Anne of Green Gables Tea

I am having tea today in honor of one of my favorite literary characters, Anne of Green Gables.  Anne has been my kindred spirit for many years.  So, when Sandi of Rose Chintz Cottage was having an Anne of Green Gables Tea I was sure to participate.  Sandi, by the way, lives on Prince Edward Island, Anne's fictional home.

My teacup is by Hotel Balfour.  I have used it many times for the blog.

I have some original copies of Anne of Green Gables.  They were reprints from when it was a hit from the original printing.

I am serving Banana Split ice cream by Blue Bunny.  It is a hit with my kids.

My green and white transferware is is an ironstone pattern called Avondale  by J & G Meakin.

My absolute favorite quote by Anne was in the TV show that aired on PBS years ago (1985).

"But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't."  

 Anybody that really knows me will die laughing here, because I say quite a lot in person!

 And my second favorite quote:

 "Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Do you have a favorite quote from Anne of Green Gables?

Source:  http://explore.ca

Sherry

 I will link this to:

A Return to Loveliness  at A Delightsome Life 

Tea Cup Tuesday at Martha's Favorites

Tea Cup Tuesday at Artful Affirmations

Your Cozy Home Party  at Cozy Home Scenes

Table Top Tuesday  at A Stroll Thru Life

Tuesday Cuppa Tea  at Antiques and Teacups

Tea in the Garden with Bernideen's Tea Time Blog

Heart and Home with Trish's Heart and Home

Teacup Thursday at Miss Spenser's Blog

To Dream

Today's challenge at Texture Tuesday was one near to my heart.  Our challenge was "Dream."  I created some images "poster style"  with some of my favorite dreamer's quotes.  These famous personalities knew a thing or two about dreaming and turning it into a reality for all to enjoy.

Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer, and lecturer.  And was quoted as saying;

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

And, also my all time favorite literary character Anne of Green Gables written by L.M. Montgomery.  Anne knew a few things about dreaming too.

All textures by Kim Klassen.
What I used:
1. love in layers with pin light48%
2. love in layers with overlay 33%.
3. love in layers with linear burn 48%.
4. love in layers with linear burn 58%.
5. stained linen with overlay 33%.
Then Kim sent a new texture that I just had to stick in (below) Dream with linear burn 65%.

Thanks Kim for your awesome textures!

I will link up with: Texture Tuesday with Kim Klassen. 

Go over and visit for some beautiful photography.
I will also link with A Return to Loveliness  at A Delightsome Life 

  

Anne of Green Gables

Few literary characters have stayed with me as long as Anne of Green Gables.  I saw the movie on PBS when I was a teen and she has been my kindred spirit ever since.

 

Victoria Magazine saw Anne's charm too and they featured her and her lovely island home more than once.  

 

I clipped and saved this feature Victoria printed on Prince Edward Island, Canada and L.M. Montgomery.  

L.M. Montgomery kept a journal about her beloved P.E.I.  The entry of August 16, 1907...All of my life it has been my aim to write a book-a "real live" book.  Two years earlier she had been looking over her journal in search of a suitable idea...and she found an entry from 10 years earlier:  Elderly couple apply to orphanage for a boy.  By mistake they were sent a girl instead.  She thought that might do....the result was Anne of Green Gables.

Pictured here is the Anne of Green Gables house on Prince Edward Island.  Lucy Maud Montgomery used her own childhood experiences and dreams to create Anne.  This home actually belonged to L.M. Montgomery's cousins.  She always dreamed of living here so she made this Anne's home.

The porch of Green Gables and scenes from P.E.I.

Today the home has been arranged as closely to the descriptions in L.M. Montgomery's book as possible.  The scenes above and below are Anne's room.

Here is a second Childrens Corner feature from Victoria where they have recreated scenes from Anne of Green Gables in which Anne is learning to cook and the famous scene where Diana drinks too much currant wine instead of raspberry cordial.

Here is a recreation of a tea from the book. 

I did my best to recreate Victoria's recreations with things I have around in the photos below.

 

I found this hat at the thrift store and as soon as I saw it I thought it looked just like a hat Anne might have worn. 

Here is another copy I have of Anne of Green Gables.

The novel was so popular the first edition went through 14 printings (in 16 months) from June 1908-Oct. 1909.   This edition I own is the 38th printing of that first edition.

The plate is Old British Castles by Johnson Brothers.

I put a modern teacup on a Limoges bread and butter plate.

Remember the scene where Anne forgot to put a doily over the sauce she and Marilla had made for dinner and a mouse got in it?  "It must have been a romantic way for a mouse to die," Anne said.

Zinnias from the garden.  

For all the young ladies out there that need a heroine, L.M. Montgomery created one in Anne.  A character I will carry in my heart always.  I notice she is a kindred spirit with many of you too.

I will link to all of these parties:

A Return to Loveliness Tuesday at A Delightsome Life.

Tea Party Tuesday at Lady Katherine Tea Party.

Tea Cup Tuesday at Martha's Favorites.

Tea Party Tuesday at The Rose Chintz Cottage.

Tea Cup Tuesday  at Artful Affrimations.

Tea Pot and Tea Things Tuesday at A Breath of Fresh Air.

Tuesday Tea for Two at The Plumed Pen.

Tea Pot and Tea Things Tuesday at The Silken Purse.

Table Top Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life.