Tuesday Cuppa Tea Pumpkin Spice Tea Tray

Hello and welcome to Tuesday Cuppa Tea.

This is a favorite scripture...

My times are in your hands

Psalm 31:15a

and it has been a week that week...just got over the sinus infection...then having an allergic reaction to a change in coloring in a new sourced med by my pharmacy that gave me a migrane...sigh...hadn't had one in 20 years! Back to old manufacturer and...starts to dissipate...the joys of science!

So it's a tea tray in the sunroom...with packaged cookies! Lol!

When life gives you lumps in the road...make do!

I am calling this my Pumpkin Spice tea tray! Because I have out the Republic of Tea Pumpkin Spice black tea that I always seem to switch to in September...

I have put the tray on my grandmother's trunk in the corner of the room...and used a hand made crewel embroidered English tray cloth from 1930s with pretty flowers...

My teapot is a fun one from Sadler in their English Country Cottages line...unfortunately, they decided to discontinue the whole series' of figural teapots a few months ago...sad...

The design is called Ivy House, and I love the shape and Tudor timbering. There's a dog and a cat in the doorway too!

For tea today, I have both a teacup and a mug...as often my husband prefers it...his Parkinson's Disease makes it wasier for him to drink from a mug and not rattle or spill from the tremor....

The cup in saucer, really a teacup trio, is by Johnson Brothers in their Olde English Countryside pattern of brown transferware with hand colored accents. I do love brown transferware!

This is a 1970s set, but the pattern was made from the 1920s. Johnson Brothers began in 1883 and in 1968 was swept into the Wedgwood Group and through subsequently, like so many, into WWRD...Waterford, Wedgwood Royal Doulton which was acquired by Fiskars in 2015. In 2007 they had moved most of production to Indonesia, especilly their famous Friendly Village line...it will be interesting to see what happens next...

My husband's mug is by Dunoon in a design called Cottage Paths by artist Sue Scullard from 2005. There were 3 different designs in the series, all with a different type of cottage, cottage gardens and a cat somewhere in the design. See the cat???

Dunoon...Hooray, hooray! is still made in the United Kingdom...stoneware in Scotland and bone china at their Stone facitility just outside Stoke-on-Trent. We used to stock them when we had our bricks-and-mortar antiques and tea item shop, and loved going to the pottery every year to choose our designs. 

I added my glass pumpkin and a green sparkly one I have had for years with an oak leaf garland...I love the colors of fall!

As I mentioned...packaged goodies this week...with the sinus infection I was vegan, and then with the migraine I have to give it a few days for the allergy complications to subside, so here are the vegan Pecan Shortbread cookies for tea today...really not bad for vegan!

But we have so much to be thankful for, that joy just bubbles up in me...vegan or not! Lol!

Thanks so much for joinin me this week...have a cookie and some Pumpkin Spice tea, and enjoy the many things we have around us that bring us joy!
I will be joining:

 Tea Cup Tuesday 
 Bernideen’s Teatime, Cottage and Garden
Home Sweet Home

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