More This and That

 Happy February 1st!  It's National Cherry month, and other significant days.

I was out shopping on Wednesday and found some fun things at Marshalls'/HomeGoods that I wanted to share with you.  Since Valentine's Day is right around the corner, several things in their Valentine's section begged to come home with me - a teapot, heart-shaped ovenproof covered casserole dish and heart-shaped soup bowls.  

I couldn't leave these heart-shaped dessert spoons behind either!

 

My youngest son is a big Elvis fan, so when I saw an Elvis cup/mug I knew I had to get it for him.  It's been mailed and will be a fun unexpected surprise.  Elvis would have celebrated his 90th birthday on January 8th if he were still living.  Maybe Jeremy can use it in his home office for a pen and pencil holder??  

Have you ever watched a food video on your iPhone that looked easy and delicious, but didn't turn out like the video portrayed?  Last week I watched a video for a crockpot pull-apart pizza [using frozen dinner rolls] which I thought would be a perfect accompaniment for one of our soup meals.  It would probably be cheaper to buy a pizza from a pizzeria because by the time the frozen rolls, pizza sauce, pepperoni, Italian sausage and mozzarella cheese were purchased, it was pricey.  That would have been okay if we liked it, but I was very disappointed with the results. I watched the video several times to make sure I did everything correctly, and I made it twice with disappointing results both times.  The cooking times were way off and the rolls around the perimeter were burned.  We ate it and my hubby said it was okay, but I won't be making it again.  The crockpot went back down to the basement.  ;-)

Part of my job at The Whitney is making sure we have an ample supply of teacups for Mansion Tea on Fridays and Saturdays.  There is so much breakage by the wait staff that the supply was getting low, so I contacted Maria, owner of a local estate sale shop, and she sold me 50 vintage teacups.  My hubby and I went to pick them up yesterday after work.  I try not to get too attached to any of them because I know they'll all have a fateful doom, but for now our supply is up again.

With all the American and British potteries that have closed due to a lack of demand for teacups and other pieces of china/porcelain, I wonder if the day will come when they'll no longer be available once the older generation dies and china isn't replenished by younger generations who have no interest.  What a sad thought!

On a happier note, enjoy the month of February!