MY WHITE WEDNESDAY # 2

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Wow, time really flies! One week's gone and our White Wednesday appointment is already here.

Will I be up to it? First of all I would like to thank you all so very much for your sweet encouraging words. I do enjoy this weekly appointment very much and must also say that I now look at things under a different perspective: whatever I see I immediately tend to figure out a useful "final application" for my blog and there I go with the now familiar click of my digital camera! Isn't that a bit quaint?

Today I want to start my WW post with this marvelous tea set.

Mary, I finally made up my mind and bought it.

No overtime at work today to make sure I'd reach the thrift shop in time to buy the tea set I had seen yesterday (it was quite expensive for being a second-hand six-cup set - 46 euros - but it was love at first sight and decided to pamper myself a little bit with a self-bought gift). It isn't exactly what you'd call white, rather cream if you prefer but I was in the mood for a little show-off of my wonderful find hence decided to include it in my WW pics. How do you like it Mary?

I love the green floral decor inside and outside the cup and golden border. And because of its delicate shape the teapot is so full of charm .

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Here's my granny's embroidered teatowel and napkins. soooooo lovely, especially if accompanied by these fine fruit salad cups with a golden rim. They were so much in fashion when my parents got married and have quite a few . Love them and decided to keep them rather than give them away just for a handful of Euros. They can add to my table that special touch, n'est-ce pas?

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And now another teapot which is all that's remained, together with the sugar pot and creamer, of a set which belonged to my mom. I find it so sweet, and that soft-colored painted rose is just perfect for every nook in the house.

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And now antique handtowels galore. Thought they have been kept in a chest they still smell like marseille soap and that brings me back in time and the sweetest of my childhood memories come back. Since the premature death of my younger sister, father and, last year, also of my mom, I've tent to remove all memories: both pleasant and unpleasant. I guess this is the way my sould can cope with the deep sorrow that these losses have brought by. But with the smell of towels and bed linens it is different...memories peep out of my little head and the beautiful things I seemed to have forgotten shout as loud as they can that they are still there.

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Look at these two copper thingies: one is a pot and the other a watercan. Aren't they just darling? I still have so many of them in the basement which once had belonged to my late grandmother who past away 25 yeear ago at the age of 94.YYY***YYY
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And more handtowels

The cup is an antique Japanise tea cup. My husband's aunt was, in her younger years, engaged to a very handsome Japanese guy and the teacups had been handed over to her by the man's grandmother. The porcelain is so thin that you can see a Japanese design on the bottom. She gave me two of them when we got married.

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Have a closer look at the decor inside the cup. It's simply beautiful. YYY***YYY

Laces and mother-of-pearl buttons: my all-time favorites.

I no longer do crochet as my eye are getting quite weak, despite my age and the glasses I've been wearing over the past decade. but still I like to admire all of them with a bit of regret.

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A photo of my mom on her Holy Communion day. Made this "Shabby-Chic Style" frame for this photo last spring

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And last but ot least, before I go to bed (it's nearly 1 o'clock in Italy), here's a pleasant olfactory treat with these nice smelling soap bars. This should be aromatherapy, nicht war?

I wish you all a HaPpY WhItE WeDnEsDaY!!!

Hope to hear from you

Blessings

Y Rita

I MIEI TESORI *** *** MY TREASURES

Pensavate che sarei andata via senza comperare nulla? non una shopaholic come me. infatti, per la modica cifra di 7 euro ho portato a casa questo dolcissimo porta sale (credo il lavoro in filigrana sia in argento) e due deliziose mug in porcellana inglese con decoro di rose. Il tutto ha finito conl'essere uno "spontaneo" regalo del mio tesoro!

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SURPRISE SURPRISE

Did you really think i'd leave the fleamerket empty-handed? No way - not a shopaholic like me. In fact for only 7 Euros TA DA... I took home this cute little salt pot (I think the filigree work around the pot is in silver) and a couple of lovely tea mugs with rose decor. And guess what? it all turned out to be a "spontaneous" gift from my hubby. Again, I must say, it was a very fine day. YYY

BUONA NOTTE!

GOOD NIGHT!

GUTE NACHT!

BONNE NUIT!

UNA GIORNATA DA RICORDARE PARTE II *** A DAY TO REMEMBER PART # 2

IL MERCATINO DELL'ANTIQUARIATO *** *** BROCANTE
eravamo diretti alla macchina un pò delusi per aver dovuto tralasciare gli altri palazzi nobiliari quando ecco che l'occhio, ormai addestrato a dovere, intravede in una stradina laterale che costeggia i giardini pubblici, un mercatino dell'antiquariato. quale straordinaria coincidenza.
I venditori pochi, ma la varietà e la qualità della merce esposta veramente bella. Date un'occhiata. un sacco di chicche, specialmente il primo banco con le vasche greche ortodosse dipinte. Spettacolari. A loro non è dispiaciuto affatto essere immortalati per il mio blog, anzi, dice il ragazzo con accento romanesco "Sta' a vede che mo svortamo e diventamo famosi".
E' stata una piacevole coincidenza che ci ha permesso di chiudere in bellezza uno straordinario pomeriggio. Purtroppo, non avendo previsto spese ero sprovvista di "spicci" per poter acquistare. Acc.... magari ci si ritorna!

THE LOCAL FLEA MARKET

Just a wee bit disappointed for what we had to leave behind, we were heading for the car when my eye (indeed well trained after many years of bargain hunting) caught the sight of a small flea market. What a pleasant unexpected coincidence! A stroll through the vendors' stalls was immediatly regarded by me as the best possible way to end a wonderful afternoon. Too bad my hubby didn't see it that way and waited for me in the car. MEN!
Not too many vendors but the variety and quality of the treasures they were exhibiting was beautiful and they were also beautifully displayed. I regret not having taken "enough change" along as I wasn't expecting any special occasion for shopping.
Have a look at the merchandise, especially the decorated Greek Orthodox tubs or cribs (I didn't ask but I guess that's the purpose they served). Aren't they seimply gorgoeus? BTW Does anybody out there in blogland know what they are for? Just asking out of mere curiosity. I could also look it up on the internet but tonight I' a little lazy and need to catch up some sleep. I've become blog-addict and go to bed very late, which, having to get up early to go to work, doesn't exactly add to my "natural beauty" and makes me look rather tired and wrinky.
Tomorrow will me by first White Wednesday and I mkust admit I'm quite excited!Enough of writing, let's go for a stroll. Had I had money in my purse, I would have bought a whole bunch of things. But I guess it was better that way. Our apartment is soooooo small that there's barely enough space for us and the dog.

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Did you enjoy the stroll?