More teapots

[liv]

Thanks for all your helpful comments and suggestions about teapot aesthetics and gender! In the end I settled on a Denby teapot that looks a bit like this picture. I think it's a bit more original, and likely to be easier to clean, than a transparent Bodum one. Then I used lots of creative googling to find a website that would sell it to me for a reasonable price and accept my foreign bank card. Conclusion: yay, I have a Christmas present for my Beau.

Even more yayful, though, is that teapot karma has returned to me with amazing speed. I went to a Progressive committee meeting this evening, and it was as usual both enjoyable and productive. Now, the thing is that I had invited the chairman of the committee to my teaparty last week (though she couldn't make it in the end), as she's become a personal friend and gets on well with cartesiandaemon. So she knew that my 30^th birthday was coming up, and decided to club together with the committee to buy me a present. And guess what they chose? A teapot for the eccentric British tea addict!

It's really pretty, too, it's a unique artist-made one with a spout shaped like a sort of Viking bird's head. Apparently the potter assured EBH that it's a real teapot that will take hot tea and pour properly. Squee!

Comments

[darcydodo]

Ooh, that's very pretty. And it's vaguely reminiscent of metal, which reminds me of what he was saying he wanted.

By the way, I sent your present off to your parents last... Friday? I think? (or maybe it was Saturday). In any case, hopefully it will arrive in plenty of time for your birthday!

[liv]

Thank you for sending me a present, that's really sweet of you. I am looking forward to finding it when I get to England!

I know that cartesiandaemon was talking about metal, but I don't think metal is a good material for a teapot, the tea picks up the tang of the metal, plus the metal conducts heat away from the tea. One of the ideas I had was to get a pot with some shiny metallic glaze, but this one I think is shiny enough to count.

[pne.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty teapot!

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[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

Very pretty, and much more original then a Bodum one.

Squee! :D

[liv]

Aw, thank you. It's nice when people are positive about mild couply joy. I did in the end want a teapot that won't be found in every kitchen belonging to people who care about aesthetics but don't have much money, because it's supposed to be a present that will be personal. So, yay.