Hi!   It's my Blog's anniversary, January 24th!  14 years ago, I started it, on my Mother's Birthday, with my baby grandson on my lap.  Now he's in high school and a good 6 inches taller than me. So, it's National Hot Tea Month in January. I posted each day, something good about tea! 

   I celebrate on my Facebook page Grandma Linda's Vintage Treasures.  Here are various teacups I posted all through January.   A different cup and a different tea almost every day. 

                                1. Julie's Christmas china on New Year's Day with Christmas cookies. 

Christmas at my daughter's lasts a long time.  We leave the tree up until after the Superbowl!

 Julie and Andy are big Philadelpha Eagles fans, so, I decorated their tree with handmade football Eagles ornaments, and green and gold balls.  

                                     3.   I had English Breakfast tea in this lilac Grace's Teaware cup

2. A treasured Ken Ebert Print gift from Ted that I get out every winter, 

 with a Christmasy House Wren tea mug. I'm having Winter Warmer Tea!

11. A cup of tea warms the Heart

Crown Staffordshire teacup

10.  Jasmine tea in Poppies and daisies Grace's TeaWare  teacup

9.Thomas Kinkade  mug 

8. Mango and Bergamot green tea in an old lustreware teacup with a pretty fruit design inside the cup!

7. English Tea Shop Super Berries tea in the Royal Victoria Chintz teacup

6. A family heirloom, from my daughter's great-great grandmother. It's over a hundred years old. 

 The peaches and ginger tea tin was a gift from Julie. 

 

5. Royal Albert August china trio

a cup, saucer and dessert plate set

Listed for sale on my etsy.com/shop/grandmalay 

4. Apple Cinnamon tea in Johnson Bros. transferware teacup 
 

                                                 31. Darjeeling tea,"the Champagne of tea"

                                          Last day of National Hot Tea Month!

                   30.  May be my oldest teacup, a handleless blue transferware cup.                       I

I had Darling Grey tea, a bit like Earl grey, with orange and lemon peel  

                                           

                     29. Golden Chamomile tea in a Homer Laughlin china cup with dogwood design

                                   28. Celestial Seasonings Victorian Earl Grey tea in "a simple cup, missing it's matching saucer.

                  27. Raspberry flavored green tea in an unusual heavy cup, with lots of gold on it. 

                                                      Tea at the January Republican Club dinner. 

I was a candidate for our Township Committee, in the last two year's elections. What a wonderful experience!  I didn't win, but I learned so much and met so many people. I had to step up and help and serve our country and I'm so glad I did!

                                                                 my yard signs

                                                 26.A pretty teacup from my friend Maureen

                                   25.a Sadler teapot at my sister  Beverly's house on January 25th.

     24.  Royal Standard chintzware May Meadow teacup, one of my favorites

                   with Whittard's Chelsea's Garden Tea, a rose -scattered white tea. 

                           

                         23. A teapot I made in my ceramic studio, for my mother, 40 years ago 

                                                 22.  Salem "Sampler" with Yogi's Bedtime tea

                                              21.  Bavarian TirschenReuth cup with Wegman's "Just Tea"

                                        20. Royal Sealy footed lustreware teacup 

                                   19.   My family even brings me tea when they go on vacation!                                                                  This is Wonderland Tea, Lemon Ginger tea in a footed Del Mar cup.  

                      17. Yellow Royal Taunton teacup with Whittards Jasmine Tea

                                   and a cranberry chicken croissant

                                             16.   Emmie got out her tiny tea set from when

                                               she was very little and we had tea all the time. 

                                                  15.  Look what I found at Hobby Lobby

                                14. We tried blue tea! It was Pinky-Up Butterfly

                            in some tall glass cups that I bought my tea-partner granddaughter!

              13.Royal Stafford "Health and Happiness" teacup with my favorite, Earl Grey tea

12. Cherries and Berries teacup, with Tea Forte Cherry Marzipan tea

11. Crown Staffordshire  carnation tea "A cup of tea warms the soul."

 I don't know how these uploaded out of order and I can't figure out how to fix so I'm stuck this way! 

  I 'll be back with lots of stories, we have lots of catching up to do. 

 And that completes another year of my celebration of National Hot Tea Month!

                              I hope you stay well and warm and have a great NEW YEAR!  

Love, Linda