A tea trolley vignette for January

So last year I didn't quite make my goal of arranging a new vignette on my tea trolley every month. I won't say which month I stopped in, but let's just say some fall teas and brown-colored objects had to be removed to make way for this new decor featuring winter whites!

It wasn't hard to find some teacups that were predominantly in this color palette.

One of my all-time favorite teacups is the Wedgwood Bicentenary Celebration teacup whose design features the handwriting of company forebear Josiah Wedgwood. It took me years before I ever found one of these teacups online, so this one is very prized.

I've used this little pot of flowers from Michaels for a few months now, and the handwriting ties it in with so many other things I love. Behind it is a favorite photo of my husband and me at tea.

The white teapot is one I used at my wedding reception. Behind it is a Mary Randolph Carter book, "For the Love of Old," that I've had for years, and I reread it this weekend.

The subtitle is probably one of the best ones I've ever read because it told me this author is a kindred spirit. She writes in the book, "In an era that is desperate to be young and new and hip and cool, I choose old." I do too! (Sounds like something Robert, Carson or Violet might have said on "Downton Abbey," doesn't it?)

So, I used a few things old and new to decorate for January. Now, just 11 more vignettes to go!