New Tea Cup for Martha and Terri's Tea Cup Tuesday!

A new tea cup has joined a collection around here and it has quite a story.

A dear friend of mine, who has been in my life for many decades, now lives cross-country from me.  In her Christmas card, she wrote how she hoped I liked the gift she sent to me. 

     "I just knew you'd love the tea cup," she wrote.

The problem with her note is that I had not received a gift. Nothing. Nada. No tea cup or anything else had arrived at our house!

After the holidays, I called my friend and let her know neither the tea cup or the other gifts she mentioned had ever arrived. She was irate. She had purposely sent the gift on December 3 so I'd get it in time for the holidays.

My friend called UPS and was informed the package had, indeed, been delivered to a house on the street where we live!  She had put the wrong house number on the package. The really perplexing thing is that UPS had a slip with my signature on it, indicating the box had been delivered. (oooooo, that made me really mad because it sure wasn't me who put my signature!)

One afternoon this month, I approached the owner of the house who has some tenants and explained the dilemma of the missing package. She said she'd talk with the tenants.

To make a long story short, one day last week the doorbell rang. The owner of the house down the street had a box in her hand that had been given to her by the male tenant. His wife apparently had signed for the box and put it in the laundry room on a shelf and forgot about it. That was last December 10th of 2010.

Actually, I had pretty much kissed that package goodbye so was perfectly delighted that it eventually got to me despite my pessimism over it ever showing up. Inside was the lovely cup shown in this post plus two books of quotations and some painted tin tree ornaments. I loved everything.

The tea cup, made in China, is covered with flowers primarily in varied shades of pink and blue. It's very dainy and pretty.

Best of all, I'm so happy to, for this week anyway,  to participate once more in Martha and Terri's Tea Cup Tuesday.

See?  Sometimes things do, indeed, come to a good end. God bless that landlady for tracking down the missing box.

 As for my friend, I'd like to wish her a very belated  "Merry Christmas" and thanks for the long lost giftie!

Now be sure to check out Martha's blog, Martha's Favorites, and Terri's blog, Artful Affirmations to see all the other tea cup submissions!