The Scented Cottage®Studio

for today's spot of tea! Annie and I have been sooo busy busy today, just like all of you have been too I'm sure. How did we get so busy? Between our families, homes, friends and work we all just seem to go and go. Well I am sooo happy we have decided to make time to stop and have a s…

Welcome to a sweet tea! I hope no one is on a diet...but if you are there are some yummy cinnamon raison scones (far left corner) that I hope you will try. There are cupcakes and cookies...you have to try the chocolate chunk pecan....oh my! The table is set with some of my favorite things. If…

We got a late start Friday morning, so many things to do before we could leave. We stopped for gas about a half hour away. The tanker that had just finished refueling backed into the truck. My SweetiePie thought fast and stepped on the gas so it was the side of the truck bed that took the impact…

Let me thank you for your sweet comments...I really do appreciate each one....and the little "sumpin's" I promised are on their way. I had some serious printer problems, sigh. We are getting ready to go "up Nawth" to visit our son and his sweet wife...and do a little shopp…

What fun to receive a package! This week I received the most delightful gifts ... they came from across the "Big Pond" from a talented and sweet lady named Joy her blog is JamJar link on right. I had signed up for a tea swap with the Society of Secret Fairies, we were to send some tea …

from the music playing when we arrived, the sparkly on the table, the beautiful view from the balcony, the chocolates on the bed and the hot tub right outside the bedroom door it was an anniversary to remember. Thank-you for your sweet comments, I appreciate every one...I know this is a busy time …

one of the smartest things I ever did was to marry this man. You can tell I knew it at the time too...Why is he sitting down you ask? Well, just a couple of weeks before he was on his way to our wedding on his motorcycle when he was hit by a car. Took a nasty tumble and almost lost a leg. So h…

Well friends it's been hotter 'n a goats bottom in a pepper patch...104*, 102* and then a cool snap of 100*...The a/c can hardly keep up. We have the ceiling fans running to help out and you can see how Willie is taking advantage of the little breeze put out by the one in the living room.…

Well, it's really Sunday....and I have been working on a Magnolia swag for a customer. She wanted only Magnolias and no other color. …

Creamware is a type of earthenware originally made from white Cornish clay.... I am fairly certain that what I call my "creamware" isn't made from white Cornish clay because it was all made in Trenton, New Jersey in the 50's and 60's...but I think a lot of us call anything t…