TEA HISTORY AND THE MARJORIE

THE MARJORIE.

My Mom, Marjorie.

This morning I'm sharing my gold flowered Royal Albert tea cup. The design is called Marjorie. The cup was my Grandmother's as are most of my tea cups. My mother's name is Marjorie so this cup was given to my Grandmother because of the name.

The Marjorie with my "Harvest Girl" napkin holders.

Notice the "Marjorie" at the bottom of the cup.

I have a book about tea that shares the origins of tea. It says, " Around 4,700 years ago, so the story goes, wild tea leaves fell into a pot of boiling water. The resulting infusion was sipped by the legendary Chinese emporer Shen Nung, the divine healer." "It quenches thirst," he noted. "It lessens the desire for sleep. It gladdens and cheers the heart."

It goes on to say that the "Chinese have woven tea into their stories, their philosophy, their art, and their literature as well as into aspects of their daily life."

Thereafter, different countries adopted their own tea habits. " The tea-drinking habit was probably brought to the east coast of the United States by Dutch settlers. Tea pleasure gardens sprang up, where people could meet, drink, walk, see, and be seen", explains the "Tea" book.

What are YOUR tea habits?

Today I'm joining tea parties at the following blogs:

Martha's Favorites
Rose Chintz Cottage

TEACUP TUESDAY

You can't have a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.  C. S. Lewis

This is my first time joining Teacup Tuesday at Martha's Favorites so I wanted to share my very first teacups. 

In the generation in which we got married, everyone picked out one set of every day dishes and one set of good china for special occasions.  My grandparents gave me my first  six place settings of  good china including a few serving pieces. I still am in love with this pattern.  It's English Wedgewood in the Florentine pattern. Even though I have changed our decor several times over the years I have always made sure it went with my navy, brown, light blue, and white china. Even our  Christmas dinner tablescapes are either mostly white or blue and white with silver thrown in.

Here's my special teacup with Fall decor in the back in brown and white and navy tablecloth.

 A closer view of the pattern.

Shown with blue hydrangeas to bring out the lighter blue with vintage brown cheese box in background.

 

Above is a Fall centerpiece made with white pumpkins and pinecones in a vintage cheese box. Maybe I'll use blue, brown, and white for my Thanksgiving table this year. Not your typical Thanksgiving colors but then again that's kind of typical of me.

Be sure and hop on over to Martha's Favorites to see more teacups.

Today I'm thankful for my grandparents and the Christian values they passed on.