I Dreamed A Dream

Dream big.

You may recall that in my previous post about High Tea, I mentioned that as I was setting the table I realized I didn't have a teapot to use.  What a silly predicament!  To serve Tea with no teapot.  In fact I didn't even have anything sortof similar to a teapot... no coffee pot either, no jug, no pitcher, not even a camping coffee pot.  I had the carafe from our coffee maker or a good ol' regular saucepan.  I used the saucepan.

We have a gift card to Macy's that we got from returning a few things we got for Christmas that we absolutely couldn't use.  For instance, one thing I got was some perfume.  I won't be able to ever use it because with my migraines I've become extremely sensitive to those sorts of smells.  (I can't even smell Dan's cologne - which I got for him last year because I loved it. Now it triggers a bad reaction.)  I hate having to return gifts, but we may as well get some use out of the giver's effort and thoughtfulness.  I hate to see that go to waste.  At any rate, when I started looking online for things from Macy's to use up our gift card, the first thing I wanted to look for was a teapot.

I found a few I liked and one topped the list.  It was just the right shape, but the design and color were just ok.  After searching through all the teapots and categorizing them by price (and excluding all the freakishly girly ones, which is most of them), this was the one at the top of the list of the ones I could afford.  Our budget is super-tight (medical bills running rampant over it), and if I don't get a teapot with this gift card, I'm not getting one anytime soon.  I had an idea of a teapot style I wanted in my head, and this teapot wasn't it, but it was good enough. 

Then all of a sudden I saw a different one.  It was actually the same teapot but with a different paint job.  And it was AWESOME.  It was actually the teapot I saw in my head!  It was just the right color, perfect shape and size, flowery and pretty but not too girly, cobalt and shades of blue just like I wanted, no pink, etc etc.  I'm not kidding - I'm surprised this teapot even exists: if I were to design one, it couldn't be more perfectly exactly the thing I was looking for!  Even the teacups & saucers are great (if I ever want to complete the set).  I love them!

...And, Macy's has none of them.  The reason it hadn't come up in my search for 3 hours is that they have none of them to buy!  NOOOOOOOOOOOO!  I did a quick search, and there are plenty of those teapots our there in cyberspace.  Just not at Macy's, which is the only place I'm allowed to shop right now.  Son of a crap.  I showed Dan and whined my best tortured whine, but there's simply no way to fit it into our budget right now.  It's not very expensive, but unfortunately, paying for prescription meds has to come first. 

This photo is the lovely teapot of my dreams.  The pattern is called "Veronica" by Denby.  Cute, right?  I decided not to even order any of the other teapots because I'd rather hold out for this one.  I am spending my gift card money instead on a few other kitchen tools I've been needing.  I'll buy it someday, just not right now I guess.  Everybody needs a dream, I suppose!  Mine right now is a teapot.  Dream big!

Happy tea-ing!