It’s true that teapots come in all shapes and sizes. It is also true that sometimes things happen to our beloved teapots and a spout gets broken or a lid goes missing.
The teapot on Teapot Tuesday today was one that was left in our house (along with a lot of other items) when we rented it out while we lived in Australia. I could not bear to part with any teapot regardless of the sometimes bad feelings I harbored toward our renters so I repurposed the little guy over the years to be used for various things. Recently he was the perfect home for some of my succulents that were in need of a new habitat.
Pretty cute little thing, don’t you think? And a great way to use a teapot that is less than perfect. Add a little cactus soil with some drainage rocks and you are good to go. There is nothing like these little “hen and chicks” when it comes to easy growing.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Leave a commentCute blue and white teapot – yes perfect for those hens n chicks! My hens and chicks have had babies!! Numerous times….
Don’t you just love hen and chicks? They are the plant that keeps on giving and giving and giving and giving!
good idea
Thanks!
Giggling because I’m imagining your previous renters having tea parties in between their wild romps destroying things. It’s a beautiful way to repurpose it!
Yes! In between the keggers and the crazy basement parties where holes in walls were part of the game….I had to put a nice twist on it, right? 🙂
Bahaha! Now, I’m giggling Jeni!
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A perfect use for a lidless teapot!
It is, isn’ t it? And how many little pots lose their lids? A lot!
I think it makes an adorable little planter!
Thanks!! Me, too!
What a great repurposing of an otherwise unusable teapot.
Yep. Trying to find a use for broken things is a good thing, right?
I LOVE this! Not only do I think it makes an adorable planter, but Hen & Chicks make me remember my childhood as my grandparents had a HUGE bed of them! Loved them!
I love hens and chicks. I have plans for the new place and they definitely include hens and chicks!
I am glad you found a way to keep your teapot looking well.
Thanks! It is cute, isn’t it???
Good idea!!
Thanks! I try to think of ways to be creative and every now and then I get a winner.
what a great idea!! and I do love those little hens and chicks too. I put them in my kids gardens and they love touching them (the non prickly ones!)
They are the perfect thing to stick in an old teapot, don’t you think?
Nice!
What a wonderful planter.
Thank you!
Good reuse for the teapot. It’s so pretty, I’m glad you kept it. Renter stories are like that so often. At least, those are the ones we hear about.
We are trying to be good renters in Alabama! So far so good! 🙂
Very nice!
Thank you!