Would you like to meet my friends?
On Friday I apparently struck horror and grief into the hearts of many when I mentioned in this book review that …
…it’s true….
I don’t have a teapot.
I was even berated by some for being a self-claimed “dedicated tea drinker,” yet without a teapot!
There I was, reading my email, feeling so inadequate, so incomplete, so… stunted!…
…and then I remembered my friends.
In the studio where Anna and I work and where we occasionally entertain guests and do a lot of shipping and whatnot, we have a large wall of cubbies (24 total) that separates the front half of the studio from the back half.
We love the cubbies! They’ve become a little decorative playground for us, where we switch out seasonal display items – embroidered things that we’ve made or that we’ve received as gifts, along with tools, threads, tins, boxes, useful things, decorative things, and just downright fun things.
On the cubbies, we have two “friends” that we have named.
One, we named Turtle. And the other, we named Frog.
We are very original when it comes to names.
Turtle and Frog are little pincushions.
Frog is pewter, made in England by A E Williams, I believe. A E Williams produces some fabulous little pincushions that are eminently collectible, giftable, and just really wonderful, whimsical little things.
Turtle doesn’t quite have the same pedigree, but he is just as endearing!
And along with Frog and Turtle, I have one more little pincushion…
… and it is a teapot.
So, see, people! I do have a teapot!
I AM ADEQUATE!
I just felt like I should restore my estimation in your eyes.
Heh heh.
Who knew that the lack of teapot would be such an evocative topic?! Thank you for your humorous emails, your excellent recommendations for good teapots, and your encouragement to “ritualize” tea by using a legit teapot!
I will keep all your recommendations in mind. As my nephew would say, #goalz.
We’ll get back to the serious programming on Wednesday, with a bit of embroidery! See you then!
Have a wonderful Monday!
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