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The witches' tea pot...a special brew??
This is such a gorgeous film, I love the children's faces!

Lonesome crocheted tea cosy o' the Oyster Lease...

This photo is kindly provided by my elder sister Jennifer who, with her husband Ant and some other partners, share an Oyster Lease on Bruny Island, in Tasmania's Dentrecasteaux Channel. So this is the wee little cosy that keeps the aluminium teapot warm during tea breaks...isn't it gorgeous?!!

My sisters blog is http://fer48.blogspot.com/, please visit her too if you have a minute?

**If anyone has any tea cosy pics they'd like to share, and/or stories too, please feel free to contact me and pass them on! I love haring and seeing cosy stories and examples!

A conversation over Afternoon Tea yesterday...

Yesterday friends, Sally Rees and her husband Matt came by to drop some artwork off to me, and I showed them some antique magazines from a farm auction I went to on the weekend. One magazine, a 1906 copy of 'The Australian Hen' poultry keepers magazine had this advertisement which Sally thinks is hilarious....so I thought I'd share it with you too!

I find Afternoon Tea conversations so very stimulating!
I'll write in the next post about the willow patterned enamel teapot I missed out on at auction......

My favourite portrait by Zarhloul

This photo of me was taken towards the end of 2005 during a session with my photographer friend and ex-boyfriend, Abdel Zarhloul, in Paris.
We took a heap of different shots with different tea cosies I'd made and started the Teacosy* Revolution, in visual sense!
I love this almost chaste and devotional image and it still reminds me of all my favourite places and things in Paris...can't wait to go back!

You can see more of Zarhloul's work on www.zarhloul.com

VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!

Article in Australian Country Style, January 2008

I've forgotten to post this news and the month is nearly over: There's an article on me and my work in this month's Australian Country Style magazine, if you have access to it, titled 'Art of the Tea Cosy', on page 74 & 75.
I'm really happy...its generating a bit of interest, which is helpful...now I just have to hope for some sales to keep things rolling!

http://www.countrystyle.com.au/

January Mission...

I'm revisiting images of tea cosies I've made in the past three years, to give me some creative direction for this coming year.
These are images of 'Russian Caravan Cosy', made for a friend's mother in New Zealand...I'm hoping I haven't already posted these pics...I may have, so apologies for the double up...though they are lovely images and another tour of the tea tray is worth while.

Hand embroidery and applique on silk and vintage glace cotton found in a French Op-Shop in Cahors, is the basis for this cosy, with some delicate hand embroidered floiage and abstract flowers on the reverse side. The idea of the Babushka dolls and the Russian Easter eggs, all decorated with intricate paintwork inspired the appliqued egg-shaped design on the other side. I had the scent of smokey Russian Caravan tea in my nostrils as I was making it!

The photo was taken during a self-initiated arts residency at Hotel du Midi, in Lauzes, Southern France in 2005. It was a wonderful experience...and I can't wait for another opportunity to take myself on a tea cosy making retreat in February.

Welcome back...now its 2008!
I dont have any specifically Teacosy* Revolutionary images or news just yet, for the new year...only that I've had an epiphany after hearing U.K fashion Queen, Vyvienne Westwood speak on radio about her new world changing Manifesto...and I feel spurred on after feeling a little desous and overwhelmed and direction-muddled about it all during the buikld-up to Christmas 2007.

So now I start the new year with gusto and a 'new' Antique teapot I found in a little antique shop in South Hobart, Tasmania, when I was staying with friend, fellow teapot enthusiast and avid tea drinker, the delightful Monique Germon of Love & Clutter fame!

So here's a picture...and I wish you all a very wholesome, healthy and teaparty-filled year, and ther'll be more from me in the coming weeks. xxxTara