Matching Your Dress To Your Teaware Part 24: Winter Woodland

I'm super excited about today's Perfect Pairing

Not only do I get to bring you a wonderful perfect pairing full of woodland winter dreams but I also get to showcase a blogger that I love and a sweet friend of mine, Holly from Vintage Voluptuous. If you don't already follow Vintage Voluptuous you should check it out now! I love Holly's style which is full of vintage repro and true vintage clothing.

The pictures below are from her post, Curve Friendly Christmas Dresses: The Gilda Dress in Alpine Print by Lindy Bop. While this post was from back before the Christmas holiday I feel this dress would be a fun and festive one to wear all winter long! The alpine scene of this border print dress is so dreamy and fantastical. It reminds me of Disney-esque fairy tales set in enchanted forests. I love the light to dark graduation that the border print makes in conjunction with the white and light green body of the dress. The classic shirt waist styling gives it just the right amount of detailing to work with the border print of the dress without taking too much attention away from it.

Lindy Bop Gilda dress in Alpine print, image: http://www.vintagevoluptuous.com/2015/12/20/curve-friendly-christmas-dresses-the-gilda-dress-in-alpine-print-by-lindy-bop/

Lindy Bop Gilda dress in Alpine print close up, image: http://www.vintagevoluptuous.com/2015/12/20/curve-friendly-christmas-dresses-the-gilda-dress-in-alpine-print-by-lindy-bop/

When I saw this Handcrafted Forest Trees Teapot made by artist Dulcie Lindsoe-Johansen on the Stash Tea website I knew this would make a perfect pairing worthy of winter woodland dreams! Like the Gilda dress in Alpine print this teapot features a light to dark graduation formed by the contrast between the light green overall body of the teapot with its lower forest scene border design. The classic brown betty shape of the teapot is slightly offset by the whimsical bucolic oversized lip of the lid, lid handle, and rusticly curved lip on the teapot spout giving it a fantastical feel much like the scene pictured on it. 

Dulcie Lindsoe-Johansen Handcrafted Forest Trees Teapot, image: http://www.stashtea.com/Lindsoe-Clayworks-Handcrafted-Forest-Teapot/dp/B005S6G8JS?class=quickView&field_availability=-1&field_browse=2861425011&id=Lindsoe+Clayworks+Handcrafted+Forest+Teapot&ie=UTF8&refinementHistory=subjectbin,price,size_name,color_map&searchBinNameList=subjectbin,price,size_name,color_map&searchNodeID=2861425011&searchPage=4&searchRank=salesrank&searchSize=12

While the Lindy Bop Gilda dress in Alpine is a festive favorite for the Christmas seasons, like the Handcrafted Forest Trees Teapot, this winter woodland is perfect for any cold season day!

Matching Your Dress To Your Teaware Part 15: London Calling

Earlier in April, in my previous Perfect Pairing, I featured my friend Bristol and her blog, Color Me Bristol, in which I featured her in her Bernie Dexter Chelsea dress in Books print.

Continuing in that vein I would now like to introduce you to another blog I like to follow, Dolly Clackett. The Dolly Clackett blog is made and run by the ever effervescent and highly talented Roisin Muldoon.

Here is Roisin in a dress she made using Cath Kidston fabric and a By Hand London sewing pattern. I love everything about Roisin's sewing skills. And if her sewing skills were not enough to keep me glued to her blog, she has quite the eye for pairing fabrics and patterns together. This super cute dress featuring cute London buses all over has an almost overall geometric print pattern on the dress which goes beautifully with the crisp pleating in the skirt! So cute!

Roisin from Dolly Clackett in her 83 Piccadilly dress, photo: http://dollyclackett.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-guess-nice-just-aint-my-colour.html

Roisin from Dolly Clackett in her 83 Piccadilly dress- Close Up, photo: http://dollyclackett.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-guess-nice-just-aint-my-colour.html

And in Cath Kidston + London theme, here is a tea for one set which goes just perfectly with this dress, the London Tea for One set from Cath Kidston. :) Oh Cath Kidston, how I love thee!

Cath Kidston London Tea For One Set

Cath Kidston London Tea For One Set

Cath Kidston London Tea For One Set

While this tea for one doesn't have all over London buses on it like Roisin's beautiful dress, it does have a few of them in all their bright red double decker glory! And, as if I didn't love Roisin's 83 Piccadilly dress enough on its own, I absolutely love the way these two look together. <3

Spot of tea anyone?

Matching Your Dress To Your Teaware Part 14: By The Book

It's that time again for another Perfect Pairing!

This time with two of my favorite things: books and friends <3

When I saw my friend Bristol from Colour Me Bristol in her beautiful Bernie Dexter Chelsea dress in Books print I knew I had to feature her and this dress on my blog! Thank you Bristol for letting me :).

Bristol from Colour Me Bristol in the Bernie Dexter Chelsea dress in books print, photo: http://colourmebristol.blogspot.com/2014/07/open-up-book.html

Close Up of the Bernie Dexter Chelsea dress book print, photo: Bristol Petty

I love the books theme of this dress! Bernie Dexter definitely makes some of the most fun novel-tea prints in my book! ;) And I love the way super cute Bristol styles it here with her red belt and red peep toes with bows! What I love about Bristol's style is that she is always so bright and colorful and happy! Check out more of her awesome style and her blog here! :)

Pair the cuteness of this dress with Tony Carter's Books and Tea Teapot and you have a novel idea for a tea gathering!

Tony Carter Books and Tea Teapot, photo: http://britishislesonline.com/tonycarterbooksandteateapot.aspx

I love novelty teapots and this one takes the cake on it's ingenuity. I love the variation of the staggered and stacked books as well as the tea cup and saucer that daintily sits upon it. Tony Carter's teapots are all individually designed, made, and painted by Tony Carter Ceramics in the village of Debenham, Suffolk England. I found this teapot online from the shop British Isles which carries not only teaware and tableware but also tons of specialty tea, treats, foods and more!

Ahhh books, tea, and friends! Sounds like a perfect pairing to me!