For years I’ve kept a “Dinner Party Diary” where I write about special parties ~ for the memories ~ it’s part diary, part scrapbook. And this MUSICA is for you, also for the memories . . . we can only imagine how many kisses there’ve been with this music playing in the background! (Just click on it and come right back, it will play while you read.)
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I started keeping track of parties in this book in 1993, but not every party I’ve ever given is here . . . it’s a tiny book and probably has only twenty parties. I only do them when I remember, or I’m in the mood, or the party is so good that I have to do it! Our Sunday Breakfast Party went right into the book: I remembered, I was in the mood, and it was good!
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Our 9th Anniversary is in this book too . . . that one was an afternoon tea party and we hired a piano player to play The Glory of Love, and all the other old songs we love. I always write down the names of guests, the menu, the dishes, and the weather. (And sometimes what we wore, and sometimes poems people say at the table.)
And here we are, getting ready for our 25th Anniversary Party. Starting with putting a clean tablecloth on the dining table; Girl Kitty had grown fond of the old one and wasn’t letting go of it so easily.
And then the flowers . . . it was supposed to be a combination Valentine’s & Anniversary party, but with the gorgeous weather, it turned out to be an impromptu celebration of Spring! We even had the door open! Birds were singing. It was gorgeous.
You can’t celebrate spring around here without daffodils! They are the cheeriest things!
A little pink for the coffee table.
Happy singing bird vases, a heart teapot, a matelassé bedspread for the tablecloth ~ and what breakfast party is complete without chocolate kisses?
Love? Romance? Hearts and flowers? Old music, best dearest friends . . . and delicious food. And everything pretty in pink!
I made the place cards; luckily Joe has a cork fetish and never throws them away, so I thought, what says celebration and happy memories more than a popped champagne cork . . . ? ♥
I tucked the cards into the wires on the back.
We needed a centerpiece. Joe and I took the QEII on what we called “our test run,” to see if we liked it, in 1997 from New York to Bermuda. Sailing on the QEII was something we talked about the first time we met — not necessarily doing it together (it was too soon for that at the time) but something we both wanted individually! So, of course we saved this little bottle of port we found waiting, when we finally did go, in our stateroom, and now it’s part of the glory of, the story of, love. ♥
Almost there, need napkins! Need food!
Jack helps by bouncing off the walls and aerating the chair backs with claw holes. Thank you Jack!
Yes, actual food will be served. I do adore setting the table, but I know that our guests are going to expect food, not just dishes and flowers! Here, Joe’s making crepes the day before, for the Cheese Blintzes we’re serving.
There they are, the blintzes; the lemon, basil, and ricotta-cheese filling is all rolled inside…. we covered the pan and put it in the fridge; the next morning we browned them in the frying pan before serving with delicious jams, applesauce and sour cream. The recipes for all of this will be in my new Breakfast Book!
Did the MUSICA go away? Noooo. Say it ain’t so. Can’t have that. ♥
Is there anything better than plain, old-fashioned, ice-cold, juicy-pink grapefruit on a spring morning? No, and I do what my mom taught me; I cut around each segment for easy eating.
Mmmmm, crisp-edged, crunchy Blueberry Corn Cakes and hot maple syrup! Gotta have it!
Homemade Applesauce made with Granny Smith’s, so fresh and appley! Yummy with Corn Cakes, delicious with pork sausages, perfect with Cheese Blintzes.
My Applesauce is full of apple bits with a little tooth to them, not the smoothed out stuff you get in the market . . . we served it cold. I put some roasted cranberries (left over from the cranberry marmalade I made for the blintzes) in the middle as decoration.
We had bacon, sausage, sliced steak and buttermilk biscuits too . . . the platters warmed on top of the stove. The southern style breakfast at Tara, with Scarlet O’Hara’s family, I read about in Gone with the Wind, was my inspiration for this . . . believe it or not we didn’t touch the decadence they managed to come up with! But we tried!
Margot and Tom weren’t able to make it 🙁 , they’re on their way to New Orleans 🙂 , but before they left, they stopped by with Margot’s gorgeous bouquet of Valentine roses ~ which were still beautiful; she thought we might like to have them at the party.
She was so right! I recut them and put them in a shorter vase and here they are, a little more Valentine love DNA, gracing the granola-yogurt-and fresh-fruit buffet we set up on the sideboard. Thank you Margot! (BTW, that sideboard was here when we bought the house; Mrs Bowditch (a previous owner) told me it was here when she bought the house in 1949; maybe it’s been here since the beginning, 1859, when the house was built and the Smith family moved in! I would like it to talk!)
Man Food.
And there it is in all its glory; we turned on the music and toasted to love and each other with icy tangerine juice and bloody Mary’s; we had tea, coffee, and everything you see on these plates! We talked about local island news while the birds sang outside the 
window; what’s been in our papers, what the ferry boat is up to these days, the weather (of course), how far up the daffodils have come, the blooming snowdrops, our gardens, Facebook, Twitter, movies, spring vacations; and we ate, and ate. I didn’t do a dessert (although I was tempted to make baked stuffed apples in a cream bath!) — but did we actually need anything more? No. We did not. Then everyone kissed good bye and went home; we washed the dishes, read the paper, and took a nap, then we went to the movies and saw the new silent movie called The Artist. And THAT was Sunday, pretty good huh? Love morning parties!
And for your patience for reading through this, not to mention WILLARD, who has spring fever just like me, and is going out to play all day today and tomorrow; you have a reward . . . I have something I’m really excited about . . . a giveaway I think you will love. Ready? OK, it’s these ~
Two Johnson Brothers, Rose Chintz Teacups! Yes! With saucers! “Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear!” My own set actually has twenty cups-and-saucers, many more than I will ever need! So I am giving away two of them! They come with invisible magic as they were right there on Sunday, at the party of love. (But, of course, just like the sideboard, they won’t talk!) All you have to do to be entered is to leave a comment; “Vanna” will draw a name in about three days . . . want to make sure you all get a chance to enter to get a little springtime pink in your life. ♥
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY GIRLFRIENDS! Sing HO!
I relished every minute of your breakfast/anniversary party. All that on the one stove/oven?
Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the dinner party, and for your blog. I can’t tell how much it inspires me.
Every day when my daughter (she is in 3rd grade) comes home from school we have a rituial, I brew a pot of tea and we sit down in the little tearoom I have created in our home and talk about her day.
We are both Susan Branch fans, she has your “Girlfriends Forever” book that I asked you to sign for her when you did a book sigining in San Luis Obispo. I cherish these moments (when we take tea) I know I am giving her my time and attention and most important we are making memories. How wonderful it would be to be able to use your teacups. Thank you!
I love your mothering! xoxo Love it!
Love those tea cups! Your parties are always so cozy and look like so much fun-wish I was your next door neighbor. At least I can enjoy them on your blog. Thanks.
I just love reading your stories, looking at your pictures and imagining life on Martha’s Vineyard. I live in Texas and it’s about as different from yours as you can get.
I love the teacups. I actually saw them for the first time about 40 years ago when I worked at Sears! Yep, Sears. I worked in the “china” department. These were my very favorite dishes and I loved it when a lady would come in and buy a set. I can tell you really love yours.
Thanks for making life seem so wonderful. (Mine really is!)
I know you must enjoy the island sooo much we were there on time for one day not nearly enough….your party looked absolutely great. I love your pink dishes.. I have a pitcher in the rose chintz pattern.. no other pieces yet. Thanks for sharing with us . Ann
Rose Chintz is my favorite china pattern…..I think it is just beautiful! Thank you for offering this as a give-a-way! Happy 25th Anniversary!
I would love to win these for my girlfriend!
Absolutely lovely! The musica is such a nice touch, too. I just love Jimmy Durante…”As Time Goes By”
Happy Anniversary, belated Valentines greeting. I just realized how I look forward to your post and Willard. I get you thru Google reader, but always go to your blog to read your new post. Silly I know. I want to experience it the full blog way. Reading about your life on an island makes me want to spend sometime on one, to experience the special feeling I would think you get living there.
Oh, I live in Lafayette, Louisiana in Cajun Country
Lovely! Enjoy the blog – which I receive through e-mail – and especially would enjoy a cup of tea in these teacups! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas which I enjoy passing along (forwarding through e-mail) to friends and family.
What a lovely post! Love the pretty teacups, and they would fit into my china collection so perfectly, should I win. And if not, well, I enjoyed reading anyway 🙂
You make my heart flutter, as your style is my style! I want to share a table with you at one of your wonderful homes, then have you over to mine. Thank you for sharing in such a way that it feels like we are right there with you. Now if I could just win your cups. Pick me please? Blessings…
I really love the teacups and all the beautiful things you share with us on your blogs. I have collected a few over the years and the ones you have would go great in my China cabinet.
I live in North Carolina and we had a temperature of 76 today. It actually felt like Spring.
Looking forward to your next blog.
Mercy me, for the love of tea parties, let me in on this drawing!
Thank you for sharing your Anniversary/Valentine/Spring breakfast party with us-you guys are amazing – Happy Anniversary to a very special couple 🙂
They’re beautiful, Susan! Thanks for parting with them!
Susan and Joe,
Congratulations to both you !!!! Wishing you many more 🙂
Love your blog and the pink teacups.
How beautiful your table looked! The rose chintz dishes remind me of the set that my aunt had when I was a child. We always visited at her house on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and ate from those beautiful dishes! Thanks for sharing.
Whenever I need a lift or a bright sunny spot I read your blog! I hope to visit Martha’s Vineyard some day soon. I loved the Cape but never got on the ferry.
It really is a beautiful place. Hydrangeas are my favorite so you can imagine how in love I was in Cape Cod in August! The shrub roses are also beautiful. It’s nice tomhave places to visit butj until then your blog is a great way to see the sites.
Thanks for sharing.
Karen from Long Island NY
I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoy your two darling kitty cats! They delight me to no end. And that Jack – he’s got some real star power and much more than his fair share of charm!
I also LOVE the Rose Chintz tea cups. Rose Chintz was my grandma’s pattern when I was growing up – so naturally it holds a dear spot in my heart <3
Happiest of Anniversary wishes to you!
What a joy your blog is! The teacups are so beautiful. Reminds me of the tea cups we drank a lot of tea from in England this fall. Thank you for sharing
I have been collecting tea cups old and new for many years. Tea with a girlfriend tastes soooo good from a china cup.I sure would love to share a cuppa with my bff with the rose chintz cups! 🙂 Everyday must be a party at your house. Thank you for all of your great ideas
I love looking at all your blogs, as well as your cookbooks which I have collected for years. I would love to win the teacups to add to my collection of tea cups – they would be so special. Thank you so much for sharing.
I love the idea of putting classic romantic literature on the table. Thanks for sharing and inspiring us all.
There is always the possibility that the brilliance in the books could be transferred, via osmosis (so very scientifically) to the people who set the table! xoxo
Such good reading, always look forward to visiting you! You light up my life, you bring me hope to carry on, sound like a song :)? Anyway beautiful teacups, a bit of Susan to send along to someone, maybe me. Thanks for all the JOY!!
I would LOVE to have these lovely tea cups and think of you every time I use them! I would share one with my daughter Emily and keep one for myself. We both are avid tea drinkers:)
What a wonderful anniversary celebration. Best wishes to you and Joe and the next twenty-five years. What a beautiful table. The tea cups are absolutely lovely!
Your breakfast sounded glorious, Sue…I think I loved your table setting the best. It has inspired me to set me Easter table with some of my Beatrix Potter books this year. Your ideas inspire me. Thank you for sharing the special corners of your life with all of us, and especially me. Tracy
Everyday I look forward to your emails. They always brighten my day. The teacups are so pretty and the winner and a friend will enjoy many cups of delicious tea in them. Thank you for all the wonderful things you share with us.
Looks like you had a wonderful celebration … Happy Anniversary!
Reading your blog and Willard always gives me a happy life. Again, thank you for sharing your life with your girl friends. I rush to look at the pictures and then go back and read the entire story. Fills my “lovely well” and encourages me to go for it. The teacups are beautiful and would look beautiful in my little china cupboard.
Happiness and many long lovely years to you and Joe.
I wish the world could be filled with sweet people like you! Thank you for sharing your talent with everyone! Have a lovely day…
You can look around this blog and see how many wonderful sweet people there really are!
The teacups are absolutely lovely, and I would love to add them to my collection. Someone is going to be a very lucky Girlfriend!
Last one in is a rotten egg, right? I’m sure I am too late for your drawing but I’ve been sitting here with my cup of tea, busy catching up on your blogs. I went on a 5 day cruise with my college roommate and a group of gals for everyone’s 50th. What a blast! Anyway, I just had to comment on your breakfast and table. Gosh Sue, everything looks so beautiful and yummy and just…well….happy! You are a very lucky gal to be surrounded with so much love. Thank you for always
sharing it with us.
That sounds like a really fun trip! Welcome home!
I thought I left a message here, but do not see it. Where could it be?
Gremlins.
Gremlins on the Susan Branch site? Could it be? Playmates for Jack perhaps? Thanks for the smile!
What a wonderful post, Susan. You always do the prettiest things! Anyway, I would adore having those teacups, so enter me quick! Thank You!
I so enjoy reading about your fabulous parties….and get so many iseas from you that I would like to do. The picture of you kissing your Joe was so special and a delightful way to set a centerpiece for your anniversaryValentines Day brunch…………this brunch was so special as the person who shared it with all of us. Thank-you!!!! Lori Ragalis
Happy Anniversary to you both. Your party is such a wonderful idea. Most of us celebrate anniversaries alone. Celebrating with friends is genius!
Who leaves behind a gorgeous piece of furniture like that sideboard!!! Was it too heavy to move? No room for it at the new place? Bolted to the floor perhaps? I’m so sorry to admit this, but if I had been Mrs. Bowditch or the Mrs. before her, you would not have that sideboard in your lovely dining room Susan dear. Is the dresser scarf yours? It’s beautiful. I have a few that my grandmother made. They are such a treasure!
It’s not bolted to the floor, but it’s really BIG and really heavy! Mrs. Bowditch, when she left here, was in the downsize mode. . . I don’t think she had room for it. So we were blessed with it! Yes, love old linens too!
Your post brought Spring today – and it’s needed as the weather has turned damp and chilly. Love all you do.
Newtown Square, PA
Love the ivy tendril peeking up into the light of your home!
Dear Susan, You are so much fun and very generous. I would cherish the tea cups and the magic that comes with them!
I hope I’m not too late to enter! These are just beautiful! I would keep one and give the other to my sister (another fan of yours!).
How lovely to celebrate your day with close friends. Many more days of friends and roses to you and Joe!
Hi Susan,
I’m sitting here across the US in sunny southern California, Corona Del Mar to be exact thinking the same thing, where did Winter go? I really missed it this year and agree it was a strange season.
Love the rose chintz tea cups but just want to know if that adorable kitty Jack comes with them????
I’ve never been a cat person but your two have changed my mind. Just have to figure out if our “Chester” would like a furry friend!
Thank you again for all your inspiring views on the daily world, not to forget all your yummy recipes too.
What a beautiful party! I cannot wait for the breakfast book…. my favorite meal!
Love those teacups!!
what a fun entertaining post..
followed with anticipation..
salivating all the way!!
simply beautifully delicious!!
how do I get on your party guest list?
Hugs!!
Loui♥
The table looks beautiful!
Oh my gosh Susan, you will not believe this but I’ve been trying to put together a collection of Rose Chintz and when I saw this post I couldn’t believe you were actually giving away 2 cups and saucers! I don’t have many pieces yet, only a small dessert plate, a dinner plate, a creamer with a chip (but that’s okay) and a saucer (with no cup). So YES, I am hoping my name gets drawn! And when I saw your beautiful table all set with the Rose Chintz, it was so lovely. What a wonderful lady and friend you are (and Joe too of course!) to make such a delicious meal for all your friends. I’m sure they all love you very much! By the way, I have never had blintzes before, but they sound like they’d be yummy. Thanks again Susan for another fabulous post! xxooo Sharon
You’re welcome Sharon!
My mother would love those tea cups. she loves tea cups. I also made the choc. chip tea biscuits and they were delicious. I enjoy the photos and stories and can’t wait for the new book and hope they birthday fabrics!!
Franklin, NH
I tried to post this yesterday—but my computer decided to freeze on me ( in anticipation of the snow that was coming) and I had to leave to get to work ( I get off work here at 3:30 and have to be at work 27 miles away at 3:30- thankfully they understand and allow me travel time) I loved looking at your table – it is breathtaking! Happy Anniversary! its always a blessing to see people who are still in love! **** I have been dying to try out your milk cake recipe but couldnt find Vanilla beans round here ( in Northern IL) without driving a ways- so I ordered them online- and now haven’t had a chance to bake it! How long do they keep? ******* Side note- to those searching for your comments to see the replies- I just noticed the time posted is Susan’s time not mine- makes it easier to find the post 🙂 We did get snow and it was fairylike this morning but now the sun is shining and I am sure that it will be all melted by the time I get off work!
Bobbie in Amboy Illinois
I loved reading about your party and seeing all of the pictures. What a great reminder to look back upon and reminisce! I enjoy tea and those cups are beautiful! I have enjoyed your posts about spring. Here in Missouri we are having 65 degree days followed by days in the 30’s……! Let’s make up our mind!!! Thank you for your posts about life on the island!
St. Charles, MO.
Susan, This world needs more people like you. You light up the days of so many people through your generous spirit and your incredible gifts. Thank you for sharing of yourself. Congratulations and blessings to you and Joe!
I think we are a gathering of generous spirits right here!! Thank you Jillian!
I would love to add those to my collection of pink floral dishes!
What a beautiful brunch! Wish that we could have all been there, although that might have changed the cozy, intimate ambiance just a wee bit. Love a chance for the teacups, tea with a friend. Thanks!
Those cups and saucers are beautiful!!! Sure hope I win!!! Love your blog!!!
Susan…Happy Anniversary to you and Joe,
Such food and fare,
From YOU, Not rare…..
And I do for it long,
But I’ve but song,
To serenade the day,
Recalling the flora of May…
Thy cups do overflow,
And covet them I do,
My Johnson Bros. “Ships”,
Could for them woo.
“Miss” Anne from Greenland, New Hampshire
darling! 🙂
If u dont mind me asking, where could one get a gas stove like yours? Mine blew up 5 years ago, & I’ve been using a smaller counter convection oven til we remodel, holding out for just the right one…yours looks antique, but is it? Love it. I am embroudering leaping vegetable tea towels as we speak…
Tamara from Washington State..
Yes, mine is old — just like the one my mom had when I was growing up . . . I got it from a place called Stove Heaven in Los Angeles. There are lots of choices, they’re all completely refurbished. I think you would never be sorry! I love mine every day!
How beautiful your anniverary breakfast looked. The table looked perfect without food, but we know “Guys” and their food. What a perfect day, dear friends, good food, a nap and a movie. Yay! I would love to win the Rose Chintz teacups, what a way to share time wih a girlfriend, beautiful teacups and good tea. Happy Anniversary.
Beautiful, beautiful! I envy your guests, but seeing the pictures and reading your post was the next best thing to being there. You are so sweet to give away your teacups and saucers. All of your giveaways are amazing and I love how you want everyone to win. Honestly, it’s fun just to be a part of the excitement (it was an honor to be nominated :)) — though I WOULD swoon if I ever did win anything :). Love you, Sue! xoxo
Baby, take a bow 🙂
Oops! Sorry, I’m new at this bloggin thingy and posted twice about your beautifuly breakfast, sorry.
What lovely tea cups. Someone will be thrilled to win them.
Oh my Susan…your anniversary brunch celebration looks like the PERFECT way to share you & Joe’s love for each other! I adore your pretty PINK dishes & would LOVE to win the pair of teacups you have so generously offered in this give-away. I have tea parties with my little granddaughter every time she visits & she would be tickled PINK to drink from one of those beautiful cups.
I just got the Willard newsletter & I grew up with a similar basement…I think my parents called it a “root cellar…. that I was scared to go down to as well. Funny memories that I hadn’t thought of in years.
You would LOVE my lower level in this Ohio house, though. It is my sewing studio with lots of quilts on the walls, chairs, quilt racks & shelves with fabric & buttons & ribbons & rick rack galore. Someday I’ll do a blog post about it. I call it my “play room” & I invite my sewing friends down to join me on a regular basis. I have a glass table & chairs as well as a fold out couch & a full bath, for sleepovers. Its my PINK cave!
fondly,
Rett
I love the Rose Chintz tea cups! I have a few small dishes and bowls of that pattern I have found in antique shops, so those would be a great addition! You are so generous! Thank you! Modesto, California (I’m the lady whose parents and brothers live in the SLO area. I miss your shop in AG! Do you have any plans for the farmstand?)
I would love to win these tea cups. Such pretty tea cups and with all the love in them, what a treasured gift. Thanks for the chance to win these.
What a beautiful table, Susan!! And what an inspiration you are! 🙂
You make everything look so cozy and homey. Please enter me. Thanks
Oh I would love those cups! Am I too late? Don’t know how I missed this one.
“we’ve only just begun” Karen
What a feast! Gorgeous cups for such an occasion as well.
Your breakfast party looked marvelous and I enjoyed so much seeing your pictures!! I love your style and would love to live in your house! I also love those teacups! I would enjoy drinking my tea in those so much. I would also love to find a set of dishes to match, do you know where I could find? Or are they picked up from here and there on your travels?
Love you!
What a beautiful party. I felt like I was there the way you described everything. Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary Susan!
I love your work and I really loved visiting your little store in Cali on the Central Coast! Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos with us!
What a beautiful celebration, Susan Branch! Happy Anniversary!! I have loved you and your stuff for years… I remember once you were on QVC, and I bought a wonderful collection of stickers 🙂 LOVE Rose Chintz anything… what a beautiful table you set… Please enter me in the drawing, and on, I guess I’m going to have to check out eBay for some cups and saucers, anyway, to add to my small collection 🙂
Love, love, love your beautiful anniversary breakfast table and all the yummy goodies you served too! (Oh, how perfect the pink chintz place settings look!) The lovely and springy matelasse (bedspread) tablecloth literally took my breath away and made me gasp! What a wonderful way to share and enjoy your celebration with loved ones. Happy, Happy Anniversary from our house to yours!
I just LOVE everything you do – you are SO inspirational!! These cups are beautiful – here’s hoping!!!!!
Love your site!! LOVE the kitty on the tablecloth lol….I have two of my own (Kitties that is) they are precious!!
LOVE the teacups and thank you so kindly for the opportunity to win!
Have a blessed weekend!
Aledia
What a beautiful table you have set for your friends. The Rose Chintz pattern has always been a favorite of mine. It just makes me smile!
Such a nice thing for you to do. The Cups are beautiful, and I know whom ever recieves them will cherish them.
Ms Toni
Your brunch sounded just wonderful with some great ideas. I hope you had a fantastic day. Thanks for the little give away it’s always nice to enter a contest.
Just love every single one of your pictures so much! They always inspire me to move something from one spot to another, etc. here at my home in Ashville, NY. It is snowing hard out there right now, and we have a lake effect storm warning for tonight & tomorrow (Lake Erie), so it is a good day to be inside enjoying the warmth & coziness I so love. I would so love to have those beautiful cups & saucers for tea with one of my friends! Whoever gets them will be smiling for sure!! Have to add; I visit my basement often to do the laundry 🙂
I have enjoyed your recipes, pictures and writings for such a long time and shared with so many of my friends. Your books are one of the regular gifts that I give to friends and I feel like we would be best friends immediately. The comfort and sweet thoughts you share bring joy to so many. Thank you, Susan.
yes please!! Thank you for the opportunity to win the delightful tea cups and saucers : )
The teacups are so cute. Tea would taste perfect in these. I love your writing. Enjoy it so much and get excited when I see a Willard in my list of emails.
Happy Anniversary! Looked like a wonderful way to celebrate it. My husband and I celebrated 16 years of wedding bliss on February 17th. Love the tea cups and the cats!
Please enter me in the drawing! Thanks!
Happy Anniversary !
My Husband and I celebrated our ” 35th ” Anniversary February 18th so it has been a month of Hearts around here too !
Thank You for sharing all your Wonderful Ideas , Recipes , Stories & Pictures ! You Really Make Me Smile !
The Tea Cups are Beautiful !
🙂
I think the thing I love most about “visiting” you is all the girly flowery stuff. I have a wonderful hubby that doesn’t mind at all how I decorate. His only request is to not use flowery decor in the bedroom or main living areas. I can have real flowers,but just not on drapes,wallpaper furniture. etc. It’s okay as I have a large sewing/office area that is all mine and since we have 2 guest rooms one is girly and one is more masculine with baseball. I just soooo enjoy all your stuff that seems to be everywhere. It looks very soothing to me.
If ya ever need a house sitter, just call me 🙂 Teddie
oh wow that setting looks pinkilly gorgeous, reading about the basement gave me a few giggles..I would not be going down there either,cheers Vickie
I smiled the whole time I read. That is what you do for me. Thanks Susan for being you. Your wit and talent always stop me on a otherwise busy day to catch up with Willard.
I love your idea for keeping a party journal. I keep a boat log for our trips out on Lake Shasta (northern CA). Inside I keep a record of the lake level, lake temperature, what we brought to eat and drink, whether or not hubby caught fish, and if so how many. I keep track of the wildlife seen, and anything unusual that happens and most importantly the times we get to take our grandson out to fish or swim. Love that! Take care.
I love teacups!! I really hope I win this one! 😉
Have a beautiful weekend, Susan!
Brunch is my favorite meal, and yours was one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!
Hi Susan! Am a huge fan of all you do…my absolute favorite is your Autumn book. LOVE the pictures of your party! Keep up the most excellent work!
Mistyloo
Thank you the lovely bogs ~ enjoying the adventures of Jack and Girl Kitty, sooo sweet and what good company for both of you! Enjoy your Anniversary month with the extra day to count your blessings.
Linda from Minnesota
I love all things Susan Branch and it would be so fun to have these teacups. What a joy to drink from! Thanks for the chance.
Hi Susan – it’s always so much fun to read about your parties, gatherings and life! You put so much love into everything, you truly are an inspiration! It would be such a special treat to be chosen to share your tea cups! I love the idea of having tea with you!
I would love to add the pretty little teacups to my collection.
Oops, I meant blogs.
Just getting ready this afternoon for my girls night with the “Deer Ridge Ya Ya’s.” There are eight of us and we celebrate birthdays, splurge nights, and ‘any other reason to get together as much as we can. We even have a stamp made up with all of our nicknames that we bestowed on one another along with the date our group was established. Tonight is a pj party and movie night to celebrate “Wheezer’s” birthday that was on February 14th. I am making some low fat snacks before we dig into buttered popcorn, and a chocolate fondue!
I have my coffee every morning in a small teacup. Would love to drink out of something new.
Celebrate and cherish your friends, everyone, they are treasures we all need in our lives!
I live in Deer Ridge, Saskatchewan, Canada
Hi Susan, I so loved hearing Jimmy Durante sing… The Glory of Love… I don’t think I’ve heard this since I was a little girl, it made me think of my Mom… she would sing it to me… Thank you for the link… ;- )
Your table is so beautiful, what a wonderful setting for your anniversary party…
I just love the rose chintz teacups & saucers… would be so much fun to use these to have tea & cookies with my little grand daughter… well, here’s good luck to all of us… !!
Those teacups are lovely! I have always been the biggest fan of breakfast; I dream of the day when we get our own place big enough to have friends over for a meal. For now, our breakfast in bed and at our table for two will have to do. Would love to sip my morning tea from one of these cups <3
I just love Susan Branch! The rose chintz cups are beautiful!