Week Three of Tea Blog-A-Thon.

Decor-a-Tea
This week, La Tea Dah at Gracious Hospitality wants us to share ideas and pictures that incorporate tea and/or tea themes into home decor. Displays, art, prints, fabrics, and collection all count in this category. Do you use teapots and teacups as a part of your home decor? If so, describe how.

For my contribution, I decided to photograph my motley collection of teapots and vintage cups, and accompany them with explanatory notes.


These are vintage cup and saucer sets and plates that I have been given by friends and family, who know how much I love the Crinoline Lady designs in my linen collection. I don't use them much - only on VERY special occasions with Special Ladies who know to treat them with care!

This Noritake cup, saucer and sugar bowl group are part of my kitchen dinner set which Ken and I use on a daily basis. The teapot behind them is a tiny two-cup variety - to be found in supermarkets for a few dollars, but suits us down to the ground!


These three teapots sit on the very top shelf in our kitchen because they are purely for decoration. The large one is used only when we have more than ten people here and we need to make a LARGE pot of tea instead of continually topping up a normal sized teapot. I found the other two teapots in an opshop for about $2. I couldn't figure out why anyone would give such pretty pots to a thrift store...until I tried to use them and found they leaked tea all over the place! The spouts are so badly designed, they are unusable, but I decided to keep them for decorative purposes anyway!


The aluminium teapot on the left is about 40 years old. My father gave it to me for a birthday or Christmas gift while I was still married to my first husband. It was one of the few things I took with me when I fled! The orange enamelled teapot is one that we bought when we used to go on camping trips many years ago. I can't remember where we got it, but I have seen a similar one sell on eBay for about $80!!!