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Reading Tea Leaves

                      

What does your fortune say? Do you drink it readily or swirl your cup around? Do you take lumps of sugar, or need a spoon to lean on?

Saw this teacup at a shop near my hometown. I didn’t buy it, though I liked the colors, and drink tea. The idea of a tea leaves sitting in my teacup waiting for me to read them, wasn’t a tea cozy idea…

As you can guess, my imagination doesn’t need help wondering about such things! That teacup and I, could spend countless hours together discussing the unseen, the unknown or the unspoken.

A plain white tea cup, and tea bag, is my cup of tea!

Comments

44 responses to “Reading Tea Leaves”

  1. ms*robyn

    ahh dear Corey – you need to visit me & have a ‘real’ cup of aussie tea – with damper and golden syrup. then you will give up your tea bags!
    ps – i prefer to read palms 😉

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  2. Kit

    Pretty cup, but a bit refined for me to use. I like a mug of Rooibos tea and I leave the teabag in as I drink it. It doesn’t tell me my future though, leaves me to find out for myself.

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  3. Kristy

    Wet,warm and as it comes along as it’s in a China mug!

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  4. susan@artstream

    i like my tea in anything teacuplike, but prefer my coffee in a white cup and saucer too! cup you have shown is delightfuly girly!

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  5. Shannon L

    Plain and simple. The best.

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  6. cruststation

    That’s an interesting tea cup, imagine finishing your tea and finding a picture of a skull at the bottom…and what do the numbers mean? You’re right, I can spend hours trying to decipher it 🙂

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  7. mary ann

    i’d rather use a teaball for loose tea…but i drink bagged tea as well…as for reading leaves, i don’t…tha’s not my cup of tea.
    pretty teacup & saucer though!
    🙂 mary ann

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  8. diana

    I prefer drinks with ice in the summertime

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  9. simple me

    Plain for me too with a piece of nice home made cake 🙂
    No believer in future predictions. The future is made today by us and a bit of destiny.
    love
    Paula

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  10. weirdbunny

    I’m not into fortune telling and stuff but that cup is just so unusual and pretty.

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  11. carolg@PB

    I LOVE & covet this cup!!
    Buy it for moi & I’ll pay ya back w/ watercolors + $$$
    How can you mention les “tea bags”?!
    I’m shocked and deeply saddened. You LIVE in FRANCE girl! Les sachet de thé are not allowed…
    Bet I get stoned & lynched here 🙂
    But even I, a strictly hot chocolate-drinker before May, have made the switch over to the real thing.
    Do you have the tel# of that shop…? 🙂

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  12. carolg@PB

    P.S…I thought you said you were a little dyslexic ?
    Have you any idea how tough it is for the dyslexies out here to type in those scrambled letters?
    Hmmm..it could be a good brain exercise I suppose…

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  13. Jeanne

    A cup of tea and thee
    Both fabulous and divine!
    Love everything you post
    the most girlie girl!

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  14. blackbird

    Oh no…I couldn’t drink from this cup either…

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  15. Joy Eliz

    Oh what a lovely tea cup! The fortune part would never work for me…I use a bag too:)

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  16. Anne

    I have always found fortune telling rather frightening. But, the teacup is an interesting one.
    Tazo Passion tea is the tea for me…hot or over ice. =)

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  17. andrea edwards

    Heehee, I get spooked easily too.
    a.

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  18. susanna

    What a fun teacup! Of course I’d end up swirling my tealeaves around until I had a good reading. No skulls for me! What would the butterfly mean?

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  19. Annieelf

    Simple is definitely best, especially when the pretty little cup has a SKULL in it. What’s with that???

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  20. Sarah Scott

    Beautiful tea cup, but the skull would be a bit much for me too. 😉

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  21. josephine

    I love this teacup! Especially the skull! Morbidity as a regular part of the day, I get it…it’s kind of like shock therapy. If you see it everyday, it won’t spookk you as much!!

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  22. madeleine

    Early grey, with the yummy bergamot aroma, does it for me everytime.
    My grannie, still drinks from a cup like this everyday, and it suits her hand. Not mine. 🙂

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  23. snowsparkle

    my tea cup is zen and has no handle so it can be sipped from any side and can rest in the cup of my hand… like you said, “simple” is the best kind of cup to enjoy the subtleties of tea.

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  24. la vie en rose

    this is so lovely. i just love all the tiny pictures inside.

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  25. Cat

    Oh dear…for me…it’s coffee or beer… and I don’t find my fortune at the bottom!
    And you never run out of ideas! Love to read your blog!

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  26. Tiffini Elektra X

    Oh wow that tea cup is flippin’ fantastic!! I am completely smitten with it – and the mint green. . .

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  27. mikaelah

    I love the color of that cup and saucer! I drink my tea fast and my coffee slow. I love the fortunes that come in the cookies and would rather read those instead of the leaves.

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  28. naturegirl

    Lovely saucer and tea cup. The cup tells a story without the tea leaves! You didn’t buy it!

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  29. deirdre

    Gorgeous cup and saucer. But much too delicate for me. I too prefer a solid mug for my tea.

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  30. jennifer

    hot or iced
    dainty cup or mug
    loose or teabag
    I simply love tea!
    Never read my leaves… Could be entertaining!

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  31. Catalina

    I am a “coffe person” but I learned to have tea with my husband and now I like it as well, not “english way” though…..just plain and NEVER, but never in a tea bag! 😉

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  32. Kristen Robinson

    This is a very intereting cup so dainty and beautiful with interesting images on the inside that stir a bit of imagination. I too love my tea and often wonder if the tea leaves left at the bottom mean anything.
    My Best-
    Kristen

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  33. Willow Grace

    That’s one of the funnest tea cups I’ve seen! I’d hope my leaves stayed clear of that skeleton!

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  34. herhimnbryn

    Earl Grey
    Lapsang Souchong
    Russian Caravan
    Orange pekoe
    I fell for the names initially and after trying the teas became hooked!

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  35. Britt-Arnhild

    As a collector of china, and a tea drinker, I couldn’t have resisted this beautiful cup.

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  36. gracia

    Ohh, I love the idea of a spoon to lean on… I must head to the kitchen and enlist the aid of several shiny spoons, it’s been a long day.
    Thanks for solving another mystery for me… not taking sugar in my tea, I never realised what the spoon was in aid of – now I know.
    take care, g

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  37. gracia

    Ohh, I love the idea of a spoon to lean on… I must head to the kitchen and enlist the aid of several shiny spoons, it’s been a long day.
    Thanks for solving another mystery for me… not taking sugar in my tea, I never realised what the spoon was in aid of – now I know.
    take care, g

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  38. arttealife

    Hello hello!
    back from vacation and catching up on your blog little by little on breaks at work….
    This post so wonderful
    I have added it under my Tea Time notes and links column.
    Thank you for putting beauty in my life over and over again.
    Have loved seeing Willows and your family .
    Love (as always) S.

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  39. delila

    Though you like just a plain white cups. Maybe we can do a tea cup and tea swap sometime 🙂
    This cup is GORGEUS!
    I love all kind good natured magic, including reading from tea leaves

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  40. Maureen

    i like the tea cup for its shape and its whimsical printed patterns. i would have bought it if it was too much$ 😉

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  41. Belle

    I came across your blog while searching for inspiration for a tea party I am having. Google linked to your page and I saw this fabulous tea cup! I was so ecstatic to find this, and I recognize that this post comes about a year late, but is there any way you could tell me where you saw it at? I’d be so grateful! Thanks, and keep up the marvelous blog.
    Belle

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  42. Belle

    I came across your blog while searching for inspiration for a tea party I am having. Google linked to your page and I saw this fabulous tea cup! I was so ecstatic to find this, and I recognize that this post comes about a year late, but is there any way you could tell me where you saw it at? I’d be so grateful! Thanks, and keep up the marvelous blog.
    Belle

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  43. Margot the Marrakesh Mystic

    What a lovely picture of a special teacup! I came across your website after searching for blogs that discuss reading tea leaves (after having posted a detailed entry in my blog on exactly this subject, I wanted to see if anyone else was addressing it).
    Margot the Marrakesh Mystic
    http://margotmystic.blogspot.com/

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  44. Kelly

    Wow- I actually just bought this teacup today! It is exactly the same except mine is a pretty light pink color.

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