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How to Make a Tea Cozy with Hedgehog-in-a-Teacup Fabric

Teapot, tea cozy and teacup

A fun project for the tea-lovers among us. Also a great gift. This pattern fits a 4-6 cup teapot but you can scale it up or down as desired. What you’ll need: Fabric (Note: ordering this particular fabric takes up to two weeks, so plan ahead!) Downloadable pattern Light yellow thread (or light blue if […]

‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ by George Orwell

Cup of tea

From the Evening Standard, 12 January 1946: If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, […]

Skull and Crossbones Sugar Cubes

Sugar skull on spoon

From Crnchy.com: Does your morning coffee sometimes taste like death warmed over? Is that last cup of coffee in the pot at the office ominous? You can make that coffee 100% sinister by adding these amazing skull and cross bones sugar cubes to your cup. The cool sugar cubes are not available in stores, but […]

Did drinking insane amounts of coffee make these artists great?

Collage of autor pictures and coffee stains on paper

By Mason Currey at Slate.com: Coffee! It is the great uniting force of my Daily Rituals book. It’s what brings together Beethoven and Proust, Glenn Gould and Francis Bacon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Gustav Mahler. This should hardly be surprising. Caffeine is the rare drug that has a powerful salutary effect—it aids focus and attention, wards […]

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