An Order Was Made!!! :)

Finally!!! I'm so excited because yesterday, Mom told me to pull up "our tea set website" and we were gonna go ahead and order my tea set!!!! Hooray!! So, I know that I already posted about this subject, but here is what my dinner set/tea set will include:

Eight 10 1/2" dinner plates

Eight 7" salad/dessert plates

Eight 8 1/2" soup plates

Eight tea cups with matching saucers

Sugar and creamer set

9" Vegetable bowl

14" platter

36 oz. Tea pot

Salt and Pepper shakers!!! :)

This will be a great thing to put in my hopechest!!!

So anyways, today we had church, which was good, and did a lot of volleyball afterwards! But the conditions weren't great. Picture this: about 15 people on one team, all trampling/running into each other, while the ball is being blown around by some pretty strong winds! And the wind couldn't make up it's mind! One minute it was blowing toward us, the next, parrelell to us, and it made for a very confusing and fumbly volleyball game! But, it was still lots of fun. :)

Oh, some more exciting news:

Our whole family is going to the ball!!! EXCITING!! We just found out last night! So I guess we'll see a few of ya'll there. So, that's about it for right now!

Toodles!

-Sarah

How Are Riddles and Tea-Sets Connected?

They aren't. ;) Hello! Okay this will sorta be a catch-all sort of post. Rachel and I have had a lot of fun these past two days, searching for and making up rhyming riddles! Some of them are very ingenious, if we do say so ourselves.;) I think this collection of riddles will be a fun addition to my hope chest.

Now, the tea set right here is one that I am going to get very soon!!! Mom and Dad have started a tradition where when the girls in our family turn 13 they get a tea set. Well, on my 13th birthday, they told me that they had ordered a tea set for me. When it arrived the next week, I opened the case to find.... That almost every single piece was broken and shattered!! :0

That was very disappointing, but I knew we would replace it. After contacting the eBay store we'd bought it from, the lady said that she wasn't selling that pattern anymore, mainly because it didn't ship well!

After browsing a lot of websites looking for a different set, we finally found one that I liked and was within our price range. Well, at that time we were in the middle of building our house and our finances weren't in the best condition, so it had to get set on the back burner for a little while. (wow! I didn't mean to tell the whole story, but I might as well finish it:)

When all the busyness had died down some, I realized that my preferences had changed since I was 13. The set was more whimsical, and I thought that I would probably want a more formal one, that I could use in my future home.

So, we found the tea set (pictured above) and I really loved the pattern and size, and price of it!!! A couple of weeks ago our good friend was showing us this website called the English Tea Store.

And on it we found the exact pattern (Lydia) of the set I'd picked out and it was sold as a dinner set for 8 people! It includes dinner plates, dessert plates, salt&pepper shakers, platter, vegetable bowl, and soup saucer things, along with the whole tea set! So that is what we should be purchasing soon! I'm really excited, because it's been 2 1/2 years that I've been waiting.

Well, anyway, I hope ya'll weren't too, too, too, terribly bored by that, but I thought I should finish the story I started. So have any of you guys thought of any riddles that you know of?