Jelly 🌻🍁🍉

Tea tableau centered on a theme of home. Upon a snowy linen edged with blue lace and with colorful embroidered flowers in the center are a vintage cup and saucer with a pansy design, a blue cozy cover with pink and white hearts and flowers, an elegant purple glass vase, and a small Hoosier cabinet figurine containing miniature baked goods and tea service. The tea is Earl Grey Lavender black tea from Artful Tea.

"Home Life"
#Teableau 23Feb26

Would that everyone had this most essential need met.

#Tea #Home

Tea tableau with a theme of cats sleeping in baskets, as portrayed on the tea cozy, as well as in a ceramic figurine and a vintage green glass covered dish. The tea is Rose Petal black tea from The Tao of Tea.

"Cats In Baskets"
#Teableau 22Feb26

Who else's progenitors had glass animals on glass baskets?

#Tea #VintageGlass

A manatee!

Tea tableau featuring a mermaid with glittering green scales reclining upon translucent white rocks in a shiny, dark blue, fluted glass bowl. There is a manatee hanging off the bowl. In and around the bowl are various stylized star shapes, and behind it is a dark wood shelf resembling a barge, upon which are arranged a pitcher on a matching bowl, a teapot, and between them, a Carnival glass cup on a saucer, all in ocean colors of green, blue, and ivory. Beneath it all is a quilted runner the color of sand rimmed with blue, with a subtle pattern of sailing ships. The tea, a green tea blend with fruits and flowers from Adagio, is in a packet decorated with colorful portraits of mermaids.

"Rockstar"
#Teableau 21Feb26

For a dear, dear friend on her birthday. She knows why.

#Tea #Mermaid

#Teableau

Red and white tea tableau with a crab theme as shown in fabric applique and metal art, including a blue gingham crab, a silver metal crab, and a red metal crab. There is a red Fiestaware ring mug, a red and white gingham tea cozy, a blue creamer shaped like a fish, and a red and black tin of Mugi Cha barley tea.

"Twabs"
#20Feb26

That's what crabs were called by certain small persons in my household, so now we all call them that.

#Tea #Crabs

Tea tableau on white linen with a red, pink, and blue folk art design. There is a dark pink teapot with scrollwork, a small decorative Finnish folk art dish showinga lady in a red kirtle, a vintage cup and saucer decorated with pink, blue, and yellow flowers with red centers, a vintage curve handled spoon stamped with the words Tea Time, a silver and gold teabag holder with a dark pink floral center, and the tea is a Finnish black blend with a decorative red and white label.

"Finlandia"
#Teableau 19Feb26

I hope this provides a spot of cheer to go with a spot of tea.

#Tea #Friends

If you want to understand where we are economically, I would recommend the following documentaries:

-Inside Job
-Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
-The Corporation
-Startup.com

#TCMParty

The cover of children’s book N is for Nuance featuring a fox a raccoon and a rabbit illustration.

Should be mandatory reading, no?

Without afternoon tea, I don't know where the afternoon would be.

Tea tableau using delicate mugs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art gift shop that were part of its Van Gogh collection, decorated with his famous Iris flowers. The teapot, sugar, and creamer are powder blue, and one mug holds a bouquet of pink roses. There is a large golden brooch of a hummingbird with a ruby eye, and the light blue tea cannister is decorated with an image of a hummingbird. All sit upon a white crocheted mat with pink and green crochet flowers, which in turn sits upon a dark green silk mat. The tea is Blackberry black tea.

"Bird & Blooms"
#Teableau 18Feb26

A variation on yesterday's color scheme, with a little help from Vincent.

#Tea #VanGoghIrises

Tea tableau on white lace with a tea cozy in deep tones of sapphire, teal, and salmon, a cup and saucer in palest robin's egg blue, a sugar and creamer rimmed in that same color and with a dark blue floral design, a golden spoon, a silver and gold teabag holder with a center that matches the tea cozy, an appliqued handkerchief with cerise flowers and mint green edging, a blue silk rosebud, and 1001 Nights black and green tea flavored with grapes from Lovaré.

"Lace Grace"
#Teableau 17Feb26

I love these colors together.

#Tea #VintageChina

It was the only song that non- Aussies could automatically associate with Australia. 😆

Tea tableau in white and blue with embroidered cozy, vintage china, and a sparkly brooch shaped like a sun laden with blue crystal gems. The tea is Blueberry Green tea from Harney and Sons.

"Blue Skies"
#Teableau 16Feb26

Just kidding, it's raining.

#Tea #Weather

Tea tableau in red, black, and white with hearts and flowers on linens and vintage china, and a ceramic egg cup shaped like a chicken trimmed in silver gilt, that is holding a speckled egg. The teas are one English Breakfast black tea and the other a turmeric green tea.

"Which Came First"
#Teableau 15Feb26

The chicken or the egg...

#Tea

A Valentine's tea tableau in pink and red with a heart motif displayed on the cozy, the woven backdrop, the china, and candies. There is a tiny mouse figurine holding a cupcake, and Strawberry Shortcake black tea from Pinky Up.

"Valentine"
#Teableau 14Feb26

Happy Valentine's Day. I hope everyone has something sweet in their life.

#Tea #ValentinesDay

Tea tableau with violet flowered china, a matching cozy, a small porcelain chest of drawers with a pattern of violets, and Champagne Splashes green and black tea flavored with wild strawberries from Lovaré. There is a miniature figurine of a red Cupid approaching a grey miniature of a girl holding a bouquet of flowers.

"Romance"
#Teableau 13Feb26

The little flower girl and Cupid figurines are Wade pottery miniatures that used to be included in boxes of Red Rose Tea.

#Tea #WadePottery

Thank you! A friend sent me the pink one as a gift, after which I managed to collect the other three colors to complete the set.

Tea tableau featuring two gorgeous cups, one teal and one indigo, with brightly painted tropical birds. The tea cozy has iridescent butterflies in teal and turquoise on black. There is a deep aqua Depression glass biscuit jar, an embroidered napkin, a scattering of faceted stones that look like blue topazes, all upon a quilted mat in light saffron with a pattern of turquoise and gold dragonflies. The tea is Palm Court, a black blend from Harney and Sons.

"Fair Fields"
#Teableau 12Feb26

The cups were designed by Sara Miller for Portmeirion. There are four colors in the set; along with these two are also a grey one & a dark pink one.

#Tea #Portmeirion

Red, white, and purple tea tableau to commemorate a birthday with an amethyst geode, a purple teapot, a Canadian maple leaf, an Ammonite fossil symbolizing eternity, Hearts and polkadots, a fast car, and a Pop-in-Fresh Doughboy as an inside joke, and Bookshop Blend white tea perfect for book lovers.

"Drive 55"
#Teableau 11Feb26

This is for someone's birthday, who happens to be Canadian, which is fitting because both he and Canada are in my heart today.

#Tea #Heartfelt

😉

Tea tableau on a green and white crocheted doily. There is a miniature tea set on a lily pad. The teapot looks like a frog and the cups look like blossoms. There is also a green glass frog figurine. The tea, in a shiny green cannister, is Mango green tea.

"Wee Tea"
#Teableau 10Feb26

Frogs are fun.

#Tea #Frogs

Tea tableau on a blue ground with a vintage tea towel backdrop in pastels showing a young lady all dressed up for tea but the tea service has slid from the tray she carries, about to plummet to the floor. The china is white and blue with dark pink roses. There is also a pink glass rose. The tea is Evening Tea, a decaf black blend from Ahmad.

"Oops"
#Teableau 09Feb26

I think this vintage tea towel I'm using as a backdrop is pretty adorable.

#Tea #VintageLinens

Tea tableau in green and blue with two Gumby figures in Seattle Seahawks paraphernalia standing behind a football and beside a Seattle city mug. The tea is Northwest Breakfast black tea from Market Spice.

"Seahawks"
#Teableau 08Feb26

I couldn't care less about football, but I sure love my city.

#Teableau #SeattleSeahawks

Tea tableau showing a scene of a white and brown cow in a meadow on the grounds of a cottage farmhouse. The effect is pulled together with floral and quilted linens, a crocheted doily, vintage china, a cow statuette, and a figural cottage teapot. The tea is Cardamom black tea from Sadaf.

"Flossie"
#Teableau 07Feb26

My Papaw kept cows and gave them names like Flossie, Bossy, and Jerry.

#Tea #Cows

He was a good little fellow, for sure.

My friends' companion. He lived 17 years. ❤️

Tea tableau in blue and white that represents a small brown dog crossing the rainbow bridge into heaven where a pack of friendly dogs awaits him. The tea is Pomegrateful green tea from David's Teas.

"Coco's Crossing"
#Teableau 06Feb26

Godspeed, brave little friend.

#Tea #RainbowBridge

Tea tableau with crocheted pink lace and soft pink accents in linens, glass, trinket box, and china, with White Chai tea from Adagio.

"Promise"
#Teableau 05Feb26

I had the cup, but no saucer for it. I searched for a long time in thrift stores, yard sales, & antique shops until I found this saucer. I knew it wasn't an exact match, but I believed it showed promise.

#Tea #VintageChina

Tea tableau with a cobalt blue glass hen on nest and a cobalt blue glass bunny in a dress. There is also a dark blue metal spoon, vintage china, and a handsewn tea cozy, with a black tea blend from Harney and Sons, all upon a tan tea towel upon a navy tea towel with small white polkadots.

"Indigo Girls"
#Teableau 04Feb26

I finally found a cobalt glass companion for my cobalt glass chicken.

#Tea #CobaltGlass