This week I am featuring a teapot that a very special young lady gave to me. When I lived in North Carolina we were a part of a wonderful and loving church family at Fair View UMC in Mount Mourne. One of the things that we did for our confirmation class was to have along with mentors–secret pals. Being the secret pal was pretty cool because you got to deliver gifts and notes of encouragement and be a part of the confirmand’s journey from afar until the big reveal. It was not quite of the “Move that Bus” magnitude of Extreme Makeover but it was pretty awesome all the same.
My confirmand was the daughter of one of my friends and it was pretty cool to be able to shower her with notes and gifts along the way. Her name was, and still is, Meghann and she is getting married within the next week. Meghann gave me this special teapot quite awhile ago and I wanted to honor her and tell her that I still remember and wish her and her new hubby the best!!!! Thanks, Meghann!
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Leave a commentyou have a bunch of pots I’ve never looked at! The “saying” on this one is pretty cool.
It is a neat one, isn’t it?? I may have to get more display space one of these days!!!!
Oh, Beth Ann, you are such a sweet, sweet person. Thanks for being such a wonderful mentor to my baby! I so wish you could be here to see her walk down the aisle on Saturday. I will send you the link to the wedding pictures once they are online. Love you and miss you!
I was just thinking that this would be the right week to feature “her” teapot! I took a ton of pics before we “moved” to Ohio and was glad that I had taken that one!! Seemed the appropriate time. Please DO send me the link—-I know she will be a stunning bride. Wishing them all the happiness in the world and then some!
Love the recipe… This tea should be served with “Angel Food Cake”
That is a great idea!!!
I understand how this is a special teapot and the recipe is beautiful also. I think that the Angel Food Cake idea also is great.
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This is a beautiful teapot, and the memories are just as precious, if not more. I agree on the Angel Food Cake. Let us eat cake! 🙂
I’m working on putting together a sale of teapots. I haven’t had Angel Food Cake in a long time.
I know—all this talk about Angel Food Cake has made me hungry!!! Bet you are finding lots of teapot treasures!!!
Its more difficult than what one might think. So much of it is mass production stuff. Or I run into people who expect retail prices for theirs. Frankly retail prices mean nothing to me. Whatever I get I have to consider how much postage it will cost to send it to someone. Postage will turn off customers faster than anything else. Something else that I have been selling our cookbooks. People like those. I do have a limit of how much I will pay for those. Anything over 2$ then I won’t buy it.
Oh I think you are being very wise about the postage thing—that is always what I look at when I Ebay it!!! If it seems unreasonable I won’t even consider it. I ship enough stuff of my own that I know what the going rates are and I am happy to pay what the fair price is but not an inflated price!!! Cookbooks are awesome! I have quite a collection of those and there are always such neat ones! I just unearthed a huge one here at my father in law’s which is at least 4 inches thick–Mary Margaret McBride’s Encyclopedia of Cooking! It is pretty incredible and still in fairly good shape for its age!!! Yay!
That’s Great. What kind of shipping do you do? My niece who is 10 got all excited about an American Girl Doll she found on E-Bay for 3$. When my sister looked at it they wanted 24$ in postage. Needless to say my sister said no way! To me if postage evens out over the long term then that is fine. I found a cookbook that celebrated a churches 160 year anniversary and posted it. Their Historical Society say it and bought it. I made maybe a dollar off of it but it will brng them joy.
My shipping basically consists of shipping CARE packages to the boys!!! But we used to have a business and I did all the bill of ladings and shipping via UPS, etc. so I got used to it!!! That church was so lucky to find that cookbook of yours!! Awesome! Even if you didn’t make much on it you made a lot of folks happy!
We used to do something like that called secret couples every Christmas when we were in The Engaged Encounter ministry. It was lots of fun.
What a great gift for you.
Engaged Encounter reminds me of our Marriage Encounter days!!! That was a few years back!!! Love the secret couples idea!
I will try to follow that recipe 😉
That soft purple color is so nice to look at