6th TEAPOT AND TEA THINGS TUESDAY

K~I~S~S-ed

Welcome to the 6th
TEAPOT AND TEA THINGS TUESDAY

It is so good to have you drop by again this week.  Did you have a busy weekend?  Are you ready for a wee rest?  The chairs on the deck are ready for you.  Settle yourself down while I put the kettle on to boil. We can catch up on what has been happening in our lives.

My week was busy helping the new mom with the twins every day(see last week's post).  No time to get organized for house guests and prepare food.  There was a time when this would have pushed me over the edge: I would have been cranky, tense and miserable by the time the luggage started coming in the door.  Little joy over the occasion at hand and not too welcoming to the weary travellers. 

There is a time to intentionally keep life simple.  This was one of them for me.  I have learnt that people are always more important than things.  Warm, happy memories were to be the souvenirs for our guests to take abroad.

So, my weekend was filled to the brim with excitement and joy. Cousins from Germany stayed with us for three days.  The last time we saw them was 30 years ago.  Can you imagine the long conversations over tea, (and occasionally over wine) as we caught up on every thing from grown up children, moving to new homes, businesses to the minutia of daily life.  Time was so precious and there was so much to talk about that I did not want to spend too much time in the kitchen preparing or fussing. I intentionally kept the menu simple and the table setting casual.  I set the table with mixed matched black and white dishes, some floral while others are geometric.  All bought over the last couple of years on sale. They looked quite dramatic on white place mats with red napkins. I lit the candles and put on the music.

This time it was not elegant, but it was
K~I~S~S -ed.  Keeping it simple and stylish, my style.

How do you keep your entertaining simple when you are pressed for time?

Serving plate with Big Ben is one of a series
by 222 FIFTH PTS INTERNATIONAL
City Scenes
Fine China

Cream and Sugar

Johnson brothers

England1883

Rococ

Teacups

No Markings

Decorated sugar cubes easily add a special touch to your sugar bowl

I have enjoyed these first few weeks of this shared meme with Wanda @ http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com
We love knowing who has dropped by so please leave a comment.

I look forward to presenting some tea treasures that are stored in my dining room

Take a peek here.

Here is our, ' Teapot And Tea things Tuesday' button, which you my take for your blog..,

 

Cheers and hugs from Pamela, ( and Wanda Lee @ http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/ )