A long time between posts!

 

The old saying 'How time flies..' is appropriate for us this year as many aspects of our life have needed to take priority. Unfortunately, this has meant that there has been much less activity in the Two in a Teacup studio this year, but we are still managing to produce a small number of our popular little products just in time for Christmas 2025. 

On our Bigcartel shop site there will be a limited number of our vintage paper baubles available and a small number of new Christmas tags coming very soon. Our regular stockists - Cuckoo in Cygnet and Wild Island Tasmania in Salamanca Place will have a range of our nests, vintage paper Heart and Swallow garlands and Heart stones and the lovley little Habëo store in Battery Point will have our special edition Christmas tags available.

As always, we hope that 2025 has been a healthy one for everyone and that the next couple of months in the lead up to Christmas are creative and full of lovely moments. 

We will be doing another blog post before Christmas with an update on any new products we are making, so until then Happy Spring and heres to renewed inspiration! 

Nesting

 

As the year unfolds we have found ourselves collecting and foraging beautiful gifts from nature on our walks on the mountain and also from our own small garden. We are lucky that many of our friends often drop lovely gum nuts, seed heads or moss that they have gathered and saved for us, on our doorstep. We realise, too, that we have developed quite a keen eye for natural treasures that might be perfect for our nests, so we often walk rather slowly to carefully observe the garden and bush around us! We always carry a small collecting bag where ever we go because you never know what you might find but only ever pick up what has fallen and no longer living if it is not from our own or a friends garden.

The making process then begins with sorting which of our finds will work well with the nest we are making at the time. I create a nest shape using the vines and twigs first, let it settle and then begin to weave in small elements to the nest. It always amazes me that each nest seems to have a definite mind of its own that determines which seed pods, dried flower heads, twigs and feathers it actually wants! This makes the nest creating process always interesting and ever changeable, which I love. 

The most recent nest (pictured above) measures approximately 25cm in diameter, so it is quite large. It is on its way to the lovely store at Salamanca Place in Hobart called Wild Island Tasmania.