Tulip Teacup and Mendocino Muffins
Welcome and thank you for stopping by. (Sort of a strange combination in the title, right?) Please join me for tea in a vintage tulip teacup and carrot pineapple muffins. Tulips are my favorite flowers. I just love their shape and glossy color. Only one of my tulips bloomed this year. Five others sprouted but no flowers. Our crazy warm weather threw off tulip season for many. Even the local florists didn't have any tulips available for Easter. Hence no tulips in these photos. One day I was thinking that you hardly ever see tulip designs on teacups. Traditionally you see pansies and roses. Hmm wonder why this is? While tulips are enormously popular and grown in the Netherlands, perhaps they were not "exported" to England during the early to mid twentieth century which was a lucrative time for the bone china pottery industry. So I was on a quest to find an English teacup designed with tulips. After some online searching I found this beauty on ebay for...