When a Tuffet is Not a Tuffet!

I adore needlepoint

And although most of the needlepoint at Linderhof comes from my hand

I've been known to rescue a straw piece if it's pretty and the price is right.

I also adore "tuffets"

for Little Miss Muffet was a favorite childhood nursery rhyme.

On a just before Christmas trip to a favorite antique mall.

Many booths were having a sale and I spied this wee treasure.

Old needlepoint, iron legs and enough pink roses to look perfect in the master bedroom

And I had a chair there that had no footstool.

And I thought because it was small and round it was a "tuffet"

Someone told me that -- eons ago.

But no, you can see it's feet, so a "tuffet" it's not -- it's a footstool, plain and simple.

But whether it's a tuffet, a footstool, a hassock or an ottoman, it's perfect in front of the chair.

And I can see a "Little Miss Muffet" sitting on it, eating perhaps not curds and whey

but rather a lovely dessert -- a pudding perhaps -- chocolate!

It's Saturday and I'm joining Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.

For there are pink roses on the "tuffet"

And I'm hosting a giveaway.

Not to celebrate anything

But because I found a "treasure" I wanted to share

A favorite cookbook author, one of my culinary heroes

Anna Pump

It's her second book complete with dust jacket.

Just leave a comment and I'll put your name in the drawing.

If you're a follower, I'll add your name twice.

It's The Loaves and Fishes Party Cookbook

(which actually is pink, too!!!)

(I'm not giving up my treasured copy, oh, no, it's one I found that I wanted to share!)