One of the best parts of my day job of editing a small city magazine is that I get to read so many other magazines for inspiration. I especi...

Once again, a local estate sale has resulted in a lovely addition to my small but growing collection of tea trivets. This one came from an e...

It was supposed to be just a simple in-and-out trip to Books A Million in Peachtree City to pick up a copy of one of the few magazines I can...

Recently I relocated an antique writing desk from my craft room, where it had been crammed with all sorts of things that don't belong th...

Last week when I wrote about my new Teacupcake baking molds, I got some very helpful (and inspiring!) reader comments. One idea was to bake ...

Tea: East and West Edited by Rupert Faulkner V&A Publications, 2003 In 2000, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London staged the exhibit...

It finally dawned on me I've had a new-tea-products theme going this week, totally coincidental, but hey, why stop a good thing? So toda...

You really shouldn't read a food magazine when you're hungry. Actually, it wasn't *technically* a food magazine I was reading, i...

It was a product I was desperately in need of and could not go one more day without. I wasn't near my usual grocery store, so I had to s...

One of our popular downtown Newnan shops, The Vintage Flea, has a great little candy counter provided by a woman who used to have a shop in ...

As soon as I first saw these Teacupcake molds on the very cool Fred Flare website (fredflare.com), I knew I had to have some! Unfortunately,...

The Tea Party Book By Lucille Recht Penner Random House, 1993 "The Tea Party Book" by Lucille Recht Penner was actually written fo...

A few weeks ago, Elizabeth in Massachusetts kindly left a comment telling me I might want to check out the new issue of Country Woman magazi...

Because my craft room is upstairs and already had blinds when we bought the house, I never really worried about the fact it didn't have ...

Belinda in S.C.! Congratulations! And thanks to *everyone* for entering and for the kind comments. I hope we'll all be visiting for anot...

Maybe it's not that hot where you live, but here in Georgia it has been H-O-T lately, with temperatures in the high nineties and terribl...

Ginger (who receives the chai tea and the iced tea glass) and Marjo (who receives the chai tea and the logo mug). Congratulations, ladies! I...

Today, dear friends, marks my 1,000th blog post! Although the tea and the topics have been great fun to explore, I must say that the *tea f...