Happy 2011!

Dearest Friends of The Tearoom,

(Fauchon offers you its most precious smile for 2011.)

This came in my e-mail a few days ago from the lovely people at Fauchon. I love this image and although you may have already seen it, I am happy to share it with you...

And don't we all wish we were in Paris this New Year's Eve so we could all go have one of these objects of swooning? This is their "Eclair Paris", filled with dark chocolate cream, covered in dark chocolate icing and then topped with a gold-leaf decoration reminding us that it comes from the one city in the world that could elevate pastry to this highest level of art!
(image from Papilles & Pupilles)

And here is the catering menu, complete with luscious photos, if you would like to see what else can be found at Fauchon for A Beautiful Parisian New Year's Soirée!

My final treat of the night, and of the year, is a fun video I found showing New Year's Eve in Paris!



Bonne Année to all the Dear Friends of The Tearoom!
May we all have beautiful, productive, creative New Years full of love, health and happiness.

Hugs to you all,

Betty

Another Thank You . . .

Dear Friends,
Today, I would like to thank my very dear friend Marie-France from Paris, who has been so lovely as to have given me a blog award!!! Thank you so very, very much! Once again, I am humbled and honored! This dear friend has several wonderful blogs of freebie images and an Etsy shop! I first met her through her blog Marie's Freebies, about which I have blogged before. Then, she started Croquette a Du Bol, with many of beautiful images of cats. Now, she has started Il Etait Une Fois Toi Mon Chien, with many beautiful images of dogs (including the one above)! She is really such a nice lady and I am so lucky to have met her through the blogging world!

(Note: Sadly, she has now closed all of her blogs and I have disabled the links because others have now taken the links to lead to things that were NOT so nice as her blogs were!)




So, my duties are as follows: List 10 things that make me happy, 5 unusual things about myself and name 5 friends to pass to award to. I am still deciding who I will pass it to next, but the following are my answers for the questions:

Ten Things That Make Me Happy
-My dear husband Mr. V!
-Waking up and seeing the sun shining (not always a common occurrence here in New England)
-Greeting the moonbeams creeping in our window at night, courtesy of our friend Mlle. Moon
-Blogging or doing art work in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep
-Creating digital collages with vintage images
-Wearing my favorite pair of barefeet (which I do most of the time)
-Being completely absorbed by a really fun book
-Listening to music I haven't heard in a while and finding myself transported to a time in the past when I first heard it
-Experiencing food in every way (cooking, eating, reading about, dreaming about)
-Moxie, a soda that is generally only available in the northeast. I had just about given up drinking soda and then I moved back here and I'm hooked again!

Five Unusual Things You Might Not Know About Me
-I am phobic of butterflies! I love the way they look, but if they fly at me, I duck!
-I love thunderstorms!
-My least favorite part of most sandwiches is the bread and I have a habit of disposing of it halfway through the sandwich and only eating what's inside (unless I'm eating tea sandwiches)!
-My taste in music ranges from Sade to Tricky, from The Blue Nile to Bat for Lashes, from Everything But the Girl to Eddie Money, house to 16th Century harpsichord, Scritti Politti to Sting. It's not that I listen to everything, but I have a VERY wide range of musical tastes.
-Everyone knows my favorite color is purple (although I love working with a lot of black in art and design). But my second favorite color is chartreuse green and I use it in collages and photos probably more than you have noticed!

I have decided to build a new "wing" of the Tearoom for the blog awards I have received! If you click on the strawberry in the right hand column, it will lead you to a brand new Gossamer Tearoom page with links to the lovely people who have honored me with awards.

Wishing you all a splendid rest of your day!

Betty

Happy Spring and a Thank You...

My Dearest Friends,
Thank you so much for your patience between visits. My real life keeps me away from The Tearoom more often than I would like. But we won't speak of it now for I am here to escape and visit with you, my very dear friends.

Spring is creeping closer and closer by the day now! Soon, we will be able to fling open the French doors and have our tea on the lawn again!

Spring makes me so happy and there are just so many reasons...


I love animals and rabbits are some of my favorites! I love to see rabbits everywhere around Easter-Time, even that very silly Cadbury Bunny, who clucks like a chicken! And what better time to re-visit (or introduce yourself for the very first time) to my friend "Harvey"! This beautiful and funny movie was made in 1950 and stars James Stewart. I do highly recommend this film and if we were all together on one of those days when the weather was having a problem deciding to behave or not, I would show it in the Tearoom while we sipped hazelnut hot chocolate from big mugs (a change from tea doesn't hurt anyone, does it?).

I also love all the images of little fluffy chicks and found this lovely one posted on my dear friend Marie-France's freebie image site (Unfortunately, her lovely site is now closed.)


And no matter how dismal the day has been outside the house or inside your heart, spring flowers are just the thing to cheer you up! First the snowdrops and crocus, next the daffodils and hyacinth and tulips (not to forget the sweetest mini iris that used to bloom at the same time up the street from where we lived in Washington).


Also, I just wanted to let you know that I recently had the loveliest surprise! Another dear friend, Anya of Couture Millinery Atelier, has given me a blog award!!! Thank you so, so much Dear Anya! It is such an honor to receive this award from her! Her lovely blog is so fascinating! Please do yourself a favor and visit her often!

(Thank you, Dear Anya, for your patience while I got things under control here before posting your lovely award.)

...more lovely news of spring to come!

Happy Christmas Night

(I started this collage with an image from my new friend Marie-France's blog)

Dear Friends of The Blogging World,
I do hope you are all having a wonderful holiday weekend! I am so grateful for every person who comes to read my blog!

Christmas hugs for you all,

Betty