Tea, dear?

From the collection of the Princessehof Museum of Ceramics.

Teapots

Keramiekmuseum Princessehof (Princessehof Museum of Ceramics) in Leeuwarden owns a big collection of teapots in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Like the elegant one above, nicely painted and shaped more or less like a handbag..

..and then there's this orange and green duck! :)  The last one is not really 'my' thing though I thought it was special enough to photograph.
Click HERE to see a few more special-shaped teapots that I posted on this blog earlier.

On this last day..

..of 2014 I chose a photo that we made during our Summer holiday in the U.K., of a (in my opinion) typically British shop window in Hawes, a village in the Wensleydale in Yorkshire.

I wish you a wonderful and memorable 31st of December, wherever you are!

Special shaped teapots

If you like tea and you would be interested to hear about its history and see all kinds of things that have to do with tea, the current exhibition in the Keramiekmuseum (Ceramics Museum) Princessehof in Leeuwarden is something for you to visit. I went there yesterday and I just loved their collection of teapots! For this post I chose to show you the weirdest (a tank teapot) and the most stylish shape: the handbag teapot..

from teapot to birdhouse

From a DIY article in a Home & Garden Magazine my husband went to a secondhand store for a teapot, and made this cute birdhouse for our garden..
Now there is only one question that matters: will the birds like it too? We can't wait for Spring to come!  ;)