Flea Market finds from Zurich, Switzerland

Couldn't resist taking this photo of two cups I bought at the Zurich flea markets two weeks ago...the cat and her kittens were lazing in the sun at my friend's place and it reminds me of my mother and sister's cats...and just the whole afternoon tea thing where people sit down for a cup of tea and the cat will come along for a bout of lap-occupation too!

The teacups are two 'Watteau' themed cups made in England...and yes, I have just packed them up in one of three trunks of personal belongings I have to now ship back to Tasmania! Yeee haaaa...tea cosy making inspiration must never be denied!!!

So I have a huge amount of work to be getting on with when I return to Australia...
EXCELLENT!!

I hope you are enjoying your cups of tea, wherever you are in the world right now, maybe with a tea cosy also? Let me know if you ever want a cosy and I'll see what The Teacosy* Revolution can offer you, either for swaps, future hospitality, or even the dreaded coin (money)?!

Revolutionary fervour in Metz, France...

Oh why am I being so limp with my Revolution...I ought to be out there in my Granny Mac (Raincoat), and umbrella and crocheted tea cosy spray painting slogans all over the place...just wait...I'll think of something...as enduring, like graffitting my own promotional Teacosy* Revolution posters that I will make soon......

This delicious morsel of public vandalism I found today in the very pleasant small city of Metz, in North-Eastern France, while my partner and I were looking for somewhere to have lunch. I feel very inspired now...and its really time to give more loving attention to completing the Teacosy* Revolution Manifesto too....so much to do and I'm collecting inspiration all the time!!

Now where's my pot of Darjeeling....

Silver Shiny at the Landesmuseen in Zurich

I know one isn't supposed to 'publish' other people's images, though this is my form of 'assisted promotion' for the museum...no tea cosies in sight though...the Swiss haven't been bombarded with the pleasures of a restrained Protestant Teacosy* Revolution yet!!

www.landesmuseen.ch

Mint tea at the Mosque (The a la menthe, chez La Mosquee), Paris 2008

This was afternoon tea at La Mosquee in Paris with Rainier and my good friend Armelle...its a very special atmosphere there and the sweet mint tea comes in painted glasses and you sit around tiled tables on the terrace...and have a Shisha if you want too!

Tea Tiara by Anita Dineen, 2007

This amazing piece of jewellery is by a good friend of mine and featured recently in The Financial Review magazine (Australia).
I am fortunate enough to have one of her teapot rings, which I wear all the time and receive lots of good comments about! Its so great to be able to support one's friends and their creativity! Go Anita!

www.minormarvels.com.au

Paris TeaParty...chez Zimmer (Parisian Salon du The)

One humid afternnon walking around Paris, we needed tea and cake....

www.lezimmer.com

Back in Paris....Ahhhhhhhh!

...and these are some of my favourite things....




A beautiful painted board above a doorway near Les Halles, in the 'restaurant district' of Paris...Colonialism resplendent in 19th Century building decoration!




This combination of perfectly sign-written gold text on glass with the frosty scratched whitewash on the interior, I find very aesthetically pleasing...especially as the text depicts two of my favourite things: tea and antiques!
This shop front window is on rue de l'Hotel de ville, 75004 Paris.



...and of course an ornamental street sign tops it all off...treasures never cease to crop up and delight...