Breakfast Tea in the Garden Room

My sweet niece stayed with me last week

 and we had a pretty outdoor breakfast in my garden room.

We were nestled among the flowers and shrubs

and the birds, butterflies and bees.

I can think of nothing better than to wake up

and remember she is sleeping upstairs...

and to gleefully plan our little tea time together.

This time she did so much of the work because of my
 dumb-ole-foot-in-a-boot.

Just call me Hop-a-Long Cassidy!

Our menu was simple:

Eggs in a Cup - soft-boiled eggs w/ butter and freshly cracked pepper

Raspberry Scones with homemade "clotted" cream 

Fresh cut nectarines

Toast

Blueberry Tea

Our sweet and pretty breakfast made us very happy.

Just look at her precious smile of anticipation!

Aren't these the most beautiful paper napkins you've ever seen?

I've had them since Easter - I seldom use paper ones,

so I still had this pack - and they looked perfect with our pink/green/lilac color scheme, so we used them!

I wonder how well they'd decoupage?

They're so beautiful.

Have any of you ever decoupaged with paper napkins?

By the time we got everything all set up

 we'd worked up a big appetite

and ate every bit!

The night before the two of us had gone to see

the new Pixar movie "Inside Out."
I highly recommend it. 
It is very different than the other Pixar films

After the movie we went to a delish Chinese restaurant for dinner.
(Her favorite and I seldom go because hubs doesn't like it.)

I had to run to the pharmacy so I let her pick out
 a new nail polish there.

When we returned I gave her a fancy manicure.

(I also needed some sitting down quiet time after our running around!)

That pretty sky blue color on her nails in the pic below
is the polish she picked.

 : - )

After our breakfast I had her run up to my special girlie library

in our loft area and pick out any book for us to read out here.

I have a lifetime collection of special tea books and such.

She chose the one called "Thank You, Friend."

It was given to me a few years ago by a friend Sandra
when she visited from out of town for tea.

We took turns reading this sweet book

 full of Scripture, quotes, wisdom, poetry

 and basic feel-good thoughts. 

She was hesitant about reading the old fashioned script Cursive pages.

Do you all realize that hand writing & teaching Cursive is GONE?

The children don't learn how to write it or read it in schools anymore.

CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE:

 THEY CAN NO LONG READ JANE AUSTEN MANUSCRIPTS

 OR EVEN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US?????!!!???

I shudder at this. Just yikes. Ok, I'm done now. 

~~~~~*~~~~~

We discussed many of the pages -

I wanted to make sure she understood the selections

and had time to disgest her food and her thoughts.

I am trying to teach her in our world of "crazy rat-race fast"

that savoring things like meals and tea and good books

is worth the time and effort to do.

I think she got into it, as she got super comfortable.

Oh, I should also point out that it was super sunny when we began

and by the time we finished it had begun raining.

That's why the last pics are dark.

I sure love my little garden covered patio zen room.

The rain didn't even bother us!

Indeed, I do believe we savored our time together quite nicely!

As always, thank you for your visit!

♥

~Michele

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