Hi Schoolhouse! What a GORGEOUS tea party you have going there!!! Simply stunning! May I join you? It's been lovely here in the Temecula Valley too. Smiles :) Becky

Too late, becr. I drank the whole pot (3 cups!).

(See the little head in the background watching? Mom and I cleaned and decorated graves at the cemetery this morning, and when we took weeds and old flower debris over to the cemetery's dump site Mom found a little cement head laying face first in the dirt. I brought him home to join the others in my garden. hee hee)

Hi Schoolhouse..I like your tea party, but I especially like that tea tray...it looks very old and cool..

Your post made me smile..it sounds like your a headhunter and you collect heads for your garden decor :)

Here is my Thurs tea. I got home from work about twoish and went right out to do some garden work. About four, I stopped to have a snack and tea. About the time I got out the pot, gathered my snack and brewed the tea it was already raining AGAIN :) I took a quick snapshot trying to keep my camera dry and drank inside..Rained on me last week too...this is getting old.. :)

I had manago tea again..I love that stuff and a tiny bowl of frozen strawberry yogurt. What I really want to do is sip my tea and read...I cross my fingers next weeks weather wont be rain yet again.. :)

Upside..I got the rest of my pots planted with what I had..one more trip for some fill in plants and I am done potting :) Next on the agenda...pulling TWO GAZZILION maple seedlings.. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: thurs tea

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Here is a link that might be useful: thur tea

Gorgeous teacup, Schoolhouse! You have so many I admire. I do like old (or new!) bone china cups. And a great rescue on that cherub head.

Keesha, that's an amazing teapot! I also like to use those old milk bottles as vases.

I didn't have tea today, just worked right thru from breakfast to lunch, then lunch to dinner. No playing for those who are reworking their gardens!

I enjoy looking at people's pics of teas and look forward to the time I can 'play' with dishes and teas again when this garden is in shape.

Thanks keesha and luckygal. I have another tray similar to the one in the above photo. Here are the two together. I believe they are made of paper mache`, printed on the back is "Made in Japan" "Patent Pending" then a number. Looks like the red lettering was written by hand. I've forgotten where I found them, probably at the antique shop.

Lavenderlass must have been too busy planting to have tea Thursday. Don't forget to take a break, lass.

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Beautiful trays SH! Glad you posted them as it was difficult to know what the tray looked like from your first pic.

I'd be tempted to hang them on the wall so I could enjoy them constantly.

ok..thurs tea was worth just seeing those trays..I love old trays..those trays are exceptionally beautiful

Look at this. I decided to do a Google of "paper mache` serving trays" to see if there was such a thing. Although I really couldn't find a website to give me much history or info on them, here are some for sale. Wow. Some of these are beautiful.

I always thought that if something said "Made in Japan" it was not vintage (after WWII), and was more collectible if it says "Made in Occupied Japan" (meaning during WWII). I probably have that all mixed up. Maybe I should ask on the Antiques and Collectibles forum.

Here is a link that might be useful: Vintage paper mache` trays

Schoolhouse- Beautiful tea cup and saucer and I like your trays! They're very nice.

Keesha- Adorable wabbit tea pot...very cute :)

Sorry, I've been really busy trying to get my potager ready, so I can plant my veggies. It's finally staying above freezing at night! Now, I can plant my tomatoes and other warm weather plants.

I'm so glad today is Thursday, because I need a break! LOL Of course, it's raining like crazy today, but that's good for the garden. How's the weather for all of you today? Tea outside, or in? I'm thinking, tea inside, looking out at my star jasmine I planted yesterday :)

I'm taking a break today as well. Tuesday I trimmed topiary, yesterday I began on the boxwood borders. It got so hot I finally had to quit after finishing one and 3/4 of another.Then I finished mowing with the push mower later in the afternoon. Ugh.

Today I'm driving my aunt to her doctor's appt.(in an hour), but I couldn't pass up the nice weather this morning to at least get my Apricot Blush zinnia seeds in around the mailbox. After that, I sat on the front porch and told myself I'd take a break "until the mailman came". He did 45min.later and said, "I hate to disturb your break over just a catalog and a piece of junk mail". ha.

Suppose to thunderstorm here later, like lass I hope it does. As for tea, it will have to be later too. What a great excuse Thursdays have become to relax a little.

Oh, man. Forgot all about Thursday tea, and about had a heat stroke cooking stir fry around 5:30pm. What was I thinking???
Dishes are washed and put away - whew.

I think it will be a glass of old orange juice instead of tea tonight. Hey - I could always put OJ in a fancy tea cup! :)

I love Thurs tea..dont stop doing it..it reminds us to slow down and enjoy our gardens along with the work. I love to imagine everyone tea time with those pictures. I will join this week I hope if there are no bumps in the road called rain :)

I don't "play" with dishes and teas. It's very natural for me to have a tea tray and use my things instead of having them just for display. It takes me no time at all to gather tray, pot, cup, strainer and spoon; it doesn't mean I'm not working before or after I sit down.