Teapots and Beanie Babies

Morpeth is a unique craft village in the heart of the Hunter Region. Keith took me there on Saturday to look for some beanie babies I had heard were in a store there. Lucky me! There happened to be a teapot festival going on with almost 4,000 teapots from all over Australia as well as England and China. Unlucky Keith. There were functional as well as nonfunctional teapots for sell. You can seriously make anything a teapot.






These are just a few of the many there were to look at.

The Queen has a spout at the top of her forehead. It was kind of hard to photograph behind glass.

Bunny Teapots
Turkey Teapots


This is a koala teapot that sits on its own tea cup and saucer. I liked this one a lot but it was $145 Australian dollars.

The "Teatanic," how cute is that?

Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman have teapots made in their likeness.

Evidently, you also need a cosy for your teapot to help keep your tea warmer. There were also many varieties of those.

What to buy, what to buy...it is so hard to decide.

How about this tea cosy hat? She was in the moment. Don't worry Candice and Kelsey...it was not for sell. I have made a decision.

I will be serving my friends Peppermint tea in my new Christmas teapot!

There was even a band for Keith to listen to while I did my shopping.

Guess, it was not his type of music. Looks like he made due with a paper. What a great sport.

The Campbell's Craft Centre has 13 specialty shops, one of which sells bears (the reason I wanted to go in the first place). There was also a great tea room where we had morning tea, and raisin toast.

As I was still shopping when it came time for lunch, we also had a great sandwich there. It was grilled vegetables on turkish bread that included sweet potato, avocado, sundried tomato, cheese, and mushrooms. It was delicious! I had a great day but spent so much time there I did not make it to the other places I had planned to go. Maybe, if I'm good, he will take me back before we leave.

I managed to complete two of the Asia-Pacific sets of the 5 I had started and bought 3 or 4 others to add to my collection.




I still have a few months left to hunt. It was a successful day and the teapot festival was just a bonus!