Tea and White Teacups

I’m a big tea drinker. I like coffee better, but I love teacups, and am in fact a teacup collector. Lately I’ve been getting into drinking tea any time in the mornings, after school and/or after dinner. For each time of day I have a different type of tea. The traditional English Breakfast for mornings, an Afternoon Tea for afternoons, and a Red Chai for after dinner. Sometimes as dessert I make a proper chai (boiling the milk up with the tea leaves, instead of infusing the tea leaves in boiling water and then adding milk as I do with the Red Chai). One of my favourite shops is T2, where I got the Afternoon Tea and Red Chai (the English Breakfast is just a normal Twinings), and my beautiful white teacups and saucers. There is something to be said for drinking tea out of a nicely shaped white teacup. Maybe it’s that the colour (or non-colour) makes the form of the cup more distinctive, or maybe it’s the contrast of the colour of the tea against the cup. Whatever it is, it is certainly a soulful experience. 

Shopping Trip

I haven’t had an enjoyable shopping experience for a while now. Everything has just seemed a little pointless. The clothes have no meaning to me, after a while they all just seem so tacky, useless and wasteful. Shopping centres can do that to you. Living in Canberra means that you can count the number of good shops on two hands, and one hand during a bad season. While increasing numbers of people (and I’ve noticed especially other bloggers) now shop on the Internet, finding many stylish, vintage items, I am without a credit card. Leaving this world closed off to me. Maybe it is just as well.

The other day, however I went to just two stores that I love, and bought two articles of clothing that I can’t wait to wear out. You see, I have a shopping philosophy of quality above quantity, which basically means: buy beautiful, worthwhile clothing that you love, will wear (and enjoy wearing it) and that will last. It means not buying heaps of cheap, badly made clothes. Also, I try to buy clothes with only or mostly natural materials. I couldn’t find a picture of the brown dress I bought, but I can take my own picture of it and post it up. Above, however, is the green top I bought and my grey/blue converse shoes and black skinny leg jeans, that I think will go really well with the purchase. A black cardigan I found, but didn’t buy is also there. I am waiting for it to go down in price. If it ever does…

More Beautiful Flowers

While looking for pictures of the little star flowers, I found some other pictures of flowers that are quite pretty. So I thought I would put them up on my page as well. As you can probably guess I am getting into the idea of spring.

Blue Flowers

When I walked out of my house yesterday morning I was expecting to be greeted with the usual icy, cold air that is so common these winter days, and in the mornings in particular. I was pleasantly surprised however, when I walked outside into reasonably warm weather. I did not have to brace myself and go into automatic shutdown, defense mode so as not to let the cold in. Adding to my general delight was the fact that some of the bulbs in our garden had popped up. These pretty blues flowers that look like small blue stars come every year, they normally mark the ending of winter, and by around the middle of spring a large section of our lawn is gloriously covered with them. So although we still have one more month of winter to go, and the coldness of September to get through, the blooming of these blue stars marked a change for the better for me. Winter will come to an end! Here are some pictures I found of these flowers. 

I'll take my own pictures of them in my garden and put them up, once I figure out how to use the camera.