i want these mid century china cups.
i also want this brass unicorn thing.
while we're at it, could i please have this pyrex bowl too?
and i wouldn't mind acquiring these cinderella nesting bowls
or this glass compote either.
just gimme the whole shop.
let me say this: i am evermore convinced that tea and coffee, all beverages really, are an integral part of some foreign planet's master plan to infiltrate, weaken, and eventually obliterate our world. the fact that these grandiose paranoid meanderings are brought to you courtesy of a quickly-swallowed cup of coffee should serve as undeniable evidence of this fact! i held out on coffee, tea, and other hot (though equally delicious iced, providing double the opportunity for me to be subjugated to dependency) caffeinated beverages until i was 28. my gateway drink of choice was an iced caramel latte, introduced in the steamy midwestern summer heat. in the past six months i've given in to hot coffee and even tea (the bitter dregs of which i vowed never to adore years ago).
now i feel like a new junkie in a shoppe (yes i just spelled it that way) full of jars upon jars of glittering temptation. OH, there's a golden french toast flavored coffee? it comes in a K-cup size? GREAT, i'll spend $15 on those little canisters of goodness. OH, tazo passion tea is on sale for $3? LOVELY, i'll stock up on boxes even though i already have two at home. REALLY, i can buy little teapot-shaped spoon holders for my sugar-delivery instruments??? i'll take two of those too. and don't tell me it's Christmastime because that means i can get peppermint mocha creamer with little candy canes on the bottle! there's strawberry shortcake coffee?! okay, so i haven't tried that and i probably never will. but honestly, that means within the year i'll have drunk the stuff.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON CUPS AND MUGS AND SAUCERS.
JUST DON'T.
having borne witness to one of the greatest, most eclectic, endearing, unique collections of cups in all the land (we're talking about the noisy plume's cupboards if you didn't know it already, folks), the seed was already planted in me to want a big old collection of cupware for morning coffee, afternoon tea, and late night sipping, but i swear etsy is in cahoots with whatever species is planning an easy takeover of humankind, because there are just WAY too many awesome beverage homes available there.
I'M ONTO YOU, ETSY.
I'M ONTO YOU, COFFEE.
I'M ONTO YOU, TEA.
and i'm powerless to extricate myself from your web,
which is spun of toasty golden filaments...
spastically and bombastically,
she
2 comments:
Confession: Yesterday I bought a new vintage BRIGHT butter yellow tea pot at one of the local antique stores. I saw it over the weekend, hemmed and hawed, passed in the attempt to be financially wise, then realized I really did need it. (right) Then this morning I bought yet another hand-thrown mug on etsy.
There's a jackalope on it. I couldn't say no. And I got all panicy-greedy like "ah! buy! buy! right now before someone else spots it!"
I have a serious problem.
My mug / tumbler / cup collection has overgrown the cupboards and now a chosen selection takes residence on a huge platter on the counter.
Just wait till you come to town. I'll feed that addiction of yours.
You totally stole those mid century beauties from my carefully curated Etsy favorites.
Let's buy them and share them. You get one. I get the other.
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