Roseville Pottery

This post is getting double duty.  I've already shared it for Vee's Note Card Party, using a few photos of Roseville pottery that found their way into my posts.

And now it's my entry for Claudia's Favorite Thing Saturday.  Claudia has several beautiful pieces of Roseville, so I think she's going to like this one (**

My love for Roseville started with a vase given to me by my sister, probably 40 years ago.  Back then, it wasn't hard to come by a nice piece for a fair price.

My collection comes in all shapes and sizes

 

and is sprinkled all over the house

Although Roseville Pottery was founded in 1890

my pieces are primarily from the 30's and 40's

My Favorite piece, by far, is this lime green

Apple Blossom Ewer.

Counting My Blessings,

xo Susy

I'm joining the parties over at Vee's

A Haven for Vee

 Note Card Party 

 

and Claudia's
Mockingbird Hill Cottage
A Favorite Thing

More Tea Anyone?

It's time for Vee's Note Card Party ~ and I'm hard pressed to find anything unique to create cards from, so I'm revisiting teapots.  I see I'm going to have to diversify!

But in the meantime, more tea anyone?

 Herend Teapot

 

 

Tiny French Pot

 

New Chintz

Chippy but still beautiful

 Limoge chocolate pot and cups

I use the Chintz pot from time to time

but the others are sitting about in the dining room

....waiting for company.

 Here's a link to one of my most popular posts of all time

it features these photos and many more.

 

Tea and Mystery 

It still gets hits frequently.  Do you have some like that?

It's a puzzle.

Counting My Blessings

xo Susy

Stop by Vee's and see the other creative Note Cards

Better yet, join the party!

 

A Haven for Vee

 

Tick Tock

It's time once again for sweet Vee's once-a-month Note Card Party.  This is a fun meme where you select four pictures, previously posted, that you think would make nice note cards.

I like to keep to a theme for my cards, although Vee says that isn't necessary. She doesn't have a lot of rules.

This month I've chosen a CLOCK theme.

Like some of you, I have a several old clocks that you have to wind.  But I don't.  Which can be very confusing when you have to be somewhere.

This is an empty tall clock case that I added a clock face to.

You can read all about it at 

The Case of the Tall Clock
I liked this picture so much I added it to my sidebar >>>

and this is a broken but charming alarm clock that sits in an old buffet.

  Poor thing doesn't have a story (that I can remember).

and these two are cropped closeups

 from the wall clock above.

The 11th Hour

Cherub Pendulum

  They were used in one of my very favorites posts

What Time Is It? 

 based on Ecc. 3:1-8 

"to everything there is a season"

Although it was written two years ago,

it seems all the more appropriate today.

We have so much to be grateful for this holiday season
 and I do not take it for granted.

Abundant Blessings to you and yours.

Counting My Blessings

xo Susy

You can enjoy other Note Cards at

A Haven for Vee
there's still time!

Cider Set Notecards

I'm a city girl ~ so I don't have the beautiful fall foliage and ponds and wildlife that many of you have captured in pictures and shared.  I have to make my own (:

I live in a crowded city of half a million, where the average lot size is 50' x 100'.

There's only an occasional empty parcel available (and always very expensive), so the alternative sometimes is to buy a house, tear it down, and rebuild.  That's what's going on right next door.
  

Our house was built in 1937 and was "original".

We chose to restore it and did a bit of remodeling before we moved in.

It's just me and Pizza Man, so we converted an extra bedroom into a small TV room.

In that room is a little mission style china cupboard that belonged to my grandparents in Oklahoma.

And in that little cupboard is a cider set with a lovely hand painted bird on a branch.

It's one of my favorite things, and the subject of my October notecards.

(choose 4 pics from previous posts)

 it has a pitcher and  6 cups

and one very sweet bird

We're all happy in our cozy little cottage.

Counting my blessings,

xo  Susy

 

Here's a link to the original post with other "apple" themed beauties

Antique Apples

I'm partying with

 Vee at A Haven for Vee 

October Note Card Party

Claudia at Mockingbird Hill Cottage

A Favorite Thing Saturday 

Party Girls

I look forward to the monthly Note Card Party, hosted by Vee at A Haven for Vee.

It's really simple to participate and a great opportunity to meet other bloggers.  Just choose 4 pictures from previous posts that would make a good note card.  I like to keep a theme.

This month it's "The Girls".  I value my network of girlfriends, and like movies and books about courageous women. One of my favorite quotes is from Eleanor Roosevelt, "Women are like teabags.  You never know how strong they are until they get in hot water."

  This Vogue pattern is a nod to my mother.

  She was strong and beautiful and stylish, and she sewed for us.

I'm not sure why I decorate with pictures of women, but there you go.

One of the pictures below was my mother's and perhaps it was just a 

way to continue her presence in my life.

These are all cropped closeups of pictures hanging in my house.

This sweet cherub is in my dining room

This young lady is in the hall bath

This beauty is also in the dining room

And this one was originally in my dress shop hanging

behind the jewelry counter

You can see the original Our Girls here, with proper attributions for the artwork.

It's remains one of my most popular posts, with new page views every week.

Thank you Vee for a fun party!

I'm puttin' on some sparkle and goin' a-visitin'

Counting My Blessings

xo Susy

Join the party!

Bird Notes

This is the third month I've joined the Note Card Party by Vee at
A Haven for Vee.

The rules are simple ~  post 4 pictures from previous posts that you think would make a nice note card. Link up, link back, and then go a-visitin'.


This month I chose birds.  I have birds everywhere throughout my house, not unlike many of you (: 

  When I started blogging I naively thought I was somewhat unique in my love

for all things bird-twiggy-nest-feathery.

 Now I know better (: 

In fact, it may be an unspoken prerequisite

"love blogging, love birds"

and the garden, and tea, and reading

and fur babies

This last one is a picture from one of my

favorite posts God Chix

I've learned a few things about blogging since then,

but one thing that hasn't changed is my real "peeps"

They were here last night until nearly midnight.

Seventeen of us laughing and crying, singing, 

sharing our hearts and praying for each other.

In this day and age, I think that's very noteworthy too.

Counting My Blessings,

xo  Susy

I'm flitting over toVee's 

come join the fun!

TeaTime Notes for a Party

Well...here it is ~
Vee's Notecard Party!  Yay!

This month I'm celebrating Tea Time in my notecards, simply because I love everything about it; dainty teacups and white table linens, folded cloth napkins and fresh flowers.

Of course that never happens at my house, although  my cupboards and tabletops overflow with teapots and cups, plates and trays.

 

 My natural taste runs to the English-made pots and cups.

Perhaps because I have a spot of British linage in me.

Having said that, here's one from Japan.

I'm not atrtacted to the new novelty teapots, but

I do love the old ones.

This is a little French one-cup pot, handpainted and sweet.

I was taken with the tiny gold twig on the lid.

One of my favorite bloggers, Jacqueline at Cabin & Cottage 

says, "What would life be without handles and spouts?".

So true!

And this cutie is a vintage Tomatoe teapot.  Looks like the worm

was stealing the show. No early birds here!

* * * * *

I use my tea things whenever I have the "ladies" over for get-togethers. 

It makes us all feel special ~ even when we're in our flipflops.

Counting My Blessings

xo  Susy

Put your shoes on and join the fun at 

Vee's NoteCard Party 

P.S.  HAPPY SUMMER!