Tea Time for Pei

There's nothing like a hot pot of tea, a tangerine, and my favorite cup to make a sunny day complete.

Today I brewed a combination of rooibos and blood orange teas and threw in the skin of the tangerine for extra flavor. It's hard to tell in this picture, but the tea is a beautiful bright brown with a tinge of red. Lovely.

The teapot is my latest kitchen find. I've never purchased anything at a thrift store before, but for $3 I could not resist. Plus, it seemed pretty clean. I think someone unloaded his/her stuff on the store, because there was an entire kitchen's worth of things from IKEA, Crate and Barrel, and Pottery Barn (where this teapot is from). Still, I did bleach and boil it when I got home. You never know.

My friend once made fun of me for using such a grandmotherly cup. She told her mom I used a strawberry cup made of English china to drink everything (even water). Her mom told her it was because I'm a lady. Tee heehehehehe. It makes me chuckle, even today.