I found this teacup at a thrift store. I like it because I think it looks very English (even though I've never been to England and could be absolutely wrong about this).
For my birthday, my sister Lizzie gave me a set of ballerina figurines, made in the Philippines from capiz shells. (Oh, how I wish I could fix my bun as perfectly as these shell ballerinas!)
Damian and I have been using an old, sloppily painted--I think the cool kids call this look shabby chic--trunk as a coffee table, and it's surprisingly useful. Why, hello, storage space!
And early this week, I went to a new coffee shop with my mother and sisters. When our order arrived, I looked down to see a pretty leaf in my mocha, and my mother had a heart in her caramel macchiato. Lizzie and Cara just ordered plain old coffee with cream and sugar. How silly.
I hope you have a wonderful long weekend! What little things have been making you happy lately?
That ballerina statue is incredibly beautiful. So sweet!
ReplyDeletei have one of the ballerinas too :) love it!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dancing Branflake and Megan. :) I love sitting in my living room and looking up and seeing little ballerinas on the bookshelf.
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool that you have one, too, Megan. Lizzie brought back so many neat things from the Philippines! Shopping there must be really fun. :)
Love that coffee table!!! My boyfriend keeps promising me he's going to make a coffee table out of pallets at the work shop he works at (he's a carpenter). We'll see if it ever happens...=]
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rachel! I just did a Google image search of pallet (pathetic, I know!), but anyway, that sounds really cute! :)
DeleteI love the coffee table! I know several people who are looking for flat top chests like that to use the same way...apparently they are not so easy to find! It looks really cute. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kayleigh! We just stumbled across it one day in the corner of a flea market--it was only ten dollars!--and I loved it.
DeleteI have been enjoying working in downtown Seattle (although it won't be for much longer) and all the news/spoilers/videos coming out on my favorite shows, namely "Castle" and "Glee." The new TV season is just around the corner :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome figurines. And a coffee table doubling as storage space is great. When buying a new coffee table for our family room, my mom made sure that there was a shelf under the table to store magazines and newspapers. Very convenient.
I bet downtown Seattle is amazing. :)
DeleteHannah, I somehow ended up on your blog while waiting for a file to download and I stayed longer than I needed to. :) I graduated in your big sis's class at OBU and I think she linked to your blog on facebook somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI especially liked your birthday post... I'm 27 now and still wonder when the "grown up" feeling will come. My daughter is three and I've recently wondered if God gave her to me because he knew I wasn't done being a little girl yet.
P.S. I also have a teacup that I bought at a thrift store just because it looked English and I had just finished reading The Distant Hours. ;)
Thank you so much for visiting! And for spending more time than you needed...that makes me happy. :)
DeleteI love hanging out with my niece, because I can relive being a little girl in a small way. I think time with little kids is so special. :)
And hurray for English looking teacups. :)
I think it's the English Rose that makes it look British, if you're drinking tea with milk out of it, that's British enough for me! xx
ReplyDeleteAw, this comment made me so happy!
DeleteThanks for stopping by, Sherms!