It's rare that I go in a World Market store and don't leave with some new tea-related product. I've bought tea and tea mints, te...

When friends are as generous with the fresh vegetables as ours have been this year, you can afford to experiment, so that's what I'v...

If you're like me, on the Fourth of July each year you've probably made your share of Flag Cakes (stripes out of bananas and strawbe...

The e-mail from a friend had the simple subject line "Mayo and Bread," but it was enough to make me cheer. I knew this was her way...

On Friday, I stopped by the Newnan Antique Mall since I hadn't been in a while and you just never know what you might find. I saw this v...

Do you like dictionaries? I do. I guess because spelling is such a big part of my life, I have always enjoyed looking up words in the dictio...

The minute I heard a new cookbook was out with a recipe for Sweet Tea Pie, I *had* to have it. As soon as my copy of "Screen Doors and ...

For the past month or so I've been scavenging for cheap costume jewelry. Antique malls, thrift stores, eBay and Etsy.com have all proven...

Yesterday I received a comment from Marilyn Miller of Marmalady's in Portland, Oregon, whose wonderful tea jams and jellies I have writ...

A friend sent me a card the other day, and inside was tucked a most wonderful treat: an ad for A&P Teas from a 1958 issue of Woman's...

"Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie! V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!" Anybody remember that old cheer? The flavor of these summer fruits is just...

With the Summer Olympics set to begin in China in just a few more weeks, I have my hopes up that some, if not all, of the tea in China will ...

Now here's a book that has been on my Wish List for a longggg time. I started to say it was a high-end "coffee table book," bu...

Often, I am writing this blog post during my morning viewing of The Today Show. Yesterday during the show, I saw a commercial for Cranergy E...

Today I come to ask your help. A reader who is an artist (and very attuned to the visual side of paper) tells me she recalls once seeing som...

Well, OK, I haven't really been to the spa, but thanks to a thoughtful friend I have some new "True Blue Spa" products made wi...

Bloggers have made me a savvier shopper. When I first got hooked on reading blogs a year or so ago, I began to notice that all these women w...

Many are the tea things I have collected over the years, but one of the few objects I have managed to refrain from collecting is the miniatu...

My favorite tea book is often the latest one I've received, but there's a new one out that I must highly, highly recommend to tea lo...

Years ago, I had several sets of tea-themed salt and pepper shakers, but I got tired of the counter clutter and sold them at a yard sale. Na...