Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

Chipmunk Tea Party by ~Red-Clover on deviantART

Here is a LINK to this very talented artist’s website.

As usual, click to make larger.

Hello Ladies. Who would like to participate? Here are the rules.

1. 500 words or less

2. Review your favorite tea.

3. post picture of un-brewed tea leaves, brewed tea in the cup

4. Let us know why you like it.

A link to your blog will be posted on my site. Please use my contact page to email me and let me know if you would like to participate. Since the long weekend is coming up and people usually travel or have some sort of plans, we’ll make this the post for Thursday, sept. 4th.

Who wants to play?

I enjoy reading Tea Time, I even have a subscription to it, however, sometimes, the information just doesn’t make sense and seems inaccurate. Take, for instance, Dorothea Johnson’s column: Tea & Etiquette. Ms. Johnson writes in response to a reader’s question about what to do with tea bags and teapots of water one is served in restaurants. Brew in the pot of hot water, or in your teacup? Ms. Johnson advised brewing the tea in the small pot of hot water and, ‘When the tea has reached the desired strength, pour it into the cup. Do not remove the tea bag form the teapot.’

Well, yes, you may do this if you wish your next cup of tea to be undrinkable. Leaving tea leaves in hot water continues the steeping process. In order to stop the steeping process, one needs to either decant the tea into another pot, or remove the teabags. Perhaps ms. Johnson’s suggestion was for cases in which pouring out the steeped tea into your cup removes all water. If that were to happen then, yes, leave the bag in the pot, however, once again, if there is any water left and you wish to drink another cup of tea from it, you will need to remove the tea bag from the water in order for the brew to be palatable.

I love Jackie. Watching her make scones makes me smile. I think she really loves her customers and enjoys baking for them. This is the heart of hospitality. She started baking scones to fill a gap in the community.

Also, check out her biceps. I bet she got them from working with dough all day. Who knew baking could be a workout? lol I did try topping my scones once the way she does with jam and whipped cream and thought I’d need an insulin shot from the high sugar content. Wow!

Tell me what you think of the video.

Sir Salty Waits for Tea on Chocolate Island, originally uploaded by Candylei.

How cute is he?!

knitted tea set, originally uploaded by Foot Slogger.

Can you imagine?!