Stop the Press. The Travelling Samovar tea house is having a tea auction! Have you ever heard of such a thing? They will be auctioning off beautiful hand-crafted and vintage tea-cups, tea-bowls, tea-pots, trays, an honest-to-goodness vintage samovar and a host of rare and unusual teas, all collected personally by the owners during their global…
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On the spectrum from trick to treat, I’m hoping these friendly little handmade Halloween tea-spooks definitely fall on the treat side. Next year, maybe I’ll get my act together and pair them with some skeleton gingerbread men. Or gingerbread cats. Or something. This year, I packaged them up with yellow craft paper and posted them…
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Recently I came up with the idea to make these handmade “tea fortunes.” They are simple to put together and make pretty, thoughtful gifts. They are really a mixture between a tea-bag and a fortune cookie, and you can tailor them to be as personal as you like. I think they would be great as…
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How have these early days of winter been treating you? I have been getting out of the house as much as I can, because I know that when things get really cold and wet we will all be trapped indoors. The other day I pushed the pram more than seven kilometres in the rain to…
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What do you love about where you live? I’ve lived in a lot of places around Australia and the world, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Melbourne is the first place I’ve felt “at home” since I left New York. I live in a really great part of Melbourne, known as…
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Last year, I painted a little set of four Christmas-themed “tea friends” to hold onto teabags, as gifts for my friends. You can see my efforts here. If I get my act together in time, I’ll make some more of them this year and send them out. But I also thought I’d share them with…
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A new teahouse has opened up around the corner from my house. It happened very quietly, with little fanfare beyond a handful of “likes” on Facebook, but you can’t sneak anything with “teahouse” in its name past me in coffee-dominated Melbourne. I have been peering through the window watching the fit-out develop and reading the…
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You know those times? When your husband and your 14 year old step-daughter gleefully announce, “We have decided to host a High Tea party for our friends next weekend.” And you think, “Oh great. That means I will be hosting a High Tea party for their friends next weekend,” and then you think, “When did…
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I wanted to make some last-minute, light-weight Christmas gifts to post out to friends this weekend. I’d seen some novelty teabags in a local store and fallen in love with them, but the prices were a little steep ($5 a teabag, thank you very much!). Instead I decided to make some of my own, with…
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Could you do with a cup of tea right now? Me too. Do you take it hot or cold? Sweet or straight? And what goes perfectly with tea? How about this? 1. The travelling tea parlour This is Lady Bonin’s Tea Parlour, selling mobile, take-away tea from the back of a vintage caravan. Oh how I…
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