Teacup Tales

Season's Greetings, Tea Friends Last week I shared that I am hosting a Christmas Tea with friends this upcoming Saturday. I've been slowly collecting bone china Christmas teacups. In the last post I featured "Christmas Roses" by Queens. Here are three more vintage Christmas teacups that I've added to my collection. All were purchased on etsy.   I must admit that this is my favorite holiday teacup . It is a Royal Albert from the Flower of the Month series. I would love to collect more from this series. There are two Flower of the Month series. The first one was produced from the 1950s to 1960s and featured holly as the December flower. The cup shapes were Hampton, Countess and Gainsborough.  My teacup is from the second series produced in the 1970s with Montrose shape cups. Here is another Royal Albert titled "Poinsettia." This was produced in 1976 and has the same high quality of bone china as earlier patterns.   The la...

Welcome December and the Christmas season! I always look forward to Christmas and each year I try to do something a bit different. After mulling it over for a couple of years, I am (finally) going to host a Christmas Tea with new and old friends. Some years I get caught up in the last minute holiday shopping, decorating, cleaning the house and don't spend enough time with those closest to me. My overall hope for this season is to simply enjoy the company of others and invite people over. I started collecting vintage Christmas English bone china teacups a few years ago with the hope of one day hosting a Christmas Tea. I have to admit I've been spending a lot of time on etsy looking for other holiday themed teacups (at good prices). Here is the newest one in my collection:  December Christmas Rose by Queen's The rest of my Christmas teacups are red and green, so it is nice to have a different palette.  The design reminds me of Royal Albert's Flow...