A box and a box

I am not good with boxes. They are "not my cup of tea", "not my strong side", "not my line", not me! But! I still have plenty of blanks of different sizes and shapes and want to get rid of them, so here we are - new boxes:



To keep the gardening theme the second one is a seed box:

I am a little teapot...

A small "Teapot" for tea bags

And look at this little chap! I hope it will make you smile!

Tea Box "Have a Cuppa"

This is a last tea box for a while because I run out of blanks! So I put all my ideas in the last one and it seems overdone a bit!.. I even added some tiny cracklings on that yellowish stripe on the lid and insides are stained with tea solution (tea bags to be precise.

Tea Box

I like decorating tea boxes, but the blanks are not that easy to find. Last one I made was in rather rustic style, so that I wanted this tea box to look more elegant. What could be better than blue and white then! This is a quite large box and could be used to store various items, not necessarily tea bags!

Tea Caddy

Tea was introduced to England from China sometime in the middle of the 17th century. Together with the fragrant leaf came the respect for this drink and the ceremonial way in which it was to be prepared and drunk. At the time of its introduction, tea was believed to be therapeutic as well as delicious. The health benefits of tea were known in the East for thousands of years. In England people accorded it time and space and this alone must have had the effect of producing a sense of wellbeing. Tea was and remained extremely expensive for over a hundred years and therefore sparingly used.
The 17th century tea containers were bottle shaped tea jars in china, glass, silver, enamel and straw-work covered metal and later tea caddies were mainly wooden boxes often veneered in tortoiseshell or ivory. It is not until the second half of the 18 century that they were introduced in any numbers as a home-style accessory
( From Here).

In some houses children were allowed to reuse spent tea leaves and sell them as a muslin bags to poorer village people to earn some pocket money. Apparently it was a beginning of teabag industry.
Now tea caddies are mostly antique pieces, but a decorative tea box could be used to store the variety of tea bags. Nice addition to your kitchen, too!