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Owls at teatime
Gawd – there’s so much rain outside I’ve been forced to cook fish pie and dig out a cardigan. I guess summer is over, and it’s time to succumb once again to dark afternoons, cold toes and muddy jeans. So by default, it’s the perfect opportunity to enjoy all the pleasures a good cuppa can offer. Speaking of which, here are a few owlish teatime fancies to tide you through the autumn.
The owl gocco coasters above are de rigeur: you don’t want to scorch your table top. Thank goodness for Kerry Beary’s mid-century modern designs, printed on 100% recycled paper (which is then pounded into a sturdy chipboard bar coaster) and oozing with seventies chic. By the way, if you have fallen for these owl designs, Kerry has also created a set of limited edition, hand printed versions for you to hang on your wall.
While escaping some of the rain today, I found myself steaming in Debenhams (literally) and spotted these owl mugs. Nicely down to earth, with a light-hearted pattern and good ceramic finish, and all for a fiver. Bargain, right? They’ve a touch of the old halloween theme about them too, which is good preparation for the coming months. You can buy them online here, if you prefer to stay dry and shop while you sip…
For a more traditional owl, it’s gotta be Emma Bridgewater, every time. Check out John Lewis for this particular earthenware barn owl design.
Now a proper cup of tea normally involves a scooby snackette too, and if these owl biscuits from an earlier blog post are just too plain, how about an owl cupcake instead? These ones are baked by the Artisan Cake Company, and look just about chocolately enough to warrant a second cup. Roll on winter.
Pears in the kitchen
Just spotted this pear coloured KitchenAid mixer (for, and on, sale) online and thought it would be a good introduction to a few pear-related goodies I have waiting in the wings. I love our red version of the mixer, but this shade is so retro it needs to be used to make something very kitsch and probably green. With this end in mind, I am coveting these beautiful copper coloured, pear-shaped cookie cutters from Amazon, which I reckon you could use to make a huge pile of iced biscuits, perfect for mid-morning snacks, afternoon tea, and everything before and after too.
Check out Cookie Creatives by Jennifer for inspiration – it’s a custom cookie boutique (based in the States, of course) and they have made perfect pear biscuits into wedding favours … or whatever they’re called in Britspeak.
The Owl and The Pussycat biscuits from Artisan Biscuits
This post is all thanks to Domestic Sluttery – I spotted a tweet the other month (yes, I know I’ve been a bit lax about posting recently…) about The Owl and The Pussycat biscuits featured on the DS blog, and naturally my eye was drawn to the word ‘owl’. I must admit that some very nice friends sent me a box of these biscuits a few weeks ago, and I ate ALL of them in one go. You can get them in a special tin though (I saw one in the V&A shop), which you could keep nice things in after you’d snaffled the aforementioned biscuits. I’m thinking buttons perhaps. If you don’t have any buttons for keeps, you could take a stroll to the Button Queen for inspiration.
