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WELCOME TO TEAPOT TUESDAY CHALLENGE MMTPT575 Berry Beautiful
Anyone is welcome to play in the weekly Teapot Challenge - the more, the merrier! You automatically become a “TEApotter” the first time you play. Where will you find inspiration? Will it be from the teapot or from the challenge theme itself? Remember, your participation in Destination Station is 100% voluntary and not a requirement. Just have fun!
It's the last Tuesday of the month, so it's Tickle a Teapotter time again and this month we are delighted to have
Denise (card crazy) as a brand new guest hostess.
Here, in her own words, is her challenge for us:
When I was a young girl growing up in Maine, there were two elderly sisters that summered on a large tree farm next door. The farmhouse was very big and full of beautiful antiques. I remember the huge field behind their house that was just loaded with blueberries. Late summer, the sisters would hire my twin sister and me to pick blueberries. Our pay was, for every quart we picked for them, we could pick two quarts for ourselves. In our young minds, that meant blueberry pies and muffins.
A little bio about the sisters:
The older sister, Miss Constance Warren, was Head of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY from 1929-1945.
Sarah Lawrence, which was founded by William Van Duzer Lawrence of Bronxville, developed under her leadership as an institution devoted to individualized education.
Her impressive energy supported vigorous battles against racial prejudice.
“We can never build happiness on the misery of other people,” she said. “The time is past when we can be content with relieving the misery in the world. We must now focus our most constructive thinking and energy on eliminating its causes.”
So, in memory of Miss Warren and her sister, Mrs. Andrews, show us blueberries or any berry. How about pies, muffins etc.
I can’t wait to see your berry creations.
CHALLENGE: Create a card featuring blueberries or any other berry fruit.
DESTINATION STATION This week our destination is each other! Once a month, we send our cards to each other!
Check out THIS NEW THREAD in the TEApot Tuesday Extras Forum. If you are participating in the card exchange please go to this thread and follow the instructions. Make sure to sign up by bedtime on Saturday 3rd August, as I will do the draw the next morning.
Be sure to use KEYWORD MMTPT575 in your upload and post a comment here so we can all see your card! Do you know someone that could use some well wishes, encouragement or all around warm fuzzies? Consider nominating them as a guest of honor (a.k.a. destination station) for an upcoming tea party. Post your request HERE or send a PM to jacqueline.
oh what fun!!!!! I'm heading to Michigan on Friday and that means: blueberry donuts, blueberry gelato, blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins and plain old delicious blueberries. Not sure if I'll pick but we'll see.
__________________ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane
Well, I'm counting strawberries as berry fruit even though I know botanically they're not. I had a blackberry stamp but wasn't happy with my colouring. I thought about making a pie and telling you all there were blueberries inside (my only pie stamp is a closed pie), but then I remembered this RAK image.
The consumer research company I scan my shopping for told me to classify rhubarb as "other vegetables", when I asked what fruit category to put it under. I know it's botanically a vegetable, but ???? who thinks of it as anything other than fruit.
Here's my card. Unlike Sabrina, I had no idea that strawberries aren't berries... (I basically love all fruit, no matter how it's classified.)
Thanks for the fun challenge Denise.
A strawberry is an aggregate. accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each apparent 'seed' (achene) on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it. So we're eating ovaries....aren't you glad to know that?! I had to look it up, based on what Sabrina said. My source is Wikipedia; hope they know what they're talking about.:eek:
__________________ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane
Here's mine - and I was so surprised with what I found out on Google! Not just blueberries, blackberries, strawberries - things called by the name berry - are in the berry family!! Can You Believe??? by JanetJ at Splitcoaststampers
__________________ My Blog- Janet's Gems BRAK Member
So when I thought of a berry stamp, this House Mouse stamp immediately came to mind. Strawberries are my favorite fruit so I love this stamp. I have memories of summers at my grandparents farm picking strawberries - somehow my pail was always empty but my tummy was dull!
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
MMTPT575 ~ July 30, 2019 ~ Berry Beautiful
