National Hot Tea Month

January is designated as National Hot Tea Month.  I Googled images for this post, and my own image from 2019 was amongst the images displayed!  At my house, every month is hot tea month, but it's especially good on the cold wintry days of January.

Did you have a nice New Year's Day?  Hubby and I stayed in and relaxed while watching movies. I'm not from the South, nor am I superstituous but I fixed blackeyed peas and cornbread for dinner.  First time I've ever made them from scratch [dry peas/beans] and they turned out so tasty, and very healthy.  I opted to leave the collard greens off the menu though. Do you eat blackeye peas on New Year's Day?

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I'm so excited to share the photo below with you.  A former J.L. Hudson's department store employee started collecting vintage Christmas pins in 1976 when she was a manager.  In response to yesterday's post about vintage Christmas brooches, she sent me a photo of an exquisite, one-of-a-kind necklace she made with some of her Christmas tree brooches.  She said she's been asked many times to sell it or to make other ones to sell, but her original is enough for her.  Almost makes you want to start collecting vintage Christmas Tree booches, doesn't it?

She said she has about 100 more Christmas brooches and she uses some of those to decorate a table top tree.  Thank you SO MUCH, Nancy, for sharing.  And thanks to Miss. Merry and Joy for leaving comments too.

Last October, Lorna Reeves, editor of Tea Time Magazine, contacted me about an article Jane Pettigrew was writing about tea cozies to appear in the Jan/Feb. 2023 issue.  In Lorna's research, the Internet led her to me because I had blogged about my traveling tea cozy and Crinoline Lady tea cozy [although I didn't know that's what she was called until I read Jane's article].  She asked if I'd be willing to let Tea Time Magazine use my photos, and, of course, I said yes.

My Jan/Feb 2023 issue arrived in the mail recently.  I love this magazine and have every issue since it began in 2003.  

Jane Pettigrew's article is titled, The Timeless Charm of the Tea Cozy, A "hat" for a teapot, and it appears on pages 76-78.  Both of my cozies are on each side of the centerfold.

For Christmas this year I treated myself to a new felt Union Jack patriotic tea cozy from Harney & Sons.  

I moderate a Facebook group for the ladies of my church and the adorable photo below came through my Facebook feed.   It was too precious to not share.   1 Timothy 6:17b goes perfectly with the picture: ...God richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

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