Tea Time Tuesday 3

Tuesday has become our most beloved day of all ~ after all, it means it's time for Tea Time Tuesday. We love having tea. It is one of our favourite past-times!

Bea will often bake some delectable cupcakes for the occasion like this

or this

Beautilicious!

We have been reading a little book called Painting as a Pastime by Winston Churchill. What a delight! If you can find a copy which isn't easy since it's out of print, read it ~ it's a 26 pages plus there are 18 colour plates of dear Winston's own paintings. He may not be the greatest painter England ever produced, but his paintbox brought him years of enjoyment. Here's a wee quote from the book ...

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it. and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye."

Please see Sandi's Rose Chintz Cottage to check out all the other bloggers

who are participating in this week's Tea Time Tuesday!

Now excuse us, while we finish drinking our beautiful ruby red Tetley Delight Wild Berry Herbal Tea.

Bessie & Bea
x0x

Cupcakes!

Well hello dearies.
Do you ever get a hankering for something that you just can't let go until you get your hands on it? Well that happened to me in the last couple days. I've been wanting to have a nice cupcake with lots of gooey icing, in the worst way. Even though I put the call out for cupcakes to my family and dear ones, not a single cupcake showed up on my cottage's doorstep.

You can imagine the dire sadness that overcame me when I visited a lovely new favourite blog of mine, Pink Roses ~ only to see yet another irresistible cupcake! What is an old girl to do, I ask you? I know you're thinking that I simply got out my baking gear and started baking up some scrumptious cupcakes. Well just call me Mrs. Safeway, because sitting in front of me at this very moment are some perfectly wonderful cupcakes. Don't they look lip-smackingly scrumptious? Well, it's time for a nice quiet cup of tea and some cupcakes. Too bad Bea missed them ~ she stopped by for a visit earlier today, but that was before my trip to the grocery store! She never did have a good sense of timing.

Cupcakes: always masterpieces

It's no secret. Bea and I dearly love our cupcakes! Would you just take a gander at these beauties! They're from the inspiring book entitled Hello Cupcake by Karen Tack.

I can just imagine Bea licking her chops when she sees how much icing is on this Starry Night Cupcake Cake. And she will probably demand that I reproduce one for her birthday. Good thing I don't have to think about that until next June; maybe by then she'll settle for some nondescript cake from her local supermarket.

Until next time, sweet friends ...
Bessie
x0x

Oh, by the way, I'll tell Bea that you're missing her and that it's about time for one of her long posts. After all, I can't do all the hard work around here!

Fun, Fun Fun ....

till her Daddy took her glue stick away...

Step away from my glue stick!! I will never hand it over without a fight!

*ahem* I know, we do get rather passionate at times about things that really matter, deep down inside.





Today was not the day to try to come betwixt a girl and her glue stick. It was play day at the art barn, here in the sunny prairie city on the edge of the lake.



There was Soul Journaling to be done. Bessie did the cover of her ART journal. It's so lovely, don't you think?














To keep up our creative strength, Bea made pizza, and pretty, pink strawberry and watermelon coolers, and lovely Lisa provided a beautiful salad full of the bounty of her garden. It was fresher than fresh! ("Just like us" she said modestly.)

We ate out in the garden, next to the art barn. We left our mess behind and savoured the great conversation and wonderful food in the shade of a beautiful tree.



Food and art go together like... well....what doesn't food go with?


(Maybe sky diving?)








Lisa has orders form her doctor to live it up! To have FUN! To be wild! We are trying to help her in that department. It happens to be our specialty.
It's just another free service here at Creative Sandwich.

It looks like it's working...see that smile?




Well, we had to take a little break from all that art, to go thrifting. We scored big time!

We each found a retro cool groovy LP from the exact year of our respective births! The art work is too funky, just like us!

We think we see book covers in the works...they were too fun to pass on!

Hope your day is tasty and delicious, full of sunshine and joy. If it's not, take a bite of our Creative Sandwich and know that you are loved!
XOX
Bea

PS. Oh, Bessie? You know those scrumptious cupcakes you brought? The ones we didn't have time to decorate till after you went home?

Ummm....they were delicious.





And thanks ever so much for the dazzling sun flowers (see top) you brought for me. I love them!