Aunt Tea

Given, Never Sold

The Handing On

A teacup passing from one pair of hands to another

One woman is clearing a cupboard she has kept for forty years. Another is setting up her first home with a saucepan and a fork.

Pass On A Piece

Her Mother Carried It Here In A Suitcase. Now It Is Yours.

Every piece here arrives with its story attached

What Goes On From Here

  • The Good China

    Twelve settings that came out twice a year and deserve a table that uses them.

    Pass Yours On

  • The Linen And The Lace

    Tablecloths, napkins, a christening gown. Folded away for decades, wanted now.

    Pass Yours On

  • The Machine In The Cupboard

    A sewing machine, a stand mixer, a set of good knives. Working, and going spare.

    Pass Yours On

How It Works

Simple As Handing It Over

A cup handed from one woman to another
  • Given, Or Near It
  • We Make The Introduction
  • You Collect It Yourself
  • A Story Comes With It
A plate passed across a table

Where It Changes Hands

At The Next Tea Party

Most pieces travel across a table rather than through the post. You meet her, she tells you where it came from, and you carry it home yourself.

Every Tea Party

Pass On A Piece

The good china, the linen, the sewing machine. Finished with by one woman, the making of another.

A Royal Albert tea service, twelve settings.

The part that makes it worth passing on. My mother bought this the year she arrived.

Your suburb. Whoever takes it collects it.

Most of these are given.

So whoever takes it knows who to thank.

Every one is read before it goes up.

Come And Sit With Us

8 November The First Tea Party A garden in Melbourne Keep me a place 10 January The January Tea Party A garden in Melbourne Keep me a place 7 February The February Tea Party A garden in Melbourne Keep me a place