Oops

I accidentally bought the world’s ugliest teapot.  It’s so ugly that I feel sorry for it and now I’m going to have to buy or make it a new wardrobe. 

A few years ago, when Martha still had her online shop, I fell in love with a teapot with a metal cozy.  It was gorgeous in its simplicity and functionality.  It was white and the metal cozy was a silver metal (aluminum I suppose).  Oh how I coveted that teapot but it was a bit pricey and at the time I was being frugal.  I don’t know how many times I’ve passed on something because its price was just a little above my comfort zone only to think incessantly about the object for ever more.  I should learn.  Just buy it and economize elsewhere. 

I keep thinking one will show up on eBay one of these days and last week when I was doing a search I found a Hall coverlet teapot in yellow that was very similar to my beloved Martha Stewart model.  Only it was yellow.  But I like yellow – I can make it work.  And as luck would have it no one had bid on it yet.  So I placed a bid and won the darn thing.  When the package arrived I tore into it only to be totally disappointed to find that the coverlet part is a urine yellow brushed aluminum.  You should have seen the dismay on my sad little face.  I knew the pot was yellow but I thought the cover was going to be silver.   I actually went back and looked at the listing and sure enough even there it looks slightly yellow.  But then all my pictures have a golden glow so I figured the seller had the same crappy camera I do.

So I think I’m going to have to ditch the metal cozy and make a pretty, embroidered one for it.   I’ve been looking online and haven’t found one I like so I’m going to have to make one.  I’m picturing white linen with pale yellow flowers embroidered on it. 

I bought a book a couple of weeks ago (no danger being a spendthrift here – it was only $3.50) that has hundreds of floral designs and initials.  So I think I’ll monogram my little cozy.