Purely Tea

Sure, you can brew your tea in a carefully seasoned Yixing pot or a handcrafted cast iron Tetsubin, but where’s the fun in that? A current eBay auction offers you the chance to own your very own haunted teapot.

(Republished with permission of the eBay seller.)

The seller explains:

I ended up taking a total of 20 pictures and they continued to come out like these. The face of this cat is creepy to start with…. As you can see in the second photo there is something else in the photo. I took the photos with fabric behind the tea pot. I can’t explain the dark shape in the pictures.

I think I’ll stick with the teapots I have, but if you’re looking for a conversation-starter for your next tea party, this might be it.

Stymied by what to do with your used Celestial Seasonings packaging? Borrow some inspiration from celebrity fashion designer Brett Cooper. Commissioned by Celestial Seasonings, Cooper transformed close to 700 packets of tea into a Moulin Rouge-inspired gown, complete with matching hat, handbag, and high heels. In video filmed during the making of the dress, Cooper proudly described the model wearing his creation as “a walking teabag tree.”

The red gown was assembled as part of a campaign devoted to raising awareness about the risk of heart disease among women. 8,000,000 American women live with heart disease, and 1 in 3 women in the United States will die as a result.

As a sponsor of the campaign, Celestial Seasonings will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of two new flavored black teas (Vanilla Rose Decaf and Black Cherry Pomegranate) to WomenHeart. The packaging features a red dress icon symbolizing the fight against women’s heart disease.

Celestial Seasonings is also helping to spread the word that antioxidant-rich black tea may help lower cholesterol, a major risk factor of heart disease for men and women.

While you won’t see any tea-influenced couture in my closet any time soon, I will be looking for the Black Cherry Pomegranate Black Tea on my next trip to the supermarket. At $2.99 for 20 teabags, you can’t go wrong.

via PR Newswire