Friday, May 31, 2013

Pretty spoon...

Good Morning Ladies, I wanted to share this spoon with you I found it at the Tea shop yesterday and a few other things but will go pick those up today.. I thought this spoon was for use but it's not it's just for decoration.. but I love it just the same.  They put pretty ribbions on them I suppose to hang.. It's very sweet.
Well it's the Weekend and tomorrow will be my Granddaugher Yuliana's Birthday she is going to Be two years old. Time is just flying away Isaiah is already going to 7 months old Phew.. He has two teeth and is a busy little man.


My American Beauty, Royal Albert Tea cup I now own three of them. I'm becoming attached to this pattern It's from the 1940's I believe I read. But there are many pieces to this pattern. I want the Tea Pot but It's over a hundred dollars so I'm going to have to set some monies aside to get it. Sometimes being on a limited income is a little bit hard but I'm ever so grateful for it though.


Isn't it so pretty.. the Roses are just beautiful in person....O and you just have to see this piece it's to die for.

I truly fell in love with this... boy o boy... but the sad part was when I went to buy it it was out of stock...

This is the only butter dish that I can find... this is still pretty but the other one is and has such a elegance about it, don't you think..

 Here is a 20 piece set which is about $189.00 which isn't to bad I don't need the cups and saucers just the plates but the buyer won't sell just the plates...
Well I suppose it will all have to stay on my wish list for now...

     
                             Wishing you all a wonderful weekend... with love

Thursday, May 30, 2013

A Story, At Grandmother's Table (part one) reminds me of myself though im not that bad yet lol

                                          
                                            (courtesy Of Victoria Magazine)
My maternal grandmother was a champion accumulator, legendary in our so South Dakota town for her impact at auctions and thrift sales, and in our family for never dropping by empty handed.  A few years ago, it fell to my Aunt Mary and me to ready her possessions for sale - a job anyone who had seen Grandma Tait's house would have shuddered to contemplate.
     I set aside three weeks that November and flew home to do nothing but sort and box.  But by Thanksgiving Day, when Aunt Mary and I had hoped to be done, mountains remained.  By the middle of the first week we had already turned punchy.  Just opening drawers and looking into closets made me feel faint.  Many of the possessions I doubt Grandma herself had seen in years.  Our work became an archaeology of the soul, the layer of things testifying to Grandma Tait's unruly aspirations and changing enthusiasms.  She painted pictures with oils, collected stamps and coins.  She kept everything.  We sorted through papaer dolls, hats and hotboxes, and enough vases to stock a florist's shop.  I counted more than 60 throw pillows.
     But Grandma's great love, as we had always known, was dishes.  They were everywhere: in the kitchen and the bathroom cabinets, in the basement and the attic, under the beds.  Fancy plates were stacked three deep on the dinning -room plate rails.
     One night, exhausted and stretched out on the living-room floor, I noticed a cabinet under the TV that we had overlooked.  Inside was an entire set of Limoges.  We laughed until we were tearful.  Grandma's formal china, familiar from hokiday dinner, was a Hutschenreuther set, beautiful violets on a white background .  Where and when had she ever come up with this gold rimmed Limoges with its pale-greenflowers?
     Most of the things in Grandma's house were destined for auction.  To speed our work, Aunt Mary and I designated the large dinning-room table the "maybe" table.  Anything we might want to keep or give to relatives but were not sure about, we placed on the maybe table.  that way, we would not stop to agonize over each thing.  As the days passed, it became loaded with dishes.  There were candy dishes and relish plates, hand painted hot-chocolate sets,Tom and Jerry mugs, a punch bowl, dessert plates decorated with fruit.  There were flaming-red liqueur glasses brought home from Venice, and delft pieces from the Dutch foreign-exchange student our family hosted when Mary was in high school.
     There was Wedgwood, Roseville. Fostoria, and Nippon; cut glass and milk glass, Depression glass and etched glass. There were butter pats from the old set once used down at the Masonic lodge.  (How did she get her hands on those?) And the Limoges.

Good afternoon friends, I love this story and it reminded me of myself though I'm not nearly like that .. but lol I hear my older daughter saying Mom you got to stop buying things... I spent my whole like only buying things for my children and necessitates.  So now its time to buy what ever I want to enjoy and I tell her when I pass on she can sell everything and make monies if she don't want them... My prerogative !!!
Part two next time... Have a most lovely day..Apple Blackberry Cake recipe below last post..it's a wonderful cake..


With Love Janice


 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Apple Blackberry Cake, Tea time cake....


Heloo everyone, my sweet blogger friends

Here is the recipe that I forgot to bring.. Vee brought it over for me to Mom's house. Which I thought was pretty sweet of her.  She dropped off some clothes etc. too..

Apple Blackberry Cake
Makes one 9 inch cake, serves 8 to 12
granulated sugar, for pan
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 ounces ( 6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan, plus 1 once (2 tablespoons) cut into pieces
3/4 cup plus  2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup whole milk
2 large Eggs
4 mcintosh apples (about one and half pounds) peeled and cut into 8  wedges ( I used just one apple Gala) 
1 cup Blackberries ( one pint, I used a half ) 
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Whipped cream for serving Optional

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Butter a 9 inch Springform Pan, and dust with granulated sugar.  Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.  Whisk together melted butter, 3/4 cups of brown sugar, the milk and the eggs in another bowl. Whisk into flour mixture.  Spread batter evenly into prepared pan. Arrange Apple wedges over batter and sprinkle with blackberries.  Gently press fruit into batter.  Combine remaining 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and the cinnamon, and sprinkle over fruit. Dot with remaining butter.  Bake until top is dark gold, apples are tender, and cake tester inserted  ( toothpick method) comes out clean.  about 55 minutes.. but check before this cause mine almost burned so I'd say around 45 minutes first. 
Let cool.  then remove from springform pan and serve..

I loved this cake and had a great time making it.
I found this in a old Martha magazine and decided to try it I really hope that you give it a try because I do believe that you will enjoy it.

Join me for Tea and Cake...

Janice...


Tuesday, May 28, 2013

I'm at a loss for words


I'm at a huge loss of words, I'm not sure what I should be feeling.. we went to Mom's Lung Dr. today and the news was not good... they wanted to admit her into the hospital.  and she refused... The Dr. took me aside and told me the test were really bad and Mom's not looking good at all.. and basically there isn't anything more that they can do for her.. Except steroids which without test they can't give it and if it did help it would probably help for a short period of time only and after that there is nothing else they can do...  So I knew it wasn't going to be good and I knew but I didn't know that she would have less than a year way less than a year she said.. She told me to prepare myself it could happen any day basically........
As I left down the hall the tears rolled down my face not knowing how to handle the bad news that my Mom would be leaving me soon. She is the only Rock left in this family.. My only close friend in the world, my true friend... I prayed immediately and ask Jehovah God for help to endure what was to come.......and give me strength. I would be the one to share the bad news with family members...I started having flashes of Mom not being here when I came to visit and it felt just horrible.. She doesn't want to be on life support or be re-vied  O lord, this is going to be the most difficult thing I have ever been through... I have tried for the last several hours to think sanely but can't... what ever that means... The doctor didn't tell Mom. I guess because she was being so difficult and I'm not sure that I should either.. We go to the regular Dr. on Thursday and I'm not even sure why. I don't know if he's going to be telling her or what...????????????????

        

      What I need now is prayers for endurance and strength.......So please my sweet friends send them off ... I would truly appreciate them....I made a wonderful tea cake this weekend, and of course I forgot the recipe...the cake is really nice in my opinion. It's a Apple Blackberry Cake... really yummy nice for Tea



     It's made in a Spring form pan... which I never used in my life... But I had recently bought one at Smart and Final Store... and it looked kind of cheapish, but It worked really nice...I always had thought in the past that maybe they would leak...lol....but it didn't happen........It was supposed to have more blackberries, but I only had a few and honestly it was fine...I spent the weekend crocheting... I made several items which I'm very happy with.....I will be posting them on my crocheting blog when I'm done here... I will bring the recipe next time I come... you will really like this one I'm sure............



Please visit and join my crocheting blog...on my way there to post my things I crocheted....

  http://beedoily.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you there...with love Janice...........



Tuesday, May 21, 2013

What shall I do for the day............



           Good wonderful morning, the sky is in a state of clouds looking as if it would like to rain..The air feels warm but cool...Wondering what shall I do today... What will you be doing for this day ??? 



Perhaps, tea in the Garden, but then it might shower on me............
Or maybe a walk I should take put on my hat and gloves and stroll down the street window shopping.........

   
Or maybe I should just stay in a read a book....


 Make a wonderful tray for Tea and feel all cozy..curl up on the couch and put a movie in............


 I could just sit and day dream a bit of pretty things...


Whatever it is that you or I end up doing today, I wish you a most wonderful day...I'm off to home to see what's there for me...be back soon.................
                                      with love Janice
                                         
 Happy Tuesday..............

 

Monday, May 20, 2013

Moss Rose .............

It finally arrived, I hadn't realize it was a small set. I went back and checked on the info...and it said sm. The tea cups are ever so little but really I don't mind it is a wonderful set dainty ... It will be perfect for the Girls...

 Like this they look large ...but they are they are the cutest little tiny things...





The Sugar bowl with a lid so nice...
  Sweet Creamer....
 And the adorable little Egg cup holders.. The lady who sold them to me wrapped them ever so careful in this soft cream colored material like felt or something like it..but fluffy and soft..surrounded by foam..They arrived so sweetly..


 My very busy shelve in the Living Room...I managed to put them on it except for the plates there was no room for them...the Good part was I finally got up there and dusting it all..hehe
 



All in all I'm pleased with them... All the pieces... I last night was surfing the web...hehehehe I know I know.... but I found the most wonderful tea pot for sale..I just have to purchase it just have to...
I couldn't take a copy of it the site wouldn't allow it...O but wait till I show you ... I love it.. soon though...
  Lovely Moss Rose................I wish you all a wonderful enchanting magical new week...with love Janice
My first Yellow Rose in the Garden...It' smells so divine..