La Tea Dah at Gracious Hospitality is hosting a Tea Blog-a-Thon from March 16 until May 31. She has a different theme for each week and you may participate as much or as little as you like. The theme for the third week, March 30 - April 5 is Decor-a-Tea: "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?"
Tea items serving a decorative function around Oak Rise Cottage are found in four rooms -- the kitchen, dining room, living room and principal bedroom.
The Kitchen
In the kitchen the pine hutch holds blue and white teacup collection. This is presented in my Jan. 25 post.
Three wood receptacles are used to hold teabags – a spice cabinet, a recipe box, and a cottage box on breakfast table holds herb tea and sits atop stack of tea books.
The spice cabinet was a $2.00 buy at a second-hand furniture store. I replaced the broken and missing white china knobs with wooden knobs. The recipe box was found in a thrift store, while the cottage-shaped box was purchased from T.J. Maxx.
Just inside the kitchen door is tea towel hangs on the microwave cabinet.
The Dining Room
In the Dining Room china cabinet is a teapot, sugar, creamer, teacupa and saucers that match the Lenox “Autumn” dishes displayed there.
The Living Room
The cabinet of the Living Room desk holds a pineapple teapot, an apple teapot like one I gave to my niece/godchild, and a blue and white child’s tea set.
In the Living Room curio cabinet is the Spode "Consul" English bone china tea set. My Jan.18 post tells about bringing this set from London to the US.
The Principal Bedroom
My Bedroom tier table displays a gilt-rimmed cream teacup and saucer, Rosenthal "Classic" from Germany and a white gilt-trimmed teapot from England.
Next to the vase is a bureau box with teacup designs. The box holds some of the handkerchief collection.
Please visit La Tea Dah at Gracious Hospitality for links to other participants.
