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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Teascape!

First , let me explain the music you are hearing. I am of polish dsecent with my paternal grandparent's coming over from Poland. I grew up with my parents, aunts and uncles singing Polish Christmas Carols during the Holiday season and hearing them in church. The song playing is one that I remember my Dad singing with all of his heart and I was lucky enough to find it on Playlist so I wanted to share a bit of my childhood with you!

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For Tea Tuesday in Blogland, I finally got a chance to do a Christmas Teascape using a set of dishes that I bought at our Church Flea Market in the Spring. There was only a place setting for 2 but I loved the look of them as they reminded me of the Era of Charles Dicken's and I thought they would be cute to use for the Holidays.

Since I bought them, I have seen them in many others posts and in various colors also.

Here is my Christmas Teascape!

It is just a simple one as I am not that great at tablescapes nor can I keep my Dining Room table set as we eat on it every day.

I bought the dishes at our church flea market in the Spring as I mentioned . In the summer, at a yard sale, I found the matching Tea Pot for $2.00.

Did I mention that all the dishes were 25 cents each!

This is a stunning card made by my sweet friend Ginger! Please check out her wonderful blog @ GLITTER AND ROSES

I used a few pieces of my Ruby Red depression glass and my red transferware....

These are cookies made by my dear friend, Ann Marie , who is the best baker I know!

I think they are just too pretty to eat!

The red silverware was bought on clearance at a local Super Market after the summer holidays....

Vintage napkins....

I love the different patterns on each plate....

Very Charles Dicken's like I think....

Love the pattern on the Tea Pot....

And here are the tea cup and saucer...

The "cakes" are ornaments from J.C. Penney's this year....

These cup cake candles ( the candle is inside ) are from Kohl's this year...

Love this card from a good friend, Maryann..

Had to take these pics quickly as the candy from the dish was disappearing fast......

Well, that is my Christmas Teascape!

I am linking this post up to:

Seasonal Sunday

Amaze Me Monday

Tea Cup Tuesday

Tea Time Tuesday

Tabletop Tuesday

All Things Merry and Brite

Rednesday

Deck the Halls Friday

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hugs,
Debbie

Monday, December 13, 2010

Tea at Sugar's Tea Room!

A week ago, my Victorian Group had our Christmas get together at Sugar's Tea Room.

This is one of my favorite places.

Here is the gift shop which greets you when you first walk in.......

Delightful Treasures await you...

As we walked up stairs to where we would be seated, I took pics of the rooms that we passed by.....

Each decorated differently....

This is the Gold Room with it's iron gazebo in the center...

A beautiful vignette on the buffet...

A cozy little spot for Tea....

Beautiful Gold decorations....

An Alcove all decorated....

Santa....

The pink Room.....

There was a party going on in there so I did not want to intrude too much...

The Green Room...

Beautiful decorations.....

A painting on the stair case....

The room that we were in....

Our Tea sandwiches......

Freshly baked scones....

Notice the serving piece...
A Beautiful plate glued to a candle stick!!

Us Bloggers know all about that , right??????

John and Lisa....

Joe and I...
Finally a decent pic of me and he has his eyes closed....

Al and Carol......

Jolyn and Amy....

Ann Marie and Rose Marie and her hubby......

Rosalie and Joe. I think he was going to stick his tongue out at me......

Such a beautiful place....

Another room with a party in progress.....

And another room.....

Sugar's Tea Room is owned by 2 sisters and they do a wonderful job! Good food, beautiful atmosphere and wonderful friends made for a lovely day!

I am linking up to :

Seasonal Sunday

Amaze me Monday

Tea Time Tuesday

Tea Cup Tuesday

Tea Pots and Tea Things Tuesday

Tabletop Tuesday

All Things Merry and Brite

Rednesday

If you missed my HOME TOUR, please click on the pics of each room on my side bar to read the post on that room or Click on the first one, The Front of Our Home and that will link you through all 7 posts!!!

Thanks for stopping by today and everyday that you take the time to visit me!

MERRY CHRISTMAS,
DEBBIE

Monday, December 6, 2010

HOME TOUR Part Five: Den and Trees # 9, 10 and 11

Welcome to our HOME TOUR Part Five!

If you missed Parts 1,2,3 and 4, Please click on the pics on my Side Bar to link to these posts!!

This is my Den.......

It originally was the outdoor patio of the house....

My Dad enclosed it, heated it , took out the Kitchen door and window and made it another room for us....

It became the Toy Room for the boys......
Now it is where one of my computers is located and where we spend drinking our coffee in the morning while catching up on the local news on the TV......

Since it was a patio, it is only 8 ft. by 20 ft.

Weird dimensions but you have to work with what you have!

Now I will take you around the room...

As you can see it has a Blue and Burgundy theme...
Every room of my home is a different color....

As you come out of the kitchen, going to the right........

My sister bought this for me the first Christmas without our Mom .....

This door is to a small storage room.....
Okay you know by now that I made the wreath and floral swags in this room too!

The Calendar is from Avon many years ago. My sons used it to count down the days til Christmas and I still do....

Have you noticed how much I like shelves.....

I have some Thomas Kinkade things and some that look like his, in this room....

Burgundy in this room!

One of my Santa's and one of my Dolls....

A Thomas Kinkade Music Box....

End tables were bought by Joe at a Church Flea Market for $6.00!!
Tiffany Lamp is from the Dining Room where that tree is now....

I love my " Believe " sign!! Do you Believe????

Some of my Victorian Tassel dolls......

My Back Door.....

Thomas Kinkade Four Season Plate Clock.......

And tree # 9!!!

I originally had the 7 ft. slim that is now in the Dining Room out here but when I had my doll house built, I had to change thins around.....

Thomas Kinkade house underneath the tree and a light up Dickens like town under the table.......

Those Santa boxes underneath the table house my Christmas Movie collection...

Vintage topper and pheasant feathers which were a popular Victorian decoration....

This tree has cream and burgundy colored ornaments along with Thomas Kinkade ornaments....

The beaded garland has a rose pattern embossed on it and I have burgundy roses stuffed into the tree...

For Tea Tuesday, see the Thomas Kinkade Tea Pots and Tea Cups......

Remember my Church Flea market find.....
All filled with Teddy Bears...

Where my computer is concealed and I do most of my posting....

These Christmas Carol figures came from a local department store many years ago....

Angels on the curtains....

This another set from Sam's Club....

Another Wreath I made....

This hides the computer cords!

My Victorian Doll house, Nelson Crest, is also decorated!!!

I will do a separate post showing you Nelson Crest....

This is tree # 10 that I made for Nelson Crest....

And here it is in the Parlor....

Den side of what was the kitchen window....

Tree # 11

I bought these ornaments at Micheal's several years ago and they remind me of my childhood and Christmas in the 60's so I thought they deserved a separate tree...

Some close ups......

The little girl on the sled is me as a kid...
We lived on a hill and I was always sleigh riding...
Just recently I realized that they must have NEVER taken care of that road since we used to sleigh ride so much!! LOL!!