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Not *quite* obsession
Last night I somehow ended up musing (as one will) about the tea cup. How the Chinese and Japanese tea cups don't have handles, but western society? All handles, all the time, and nosy people want to know what's up with that. No, really.
Lots of blah blah blah, and I was soon distracted. Shopping for tea cups without handles. Later, changed to Asian tea cups. Much hilarity, reading reviews of a beautiful stoneware cup with carved bamboo pattern, and the reviews were "too hot to pick up when you first pour in the tea! Do not like!" Etsy was expensive, lovely crafts. Amazon was surprisingly useless. World Market sells stacking sets in various colors (and sizes) of regular tea cups with handles, but the only set of no-handles were murky glazed things that didn't stack, overpriced in a set of 4. Bummer. Various tea websites were of variable help (Teavana had that carved bamboo cup, my beloved Adagio has several pretty colors in simple, 5-oz cups, but you have to buy them in pairs of one color, and the no-handle cups at Stash are too tiny- 2 oz.- or bigger than I want- 8 oz.), and so I was restless, unsatisfied with what I'd found.
Hey, wait, I haven't checked eBay yet! Are... are those famous last words? They should be. I have so far painfully refrained from bidding on a set of 5 tea cups with teapot that have a maneki neko pattern on the sides. I had to close the tab on eBay before I went very far, because if I had found an assortment of even six different solid color 5-oz. cups in a set, I might have been unable to keep from spending money I Definitely. Should. NOT.
Lots of blah blah blah, and I was soon distracted. Shopping for tea cups without handles. Later, changed to Asian tea cups. Much hilarity, reading reviews of a beautiful stoneware cup with carved bamboo pattern, and the reviews were "too hot to pick up when you first pour in the tea! Do not like!" Etsy was expensive, lovely crafts. Amazon was surprisingly useless. World Market sells stacking sets in various colors (and sizes) of regular tea cups with handles, but the only set of no-handles were murky glazed things that didn't stack, overpriced in a set of 4. Bummer. Various tea websites were of variable help (Teavana had that carved bamboo cup, my beloved Adagio has several pretty colors in simple, 5-oz cups, but you have to buy them in pairs of one color, and the no-handle cups at Stash are too tiny- 2 oz.- or bigger than I want- 8 oz.), and so I was restless, unsatisfied with what I'd found.
Hey, wait, I haven't checked eBay yet! Are... are those famous last words? They should be. I have so far painfully refrained from bidding on a set of 5 tea cups with teapot that have a maneki neko pattern on the sides. I had to close the tab on eBay before I went very far, because if I had found an assortment of even six different solid color 5-oz. cups in a set, I might have been unable to keep from spending money I Definitely. Should. NOT.