This is another post about my wonderful Internet friend, Brenda (aka Secret Agent Josephine). If you’re tired of hearing me wax poetic about her, then you’re not welcome here anymore.
Kidding! This is a great story, so stick around.
You all know that this great woman offered to make me a banner (and then sent me five different ones). She then turned her creative genius up a notch and now has a monthly contest to give away a free banner. See her site for the details. I don’t know how she picks the winner, but here’s a tip - she likes Starbucks.
On her site, she has a little “I Spy” graphic. What she does is highlight cool stuff she finds at Amazon.com. (Does that second period look weird, or is it just me?) Anyhow, one day she had highlighted this little tea set:
How cute is THAT? So cute. She then had some sweet reader send one to Baby Bug. I sat here coveting (sorry, God). I wanted one for Emily. It wasn’t expensive, but Emily isn’t quite at the “tea party” stage. I debated back and forth in my mind for about a week.
“She doesn’t need it yet. Wait until her first birthday.”
“But it’s so CUTE. And it’s tin- it won’t break!”
“But then SAJ will think you’re a stalker. Find another one.”
“This set is PERFECT. No other set on Earth WILL EVER COMPARE!”
Oh, the drama that goes on in my mind. You really have no idea. I finally brought it up with Honey, and he told me to just get it already and stop having conversations with myself.
I clicked through SAJ’s site to Amazon and saw that the set was on sale for $8.90. Score! I added the set to my cart…only to get to the checkout and discover that they don’t ship to Canada. OF COURSE they don’t. Sometimes online shopping bites when you’re Canadian, eh?
I checked out Amazon.ca, but they didn’t carry it. I Googled the set on Canadian websites and found one for $19.99 plus $9.99 shipping. A little pricey for my blood. I emailed SAJ to bemoan the shopping options in Canada. She wrote back and told me to just ship it to her and she’d mail it to me. Did I mention that she ROCKS? If I could afford it, I’d buy her her very own Starbucks.
After supper tonight, Matthew and the boys went on another quad adventure. I put Emily in the stroller and we walked down to the mailboxes. The set is here! I raced home and cracked open the package. IT’S EVEN BETTER IN REAL LIFE.
Here’s Emily proving that she has a thing or two to learn about proper cup holding:
Here we are doing “Cheers!” Look at her sweet smile:
The great thing about this age is that I have put the set back in the box and she doesn’t even know that I took it away from her. With the boys that would. not. fly. I can’t wait to see her playing with it with all of her cute little girlfriends. I hope I get to have tea parties with her too. Girls are so much fun! Wheeeee!
I will keep it in the box until her first birthday…though I may have to crack out out the next time I have my girlfriends over.
Tea party, anyone?
17 Comments
It is an adorable tea set - all luscious and limey. My girls LOVED playing “tea” and giving me undeterminable thingies to eat while we had “tea” - even though we aren’t very British, or even Hippies, or even New Age, or even just TEA DRINKERS.
Finally, they wised up and started bringing me COFFEE after I refused a few cups of tea one day.
NOW THAT is something I can sink my imagination into.
Yep, SAJ is cool - totally happenin’ mom with a kicker level of creativity!
Comment by OMSH on April 27th, 2007 @ 9:15 pmtoo cute! it was worth all the work 
Nice to have american friends eh??? OH here’s a tip - Zappos now ships to CANADA. oh boy… sometimes it’s nice that we are limited in online spending!
You two gals look so cute at your tea party!
Comment by Bethany on April 27th, 2007 @ 9:15 pmWhat a lovely little tea set!
I love the pics, so sweet!!
I’ve already put in my order for a girl baby, just have to wait AT LEAST a year or more to see if she’ll come. I had a little tiny tea set as a little girl, not nearly as cute as yours. Yours is the best tea set in the WORLD … or at least in the Okanagan.
You are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE teaparty age. We have kettles and tea pots, sugar bowls, the lot. And it never ever loses its charm.
BTW purchasing tin, is a very good idea, we keep getting chips in ours. Now when Phoebe serves a tea she says “careful with my good china”
I’m so behind on my blog reading… I’m trying to catch up on your entries.
Now THAT’S a blog friendship! How sweet of SAJ!
That tea set looks like it’s made of some metallic-type material? If so, I may need to order one for the chicks in the house. Makenna received a set a few months ago… it was porcelain! Ummmm, she’s 2 1/2. And her sister likes to throw things now. Needless to say, the set is in hiding.
Comment by LVGurl on April 28th, 2007 @ 7:52 amThose cups will hold a shot of DC perfectly. How does a tea party next Thursday morning sound? Ya big MILF!!
Tea Parties are the best. I remember having them when I was a kid and here we have one at least once a day. We have 3 sets. An outside one, an inside one, and a bath one. Emily will love it when she grows a little.
Comment by Kacie on April 28th, 2007 @ 7:17 pmCopycat.
Just kidding. It’s a great little tea set and I’d totally come over to help you break it in.
Comment by reddirtroad on April 28th, 2007 @ 9:50 pmWhat sweet little set. Love to find some fabric like that! Glad she is a tea drinker.
Comment by kelly on April 29th, 2007 @ 9:30 amHow cool! I had a glass set that was my Mom’s and there is only one sad little cup left after little me got through with it.
Hurray for tin
Even though I only have boy’s I’m tempted, but I won’t pay that much just to have it shipped to Canada.
Comment by Christina on April 30th, 2007 @ 8:47 amSAJ is the best. At one point I was going on and on about how much better Mexican Coke was than American Coke, and SAJ went online, ordered a bottle, and then anonymously shipped it to my house. I heart her lots and lots.
Comment by Leah on April 30th, 2007 @ 11:28 am
How cute!!! It is soooo pretty and I love the comment about how you could put it away and she wouldn’t even know. Ah, babies are so clueless!
Comment by Hannah on April 27th, 2007 @ 8:27 pm