Reading Tea Leaves

                      

What does your fortune say? Do you drink it readily or swirl your cup around? Do you take lumps of sugar, or need a spoon to lean on?

Saw this teacup at a shop near my hometown. I didn't buy it, though I liked the colors, and drink tea. The idea of a tea leaves sitting in my teacup waiting for me to read them, wasn't a tea cozy idea...

As you can guess, my imagination doesn't need help wondering about such things! That teacup and I, could spend countless hours together discussing the unseen, the unknown or the unspoken.

A plain white tea cup, and tea bag, is my cup of tea!

Comments

[Kelly]

Wow- I actually just bought this teacup today! It is exactly the same except mine is a pretty light pink color.

[Margot the Marrakesh Mystic]

What a lovely picture of a special teacup! I came across your website after searching for blogs that discuss reading tea leaves (after having posted a detailed entry in my blog on exactly this subject, I wanted to see if anyone else was addressing it).

Margot the Marrakesh Mystic
http://margotmystic.blogspot.com/

[Belle]

I came across your blog while searching for inspiration for a tea party I am having. Google linked to your page and I saw this fabulous tea cup! I was so ecstatic to find this, and I recognize that this post comes about a year late, but is there any way you could tell me where you saw it at? I'd be so grateful! Thanks, and keep up the marvelous blog.
Belle

[Belle]

I came across your blog while searching for inspiration for a tea party I am having. Google linked to your page and I saw this fabulous tea cup! I was so ecstatic to find this, and I recognize that this post comes about a year late, but is there any way you could tell me where you saw it at? I'd be so grateful! Thanks, and keep up the marvelous blog.
Belle

[Maureen]

i like the tea cup for its shape and its whimsical printed patterns. i would have bought it if it was too much$ ;-)

[delila]

Though you like just a plain white cups. Maybe we can do a tea cup and tea swap sometime :)

This cup is GORGEUS!
I love all kind good natured magic, including reading from tea leaves

[arttealife]

Hello hello!
back from vacation and catching up on your blog little by little on breaks at work....

This post so wonderful

I have added it under my Tea Time notes and links column.

Thank you for putting beauty in my life over and over again.

Have loved seeing Willows and your family .

Love (as always) S.

[gracia]

Ohh, I love the idea of a spoon to lean on... I must head to the kitchen and enlist the aid of several shiny spoons, it's been a long day.

Thanks for solving another mystery for me... not taking sugar in my tea, I never realised what the spoon was in aid of - now I know.

take care, g

[gracia]

Ohh, I love the idea of a spoon to lean on... I must head to the kitchen and enlist the aid of several shiny spoons, it's been a long day.

Thanks for solving another mystery for me... not taking sugar in my tea, I never realised what the spoon was in aid of - now I know.

take care, g

[Britt-Arnhild]

As a collector of china, and a tea drinker, I couldn't have resisted this beautiful cup.

[herhimnbryn]

Earl Grey
Lapsang Souchong
Russian Caravan
Orange pekoe
I fell for the names initially and after trying the teas became hooked!

[Willow Grace]

That's one of the funnest tea cups I've seen! I'd hope my leaves stayed clear of that skeleton!

[Kristen Robinson]

This is a very intereting cup so dainty and beautiful with interesting images on the inside that stir a bit of imagination. I too love my tea and often wonder if the tea leaves left at the bottom mean anything.

My Best-
Kristen

[Catalina]

I am a "coffe person" but I learned to have tea with my husband and now I like it as well, not "english way" though.....just plain and NEVER, but never in a tea bag! ;)

[jennifer]

hot or iced
dainty cup or mug
loose or teabag

I simply love tea!

Never read my leaves... Could be entertaining!

[deirdre]

Gorgeous cup and saucer. But much too delicate for me. I too prefer a solid mug for my tea.

[naturegirl]

Lovely saucer and tea cup. The cup tells a story without the tea leaves! You didn't buy it!

[mikaelah]

I love the color of that cup and saucer! I drink my tea fast and my coffee slow. I love the fortunes that come in the cookies and would rather read those instead of the leaves.

[Tiffini Elektra X]

Oh wow that tea cup is flippin' fantastic!! I am completely smitten with it - and the mint green. . .

[Cat]

Oh dear...for me...it's coffee or beer... and I don't find my fortune at the bottom!

And you never run out of ideas! Love to read your blog!

[la vie en rose]

this is so lovely. i just love all the tiny pictures inside.

[snowsparkle]

my tea cup is zen and has no handle so it can be sipped from any side and can rest in the cup of my hand... like you said, "simple" is the best kind of cup to enjoy the subtleties of tea.

[madeleine]

Early grey, with the yummy bergamot aroma, does it for me everytime.
My grannie, still drinks from a cup like this everyday, and it suits her hand. Not mine. :)

[josephine]

I love this teacup! Especially the skull! Morbidity as a regular part of the day, I get it...it's kind of like shock therapy. If you see it everyday, it won't spookk you as much!!

[Sarah Scott]

Beautiful tea cup, but the skull would be a bit much for me too. ;)

[Annieelf]

Simple is definitely best, especially when the pretty little cup has a SKULL in it. What's with that???

[susanna]

What a fun teacup! Of course I'd end up swirling my tealeaves around until I had a good reading. No skulls for me! What would the butterfly mean?

[andrea edwards]

Heehee, I get spooked easily too.
a.

[Anne]

I have always found fortune telling rather frightening. But, the teacup is an interesting one.

Tazo Passion tea is the tea for me...hot or over ice. =)

[Joy Eliz]

Oh what a lovely tea cup! The fortune part would never work for me...I use a bag too:)

[blackbird]

Oh no...I couldn't drink from this cup either...

[Jeanne]

A cup of tea and thee
Both fabulous and divine!
Love everything you post
the most girlie girl!

[carolg@PB]

P.S...I thought you said you were a little dyslexic ?
Have you any idea how tough it is for the dyslexies out here to type in those scrambled letters?
Hmmm..it could be a good brain exercise I suppose...

[carolg@PB]

I LOVE & covet this cup!!
Buy it for moi & I'll pay ya back w/ watercolors + $$$
How can you mention les "tea bags"?!
I'm shocked and deeply saddened. You LIVE in FRANCE girl! Les sachet de thé are not allowed...
Bet I get stoned & lynched here :)
But even I, a strictly hot chocolate-drinker before May, have made the switch over to the real thing.
Do you have the tel# of that shop...? :)

[weirdbunny]

I'm not into fortune telling and stuff but that cup is just so unusual and pretty.

[simple me]

Plain for me too with a piece of nice home made cake :)
No believer in future predictions. The future is made today by us and a bit of destiny.
love
Paula

[diana]

I prefer drinks with ice in the summertime

[mary ann]

i'd rather use a teaball for loose tea...but i drink bagged tea as well...as for reading leaves, i don't...tha's not my cup of tea.

pretty teacup & saucer though!

:) mary ann

[cruststation]

That's an interesting tea cup, imagine finishing your tea and finding a picture of a skull at the bottom...and what do the numbers mean? You're right, I can spend hours trying to decipher it :)

[Shannon L]

Plain and simple. The best.

[susan@artstream]

i like my tea in anything teacuplike, but prefer my coffee in a white cup and saucer too! cup you have shown is delightfuly girly!

[Kristy]

Wet,warm and as it comes along as it's in a China mug!

[Kit]

Pretty cup, but a bit refined for me to use. I like a mug of Rooibos tea and I leave the teabag in as I drink it. It doesn't tell me my future though, leaves me to find out for myself.

[ms*robyn]

ahh dear Corey - you need to visit me & have a 'real' cup of aussie tea - with damper and golden syrup. then you will give up your tea bags!
ps - i prefer to read palms ;)