Showing posts with label Products I Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Products I Love. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Tea Cups

While we were stationed in England I had several opportunities to go to Stoke on Trent. This is where traditionally fine bone china was manufactured. In recent years some factories have closed down and outsourced the manufacturing. However, you can still go there and shop the seconds shops. Most of the items in these shops have defects so small they can barely be seen if seen at all. There were so many pretty patterns that there was no possible way I could just choose one to collect; nor did I think Phillip would allow me to collect several patterns. (That one is right up there with trying to figure out a way to justify a chandelier from Waterford, "But it was only 3000 euros, sweetie....") Just when I thought it was hopeless, just when I thought I would never be able to own lovely British china a memory from my youth came back to me.

As a little girl I loved to look at my Great-Grandmother Berg's tea cup collection when we would go visit. Only once I had fully inspected the pretty cups and saucers from a distance and without touching them, would I raid the toy box for the old comics.

It was then that I decided to collect tea cup/saucer sets. Over the next few years in England I would gather fourteen sets, twelve from shops in Stoke on Trent and two sets from antique shops. My collection has been displayed on the baker's rack, wall shelves, and recently on the ledge of the half wall in the kitchen. I have long wanted proper displays for my collection.

Last fall my mama P told me about a shop in Old Colorado City that has displays she felt "screamed Lynn". This last weekend my parents took me there...boy was she right! The whole shop screams Lynn! I bought two displays that hold eight sets apiece. Monday morning I hung them up, washed the sets, and put them in their new home. Although I broke one saucer when it refused to bounce off the floor(I have since found it on-line and ordered it), I am rather happy with the results.



Even better, I have two slots just waiting to be filled with the perfect editions to the collection....

Monday, November 24, 2008

Cool Website

As is the norm for Sunday mornings Hero is watching Fox News, I abhor news channels. Same thing, same spin ALL day long, its enough to make you want to grasp the sides of your head and scream for the monsters to go away.

Let me get to the point of this post. There was this commercial for a website, www.grandparents.com. That peaked my interest, so I gave it a look see. At a quick glance it looks like a pretty awesome site for grandparents and parents alike.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Boob Blockers

Saturday in the mail I received my latest issue of the Ladies Home Journal magazine. This morning over breakfast I finally got a chance to crack it open. I love reading this magazine, and can usually do it in an afternoon.

Today while perusing my magazine I came across an ad for Boob Blockers. Now that is not what they called them in the ad, but I had to immediately check out the website. The website itself referred to them as Boob Blockers. I am seriously considering ordering some as I am well endowed...that is truly the understatement of the year. And I have some blouses and dresses that I LOVE, but don't wear often because they expose major cleavage, not that Phillip minds.

But...check out this website if you are looking for something to make a not so modest blouse or dress modest.

Boob Blockers