One of the best pieces of culinary advice I've ever received was this: always sip something hot when eating chocolate, because the hot l...

One of my favorite parts of planning a tea party is deciding what favors to give guests. The other night, I was looking through my crafts bi...

TGIS: Thank goodness it's Saturday! This past week was, professionally-speaking, the most hectic one I should have all year. It's th...

If you're interested in tea and tea accessories, then you may already be familiar with Tea Time magazine. This pretty glossy debuted in ...

I'm sure I'm romanticizing the cups and saucers in my collection, but I just love inventing stories about where they all came from a...

I cannot see a box or bag of Revolution Tea without grinning. Several years ago, this company came out with these adorably teeny-tiny little...

It began, innocently enough, with some lip gloss. After falling in love with the Marshmallow Lip Delight from the Australian cosmetics compa...

Lately I've become intrigued with backstamps and hallmarks on china, pottery and silver. But what about when there IS no mark on your te...

One of my antique store finds last weekend was this side-clasping tea infuser, the back of which is marked "W. Germany." There are...

It's been a rather hectic week at work, so one of the things I'm looking forward to when my ever-racing mind settles down a bit is t...

All the good health news about tea, and green tea in particular, has made me a believer, so I've been trying to drink a cup or two of gr...

I'd heard of Tea in Texas magazine before the World Tea Expo but had never seen a copy until then, and since receiving the Summer 2007 i...

This is the teacup that almost got away. One Saturday last month, a girlfriend and I went on a long overdue shopping day and happened upon t...

Like a lot of tea drinkers, I'll bet, I am on a quest for the perfect tea infuser. I really prefer to drink loose leaf tea whenever poss...

I decided not to spend this rainy Saturday morning sitting at home, so I went shopping and it turned into a bit of a tea-themed shopping day...

I continue to be amazed at the number of new tea-related products that are out there whose manufacturers are leaving us to find out about th...

When I drive down a highway and see a beautiful stretch of wildflowers, I always think of former first lady Lady Bird Johnson and her passio...

Bottled teas are all the rage, and I certainly understand why. They're convenient, they're an alternative to carbonated beverages, a...

Several years ago I attended a trade show for the coffee and tea trades (very heavy on the coffee, light on the tea), and that's where I...

At the World Tea Expo a few weeks ago, Alda Ellis had run out of copies of her book, "Sentimental Living from the Porch," so I ord...