Joyeause Saint Valentin II

Cupid sent some beautiful Spring flowers my way.....

So, I changed my table to show them off to their best advantage.....

In the corner of the picture above, you can see Mr. Bill's liqueur tray.  I have my cocoa station, but he has his Chamord station.  I wonder if you can combine the two......

Actually I prefer tea to both cocoa and Chambord.  I chose a pretty rose teacup to use on Valentine's Day.

And, through some crazy string - pulling, Cupid arranged for me to visit a tea shop this week....

Where tea and lace and all things pink are the rule......

and where everything is cute and quaint and tastes really good!

I hope you have a Joyeause Saint Valentin celebration, too!

Joyeuse Saint Valentin

I believe this translates to 'Yours Forever'

A subtitle for this post could have been 'Fifty Shades of Red'.

I really, really like red.  

My Floating Tea Party

Mr. Bill says that he has heard of floating dice games, but this is the first time he's run across a floating tea party.

I say that sometimes good ideas are not necessarily planned , but just happen!  My little Valentine vignette that lived on my kitchen island made a few rounds in February.  I just popped the bear, the bird, the dog, the valentine cards, and the plate rack into a shopping bag.  Some cookies, some fruit and a few tea bags were tossed in with them and off we went.  The first stop was our daughter Collette and the grand kids in Illinois around Valentines Day and on the 28th we had a "Good-bye to February Tea"  at my daughter Karen's house where she has been under-the-weather and shut in for a while.  I even wore a hat for that one. 

It was so much fun Mr. Bill and I are planning more.  He suggested and 'Ides of March Tea' because we have a bust of Julius Caesar.  However, Mr. Bill is not in favor of togas.  I'm thinking of a 'St. Patrick's Tea'.  We probably will do both.

BTW:  The books on the table are from the Tea Shop Mystery series by Laura Child.