as most everyone knows, my financial state has not been healthy lately. i had to quit working due to my breast pain, i moved and i haven't found a job here yet and with the help of dear friends, i'm getting by. and yes, my menus have been a bit strange lately, but it fills me up and i can get by on that. and i did go to the grocery store today because two fairies dropped a gift in my mailbox.....

so, i'm unloading stuff and am tired and hurting and sweaty and smelly and i find a small box that says "roseville teapot"....i almost fainted. i bought that teapot in Toronto about 30 years ago and haven't seen it in years.......

HOW did it get to Texas? (there is also a "cookie" plate and a sugar and creamer.....so, i started searching madly through boxes. only the teapot have i found.)

i opened up the box and there is was. just beautiful and in perfect shape. i raced to the computer and looked it up......the pattern is "snowberry".

my friend, robert, came down from Austin and he told me that sometimes things appear when you need them the most. and he swore to me that he had not seen that box either when we loaded up and brought my things down here.

i called my daughters and they both are insisting that the rest of the set is at the house on the ranch. i am not believing this.

i knew that i had some "collectibles" but i truly thought that when i got divorced that the roseville did not make it out of the house with me. the ex had been insistent that he wanted it....... and at the time of the divorce, i never spoke up for myself regarding anything at all.....nada. nothing.....

i'm just sitting here looking at the teapot. grinning and thinking about the rest of the set.....

after much searching, i found an identical set, on the web, in a different color!!!! oh joy, oh rapture!!!!! $$$ xoxox pat