Tuesday Cuppa Tea, Happy Valentine's Day, American Beauty Teacup, Holiday Adventures

Oh my goodness have I missed all my blogging buddies! Was all set to get the Tuesday Cuppa Tea meme post up on Sunday but....Welcome anyway. This is short and I hope sweet, as you will see later....

My teacup today is a favorite of mine and many of you! The American Beauty pattern by Royal Albert, England...

This gorgeous lush roses pattern was the most popular of Royal Albert floral patterns from the 1940s until it was surpassed by the arrival of the famous Old Country Roses in 1962 which has become a world wide enduring favorite.

The pretty bone china teacup is in the Countess shape. 

This one has sponged gold trim, which can be narrow...as this is...or wide and is the sign of a more labor intensive, and usually better quality teacup. The reason is because the gilder uses a steady hand and a brush on the gold trim line, but to apply sponged gold, the gilder literally uses a bit of wet sponge in the gold and had applies it with a stippling motion...touch, touch, touch...a much longer task than the quick lining with a paint brush.

I love the pretty pink roses...so perfect for Valentine's Day!

I had planned more of a Valentine post and our 40th anniversary is coming up, but....here's my excuse....I'm sure some of you will remember my last post mentioned that our son, daughter in law & 23 year old grandson were flying in from Utah...hooray!!!

Dave is our baby...44 next month and at 6' 4" tops his dad by an inch. He married a wonderful girl whom we love! This is on the Bainbridge Island ferry from Seattle where they fly in to. After messing arouond here, they wanted to warm up with a Mexico cruise, so we flew to Southern California and did a 4 day Coastal cruise with them on Carnival  (eeek!!!) 

This is Catalina Island off the California Coast...you can see the Carnival ship in the background in one of the pictures. The 23 year old grandson enjoyed Catalina too....sigh...I sorta remember when I was 23....

I haven't downloaded the rest of the photos, but you get the idea! Anyway, to recover we then did a 7 day Mexico in Princess....and the day before we were to get off...we got a call from the cat sitter....there is water pouring down your driveway...broken pipe...from a cold snap. So...instead of being home on Saturday and back at work...it was.....

2 nights at the local Holiday Inn hotel here in Sequim because we had no water...plumber's been and gone and things are better and we got to come home last night, so....we had a week of weather in the 20s with a wind in a wierd direction that froze a pipe, luckily in the garage. It just got boxes of back taxes wet, and 1 box of family books we had out until we changed a piece of furniture which we were going to do as soon as we got back....

So...I hope you have had an interesting week, and will have a Valentine's Day filled with love and joy...and tea! Here are some of the blogs I am visiting...I apologize again for the delay, and enjoy your week!

Oh...I am having a 15% off Valentine's sale at Antiques And Teacups...just use coupon code LOVE!

Terri~  http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/ 
Teacup Tuesday

Sandi  ~  http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com

Teatime Tuesday

Celia ~ http://www.attitudeivlife.blogspot.com/

Tea With Celia

Kathy~  http://blissfulrhythm.blogspot.com/
Victoria - A Return to Loveliness

Martha~  http://www.marthasfavorites.com/ 

Tea On Tuesday
Miss Kathy ~http://www.thewritersreverie.com/

Tuesday Tea

 Just A Little Southern Hospitality ~ http://justalittlesouthernhospitality.blogspot.com/

Tea On Tuesday

Michelle ~ http://www.finchrest.com/

Tea On Tuesday

Lady B & Dame Ruthie ~ http://ladybstimefortea.blogspot.com/

Time For Tea

Two Cottage And Tea ~ http://twocottagesandtea.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Tea Time

Phyllis ~ http://www.relevanttealeaf.blogspot.com/

Tea On Tuesday

Bernideen’s ~ http://blog.bernideens.com/

Tea In The Garden Tuesday

Judith ~ http://lavendercottagegardening.blogspot.ca/

Lavender Cottage  Tea Time

Our friend ~http://texas-tea-party.blogspot.com/

Tea In Texas

Pamela ~ http://playingwithmycamera.blogspot.ca/

Playing With My Camera Teatime           

Beverley ~ http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Tuesday Blog Shop

Shawn ~ http://poetryinapotoftea.blogspot.com/

Poetry In A Pot Of Tea

 Ivy And Elephants ~http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com/

What’s It Wednesday                                           

Sandi  ~  http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com

Home On Wednesday

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