You’re Going to Want a Tea Station in Your Home
It’s a destination, an invitation, and an escape
My grandmother’s wooden vanity table is in the corner of our dining room. It’s close to a hundred years old and not very sturdy. Whatever stool or chair was used with it is long lost. But it has been given new life the past six years since it was passed down to me. Now it’s the table that holds our tea station.
There are not many things that I love to be asked on a chilly afternoon more than, “Would you like a cup of tea?”
It was the welcoming tea stations I’d seen at certain hotels that had given me the idea. They’re stocked with a variety of teas, cups, stirrers, sugar, and milk. I wondered why wouldn’t we have one at home, too? Wouldn’t that make life a little more enjoyable?
This month, a red and white snowflake patterned tablecloth covers the table and hides its delicate spindle legs. A piece of cut glass that has managed to survive all these years lays on top of the tablecloth and holds it in place. It is here that the tea box my mother gave me at my wedding shower sits, filled with a dozen kinds of tea, and surrounded on both sides by our collection of Christmas mugs from the local tree farm. Each one has a unique design and year printed on the side. We each have our favorites.
