Silver Sunday - It's Raining Teapots !

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It's Raining Teapots!!

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Well it's hot, humid and raining cats and kittens here in Sydney and has been all week. The plant life seems to like it and I'm finding it kind of relaxing myself. Everything is a little greener than usual and the world feels fresh and clean again. Of course if it keeps up much longer I may get a little stir crazy like this little teapot below who wants to go out.. sitting by the window wishing for adventure, or maybe she just needs a nature call.

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So back to the subject at hand.. Silver Teapots!

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Yes I have a few.. The BIG teapot above [the one labelled 'BIG teapot' ha ha] was probably my very first teapot in a long line of teapots! It belonged to my grandmother and at some point ended up in my grubby little hands. It's the only teapot I can recall playing 'teatime' with as a child. A little on the large side for a small child, but it brought with it daydreams of magical places and faraway lands. It must be at least 90yrs old, a little fat around the girth, and polished within an inch of it's life, but I do believe it is still my favourite.

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Now this next fancy number is a little more hoity toity and carries her weight in her thighs!!! Not of vintage heritage, I found her showing off in a window display of L'Occitane home & body products. She thought she was something. So did I!, so I begged the shopkeeper to sell her to me. She agreed to sell once the promotion was over and so a few weeks later, home she came. I think she thinks she's French! When in fact she is actually Indian, which just makes her more exotic to me. I meant to include some Indian tea glasses but somehow forgot and as I'm already running late with post, it ain't going to happen now. Actually she was the hardest to photograph. Every shot reflected miniature upside down Julie's just hanging there, camera in hand, mocking me!!

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The remaining teapots are of various vintage breed and unknown heritage. Orphans, picked up at thrift stores and vintage shops. The one below looks as if it has an image on the front, but yet again it is just some strange reflection. This one also came with sugar bowls to match [which you can see further down the page] so not wanting to break up a family, I bought them all.

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And finally the coffee pot!

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I did try to explain he was not a teapot and could not rightly be included in this post. He wouldn't hear of it. In fact he pushed his way in by pushing out the Alessi kettle who skuttled off back to the stove blowing his whistle in protest. I had to promise him he could be included in a future post. He simmered down a bit once he had let off a bit of steam. Wouldn't want to upset an Alessi!!

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Well that concludes the Silver Teapot post!!

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Strangely I have never consciously collected teapots and these silver ones have many non-silver siblings. They just seem to follow me home.

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Many thanks to Beth for hosting this now ongoing event. Pop over to her blog 'Gypsy Fish blogspot' and see other contributors to Silver Sunday.

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IMAGE SOURCE: Photography and photo editing by me - [Being Ruby]

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