Loani Prior

One of the things I failed to mention in previous posts is that the Wild Tea Cosy competition was inspired by Loani Prior's wonderful books. 'Wild Tea Cosies' and 'Really Wild Tea Cosies'. You can see a wonderful array of tea cosies on her blog. http://wildforteacosies.blogspot.com/ We're working towards a blog as colourful and entertaining as Loani's.

Here's another posting of Wild Tea Cosies for our competition. We hope you enjoy looking at them. As more comes in we'll set them up on the blog.



I'd like to present a wonderful, traditional tea cosy called 'Slightly Pom', I don't think our photograph does it justice. It has been entered by Connie Arnup who is 94 years old!! There's another one from Connie that we'll add in to a later post.

This is another entry by Barbara Moon, 'Cosy Christmas' is its name. Barbara tells me that the decorations on the sides are removable if you wanted to use them for Christmas tree decorations. Where do these creative people get their ideas??

This is 'Miss Prissy' and I'm glad I'm not judging these tea cosies because I have a soft spot for this little lady. Leonie Margetts let us have this one for the judging, although I'm not sure we'll be selling it when the competition is over.

Tania Pell is responsible for this tea cosy and his name is 'Little Imp', we have two more of Tania's cosies out the back and when time permits we'll post those as well. This is the one that's in the window at the moment.

This little lady 'Fifi' came all the way from Healesville to Foster for the competition and her 'owner' is Lyn Paterson. A bit difficult to see in the photo, but 'Fifi' has a long pink tongue that reaches to her nose.

Here's another of our entries, this one is shaped to represent a book and it's title is 'Teapot Tales', it was entered by Prue Fleming. When you get the chance to look at the back of the tea cosy it actually says 'the end'.........!!

We thought a blog would be a great way to keep our customers and friends aware of what's happening at Foster's Little Bookshop. These are photos of the first of the entries for the Wild Tea Cosy competition that runs until June 24th. Hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we are when receiving them.

This little cosy is called 'A Basket of Flowers' by Barbara Moon. You can see it but there's a small lady bird up amongst the flowers.

This is an entry from Fleur Wheeler, 'Sea Urchin'. Fleur said when she started making the tea cosy she couldn't stop..........it was like eating peanuts!! Fleur is away overseas at the moment and tells me when she returns there is another cosy in the pipeline.