Home on a rainy day

It's one of those rainy Tuesdays after a long weekend with a rather sombre Monday, when we both feel like Morgan.Still, time to get to work. I have a lot of painting to do and C has her first formal project management round table discussion in her business administration class. (We've been having a formal-casual fashion show all morning. C's more the skater girl than the business administration girl) Still, the outfit is getting pulled together.Time for tea.I bought this well loved and slightly rubbed down tea pot. Would you call it lusterware? I think so but am not sure. The only identifying mark are four gold numbers 1676 on the bottom. I also love the unexpected little raised orange spots along the top part of the decoration. Whatever it is, it was just sitting there, filthy with old tea and priced at about $5 so I had to rescue it and give it a new home.I love the way it looks so beautifully with my grandmother's old tea cups. She brought these cups from the former Czechoslovakia. On the bottom is one of those old Czech marks making them Josef Kuba cups. I wonder if Grandmother had them from her wedding or something. Oh the things I never asked her about.Each time I bring these cups down from the cupboard we remember babi (Czech for grandma).So, grey business dress decided on and time to wrap up in a warm shawl and have some tea.I've begun putting the autumn decorations away and setting up a more wintery feel. This whimsical still life has in it an angel graphite painting. I drew this when my grandmother died. My daughter Kerstie was the model. The angel's collar is copper leaf. I think that somewhere is a cross stitch pattern I made of this little angel. Maybe I should try to find it and stitch it.So we're both looking out there into the rain trying to will ourselves for getting out to school and up into the cold studio.The hot tea is helping. But we'd rather stay right here. :)Sharing tea with Terri and Martha and Sandi and Bernideen. :)