'Spring Party' Friday Finds!

Ready for a Spring party? 

Here's a centerpiece:

Burlap Grass Table Centerpiece by Wonders4you

Throw on a matching table runner:

Table runner by Modernality2

Grab some pretty napkins:

Napkins by SilkImagination

And some napkin rings:

burlap Jute Napkin Rings by HomeGoodsalacarte

Add your favorite tea pot: (BTW--MY favorite!)

Franciscan Tea Pot by blkolivecottoncandy

Add your favorite fare, and there you have it . . . oh, except for inviting a friend!  Have a great weekend!

Quite Moments

What I will be doing in the next few weeks:

. . . leading a life of leisure, sitting in my adarondack chair sipping my hot tea and reading the want ads!

After Tea

Bauer 19302 California Pottery Tea cup and Saucer Delph Blue
by studiovintageshop

Vintage Shabby Chic Creamer and Sugar set in Blue

by harlowmonroevintage

Ms. Griffith was an immaculately dressed forty-ish woman who was on time and very friendly. Tea was cordial; full of thank yous from Ms. Griffith, for all the vegetable donations, and a time for getting to know one another. After teatime, there was the tour Abby's home, and the farm, and some chatting with Suz and the boys in the garden. Abby and Ms. Griffith, Cathy at this point in the relationship, finally settled in the wing chairs in front of the fireplace.



"Abigail, you have been highly recommended to me by all the staff and friends of Thomas House. I know that I am new, but I respect their opinions, and from what I see here, I must agree! I have a proposition for you. I have used this model in my previous job and it worked well. "

Abby replied, "Well, I'm always for anything that will benefit the kids."



"We would like to start a new program", Cathy continued, "where you would host a child from Thomas House for a week. This would help the parents while are finishing their studies, help the kids to be exposed to new experiences with all that goes on here at the farm, and some of these kids need a new sense of family which I believe they would see here at Blueberry Hill. We would like to start by just bringing groups of children for an afternoon tour of the farm. Then we can talk later about hosting a child and all the possible training paperwork involved."

While Abby and Cathy discussed the particulars, the afternoon was vanishing away. The sun was flooding thru the craft room windows and Sasha was brushing up against Abby's legs; she knew it was the time to be working in the sun filled room.

Photograph, Curtain Call, is from Etsy shop, eldphoto

Please visit these wonderful Etsy shops for some new delights!

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Tea and Flowers

Today, Abby was to have a guest. She spread the new patchwork tablecloth on the kitchen table, the dining room table was just too big for two people; she rinsed the dust from the china cabinet off the tea pot and cups and left them on the drainboard to dry. She had made fudge the night before and now she set about making some little finger sandwiches, arranging them with strawberries and kiwi slices on a three tiered plate with some of the fudge on the top plate. She made some lemonade, putting it in the refrigerator to cool, just in case her guest was not a "tea person" and she always had a hot pot thermos of coffee ready.

"I think I could use some flowers for the table. They are always so charming and calming. Besides, I sell them in town, and everyone else gets the benefit from our hard work, so I my guest and I should enjoy them too!" She walked out the back door, thru the porch screen door and around the corner of the house, to the side yard, past the vegetable garden and on to the flower garden. "We've planted cosmos, daisies, zinnias, echinacea, day lilies, rudbeckia, and sweet peas to name a few." The plot was edged with rose bushes dividing the flower garden from the lawn. She found Suz and Paddy pulling a few weeds between the rows.

"Good morning, no studies this morning?"

"Yes, we're going over our botany lesson, while we work. What are you doing?"

"The new director of Thomas House is coming for tea and I need some flowers for my table. I'm excited to meet her. I told her come all the way out Beavercreek until she saw . . . 'the most beautiful flower garden around' and that would be my house! Since it's the first thing that you see as you drive in the driveway. I think I'll choose some cosmos for today's table."

Saturday Picks

Saturday--Shopping day!

We'll go back to the Abigail story on Monday, but today I want to share a few of my favorite picks with you! Shop Etsy sellers!

Mini Weed Pocket
Midnightcoiler Etsy Shop

Rococco Marie Ann Cup

PaintedCottages Etsy Shop

Cottage in the Woods Quilt

brenniequilts Etsy Shop

Visit these great shops today!

Summer Parties!

Summer is the time for garden parties, craft parties on the patio, bunco parties, and whatever else you can think of to have friends over. A tea party would be nice for the neighborhood gals. Make some handmade invitations and go knock on doors to deliver them. Then make some scones, or buy some pastries, bring out your best tea pot, cut some flowers from the yard for your centerpiece and determine to make and enjoy some new friends!

Buy one get one free SALE is still going on in my Handcrafts shop. If you are invited to a party, you don't want to forget that hostess gift! Right now I have fabric coaster sets (set of four) on sale in my handcrafts shop--buy one get one free sale! Lots to choose from! www.pruitthandcrafts.etsy.com