If you have followed along on my journey you must know how I love to plan tea parties.... and this week I shared already about the book chat I am planning in late March with 5 of my very best friends and prayer partners. We are reading the most wonderful book, Holy Fire, and are coming together over tea to share what we have learned... I can hardly wait, but in the meantime, I get the most delightful joy of planning....
Yesterday, I stopped in at the library and perused all the glorious books on teas. I am so glad Lynn was with me to tote the books to the car...I got to spend a good hour in the afternoon gleaning the pages for ideas and tips to consider.
My desire is to recreate a scene of shabby refinement... for lack of a better description... I envision C. S Lewis's library, littered with stacks upon stack of books with overstuffed chairs indented by the seats of lofty contemporary scholars who had gathered for just such endeavors.. to chat over the writings of the day...ok... my vision will be a bit difficult to implement... but toward that end, I did do a bit of redecor-ating...
Now please realize this is a work in progress... for I still see remnants of Christmas past, and our event will take place in early spring... yayayay for spring! So to begin, I was just playing around with the furniture.
You will notice that I have pulled it all into the center of the room, making for a cosy, if cluttered arrangement, focused on the fireplace,
which Lynn promises me will be alit... but even Lynn told me this morning, it was growing on him...
One part I truly revelled in was house shopping for just the right book to pile into my little stacks..
Not only for their decorative addition by color or antiquity, but by their literative composition and interest to my sweet group of friends.
They in themselves will offer delightful conversation starters as we are pouring out our tea and enjoying the tasty morsels...
it is a tea, after all.
Watch the blog for more ideas and to see how it all pans out.... come to think of it, soon, I need to figure out if I will need to purchase any special new pans... oh, the ideas a re fluttering about in my head!
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PS. I have had a wonderful time studying in my new "reading room"
with my feet propped up and my reading bag handy
the setting is perfection for my sensibilities... especially, accompanied by a lovely cup of Tazo tea.
One of my springtime themes for the party will be to showcasae blue and white for spring so I am enjoying using my beautiful transferware...
this cup and saucer is from the Romantic England collection of Wedgewood, depicting Wiley Lotte's Cottage.
Another fantastically fun thing I did today was to add a page of pins on my Pinterest all about planning my Book Chat Tea.... If you have time check it out....if I sound giddy, it is because I am!
Happy Pink Saturday!
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