Vintage Porcelain Art

Monday, July 19, 2010

Teacup Giveaway And Tea Tuesday!

Blog Warming and One Month Blog-iversary Giveaway!

I LOVE TEA TUESDAY!
So to add some fun to this wonderful day today, and to thank all my new friends who so warmly welcomed me into "Blogland", I am starting a giveaway that will run until 12:00 noon Aug 2, 2010 and will announce the winner in my Aug. 3rd Tea Tuesday post.
I will be giving away the cup and saucer shown below. Can you guess where I got the inspiration to paint it? :)

How can you win this pretty? There are a few ways to enter, so there will be a chance for all of you to be part of the action! You will be given an entry for each thing you do on the list below~

1. Follow me- if you are already following me, remind me and you will be counted

2-Spread the word about my giveaway, and let me know

3-comment on this post :) (and tell me which of these things you have done so I know how many entries to give you)

4-Grab my button and let me know, if you already have it, remind me, you will be counted

5-and for an extra bonus, if you purchase from my ebay store, you will get 10 extra chances.

I want to thank all the hostesses and participants that make this such a fun day.

Please pay them a visit and see the lists of other "partiers"........

Tuesday Tea For Two

http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com/

Tea Time Tuesday

http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/

http://ladykatherineteaparlor.blogspot.com/

Tea Pot and Tea Things Tuesday

http://breathoffreshair-paperbutterfly.blogspot.com/
http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/

Tea Cup Tuesday

http://marthasfavorites.blogspot.com/

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/

Also, please pay my friend Gina @ 3 Ring Cottage a visit! She wrote a beautiful post about china painting, showed some of her mothers work and gave me the honor of featuring me on her blog today!
http://3ringcottage.blogspot.com/

Friday, July 16, 2010

Pink Saturday! 7/17/2010

Pink Saturday!

Thank you Beverly for Hosting!

Click HERE to see the other "Pinkies"!

Bears with pink Roses

A Maude Humphyey Repro I painted.....

Once again, thank you for stopping by and letting me share!

Show and Tell Friday~ ECS Summer Rose Swap

Show and Tell Friday~ Thank you to My Romantic Home for hosting!

For my Show and Tell, I would like to share what I recieved for my Summer Rose Swap,

hosted by Etsy Cottage Style

My swap partner was Virginia from Virginia's Vignettes

Whe the package arrived it felt like my birthday! The package was beautifully packaged! I wish I had thought to take a picture! When I opened the box, the first thing i noticed was the wonderful delicate scent of roses......

When I dug further I found this.....

A BEAUTIFULLY decorated box, with porcelain doll head in a rose.....

There was also a carefully decorated and hand written note from her explaining the origin of the doll head.......

She said that the porcelain doll head is from Germany, and probably made circa 1800's. There is a man in Germany that digs these doll pieces out of the ground where the factories used to be!

Here is a link that Virginia shared on her blog with pictures of the man digging the doll heads out.....

http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/2008/06/german-dolls.html

Also inside the box I discovered the lovely smell of roses was from handmade rose scented soap, and a pretty little book she made me.........

This is one of my favorite images, you will most likely find this recreated on some porcelain soon!

What a wonderful gift, I love the history behind the doll head, what a wonderful conversation piece in the home of a china painter! I will cherish it!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Pearls and Lace Thursday

Let's Get this Party Started!

Pearls and Lace Thursday~

Thank you Doni for hosting!

Please stop and pay her a visit!

http://faithgracecrafts.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Wednesday~ Tea for Me and Thee and White Wednesday 7/14/2010

Today is White Wednesday and Tea for me and Thee Wednesday!

Please pay our hostesses a visit!

Wednesday Tea For Me And Thee

http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com/

White Wednesday

http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/

This is my first White Wednesday! I'm so excited!

White porcelain is one of my favorite things~

When I look at white porcelain I see what it could look like painted with beautiful decorations and flowers.....

Sounds silly but I ask it,

What would you like to wear?

Pink Roses?

Pansies?

Or... go totally WILD and put a little bit of everything on?

What color you you want to wear with your flowers? Or maybe we don't even choose flowers, we choose fruit or something else......

Pink? Aqua? Brown? Green?

How much gold do you want?

A lot of

BLING or under stated elegance?

Sometimes I know exactly how a piece should look and sometimes I change my mind several times through the process.

But ALL pieces start out WHITE

Definition of white?

White is the presence of ALL colors, so you can't make a wrong pick!

Here is what "Christmas in July" looks like to a china painter.......

I just got a shipment of white porcelain "blanks" and more is on the way!

Look! Even my bunny is excited! LOL! Yes, I have a house bunny. She is box trained and hangs out with the cat around the house.
To be honest, she is more exctied about playing in the cardboard boxes and packing materials than about Mommy getting porcelain to paint on.
I thought she was so cute streaking through my picture. Shes a real attention hog!