tea time...?

for valentines day, i really really want a nice tea set.
im putting in my request...
i guess scott makes the final decision? haha.

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts
of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown

 

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.  ~Author Unknown

 

 If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. 

~Japanese Proverb

 

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger
with each year that passes.  ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea"

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.  We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so.  It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.  After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!"  After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!"  After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength.  Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life:  spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!"  ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

 

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."
-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

 

totally kidding... kinda.

im diggin' this set!

 

"If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; 

If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you"

I am going to have to say that the last one is definately my favorite.
The cups are the perfect size and the color and style is just too cute to resist.

 

i also wouldn't be opposed to receiving this screen print from urbanoutfitters.com

just sayin' :)