Aiken house and gardens

Hello everyone, Spring is a perfect time to have afternoon tea in our little sunroom. When the temperature is a little cool out in the garden the sunroom is the next best place. It is still to early to put my annuals out so they are enjoying the shelter of our sunroom. I love birdhouses and am always on the lookout for a unique one. I gave the sunroom a touch up of fresh paint. A pretty bouquet from the garden was my inspiration for my china today......I love the apricot roses on the teapot…

I hope you are enjoying your weekend! I have prepared a little tea for you to enjoy by the fireplace. Red and white is my theme today. The quilt on the chaise was a Christmas gift from my daughter a few years ago. It matches good with the toule pillows. It is comfy cozy here.....a good place to relax. I love this toile santa. Enjoy your tea and old fashioned sugar cookies. Enjoy a book if you like. Wishing you a peaceful day! Carolyn

Hello everyone, With all the lovely weather we are having I am enjoying tea in the garden again today. I hope you can join me! As you c...

Hello everyone, On this sunny cold beautiful winter day ~ I am happy to have you join me for a cup of hot tea where we can be warm and cozy by the stove but enjoy the sparkling white snow from the window. I am using my brown and white transferware again. A winter bouquet. Help yourself to a gingerbread cupcake. Please overlook the messy decorating job I did on the icing ~ especially all you foodies. The snow is piling up out there. It seems every few days lately we get another fresh supply…

Hello everyone, It is a nice day for a garden tour so let's go shall we! This is my favorite part of the garden right now. It is the Allee garden leading to the pond. This part of the garden is a new extension last fall. It filled in quickly as we divided heathly sized clumps of perennials from other parts of the garden for the most part. The hollyhocks I started from seed and they have done well considering the dry summer. We have so many varieties of phlox in the garden that put on a good…

Hello everyone, It was a perfect summer day here sunny with a gentle breeze and low humidity. We had our last tour from Japan yesterday for awhile so I took some time to enjoy one of my favorite passtimes.....doing a little styling for a photo shoot for you! I bought the above chairs along with 2 others and a nice table for $25. at a yardsale last week. Now,they didn't look like this as I gave them a couple of c coats of paint -they were brown before. This past Saturday Sobey's Garden Center…

Hello everyone, After spending several hours working in the garden on this beautiful day I decided it was time for...

Hello everyone, In January I always enjoy looking back over some of my favorite tea times. Hopefully, you enjoy a look back as well. Above is one of my favorite winter white teas. The romantic month of February always brings out this pretty teapot as it was a Valentine gift from my husband several years ago. Soft brown & white transferware for March. Red and white transferware for April. May brings out all the sunny yellow daffodils in our garden. In late June the roses start to bloom so…

Hello everyone, Today I have been asked to do a guest post for Kathy at A Delightsome Life for her Summer Series' How do they do it' so I thought I would share a little information on the making of our garden. I seem to remember I promised awhile back to answer some of your questions also, so today is the day! Our home and garden is on Prince Edward Island and we have 10 acres of land. We garden on aprox. 3 acres of it with the rest being a small woods with a brook and a pond - new last…

Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying a beautiful weekend. I have been dreaming of our little cottage lately and have been gathering up some of my favorite photos for a book that I am doing to enjoy in the winter. We did take a walk down a few days ago to enjoy a little relaxing time and enjoy the winter beauty. Lunch on the deck is always a treat. We enjoy time with family at Ocean Song. Lila was my baking partner for the day. Granddaughter Jessica and her Dad enjoying the beach. Always…

Hello everyone, Since I have done a few pastel tea times lately I thought I would share a red and white theme for this Valentine's Day tea. As many of you know I have been collecting red and white transferware dishes for several years now and my collection slowly keeps growing.It is a mix and match of several patterns. The tea cups are Vista by Mason. The ginger cookies are also on a little Vista plate. The beautiful red roses are so pretty in the transferware pitcher. Maybe, you have…

Hello everyone, This past week I was out for a drive and pasted by this charming porch that I have often admired. The owner was out in the garden and gave me permission to come and photograph both her front (above) and back porch. Thank you! I love wicker furniture and this has been collected over time at auctions etc. The back porch is new and I love the summery colors. Love the pop of red on the door too. The lovely owner of the summer porches above,also has a blog~ Menopausal New Mom if…

It was such a beautiful autumn day here today but overnight we did have a touch of frost. So it was the perfect morning to get out early with my camera. These shots were all taken close to our home. Beautiful horses in the misty light of autumn. A nearby barn. After an early morning outing it is nice to come in for a cup of tea. The roses are from our garden and I am using my mason ~ Vista transferware tea cups today. This sweet little teapot was a lovely gift. The beautiful quilted table…

Hello, I am happy you came for a cup of tea in the sunroom. Even though it is cold outside the sun has warmed this little sunroom up nicely and you can really feel the heat from it. Some of you may remember having breakfast in the sunroom awhile ago. But today we are having tea and some pretty scotch cookies. Don't worry there are more in the cookie jar so please help yourself! See,I told you I had more! I love having some plants in here but it is still too cold at night to leave them in…

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Hello everyone, Hope you had a lovely weekend. We had a lot of rain and wind last night wiping out a lot of snow including the snowman Lila and I made. I have no doubt there will be plenty of snow soon to replace him! Lila and Frosty I changed the sun room to winter white again and added the paperwhites that I planted several weeks ago. A bouquet of roses to enjoy as well with a cup of tea. Cozy in the sunlight. I added a foot stool to add to the comfort while curled up with a good book. A…

Hello everyone, We had a beautiful sunny warm day here today so after doing some gardening and some painting, I decided to have some fun decorating our new boathouse that my husband and son built last fall. It still has some finishing touches to be done yet but this little nook is ready for summer! I love aqua and have been collecting bits and pieces for awhile now ,since I knew the look I was going for . The exterior of the boathouse is on my right sidebar. The aqua sail boat is perfect for…

I hope you had a great weekend. We were busy here with a few tours and a photo shoot. When these beautiful bouquets were not in use , I did a little photo shoot of my own for you. I love the romantic look of these bouquets. A basket of posies. Saturday was a beautiful day but Sunday when we had close to 60 visitors from Japan we had warm showers off an on all day but it didn't seem to dampen their spirits and the garden is still holding up pretty good for this time of the year. Hope you have…