droolicious : tea sets

For a Gender-Neutral Tea Service

Heather Kuldell — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:06:00 GMT

Tea: It's not just a girl thing. Some little boys like play tea time too. While many tea sets cater to a frilly, flowery crowd, the Curious George Tin Tea Set ($15.38) opts for bright red, yellow and of course, the eponymous monkey. The 15-piece includes a serving try and service for four, no matter what gender the guests may be.

Have Afternoon Tea With These Bunnies And Their Pals

Lisa Estall — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:23:00 GMT

Have a tea break with Kata Golda's Bunnies and Party Tea Set.

The set includes six tea cups and a teapot which are made of soft-white glazed stoneware. Designer Kata Golda created the delicate illustrations of bunnies and their animal pals on each cup. I would recommend getting this for older children since there's less chance of breakage!

5% of all proceeds are donated to local elementary schools for art supplies, books, and organic gardening.

Price is $168 and sold at Fawn and Forest.

Take Tea Time Up a Notch

SunnyChanel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:38:00 GMT

About four or five times a day I go thru the same ritual. The toddler tea party. As much patience as I attempt to possess during the pretend pouring and sipping, it would be great to push tea time up a notch. And I think I figured out how, with the Kid Kraft Prairie Tea Set.

This isn’t just the cups and saucers like we use now, this set includes sugar cubes, tea bags and mixing spoons. It takes the tea party to a whole new seeping and stirring level. Plus it’s pink, brandished with hearts and cute. That will make it an instant hit. Enjoy your own tea time from Amazon on sale for $18.08 (regularly $30.90) here.

Win This! A Fabric Tea Set from Pottery Barn Kids!

SunnyChanel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30:00 GMT

Put away that fine China. Don’t even think of using it for your child’s play tea party. What you need is something durable, attractive and most importantly unbreakable. Pottery Barn Kids and Babble are giving away 10 of these Fabric Tea Sets so you can have a worry free and totally stylish tea party. This cotton and corduroy set includes a pink tea kettle, four cups and saucers, a carrying tray and a mesh cover.

Enter to win one of the 10 sets by emailing us at babbledesign@gmail.com with the subject line TEA SET. Your entry must be in by noon (PST) on December 16th. One entry per household.

PLUS you can just go buy a set for yourself for a song since they have just been put on sale! The Fabric Tea Set is on sale for $24.99 (regularly $39) and the Fabric Tea Pot is $7.99 (regularly $16). And both include FREE SHIPPING. Now that’s a prize in itself. Check it out here!

Green Tea, Thumbs Part of Green Toys' Spring '08 Line

Aaron Burgess — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:03:00 GMT

A while back, we covered San Francisco-based Green Toys' venture into corn-based bioplastic playthings -- well, the company's resources seem to have changed a bit since then, but the output is as green as ever. This 27-piece Green Toys Cookware and Dining Set ($39.95 at Rabbit Kinney) is part of a new line of recycled-plastic toys that also includes a Tea Set, an Indoor Gardening Kit, and a Sand Play Set. Though it's not corn-derived (the actual material is high-density polyethylene, or HDPE), each set is made in California using recycled milk containers as its primary material. The toys also feature no external coating (and pose no lead-paint risks) and undergo testing to ensure no traceable amounts of Phthalates or BPA.

And thus concludes today’s chemistry lesson – for more information on Green Toys, including info on where to find them locally, visit the company's site.

We're Having a Party! A Tea Party!

SunnyChanel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:05:00 GMT

Kids love a tea party. They become oddly entranced in the fantasy of passing pretend scones, cucumber sandwiches, and cupfuls of clotted cream. This slightly archaic rite of passage not only fosters their imaginations but they learn age-old manners, etiquette and customs, albeit a set of formalities that is more in tune with the lifestyles of ladies who lunch, grandparents and our friends across the pond.

Knowing the significance and importance of a child’s first tea set, I spent way more time than I should have picking out my daughter’s introduction to drinking hot beverages with pinky aloft. I now know I settled, miserably. I got her some tin flowered atrocity not knowing that the Syhylling Modern Tea Set was out there and available for purchase for a mere $21.00. Looking at this set, I think they’ll be way more tea parties in my future.

Rock the Retro: Go Buggy for Schylling's Tin Tea Set

Mir — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:00 GMT

I had a tin tea set when I was little, and I was delighted to see that Schylling still makes an array of tin sets. This is the summer bug set -- it's not quite as retro-feel as the floral ones, but a nice meeting of old and new sensibility, I think. $13.79 at Amazon.