~3 Legged Tea Cups Part One~

 One of my passions is collecting tea cups and tea pots, but my most favorite tea cup to collect is the  three legged tea cup. They are just so sweet and have such a charm about them.
 My sister Margo and I have been collecting them together (its a sister thing) Margo's collection is so pretty, and they are different than mine.
 We often go antiquing together and its always so fun to see who will spot the first three legged tea cup.
Many times we will go antiquing with our Mom and Dad and you know who usual will spot the first three legged tea cup..Yep its Dad!
Gary and I stopped by an estate sale a few weeks ago and he found one three legged tea cup for me..its always so exciting to find one, its like finding gold..well to us girls who love tea cups that is.
Since this post will be photo heavy I will show you my sweet little tea cups in two posts.
I recently meant Tracie from Fishtail Cottage, she also loves  three legged tea cup like me. I told Tracie I would post them for her to see, so Tracie this post is for you.

Stay tuned for part two of  the three legged tea cup post.
Enjoy your week  and know I'll be thinking of you all until we visit again.

I have linked up with Sandi from Rose Chintz Cottage for her Tea Time Tuesday. Please stop over at Sandi's and see all the lovely tea cups. 

~Style Network "CLEAN HOUSE" Show

I have some news for you all...My niece Amber and her husband David were selected to be on "Clean House", yep they sure were...

The show was taped this last summer and now is airing this week on the Style network.

Amber and Dave are the sweetest young couple both with Collage Degrees and like many young couple's their age they are juggling a fast paced working career, two young children and have purchased a home that was a fixer upper, without much time to really work on the house.

Amber said "there is nothing like showing our dirty laundry to the world" LOL.. also she said that "she is petrified on how people will perceive her and that she hopes people will not judge her to harshly".

Their show will air on Wednesday Feb. 2 at 6:00am and10:00pm under the title; The Lopez-Gamble Family. Also Thursday Feb. 3 at 1:00am.

The show will air many times during the season  but these are the show times for this week. Click on the link and it will take you to the Clean House Show web site.  Clean House with host Tempestt Bledsoe

~Two Loafs of Bread~

 Gary and I made "tried" to make bread...We were going to use the Basic White Bread recipe, but after going through the Kitchen Aide book of recipe's again we decided to go with the Rapid Mix  Cool Rise White  Bread recipe, it said it was the best for beginners. We followed the directions and timed every minute.. yep we sure did.

 Mixed the flour, sugar, salt, yeast and butter.

Checked the water to make sure it was at the right temp. 120 to 130 F.. with my Moms old candy thermometer.  

 Covered the bowl with plastic wrap and a towel for 20 minutes.
Then  rolled the the dough according to the directions.  I think I rolled one loaf to tight..it looked really weird! but I was afraid to re-roll it.
So into the creased loaf pans they went and into the refrigerator for 2.5 hours.  I used my Mom's bread pans she used to bake bread in when I was a little girl.

 I watched a Lifetime movie and Gary went into his office to Work... until the time had passed until we were able to put the bread into the oven..

 Well here they are...I know don't laugh, stop laughing now....O.K. you can laugh, we laughed too! Our bread turned out so funny looking!

 The loaf on the right looks OK, but the one on the left, well the poor little thing is not so pretty...

We saved the best loaf for Mom and Dad and brought it over to them..Gary cut the not so pretty loaf for us..it kinda looks like french bread instead of white bread don't you think..I thought so...

 All thou our bread didn't look pretty, it tasted really good! we added some butter,

and then spread some home made apricot jam on top..our sweet dear friend Dolores made the jam and gifted Gary and I a few jars, she even made strawberry jam..
Gary and I had fun baking together..we will diffidently try baking bread again...I must say our bread looked nothing like the beautiful photo in the Kitchen Aid cook book, big sigh...but that's O.K with us. We will keep tyring.
Thank you so much for all your helpful hits, we really appreciated them... 

Love you all and happy baking..

Big Hugs, Elizabeth and Gary

~This Baby is Mine~

 How Sweet it is! I am so excited! I really am..
 My Mom and Dad gifted Gary and I a brand new Kitchen Aid...I love her! I do and I can't wait to use her.

 I think she is so pretty....

 Do you remember using metal pie pans for baking...I use to use them all the time. Now I guess they are "vintage" LOL along with me...

So this weekend Gary and I are going to make "Basic White Bread" we are going to use the recipe out of the book that came along with the Kitchen Aid mixer...keep your fingers crossed for us, this will be our first time baking bread together..LOL
I think we might end up with flour on the ceiling..
If anyone has any tips on using the Kitchen Aid and baking bread please share...

I hope you all have a  wonderful and fun weekend!