Tea with Chrissy....

Tuesday mornings find me thinking of all sorts of tea wonderfullness

I get that first quiet cuppa 

now that everyone is back at school and work

and the house is all my own

the studio is all quiet 

well almost quiet because the mutt is lying beside me on my work desk

and he has developed quite the snore

Snoring aside, it is great to share my latest little tea painting

which was done on a card for my Mother-in -Law Loretta

for her birthday on Sunday

and it matches the mugs and platter that Sinus picked out for her

I would have gone the teacups

but these lovely fine bone china mugs are pretty special too

and as an unexpected presentfor the rest of us

we had a lovely warm sunny winter's day

so I got to make a new iced tea

Green tea with jasmine, pear, cinnamon, apple and orange

and it was delicious

and the perfect drink while sitting back thinking of the exciting collaboration

that has come about this week...

There is an artist here in Brisbane

Chrissy Foreman Cranitch

and she does all this gorgeous, colourful work

that is vibrant and full of life

and we are doing a collaboration 

which is just the most exciting and wonderful thing

and makes me squeal and squirm with all the possibilities

Chrissy, the clever thing that she is,

 makes not only gorgeous paintings, cards, books, and fabrics

she also paints these wonderful re purposed vintage teacups

and she is making one for me and sending it to me

and then I am going to paint it for her

her work is exisite isn't it...

You can find Chrissy's post about our news here

and her store is here

and her web site which is bursting with colour is here

I know that just by looking at these pics 

you can totally understand my excitement!!!

Happy Tea Tuesday all... xx

My last two posts have been

The Ice Cream Spoons....

The Ghosts of Breakfast Past....