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Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little tea. ..♡ I am feeling a little guilty this morning…I don’t think I offered you one of these cupcakes yesterday, during Marcia’s Cottage kitchen home tour. They are so good too. Vanilla bean with buttercream frosting. ..and a dollop of strawberry jam. So I’m asking for a “do over” in hospitality. P-l-e-a-s-e The kettle is on. Let’s have a seat, and visit a while. These are just for YOU…. Sweet friend.  Guess who made Homemade apricot Jam. ..♡     … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage.  Happy Friday! Do you have something special planned for the weekend? I heard there’s a CHANCE of… RaIn.  Yippee! The other morning when I woke up, it was raining! I was so excited! Well. .. actually it was more like a nice SpRiNkLiNg rain.♡ When I’d heard there was rain in the forecast, I knew that I needed to bring in the pillows from our outside deck. Any guesses how many…40! (Big wide smile) Later in the morning I moved the pillows into the parlor. That’s when I noticed that the rain SpRiNkLeS had already … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little tea. ..♡ I really like the color of this teacup.  These mini cupcakes are a perfect size when you CRAVE sweetness.♡ And I’m a purest when it comes to craving sweet tweets.♡ Oh my we have lots of sweet tweets around the Cottage. I do enjoy watching them flit around. I’m a wanna be tweet birder.  I love them so much…that my comfy around the Cottage pants have tweet bird houses on the legs. (Big smile) We make sure that … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ will you join me outside….♡                        It’s a beautiful day.                 Let’s not let it slip away.♡ I’ve got all my gardening tools out, along with some plants that I recently purchased. The weather is perfect! When mother nature invites me outside…I never hesitate. I’m ready to spring into action. I’ve been admiring the star Jasmine that is in bloom all around the Cottage right now. The scent … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little tea. ..♡                        OMG…I love this! Life IS a dance. .. so keep calm and drink Tea…♡ Oopsie…forgot the music! No worries,  just scroll down…click arrow. .start dancing scroll back up,  and enjoy today’s post. (Grin) Oh and don’t forget to dance!. ..♡ How was your weekend? I hope it was great! On Saturday morning a few friends and I got together to celebrate a little surprise birthday breakfast for our … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little tea. ..♡How is your weekend going? Perhaps you have special plans for today…♡ There are several little nooks to sit in the garden. Shall we have a seat. This is one of my favorite places to sit when the Jasmine is in full bloom.♡ It’s heaven on earth. I’m having a nice weekend, and MY special plan for today is that I’m getting ready to prepare a nice country French brunch for my husband. I LOVE preparing special meals for … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little tea. ..♡ Happy Friday! Today I thought I’d pretend that I’m serving tea at a country home in the South of France. (sweet grin) I’ve traveled through France. .. Just not the Southern part. ..♡ I’m exited because a very close friend of mine is coming overt for dinner!  Well. . actually she’s coming over in just a little while, so I’ve got to write this post Lickety split!  We are going to check out one of my favorite little … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a little Barbie tea …♡ I love vintage. … especially my vintage Barbies. .♡ Since January I’ve been going through one closet at a time. … Sorting out, re-purposing items, AND getting rid of things. Yesterday I came across my Barbie doll collection. Actually only one is a “real” Barbie The others are “wanna-bees.” One is called Tressy. Do you remember her? You press a little button on her stomach, and her hair grew REALLY long. And the other is Midge. Barbies … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have a cup of. … FUN!♡ How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun? I sure hope so! Because fun definitely brings  joy!   My weekend began on Friday, when I hosted a teeny tiny vintage Tea party. .. ♡ And the week had been FILLED with loads of fun, as I prepared for it! This is me all excited to go and pick up the food I ordered. There were a variety of tea sandwiches, chocolate truffles, and a quiche from … Read the full blog post →

Hello, Welcome to Marcia’s Cottage. I’m so happy to see you today my friend. ♡ Shall we have some tea. ..♡ I’m delighting in a comfy beautiful Sunday morning. …♡ I have just finished reading a book by Norman Vincient Peale. The book contains many of his sermons on positive thinking.  When my husband lived in New York,  he heard Mr. Peale give a sermon at the Marble Colligiate Church. How lucky is that! Anyway, I’m thinking that perhaps many of today’s authors on positive thinking got some of their ideas from good old Norman. And that they took much … Read the full blog post →