Tea Cup Tuesday!

My first cup called Juliet by Royal Doulton is one I have always been really fond of.  My niece brought this cup back for me from one of her trips to England.  I love the soft blue color and it's simple style.  In the first picture it's sitting on a chair I painted a while back.  There's kind of a funny story about that chair.  Back when I was teaching tole painting I also painted samples for our shop.  This was one of the samples I did.  After I had the whole chair done (which took many many hours)  I wasn't happy with the results!  I'm the kind of person that things don't really grow on me.  If I don't like something from the start then I never will!  So, I plugged in my palm sander (took a deep breath) and sanded the whole thing down to bare wood and started all over!  I was much happier with the results which was a good thing because it would have been firewood after that!

My second tea cup to share with you today was a beautiful one I bought when I visited The Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.  My husband and I stopped there for a few days on our way to an Alaskan Cruise.  They have the best china ever and I wanted everything!  The cup is by Crown Dorset from Staffordshire, England.  I love the tea pot too.  It's from my trip to the Empress Hotel too!  My hubby and I had tea there that day.  It was the only time on the whole trip I didn't have my camera so I have no proof that he actually had tea with me.  But believe me he did and his fingers didn't fit in the tiny handles of the tea cup.  :)