Sadness into Squee

Earlier this week, I broke my teapot.

Please take a moment with me to be sad. *sob*

The strap of Dan's lunch cooler managed to get wrapped around the lid so when I grabbed the cooler off the counter to put it up, CRASH. Little pieces of teapot lid everywhere.

I was very sad (and still am a bit). I've enjoyed that teapot for quite a while now. Since my first glass teapot was broken (due to an unfortunate encounter with a Pyrex measuring cup)... Glass teapots just don't last very long around here. But I love watching the tea steep in them so I will continue to buy them. Hopefully at some point though I will stop continuing to break them.

Anyway, so I bought another teapot and it just arrived in the mail.

Cutest. Teapot. Ever.

Okay, okay. Maybe there are cuter teapots out there. But I really am in love with this. More so than I thought I'd be. It's a Teaposy Daydream Teapot (purchased from Amazon) and it has one of the most serious in-spout filters I've seen.

It's not just a single metal loop, stretched to fill the spout. This puppy has two layers of looped wires - one to stretch up the spout and one to stay flat across the spout opening. And it's got little loops around the edge of the flat section to prevent leaf from slipping between the spout opening and the strainer.

Yeah, this might not be a big deal to the non-tea people out there. But color me impressed.

Of course, right now I'm going through panic mode where every time I touch the pot, I think I'm going to shatter it into a million pieces. It takes a few days for that feeling to go away. Until then, I will be very very careful when brewing tea and perhaps a little tense. And I will spend some time thinking of how to make this one last longer.

Yay for new teapots! Squee!