https://wellington.gen.nz/texture+petone Items tagged with Texture and Petone. http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/09/30/tea-time.aspx It's time to put down that coffee mug and pick up the tea-cup. If you have paid any attention to kitsch culture in Wellington this year, you would have noticed dainty gold-rimmed teacups, high-tea and cupcakes (think Martha's Pantry) are back, which has lead to Wellington's first mass tea-party.The Sip Wellington Tea Party will take place at Chaffers Dock Function Centre this Sunday to celebrate all things tea, and bring back the art of tea-parties.Tea-cup collector Pamela Cronin is organising the event in a bid to reconnect people with the century's old art of tea drinking. Pam says that drinking coffee, and the clumpy mugs in comes in, has become more popular than tea over the years, but tea is due for a renaissance, something that young women are helping to bring back. Pam, and other enthusiastic collectors, will be displaying and selling about 150 tea-cups and saucers at the event, along with all sorts of other tea-related things, such as linen, silverware, Petone book store Poppy's books on tea, local business Shoc's chocolates, including their earl grey flavour. Zarbos, also at Chaffers Dock, will be putting on a high-tea and Old-Band Arcades' Tempt cupcakes will be accompanying the tea with their decorated, designer cupcakes. So make sure you go along, between 10 and 4pm, and revel in the age old tradition of tea (and cupcakes, chocolate, collectables and linen)! -Stacey. . petone places blogs Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://texture.co.nz/blogs/news/archive/2008/09/30/tea-time.aspx Texture 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z -41.2249675 174.8790351 Petone, New Zealand