Happiness is...... Tea and teapots

Hello to everyone who calls in to see me today,

 it's T stands for Tuesday

and we are always made welcome  with a drinks related post at

 Bleubeard and Elizabeths 

I will begin  by mentioning where the idea for this journal page came from.

I was reading an article in a Daphne's Diary magazine,  about an artist called Maria Pace-Wynters and the picture [ left] just inspired me to make a version to share on T day and at AJJ.
 I had made myself  a pot of tea and it was good to sit and read for a while.

I started by painting the page shades of blue.

The woman I
used is  a Jane Davenport image on tissue.

Next a bit of fussy cutting for the stacked cups and butterflies, also found in  old magazines

I added the words and a scattering of daisies in the computer program I use.

I will be joining the folk over at 

Art Journal Journey  and

Gill's theme of.........Inspired by....

If the article in the magazine hadn't inspired me this photo on the right  , taken when we were in Yorkshire in May
in the Tea Pot factory]Leybourne] certainly did.
We had visited last year and I felt just the same
 this year....
 a kid in a sweet shop not knowing where to look next.



Of course I couldn't resist taking  more photos of the teapots waiting to find homes in the shop.

I'll leave you with a view of the other side of my mug and the new tea pot my hubby bought for me while in the factory shop. An everyday kind of pot, which I fell for when I saw the bicycles.
Part of our trip away was to see the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.


Happy Tuesday everyone,
I hope you have a lovely day.