This afternoon I was on a mission to find a tea cup. I have decided that I enjoy drinking tea from tea cups. I never registered for china when we got married, preferring the handmade pottery over store bought dishes. You still will not find one mug in this house not handmade, and I intend to keep it that way! However, there is a part of me that has recently surfaced that admires the tea cup. I have one set of teacups that I do use when I have ladies over. My mother gave it to me, and I think her mother gave it to her. It is pictured above with half a cup of tea remaining!
Since I have one little one running around, and soon to be three, I decided to find some tea cups at antique stores that I don't mind so much if they break. The set my mother gave me has sentimental value and I would be quite sad if one of those came to an end. So this afternoon, around nap time I set out with my three year old to the antique stores.
In the first, he almost had a melt down when I made him hold my hand. I was moving quickly through that store, nothing had caught my eye. I did see one neat one that was under $10 but decided the cup was too small. This is going to be harder than I expected! I had a quick stop in between stores at the local Hobby Lobby because it is that time again...yes, I have another show coming up! I am sewing away.
At the final antique shop I was a bit wary of how my son would act since nap time was slipping away...with no nap. I stopped to look at some really neat linens and handkerchiefs and that was when Caleb began picking things up. He grabbed a little figurine and I stopped breathing while he safely put it back. Phew! Then he grabbed another. Oh dear...I needed to keep moving. Before I could move along, I heard something hit the floor. I quickly looked down to see it wasn't broken...it was plastic! At least he choose that one to drop. So I picked it up and leaned over to whisper a threat in his ear when the store owner came over. "Did something drop?" she wanted to know. Wow. She had good ears! Either that or when I walked in the door with my son terror struck her heart and she decided to keep a close watch on us!
We made it through the store with no more close calls. No tea cup could be found, but I was able to settle on some really neat buttons! The red ones look like old fashioned lolli-pops! What great fun they will be to add to some sewing project!

I have my fourth Hilary's Hope show coming up the third weekend in April. A lovely girl from church is hosting it at her apartment, near Clemson University. I am looking forward to it now that I have really started back into sewing this week.

Oh! We finally have birds visiting our feeder. Suet was the key to luring in our birds. It has been fun to watch them...and try to capture them with photos!