Roses, Teacups and Random Pleasant Words

"How sweet it is to be loved by you..."
I sing this happy tune while I think about summer with its bright, cheerful and clear days that are so beautiful I wish they would never end.  How lovely are the skies as a background for these sweet, sweet roses huh?  I placed some of the roses in a small vase and I carried them around the house with me in a tray along with my tea.

"Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, 

but by the moments that take our breath away."

This Royal Albert tea cup is the very beginning of my tea cup addiction, I mean collection.
Hubby bought it for me from Ebay almost seven years ago.  He chose this, he said, because it's yellow and that's my fave color.  He's got taste, don't you think?

I was so delighted I asked him to "please, please," get me another one.  I convinced him I need a tea-for-two, at least.  For how sad a tea-for-one would be?  {Sadder if I'm the only one drinking on an English tea cup, lol.} For a while, I had a huge, beautiful hutch and buffet with only a single tea cup and a glass tea pot inside it.  Well, it did have some fabrics too waiting to be sewn.  He took pity on me and taught me instead to bid and purchase from the site.  I learned quickly and I got hooked (oh no!)  Now my hutch and buffet is teeming with tea cups... Big mistake, haha! (Just kidding.  Hubby is ever generous and kind and I should take care not to abuse him.  But don't tell, hehehe) 

"Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take your everywhere."

~Albert Einstein

My first purchase was a lot of 5 tea cups and saucers,  (I looked for the lot I like then placed my first bid.  I watched it like a hawk... I was literally at the edge of my seat, the first time I was in Ebay.)  I don't remember which of my tea cups came from that first lot anymore except for this pretty blue with lots of gold overlay.  This one made a good impression on me as, you know, it was my first Ebay purchase.... ever!

"The beautiful thing about learning is that 

nobody can take it away from you."

~BB King

My roses bloomed beautifully.  I had roses die on me on the third day when the store promised it should last up to ten days.  Determined to make these roses last longer, I had a tiny spray bottle and I sprayed the flowers and leaves with fresh cool water every evening and early morning. I think it worked :-)

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do"
~ John Wooden

A Royal Albert sugar-and-cream from my hubby's grand mother.  She was trying to declutter and it was my pleasure to take her clutter away from her.  She and grand father are celebrating their 66th wedding anniversary.  "No party!  No gifts!  What would I do with those gifts?  Give them to you?"  she says one day as I was helping her clean their apartment.  "Oh yes please,"  was my teasing yet very glad reply.  We had a family supper and they got edible gifts :-)

"It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you,

it's what you are."

~Elvis Presley

The sweetest things are gifts from very thoughtful friends.  I call this tea cup "Michelle My Belle"  after the friend who gifted it to me.  Ain't it pretty?

"The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself."

~ Steve Martin

The little red glass vase is from my mother in law.  She moved from a huge house into a small, one bedroom apartment a few years ago.  Oh that reminds me, I inherited a lot of her tea stuff when she moved.  Hmmmm, a future post maybe?

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
~ Art Linkletter

"Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace."

~Mother Teresa

My Tea Cup Collection:

Old Country Roses Tea Pot Set 

Old Country Roses Tea Cup and Saucer Set

Sunshine, Friends and Laughter | Tea For One

A Happy Anniversary Gift | Jardin Secret Tea Pot Set

 Stechcol Bone China from Gracie

Katie Alice Tea for One Gift Set 
Antique Silver Plated Tea Strainer 

"Believe you can and you are halfway there."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Related Post:
High Tea in Loving Memory
The Tea Party

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"To have the full value of joy, 

you must have somebody to divide it with."

~Mark Twain

Thank you for sharing some of your time with me today.

xoxo, Maya