing Y'all a romantic evening with your 

loved one.

Valentine's Day is the anniversary of my engagement to my 

husband 58 years ago. 

If you would like to read our story go to 

Love Story

Linking to

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes

Valentine Inspiration

Hello everyone, 

Last week I showed you my Winter wreath on the front porch. Today we are coming into the warm house to check out my Valentine tables from the past. I hope you will get some inspiration. Each year sweetheart and I celebrate Valentine's Day with a special dinner at home. The photos are from my blog archives.  

I truly love Valentine's Day because it's the day Sweetheart asked me to marry him.

We met in the Spring of 1959. I was a senior in high school  and my future husband was a junior.  We sang in the high school choir and one day we were practicing a song from "My Fair Lady" I looked up to the top row of bass singers and I saw this darling face smiling at me.  I was smitten and amazed.  He was so cute.  We dated and fell in love and on February 14th 1960  we drove to San Francisco to have dinner and see a movie to celebrate Valentine's Day. While we were having dessert  Sweetheart gave me an engagement ring and proposed to me. We were married on July 17th 1960. 

Our Wedding photo HERE

I love chocolate and sitting in the living room in front of the fireplace is so romantic.

I set a tea time table with my pink and white Church Hill dishes and baked some Valentine cupcakes to have for dessert.

Romance is the theme for a Valentine's Day dinner. Candlelight and Red Tulips are pretty romantic. I am a romantic and I will always love Valentine's Day...

This year my husband and I are celebrating our 55th Valentine's Day dinner together. We will stay at home and cook a delicious meal remembering that  wonderful night in San Francisco so many years ago.

I hope you enjoyed my story and hopefully you will or already living a long and happy married life. I'm happy to say my husband and I are in fairly good health and enjoy our retirement years. We are blessed to have a home, garden and hobbies to keep us busy and happy. My joy is blogging and sharing with you my experience, strength and hope for the future.

Thank you followers and fellow bloggers for featuring my blog during the month of January. Thank you all for visiting My Cozy Corner.

Joyously,

Betty 

Linking to:

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday 
My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday 

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday
The ROSEGARDEN for Showoff Saturday

Rustic and Refined for Table It Link Party - Sunday 
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

~A Valentine Tea~

 Welcome to my 'Valentine Tea' 

I'm using my Pink Willow dishes for our tea today. Sweetheart and I will be remodeling our kitchen/dining room soon, and after the tea I will be packing the dishes away for awhile. 

 I love playing with PicMonkey photo editing software.  Especially when they have special themes like Valentine's Day.

 Pink Velvet Cupcakes and Hot Tea

 I love stacking cups

 Heart shaped sprinkles are so pretty!

 'First Love' sugar spoon

 More stacking cups!

 'First Love' teaspoons are ready to stir some tea.

 I thought a big tea pot would be nice, and the sugar and cream are handy too!

 Yum! Yum!

 Please help yourself to a cup... 

 Half the month of February is going to be here soon, and the time is moving along rather quickly. 

Sugar and spice and everything nice is a great way to spend the cold winter season. 

I love to party:

Saturday

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday

Sunday 

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday

Monday

The Dedicated House for Make It Pretty Monday
Little Red House for Mosaic Monday

Tuesday

Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Cup Tuesday

A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday

A Delightsome Life for A Return to Loveliness

Artful Affirmations for Tea Cup Tuesday

Antiques and Teacups for Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Bernideens Tea Time Blog for Friends Sharing Tea
Thursday 
Decor to Adore for Be My Valentine Linky Party

Have a wonderful week and thanks for your wonderful comments.

xo

Betty 

Chocolate Kiss Tea!

Hi Everyone,

I'm inviting you to my Chocolate Kiss Tea.

and 

I would like to show you how I like to drink my Tea. While in England this past summer I was introduced to the way the English drink tea.

And now I love to drink my tea the same way.

One bag of Chocolate Kisses will go along way.

I'm sure Sweetheart and the Granddaughters are waiting until this post and my Valentine's Day Dinner post are done so they can enjoy the fruits of my labor.

I personally love chocolate kisses.  It's so clever the company wraps the kisses in beautiful pink, red and silver foil paper. 

Hugs and Kisses for Valentine's Day 

It just doesn't get any better than that.

Well, hello sweet little angel.  I'm so happy you joined us for tea.

Angel and Tea

I love my tea with milk and sugar

My Pink Willow was made in England. 

I was delighted when I saw the bottom of the tea cup and found there are still some things made in England.  I love England...

This photo reminds me of 

A Return to Loveliness.

My sister by another mother (my sis-in-law)gave me the angel wings. They are so darling.

I know~I know~

I'm not a purest, but is this handy? or not. 

With my instant tea pot, a cup and one tea bag, one sweet and low and a mini moo I'm set for a tea break in an instant.

LOL I think I'm so funny.

I could eat this whole bag of candy in a heartbeat. 

I hope you've had a laugh or two and enjoyed our Chocolate Kiss Tea.

Next Tuesday is Valentine's Day and I just wanted to give you a taste of love today.

oxxo

Hugs and Kisses

Betty

I'm joining

A Stroll thru Life for Table Top Tuesday

A Delightsome Life for A Return to Loveliness

Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday

Sweetologly for Tea Party Tuesday

Bernideen for Friends Sharing Tea on Wednesday

and 

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday

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