Hello and welcome to my house...my honey is watching our local Seahawks play the 49ers, so I figured I'd do my post for Tuesday Cuppa Tea!
As is often the case, this is a mixed bag of things! This week includes January 25th, the birthday of Scotland's most famous author and poet Robert Burns, so I have a Scottish theme for my teacup. I think I shared this once before, but I love it and it's apropos, so....
This is a Shelley, England cup and saucer in the Thistle pattern and in the Cambridge shape made between 1955 and the closure of the pottery in 1966. Thistle and tartan are such quintessential Scottish themes, and Shelley paid homage to them with this pretty teacup!
Shelley was great at giving patterns and versions a number kept in pattern books. This is pattern number 13820. If you have the pattern books you can look it up and find out if any other info was given, which I really appreciate. For more info on the Thistle teacup at Antiques And Teacups, just click on the photos.
The Scottish Thistle seemed so appropriate with it being Robert Burns birthday. Burns was born in Ayrshire on January 25, 1759 and lived in the cottage below....which is a popular destination.
There are loads of souvenirs associated with him. Below is a tea towel I got years ago honoring Robert Burns with one of my favorite quotes at the bottom...
And as stage royalty, Maggie Smith received the SAG or Screen Actor's Guild award as best female actor for her roll as Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey. No surprise there...that woman could NEVER be upstaged!
I wanted to let you know that I will be on a blog break for the next 2 weeks, because our out of state son and daughter in law and our 23 year old grandson are flying in on Saturday. We haven't seen him in 2-3 years, so we are very excited! He is a real outdoorsman and a fishing fanatic, so we will be kept busy finding things of interest to him. So...I figured the best thing is to have a break so we can try to keep up with them! I hope to be back on the blog for the Feb. 10th post...but it will be late because of them flying out, etc, and the scheduled post I tried last didn't work. So...I'll be back soon...I apologize in advance if I am late visiting or returning your comments...
I will be joining Sandi at Rose Chinz Cottage for her special 4th anniversary tea...so make sure to go visit. I have a linky below for your tea related posts and a list of some of the blogs I hope to visit this week.
As is often the case, this is a mixed bag of things! This week includes January 25th, the birthday of Scotland's most famous author and poet Robert Burns, so I have a Scottish theme for my teacup. I think I shared this once before, but I love it and it's apropos, so....
This is a Shelley, England cup and saucer in the Thistle pattern and in the Cambridge shape made between 1955 and the closure of the pottery in 1966. Thistle and tartan are such quintessential Scottish themes, and Shelley paid homage to them with this pretty teacup!
Shelley was great at giving patterns and versions a number kept in pattern books. This is pattern number 13820. If you have the pattern books you can look it up and find out if any other info was given, which I really appreciate. For more info on the Thistle teacup at Antiques And Teacups, just click on the photos.
The Scottish Thistle seemed so appropriate with it being Robert Burns birthday. Burns was born in Ayrshire on January 25, 1759 and lived in the cottage below....which is a popular destination.
The poem says:
Then let us pray that come what may
As come it will for a' that...
That man to man the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a'that.
As a way to celebrate Robert Burns birthday, Burns Night is celebrated in many places where whiskey flows and haggis is eaten and generally both the poet and Scots ancestry is celebrated.
So Happy Birthday to Robert Burns!
In a bit of Royal news, on January 17th, Zara and Mike Tindall presented Queen Elizabeth II with her 4th great grandchild, who is 16th in line for the throne. Zara is the daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips. Congratulations!
I wanted to let you know that I will be on a blog break for the next 2 weeks, because our out of state son and daughter in law and our 23 year old grandson are flying in on Saturday. We haven't seen him in 2-3 years, so we are very excited! He is a real outdoorsman and a fishing fanatic, so we will be kept busy finding things of interest to him. So...I figured the best thing is to have a break so we can try to keep up with them! I hope to be back on the blog for the Feb. 10th post...but it will be late because of them flying out, etc, and the scheduled post I tried last didn't work. So...I'll be back soon...I apologize in advance if I am late visiting or returning your comments...
I will be joining Sandi at Rose Chinz Cottage for her special 4th anniversary tea...so make sure to go visit. I have a linky below for your tea related posts and a list of some of the blogs I hope to visit this week.
Terri~ http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/
Teacup Tuesday
Teacup Tuesday
Teatime Tuesday
Tea With Celia
Kathy~ http://blissfulrhythm.blogspot.com/
Victoria - A Return to Loveliness
Victoria - A Return to Loveliness
Martha~ http://www.marthasfavorites.com/
Tea On Tuesday
Miss Kathy ~http://www.thewritersreverie.com/
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
Lavender Cottage Tea Time
Our friend ~http://texas-tea-party.blogspot.com/
Tea In Texas
Playing With My Camera
Teatime
Beverley
~ http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
Tuesday Blog
Shop
Poetry In A Pot Of Tea
Ivy And
Elephants ~http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com/
What’s It Wednesday
Home On Wednesday
Coloradolady ~ http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/
Vintage
Thingie Thursday
Mrs.
Olson ~ http://jannolson.blogspot.com/
Share Your Cup Thursday
Lady
Linda ~ http://ladylindateacup.blogspot.com/
Tea
Time Thursday
Beverley ~ http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
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