A few of my favourite things . . .

 These are a few of my favourite things . . . .

 

I have had these egg cups since my children were small . . .  so a very long time.  I can't remember where I got them, but they were probably not very expensive.  I have never in my life had lots of money to spend on things like this.   I saw them and fell in love with them.  I have never ever seen anything like them since, so I count my lucky stars to have them.   I think they are just adorable.  You could not get any cuter . . .  unless  . . .



You knit little caps and stuck them on their heads.  Not that is ADORABLE.

  
 I finished one of my egg cosies and Todd had to christen it immediately.  (He does love a boiled egg)  I was quite pleased with how it turned out.



Vintage Cookbooks.  I love them.  They are filled with gems, so long as you ignore the vegetable cooking times.  I would never cook broccoli for 45  minutes, but I guess they used to!  (Small wonder most people didn't like it!)



My favourite one of all is this one.  It is a Canadian cookbook put out by Purity Flour.  I also have some very old baking leaflets from Robin Hood Flour.  These are treasures to me and worth more than their weight in gold.

 

Vintage Tea Cups and Saucers . . .  I have always loved these.  I have a few.  My favourite one is one that my sister gave me for my birthday a very long time ago that she had found in a charity shop.  I treasure it for a number of reasons . . .  first of all because it was a gift from my sister and it was very thoughtful.  Second, because I love tea cups and saucers, especially old ones and this is old.  Once in a while I like to break out the cups and saucers and enjoy a nice hot cuppa herbal tea.  There is nothing so special as supping tea from a proper china cup and saucer.  Even boiled water tastes better in a china cup.



We have several old clocks.  They all chime or cuckoo . . . I love the Grandmother clock we have most of all.  It is an old key wind clock.   I love to sit and hear them tick tocking away the hours.  To me it is a comforting sound.  It never annoys me . . .  and I love the chimes.  We have a wall clock with a pendulum which chimes the Westminster chimes . . .  and a low mantle clock which gongs . . .  and a Cuckoo clock with dancers and music and a little cuckoo who comes out on the hour and half hour.

 

 My favourite clock of all of them is the little German girl on a swing clock that we got when we were in the Black Forest.   She keeps me company in my craft room.  Swinging back and forth and back and forth . . .

 

Little white cherubs sit or lay across the mantle of our fireplace.  I love them.     They are simple  . . .  just white . . .  but they are sweet.   The angel came from my mother.   I love it too . . .




 I love our bedroom.  The twin beds.  The white furniture  . . .  the bedding . . .  the doilies on the bedside tables that my sister crocheted for us . . . my doll house  . . .



The Tollipop paintings which hang over the bed . . . it is my favourite room in the house.




Playing with my camera . . . taking artistic photographs.  Sometimes I even surprise myself.




And that's my favourite things for today  . . .

A thought to carry with you through the day  . . .


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"Courage isn't always grandiose,
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day
that says I'll try again tomorrow."
~Thomas S Monson
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Spiritual Enlightenment



In the English Kitchen today  . . .  Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas.  Delish!


I wish for you a beautiful Thursday  . . .  wherever you go and whatever you get up to, may it be filled with a multitude of blessings and your favourite things.  Don't forget!


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And I do too!