Would you join me for tea?

It's reveal day !

Tea Cup Exchange sounds like fun especially more if you collect teacups and teapots. So naturally when I spotted the calling for the exchange, I just couldn't give it a miss. After all, it sounded easy, just sent a tea cup complete with saucer until you wonder how on earth to pack a teacup to ensure it's safe delivery ? Being my first teacup exchange I didn't know what to expect and was rather surprised when my teacup packaged arrived when I least expected it.

Now that is JOY!  

TEACUP that came : All the way from New Zealand, I received this lovely snow white porcelain teacup with delicate embossing details from Kimberley

A close up of the teacup and the scallop edge saucer.

That is not all that Kimberley sent

Take a look at what Kimberley sent along with her teacup besides  a very aromatic New Zealand Breakfast Tea and a special edition of Choco-ade Biscuit where Kimberley wrote only recently made a comeback, so grateful that Kimberley thought of me, now I get to taste the yummy biscuit. I also received a lovely tea towel with peach flowers and a knitted dish cloth knitted by Kimberley  in sweet pink.

Happy dance!

Thank you so much Kimberley for your so wonderful package

and dear Stephanie for hosting this wonderful exchange,

TEACUP that went :For my tea cup partner, Bonnie in NZ , I sent her this sweet rose tea cup that came with a matching box. Can you imagined I tucked everything inside that box with the teacup inside? I hoped by filling up the box, it would protect the teacup on it's journey I simply refused to substitute that box which came with the teacup for a plain postal box.

I choose to sent Bonnie a packet of our local SABAH tea, where its' sprawling tea plantation is surrounded by pristine rainforests in the cool mountain air in Sabah, Borneo, anywhere else will be too humid to grow teas except for Cameron Highlands, our other tea plantations haven  and  two varieties of our local coffee flavors . I would have packed more if only the box would allowed.

While hunting for the teacup, I spotted a Japanese hand-drawn lacquer tea tray

(it's like any other serving tray enough for a cup of tea or coffee and probably a slice of cake),

Japanese craftsman are known for their painstaking craftsmanship and a lacquer work is known to be one of the most complex of all Japan's traditional skills.  A  teaspoon with pink polka dots handle and some candy colored fancy fruits picks went along.  It was a joy to go hunting for Bonnie 's package.

The 9th Tea Cup & Mug Exchange
hosted by Stephanie of

The Enchanting Rose blog.

edited : Sadly to note that the saucer for Bonnie got crushed and shattered  while the teacup is intact. Sweet Bonnie wrote nothing of the crushed saucer in her thank you note but I am truly disappointed and  sadden since it's my first exchange of such.