Tea time.

Hello all!

A few weeks ago I took my mom to Tea on the Tiber for some traditional english tea.

Tea on the Tiber is located on main street in Ellicott City. The tea house is very quaint and old. The inside is interesting. Unlike other tea houses I have been to, Tea on the Tiber has items for sale in every room. In my opinion it was kinda tacky, no real british tea house would have price tags on every painting and tea pot you see, but I digress, we still had a good time. I ordered a pot of earl grey, mom got english breakfast. Then the waitress brought out a three tiered tea tray that had all sorts of small sandwiches and sweets on it. It was lovely and I was happy to treat my mom to high tea and to have a nice chat. Here are some photos.

The Three Tiers

Mom

Me

I have to say that my mom's taste has really rubbed off on me. She loves all things British. We used to goof around and talk about what it would be like to have tea with the Queen.

So I just wanted to share some photos we took at the tea house. For laughs I edited the photos to make them look old timey. Ha!

I think Martha would like to have high tea at Tea on the Tiber, but she would disapprove of the price tags in plain view, and the fact that our table did NOT have a table cloth.

Cheers!

Design Sponge

Here is a great guide to Baltimore from the blog Design Sponge.

I love this blog. Always inspiring, always beautiful.

Fairie Festival at Spoutwood farm

This May day my friend Aliza (from baltimorediy) and I went to Spoutwood Farm's 19th annual Fairie Festival.

I have been going to this fairie festival since 2002. I have not gone every year, but I have been to the festival around five times.

Spoutwood is a orgainc farm that has wooded areas and streams running though it, a perfect habitat for fairies. Truly magical!

The weather was wonderful! Aliza and I had a nice time and enjoyed the whimsy of the whole event. Every time I go I love to stroll around, look at vendors arts and crafts, eat food and watch all the fairies, child and adult alike.

It is good to get out of the mundane, sit under a tree and listen to the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra.

Here are a few items I picked up at the festival.

Some raiku fired leaf pendents, a ceremaic flying fairie by Feywood, and a beautiful carved butter slab by Jonathan.

All in all a great day.

Here is a quote from the Spoutwood website about May day and the origins of the celebration

"The fairie and May Day themes go back to ancient times in almost all cultures, especially to the Celts of the British Isles who had a festival on the first of May called Beltane. It was a time of great rejoicing at the return of the earth's abundance in spring and the impending bounty of summer. The Celts celebrated the spirits of nature by honoring not only the plants that they could see and smell but also the unseen beings of the fairie realm."

Cherry Blossoms.

Living in Stonehill has been wonderful. After living in an apartment for five years I am really enjoying living in house. It is great to have a yard. Especially when a tree like this one lives in it.

This is our tree that lives in the front yard.

Happy Spring!

Lights.

Hung up some lights on a spring night.

A day off.

It's Monday.

It is my day off and I have been cleaning my house and watching Martha on Hallmark. It is amazing, Martha is on the Hallmark Channel all day! I feel like I am 40 instead of 27, with the cleaning and Hallmark, but thats okay, it is making me happy!

I had a wonderful Easter holiday yesterday. We spent the day at my mother in-laws for her birthday. Sitting out in the sun, barbecuing and admiring the spring flowers. A wonderful day!

Easter Time!

Dog sitting the black pug Ash today.

I have the day off and I am watching Martha Stewart. Today she has on Author Jan Brett . Jan's book The Easter Egg magically illustrated. I urge you to check it out. Perfect for children!!

Jan also has pages for coloring for kids (or adults) on her website from the book! Color Pages

Very Magical!