Late Night Tea Crafts

The tea craft I had promised you yesterday I waited too long to post and blogger went down for maintenance...so this post is late, sorry bout that y'all.

I had been wanting for some time to put a few tea related crafts up but I couldn't decide on the best or easiest way to do it. Let's face it, everyone needs a tea cozy for their pot, but how many of you want to sit here and read a pattern for crochet? "ch st 45 across. Make a dbl in the 3rd ch from hook and follow pattern from *" That doesn't sound like m,uch fun to anyone who can't read a crochet pattern. It sounds like alien speak in the words of my hubby and he speaks a few different languages on his own!

I thought up something a little different, but something I am sure you have seen before in another context.
I am sure you have seen the latest fad at parties and that is the wine charms. Everyone has a different wine charm on their glass to identify their own glass.
Well, I do not go to many wine parties. I am more of a Guinness drinker if I am going alcohol drinking.
Nope, I thought why don't we steal the pretentious crowd's idea and make sense of it. We get the kits for the wine charms from any craft store, and instead of putting grapes or cheese or cork screw charms on the rings, we will put tea related charms and then put the rings on our tea cups.
Tha way at a tea party you will know what tea cup is yours.
In the craft set, there is a larger ring that is suppose to go around the neck of the wine bottle, we will use that one to keep track of our little ones and store in the meantime on the handle of the teapot.
Cute, huh?

I get my sterling silver charms from bluemud.com. They have quite a selection of charms. I had thought of the different teapots they have, or cups, tea tags, ladies hats and spoons would all be great charms for the tea cup rings!
I have a military charm bracelet and my hubbers bought me a chef's charm bracelet complete with a tiny chef's hat and saucier pans. BUT the bracelet I want is on Scent by Spirit web site and it is a tea cup and teapot charm bracelet.
No tea Mistress should be without her own tea charm bracelet! (Hint hint, hubby, hint, hint!)

Oh, bother! The sprites have been busy as well this evening. I see my book on how to tea dye has disappeared. It was right here a minute ago! This book shows how to dye with tea and how to make sure the color stays true. Since I am a witch, I make my own "spell" paper. Teas of all kinds play a roll in the color of these papers.
I guess, thanks to the sprites, I will have to tell you about it on another post.
I guess I better quit while I am still somewhat ahead!

Brightest tea blessings!
Saphyre