Sunday, January 22, 2012
Sarah
The summer we married, my husband was in graduate school, and I was employed as a teacher. We took a portion of our savings that summer and purchased a sailboat. We christened our Catalina 22, “Hyacinths For The Soul” after Saadi’s poem. Our "Hyacinths" provided years of pleasure.
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The summer we married, my husband was in graduate school, and I was employed as a teacher. We took a portion of our savings that summer and purchased a sailboat. We christened our Catalina 22, “Hyacinths For The Soul” after Saadi’s poem. Our "Hyacinths" provided years of pleasure. We continue to cherish the extras of life as food for our souls.
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Happy Dragon New Year to you, Sarah! You have so many really cool things in your collections. "Eclectic" that's what you are!
ReplyDeleteFriends of ours used to host a big Chinese New Year party on our block & they had all Chinese carry out, delivered. Easiest party she ever did! LOL
Hugs,
Rett
That's a neat dragon Sarah-Happy Chinese New Year! Love Rett's party idea, sounds like fun:@)
ReplyDeleteHappy Chinese New Year to you Sarah! I love the dragon teapot :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Lunar New Year! Love the dragon teapot.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing tea pot!!! Perfect for the year of the dragon!
ReplyDelete- The Tablescaper
:)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year...may it be on fire for you all year through!
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed week sweetie! :o)
Chinese for lunch, today, to pay homage to the Chinese festival. What fun.
ReplyDeleteHappy Chinese New Year, Sarah. I love that this is the Year of the Dragon. The Harry Potter fan in me loves all dragons, big and small. ;-) Lovely photos, by the way. Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)
ReplyDeleteHappy Year of the Dragon, Sarah! I love your dragon teapot.
ReplyDeleteHappy Year of the Dragon. Love the teapot.
ReplyDeleteBelated Happy Chinese New Year greetings to you too, dear friend.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a dragon tea pot! Only you would have that!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good week. Our snow is all gone, yeah!
What a great dragon teapot Sarah. I have to admit I let this one slip by and forgot about the Chinese New Year.
ReplyDeleteHope it's not to late to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year, and all the good luck that goes with dragon symbol.
~Emily
The French Hutch
Sarah I enjoyed the post but I really love the one on your thrift silver teapots...what amazing finds. I appreciate enjoying all the details as you display them in your photos. What a great idea to gather them and fill them with greenery! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year. Love the dragon teapot. Fantastic. Thanks for joining TTT. Hugs, Marty
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah,
ReplyDeletemay the Chines New Year bring all of us Happiness and Health. Your dragons are gorgous.
Best greetings, Johanna
We dragons thank you!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteThe Dragon year is to be one of drama! We shall see, love your tea pot!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous dragon! I just love it. It would be perfect in the middle of my Chinese table. I hope the year of the Dragon is prosperous for all of us!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous silver find too! Never around here! All we have is junk at our thrift stores.
I hope you have a prosperous New Year, Sarah! Your little dragon teapot is the cutest little thing!
ReplyDeletexoxoxoox,
Ricki Jill
I had forgotten about this! Happy Chinese New Year! ;)
ReplyDeleteLove your silver in the previous post! Gorgeous.
Sarah, Belated Happy Chinese New Year to you.
ReplyDeleteYour little dragon teapot is darling.
Hugs,
Babs
Sarah-I missed you today. See you in February?
ReplyDeleteSarah, your beautiful collections never cease to amaze me. Happy Year of the Dragon. I hope you are not having any problems with the flooding down there. laurie
ReplyDeletethat's an amazing dragon!
ReplyDeleteHappy year of the dragon to you.
We had delicious Chinese food today.
We love it anyway....have it once a week.
Wonder how you are faring with all the rain?
Hope you are ok!!!!
First the draught and now this...
Hugs, Evi