Afternoon Tea

Pretty Tea Sets Create Charming Tea Parties
Tea Party Time: Use your beautiful porcelain and fine china for an elegant afternoon tea
Holiday celebrations are a great time for an intimate tea party with close friends and family. Saturday afternoons can be very enjoyable. Or April's royal wedding can inspire a tea party featuring English afternoon tea with scones and clotted cream. Any warm afternoon can be a good time, and charming dishes will make the event even more special. Your creative table setting ideas will sparkle with pretty dinnerware and tea sets. Really beautiful teapots, tea sets or china dinnerware to go wi...

Formal Afternoon Tea
Imagine a Different Time
In our active world, taking time to enjoy a formal afternoon tea may be our answer. Imagine a relaxing afternoon break with delicious finger foods and flavorful teas all served in beautiful china dishes. Imagine a time of feeling unhurried, a time of elegance and grace. Imagine the biggest worry you have is what gossip will be shared. Doesn't that sound like something far from your everyday, hectic world? That's what formal afternoon tea should be. Something far from your everyday, hectic wo...

The Great British Cuppa
Let's Have A Lovely Cup Of Tea
Think of afternoon tea... what comes to mind? English ladies sat around a table sharing a pot of tea, maybe drinking from bone china cups and cocking their little fingers. That's what dreams are made of! Tea is a traditional drink served anytime of the day or night and is a must have for the vast majority of Brits... but not this one! Traditionally, tea was brewed from loose leaves in a teapot and served in china cups and saucers. Nowadays it's more likely to be brewed directly in a mug usin...

Tea - Black or Green
The Rise and Rise of Tea
I'm English so I drink tea all the time. I think it's natural that everybody loves it. It's hard to believe that it's a comparatively recent introduction and for centuries it was largely unknown outside China and Japan. The history of tea is long and interesting as are some of the stories, myths and customs attached to it. There are many varieties of tea, each with their own distinctive flavours and characteristics. For many years there have been anecdotes of the healthy qualities of tea and...

Autumn Tea Party Ideas
All About Fall Afternoon Teatime Parties!
Enjoy Autumn English Afternoon Tea Parties and Charming Fall Tea-Related Gifts, Ideas and Products. Use lovely Quotations about Autumn for invitations, great fall scrapbook pages, and cheerful greetings to friends near and far. Fall is the perfect time for a cozy tea party with friends. While the weather cools, a warm cuppa tea will warm the hands, the tummy, and the spirit!

English Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea - So Typically English
English afternoon tea is a tradition going back less than 200 years and was popular among upper class ladies with time on their hands. It's never been a traditional part of the day of the average English person - most were working too hard to take time for dainty sandwiches and cakes and drinking tea out of delicate bone china cups. Even so, in a more robust form, it is a custom that has worked its way through all levels of English society and an afternoon teabreak is something many of us lo...

Morphy Richards Accents Kettle and Toaster
Morphy Richards Accents Kettle
Looking for a Morphy Richards Accents Kettle and Toaster ? Then I can tell you a little more about the Morphy Richards Accents Kettle ... as I own a red Morphy Richards Accents Kettle . This is very much a woman thing ... but when I looked through the pages and pages of kettles on Amazon. Im afraid it was the only kettle that I actually liked the look of !