Afternoon Tea... Featuring Charm of Home and Rose Chintz Cottage...

 

Tea and Roses

There has been so many lovely blogs that I have visited that share my love and interest

Of tea and all the beautiful china cups and teapots!

I love to visit them and get inspired of the days gone by;

But I feel that there is a special part of us that long for the

Tranquility and Peace...

Here are a couple of my most favorites:

The Charm Of Home

Rose Chintz Cottage

Please stop in and visit these wonderful Blogs;

The Charm of Home is a lovely lady named Sherry!
She will inspire you; and she has some gluten free recipes to share!

Rose Chintz Cottage is also a very kind lady named Sandi!
She loves her tea parties, also!
And she also shares yummy treats!

A typical afternoon tea began after the lunch dishes were cleared by the servants and the lady of the house summoned her maid to join her upstairs to change into her tea gown. Meanwhile, downstairs in the kitchen, the cooks prepare scones, biscuits, small sandwiches and tea cakes. The family and their guests took tea in the drawing room at 5:00 p.m. In Britain, the drink of choice is black tea taken with milk and sugar. To keep up with social status, the food served was designed to impress the guests. The presence of an overly accessorized table with fancy French patisseries, delectable cakes, puddings and fine chocolates.



For aristocrats in the Edwardian era, women attended estate dinners wearing extravagant gowns, silk gloves and hats, while the gentlemen were fashionably attired in tuxedos. Each meal carried its own dress code, and in some instances, women would change several times a day depending on the occasion. In those days, a woman often had a maid to help her dress. To assist in the beauty of the female figure, women relied on tight-laced corsets to create an hourglass shape. Ladies of high society dressed for an afternoon tea in fanciful tea gowns and floral bonnets embellished with pastel ribbons and roses that emulated the shades of a summer bouquet. All across Europe, roses were a constant theme in tearoom decorating, accoutrements and fabrics; trellises of roses even helped transport an English garden indoors.


Romantic Homes Magazine wrote these above pharagraphs! Fun Facts About Tea..

The Color of Life, Vibrate Greens...

Fresh Steamed Broccoli...

The Power of Greens

Green is a powerful color, it stimulates life and energy.

 We were born to enjoy the colors!

Green is vibrate and helps us feel alive.

After a long season of browns and browns, we desire color and life.

So many are feeling tired and worn out, and yes, we are busy but maybe we just

Need the change of added colors to our senses.

We can bring about these changes through the foods we are eating.

We need to start eating more salads and green veggies.

I have been enjoying a Raw Power Food called:

 Perfect Food

RAW Organic Green Super Food

This is a supplement; but I believe it has helped me!

Bringing in even a new plant this time of year can help!

Adding a touch of bright colors such as buying a small bouquet of flowers,

Can cheer you quite a bit!

Surroundings can help us with how we are handling our emotions!

I try to do something every day that brings me pleasure and brings cheer

To my HOME and my HEART!

Putting even a pretty bowl filled with apples or oranges, on the table,

Can inspire you!.

I love to buy broccoli and to steam it till tender as shown above

Then I add a bit of Parmesan cheese on top and serve it.

Eat your Greens Dear Ones, because we need it so very much....

Destination...

I see this Snowman just standing along side the road carrying this sign!

So I pull over and he jumps in and say's

  Hello, Thanks for the ride!

I am shocked and I say; Well, I have never picked up a hitchhiker before!

Especially a snowman,
And I ask him

  Have you been standing on the road for very long?

He responses;
All winter long as soon as the first snow storm started!

People just will not stop to pick me up!

I just think so many people are really turned off by the cold...
But you can bet come August there going to be  be beee missing me!

Oh are you cold?
Would you like me to turn my heater up higher?
NOOOOOO!
I will never make it to my Destination if you do that!
So, I ask him (You don't like the cold either)?
NOOOOOO!
He says!!
So I tell him to look buddy, I am on my way to the airport!
I am flying south...
So as far as I can take you is there okay?
OOOOOKAY HEEE SAAAY'S!!!

Going to visit my daughter !!!
Can you guess where??

It Is Worth It...

It Is Worth It!!

It was a very cold and windy day; and I was getting out of my car in the

Grocery store parking lot. I saw her!

She was a Momma and she had her hands full!

I then realized it was her car parked right next to mine.

I just started to walk right past her, and I could just feel it.

Discouragement;

I turned right around and I said to her;

Sweetie, My kids are all grown up and I miss them so much!

I remember those days when I was so tired and weary, I thought

I was never going to make it!

But I want to tell you this!

It is all worth it...

I just smiled and told her to hang in there!

Well, when I came out I found this note on my windshield.

God has us in the right place at the right time!

May each and every one of us take the opportunities God gives us;

To

Love and encourage each Homemaker!

And to tell them this;

It is all worth it...

Never Grow Old Mom: Coulda, Woulda, Shouda...

I really enjoyed this picture for a couple of reasons;

Firstly, I think all of us deep down inside are still really wanting to be young!

And I mean young at heart!

Still willing to be agile in spirit...

My son something to me the other day, that I will remember

For a very long time...

It was this; He said Mom, don't ever grow old!

So many people get way too old before they are even really that old.

Ageing gracefully is not what I am referring to here!

The second reason I liked this picture is this

 We hopefully will be like the shadows dancing inside and not the other way around!

Not really living anymore!

No spring in your step or a song in your heart!

Tired and old and weary and sad!

Inside and Out!

That is what my son was saying...

Stay YOUNG inside Mom!

My older Brother sent this to me, and I thought it was worth sharing,

To a few thousand over 50 ladies or so.

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine. 
 
I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible. 
 
How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you? 
 
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ' Jeopardy ' on television? 
 
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said , 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gasp and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. 
 
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect! 
 
We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college. 
 
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.' 
 
When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord. 
 
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy. 
 
Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to...not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? 
 
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you. 
 
Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask 'How are you?' Do you hear the reply? 
 
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do ittomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi'? 
 
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away..... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.
 
 
'Life may not be the party, we hoped for... But while we are here we might as well dance!' 

Remember Dear Ones to Dance inside till the cows come HOME!
Till He calls us HOME... And not before, so don't stop living NOW!
 

Come Away My Beloved...

 

You are invited to a Party!

Please do not be late, for I have made a lovely setting for each of you.

I have polished the silver and place a tea cup for each of you.

You can have the choice of coffee or tea,

Scones or muffins along side the quiche.

As I was sitting there at my desk this morning I was thinking about,

This Blog called Living from Glory to Glory.

And what I believe I was given from the Lord,

  Was how this is a ministry!

We have all been placed in this this time and space together.

He told us to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.

So I am with many of you today and tomorrow via through this blog!

I prayed for each of you...

When you stop and read my humble writings and when,

You leave me a comment it cheers my heart!

And I think she is my friend!

A fellow Godly woman, living in the place of a woman's desire.

To be heard and loved and to see others to encourage them...

Am I my Brother's keeper?

Yes, my child, you are!

I am not a dictionary or a cookbook!

I am not a psychiatrist!

I am not a Doctor!

I am not a health expert!

I am not many things with a title given to me by the world!

But:

I am a child of God!

I am walking in His love!

I am learning how to be A Godly Woman, wife and a Mother.

Now, also a Grandmother!

I am being given wisdom and insight into many things!

I am becoming for like Him each day!

Living from Glory to Glory...

It is so nice of you to come and stay with me and party together!

What Lady does not enjoy a wonderful outing with those who are like minded?

We love to dress and go visiting!

So many of us in these days do this via Blogs;

So may we all be joyful, truthful and kind as we visit each other!

Help each other grow and show each other what has inspired you!

We are called to be together not apart and alone!

I need each and every one of you lovely ladies!

I really think Blogging has helped me through a very long, cold, and dry winter!

Your comments have warmed my heart!

And I call you FRIEND!

The has said to each and every one of us;

Come Away My Beloved...

Rose Petals In all its Glory...

Today I want to share with you lovely ladies a special portion of my heart.

I am a vintage rose lover;

Roses and their amazing scent just make me happy!

I adore a rose scented perfume, and oils.

The fragrance of a rose makes me happy.

I also feel beautiful and uplifted;

Like a summer day.

I have a very old glass jar, with a sterling silver lid that belonged to

My Mother; It was always filled with Rose petals;

My Mother loved Roses also and she had a few colors that she was partial to!

Different colors of Roses had a different meaning,

Or symbolized something special, a secret message.

I will have a part two describing their different meanings.

I

Displaying your dried roses can be very pretty and a way to cherish their beauty,
 For a little bit longer!
 A pretty jar or vase filled with rose petals is such a pretty way to
Decorate a tabletop or mantel.
Rose petals just make you think of femininity.

Just think spring is coming very soon, and then we once again will be in,
The Rose flower season, and after reading about how lovely
Even rose petals can make a plain jar or tea cup look fancy.
We can plan ahead and learn how to dry them to have the brightest and
Best rose petals to use in decorating and making up a batch of potpourri!

Rose Petals

And

Lavender

Together...

Once you have a stash of rose petals, then you can mix them with so.

Many other wonderful flowers!

There are a few tricks to drying Rose petals to help them,

Keep their color and shape;

Check out this site HERE

Also, if you would like a very good tutorial on making a lovely

Potpourri check out this site Here 

I want to bless each and everyone of you amazing ladies;

Who desire to create a Home filled with Love and Beauty!

Love, Living From Glory To Glory

Trying Not To Act Shocked...

 

Things seem to be looking a bit odd lately;

Everything changes...

Now, I think that is one liner is from a old country western song!

God help Us!

Try not to act shocked!

Just smile and pray!

I will not be self righteous and critical over every shocking thing!

Okay, I am shocked!

But I will learn to be kind and not Gritchedey.

Gritichedey is my own word; it means grumpy and crabby.

Or maybe it's a real word and I just think I made it up.

I know this world is starting to look like a place I really do not recognize anymore;

Memo to self....

Just because people look really different, they are loved by God.

Many people are wounded and just need to be loved.

Be willing to see with His eyes.

Look with a desire to see good.

People will only rise to the expectation we have of them.

If you see me walking around with the facial expression of this sweet,

Little girl, Just smile and know I am just trying to hang in there.

While the world is changing!

May I not be conformed to the world, but may I be Mrs. Steady

In HIS grace and power...

I had so many of those really shocking people smile at me and

 Open doors for me!

 And they told me to have a nice day!

(I think it was that facial expression I had on my face)

A smiley Shock LOOK...

Another new word for the day :o)

I pray I will never be a grichtedey old woman;

I want to have smile lines,

Not wrinkles!

I will not be shocked!

I will not be shocked!

People's hearts are more important to God than their appearances...