Find a year’s worth of tea party inspiration to celebrate the seasons and holidays. You’ll find tea-pairing suggestions, party themes, DIYs, as well as easy and delicious recipes to enjoy with your favorite cuppa and for teatime.
Welcome to a special edition of Tea on Tuesdays!
Pam and I are celebrating our one year anniversary of Tea on Tuesdays
and taking a look back at our year of tea.
This is a photo heavy post, so pour yourself a cuppa or a tall glass of iced tea and get comfy!
Click on the highlighted links if you’d like more details and/or recipes.
You’ll find the giveaway details at the bottom of this post.
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The Bee’s Knees Summer Tea and Sweet Beehive Cakelets
Find buzz-worthy ideas for a bee-themed tea party,
including Bee’s Knees iced tea, bee-studded teapot flower arrangements
and a recipe for Beehive Mini Cakelets.
DIY Tiered Tea Server with Plates
Find the easy steps and supplies to make a tiered server or 3-tier cake stand for teatime.
Use assorted patterned plates or matching ones, whatever your preference,
shopping at resale, thrift stores, or my favorite source, HomeGoods!
DIY Flower-Shaped Sugar Cubes for a Tea Party
Flower-shaped sugar cubes make a fun addition for a tea party or party favor!
They come together in less than 10 minutes and can be customized,
using the colors and flavors of your choice.
Pumpkin Loaf Quick Bread with Maple Glaze + Tea on the Porch
Celebrate fall and pumpkin season with an easy one-bowl, no-mixer, Pumpkin Loaf Quick Bread.
Oh so moist, full of pumpkin spice flavor and topped with a sweet Maple Glaze!
A perfect sweet treat for teatime or your morning cup of coffee.
Halloween Tea on the Porch with the Skeleton Crew
Regular readers know my love of Halloween!
Rod and Rowena are tea enthusiasts and came out of the closet to have tea on the porch
and indulge in some sweet treats for our October edition of Tea on Tuesdays.
☠️ 🎃 🍬 ☕ 💀
Giving Thanks for Tea and Easy Teatime Treats
Join me for Pumpkin Spice Chai Tea and easy teatime treats with Thanksgiving-inspired flavors . . .
Sweet Tea Sandwiches with Honey-Cinnamon Cream Cheese and Toasted Pecans;
Turkey Cranberry Pinwheels; Goat Cheese-Cranberry-Pistachio Phyllo Tartlets;
Pumpkin Spice Sandwich Cookies and Harvest Corn
Merry Nesting with Cardinals and Tartan Plaid + Christmas Tea
Sip on English Tea Shop Holiday Blend Tea and find and easy way to create a
tiered server without harming your plates using Museum Putty!
Indulge in Cranberry-Pistachio-Orange Peel Fudge, Claxton Fruit Cake,
Chocolate-dipped Madeleines and Petit Fours
Cozy Winter Tea with Snowmen, Cardinals and Sweet Snowballs
January weather calls for pulling out the snowman teapot and mugs!
We’re sipping on Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea by our Winter Nesting Tree.
Enjoy melt-in-your-mouth Snowball Cookies covered with a blizzard of confectioners’ sugar.
Red Velvet Scones with White Chocolate Chips
Find a recipe for Red Velvet Scones, an easy teatime treat!
Studded with white chocolate chips, they start with a box of cake mix
and are topped with a simple vanilla glaze.
Enjoy the Red Velvet Scones with Chocolate Chai Tea for a delicious pairing.
An Irish Tea with Belleek and Shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an Irish Tea with Shamrocks.
O’Neills Shortbread Sheep and Shamrock Spinach-Artichoke Tea Sandwiches,
paired with Blarney Blend Black Tea
Spring Tea Party with Peter Rabbit + Sweet and Savory Treats
Take inspiration from Beatrix Potter’s classic tale and celebrate Spring with a tea party with Peter Rabbit.
Find recipes for Garden Veggie Spread Tea Sandwiches, Flower Sugar Cubes
and Everybunny’s favorite Carrot Cake Cupcakes, that hop from a box cake mix for easy baking!
Lakeside Tea with Peonies and Easy Technique + Recipe to Make Rosette Cookies
Drink in the floral notes at a lakeside tea table and setting.
Find an easy technique and recipe for Rosette Cookies with Almond Buttercream,
a sweet treat and pairing with China Rose Petal Tea.
Sweet Land of Liber-Tea and Patriotic Tea Party
Celebrate the Red, White and Blue with a Patriotic Tea Party for Independence Day.
You’ll find centerpiece and tea party inspiration with Liber-tea and sweet treats for all!
Teatime with Lemons and Bees + Easy Recipe for Freezer Lemon Dessert Bars
Cool off with a refreshing, no-bake summer dessert, Lemon Freezer Bars.
Quick and easy to make and pull out of the freezer when you you’re craving a creamy, lemony treat!
To celebrate our year in tea, Pam and I are each giving away a teacup, along with a copy of
Come for Tea: Favorite Recipes for Scones, Savories and Sweets
By Lorna Reeves, editor of the award-winning TeaTime magazine:
Find beautiful table settings and menus for the five most-celebrated special occasions celebrated with afternoon tea―Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas―plus an “à la carte” section featuring TeaTime magazine’s all-time favorite recipes for scones, savories, and sweets for creating your own afternoon-tea menu. Find a perfectly paired tea to complement each course, and a tea-steeping guide to ensure each infusion is properly prepared. With more than 100 recipes in its 136 full-color pages, Come for Tea will help make celebrations simple yet elegant. Each menu is certain to delight.
Feast your eyes and your tastebuds. . .
I love these adorable Egg Salad Baskets for Easter. . .
And pretty tea sandwiches with a roasted asparagus spear tied with a chive as a garnish.
Scone fans will find recipes and flavor combinations of Cinnamon-Currant,
Zucchini-Walnut with a Creamy Brown Sugar Spread,
Rosemary Fig, and White Chocolate-Peppermint Scones, to name a few.
To enter the giveaway and for a chance to win a copy of Come For Tea and teacup:
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This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight July 31st.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
Visit Pam to see her year of tea and chance to win a pretty teacup
and copy of Come For Tea:
Growing up Tea Time was every meal with my maternal grandparents who were from Ireland. Regardless of the season a cup or two of hot tea was always poured from the Rockingham teapot to all gathered around the table.
Today I fondly remember those fun and wonderful times.
I love raspberry and orange teas! So delicious!
Living in a retirement community tea time would be a great monthly idea for our get together. What great ideas I could have with this book. Thanks for sharing these awesome ideas.
You and Pam are the two blogs I view after morning devotions. Both of you lay a beautiful table, in wonderfully cared-for gardens. Earl Gray is a wonderful tea, although I love exploring all varieties according to the seasons. Thank you for all your suggestions. I have tried several recipes with my Mah Jongg group.
Just wonderful! Congratulations to you and Pam! Great giveaway!
Good morning, Mary. What a beautiful round-up of all things tea. Tea on Tuesdays is so much fun and I have enjoyed sharing it with you. All of your beautifully presented treats have made me hungry this morning. Stay cool and Happy Tuesday!
My favorite teatime treat is any tea, as long as it is in my “Old Country Roses” tea cup, along with a madeleine cookie..or two!
What a great year of monthly celebrations. I found myself jumping back to 3 or 4 posts, sometimes for the food fare, other times for the table setting details. I could feel the seasons as I scrolled through the year, love that! Although I’m not a tea enthusiast, I sure enjoyed this anniversary post with my morning coffee. Congrats on your one year celebration, and good luck to all the readers participating!
What a fun post and while I don’t want to wish the summer away I look forward to making (or remaking) many of your ideas. My favorite tea is chai and almost any white tea. My sweet tooth says any of the treats you described would be delicious!
While I adore all your tea posts and pictures the one I saved to Pinterest was the lamb cookies….they were just too cute! I plan to refer back to this entire post often! Peace.
What a great post this morning! I’ve just returned from N.England and Scotland with a huge tin of Scottish tea. After seeing your post I’m ready to open it and dig in. And bake some of your yummy looking sweets. I’m sure being able to browse through that beautiful book would be the icing on my tea biscuits!
Scrolling through all the pictures of the different Tea Party settings, which are all beautiful, I kept thinking that a Tea Party could be special for one person. I for one don’t always make that up of Tea special. My favorite is Jasmine. So going forward I am going to try to sit down with a pretty tea cup and enjoy.
Oh id love to win a copy of this book to add to my tea book collection! I was so happy when you added TUESDAY teas to your schedule. All your posts are so beautiful and inspiring! My fav teatime treat would have to be the scone–ANY flavor! Im a follower, subscriber and pinner! Please pick me for your winner! 🫖☕️
My favorite teatime treat would be scones..delicious yet not overly sweet.
Delightfully creative and absolutely fun, your amazing teas make every day and or occasion special.
Yes I subscribe to you via email and would absolutely love to win! I always enjoy your posts. Plus, I’m not sure I’ve ever been to Pam’s blog, which is where I’ll head now. Thank you!!
Congratulations on your anniversary. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the Tea time posts. I love a good English Breakfast tea anytime. I am pinning the Lemon Freezer Bars recipe. It reminds me of the Lemon icebox pie my mother made but the bar form is more practical.
My absolute favorite tea time treat is a warm ginger scone with Kerrygold butter! I am a follower, subscriber and pinner to Instagram.
I used to be an Earl Grey woman, but a few years ago I tried a Vanilla Caramel and along with a lavender or vanilla scone, I found the perfect way to end my day. This post has so many great ideas—every Tuesday in one place. I Pinned the peony cookies photo, delicious looking and beautiful!!
My garden club is having its opening meeting in Early September, and we are starting with High Tea and this post is very inspirational—especially the peony cookies! Every photo is absolutely beautiful and I would look forward to having a copy of this beautiful book to inspire me during my tea moments!
Good Morning,
I love all of your recipes! dog treat recipes included! My favorite teatime treat is really any type of cookie with my tea!
Good morning! I was so tickled to see the roundup of tea blogs this morning! What a beautiful year. I have looked forward to and enjoyed each one! My favorite tea has become a variety of Stash’s, depending on time of day and season. The top one is their double bergamot. I have had to go to decaf and their decaf double bergamot is as delicious as the caffeinated one. I love their peppermint at bedtime and pomegranate raspberry is wonderful iced or hot.
PS I am adding this post to my Tea Cozy board on Pinterest!
I just added your beautiful scone picture to my Party Pinterest board.
I loved that ya’ll started Tea on Tuesdays! My favorite tea time treat is peppermint tea with any sweet. I pinned the composite photo to my Tea Party Pinterest board. I already subscribe.
I love any tea my sweet sister makes for me. She combines different types of tea for a delicious cup. She also makes something yummy to go with the tea!
My sister and I do two teas a year for my two daughters. We do a spring tea and pull out all our fancy dishes and crystal. The second is a fall tea for the youngest daughter’s birthday. She has had a traumatic brain injury and going out is hard for her. She loves all the special treats at the birthday tea we do at home.
I pinned the Easter basket deviled eggs
Good Morning Mary! What a beautiful round up of tea inspiration and recipes! Thank you for introducing me to this book and all the delicious recipes. It would make a wonderful gift for my 80 years young mother who loves tea and scones! I’m a long time follower and pinned your beautiful collage and adorable bee tea table. Thanks for the chance to win! 🫖☕️
P.S. I made your Freezer Lemon Bars and they are so easy and delicious! Perfect for a summer dessert 🍋
Mary, Tea Time is always fun. You offer so many interesting projects. Love the recipes. The food always looks appetizing and delicious. The linens and dishware are always beautiful. The various teas are interesting. We predominantly drink black tea because iced tea is a favorite in our home. Congratulations on a year! Clara ❤️
So Beautiful! Any tea with lemon and honey and lemon sweet treats. I can’t wait to try the Freezer Lemon bars. YUM! Thanks for the chance to win.
I love Green Tea
Rod and Rowena always crack me up Mary, I love your sense of *humer*! 🦴💀 my favorite tea is Vanilla Chai. Thank you for sharing this beautiful round up and book! I subscribe by email. 🫖 Sue
I pinned your adorable Peter Rabbit tea! 🐇 Sue
I love Lady Grey tea. Have tried to find teas from Wedgewood which would show up at TJMaxx from time to time. They had a black cherry tea to die for….
Having scones with tea elevates the event to “tea party” status!
Fabulous inspiration. I like many teas, green, chai, mint etc. I pinned the 9 photo picture, but will come back later to review others as I need time to absorb these. . . .thanks, your food and tablescapes are over the top.
I love a nice mint tea in the morning and in the evening chai is my favorite. Of course both have to have a nice slice of any kind of quick bread with them but my favorite is always pumpkin bread.
I pinned your red velvet scones recipe. It’s so unique.
I can’t tell you how much I have looked forward to your “Tea Time” ideas throughout the year. Each one brings a “sigh” of joy and beauty. I’ve pinned so many recipes and ideas. Having a cup of tea(it varies by the season)and a buttery shortbread cookie is such a treat and a lovely way to relax for a bit each day. Sharing it with a friend is even better! Thank you for bringing beauty and inspiration into our lives.
Good Morning Mary! My favorite treat with any kind of tea is a scone that my husband and I had on our honeymoon every afternoon in Bermuda. The chef at the hotel was kind enough to share the recipe. I love it with a touch of butter and honey. I have enjoyed your blog posts and all they contain for many years ! Hugs, Dorinda
Congrats on a one year anniversary. Your roundup is amazing. I love seeing everything in one place. Those egg salad baskets are too cute. I would love a frozen lemon bar with my cup of tea. Mary, you should have your own book. I am a subscriber plus I pinned. Thank you for sharing your artful posts.
Happy one year anniversary Mary! It is such a treat to revisit all your incredibly beautiful, creative and delicious tea parties from the past year! They are all so special~ I won’t enter the giveaway since I have already been a lucky winner and one the wonderful book, The Art of Tea.
Hi Mary ~ I pinned the recipe for your pumpkin bread with the maple glaze in my Pinterest “frost on the pumpkin” board. Hugs, Dorinda
I can’t pin but copied your recipe for the freezer lemon bars..my all time favorite. Would love to win and I would probably give as a gift to my sister. Thank you.
What a beautiful blog! I love all things tea time, but my favorite is the scone. It is so versatile in shape and flavor and I don’t think it is tea time, without a good scone. I pinned the post of the cook book with the bird cup and saucer. Both are so pretty! I so enjoy a beautiful tablescape, I believe any hostess that creates one, is telling her guests just how much she loves them. It is a true compliment and pleasure to be invited to a beautifully decorated tea.
Hi Mary…thank you again for such a lovely post…all the good things you have shared in one place for the ultimate tea!! My favorite tea time treat are scones….any kind and must have clotted cream and lemon curt!!
Thank you for this lovely post and this giveaway. Yes, I have been e-mail subscribed for many years. Yours is the ONLY blog I follow. I love it!
As to my fav tea… I am actually allergic to tea, but “having tea” became a big part of my life when my sister, across country, was going through the worst things a mother could ever go through for a very long time. She loves to “have tea”. We started having virtual tea times together on the phone, during all the worst times. She would have real tea and I would have water (my fav). We would sit together and talk and pray and hold each other across the miles by “having tea” together. It is extremely special to us. If I were to win this, I would send it on to her, the one who has always loved “having tea” and a remembrance of those dark times lightened by love, sisterhood and tea in dainty pretty cups.
My new favorite tea is Glazed Lemon Loaf by Tazo. Thank you for all your great ideas and yummy recipes!
My new favorite tea is Glazed Lemon Loaf by Tazo. Thank you for the great ideas and yummy recipes!
Congratulations and keep’em coming! Here in South Padre Island, Texas, we love the name of your blog and look forward to your beautiful inspiration.
Hi Mary! I missed you while I was away! It was such a delight to look back on all your gorgeous teas for each month. My favorite teatime treat would be scones. The book looks fabulous and the teacup so pretty. Thank you for the opportunity to win! I’m pinning your newest tea with the frozen lemon bars.
Yours is one of my favorite blogs! Always something to inspire or aspire to!
My favorite tea time treat is a cup of Earl Grey with a chicken salad finger sandwich and a shortbread cookie or two!
I pinned the photo of tea on the porch to my Halloween board – love the festive pillow and tea idea for autumn and into Halloween.
Love your commemorative post! My favorite teatime treat are my orange cranberry scones.
I pinned your evocative photo of fall on the porch. I’m looking forward to the cooler weather and your pumpkin bread looks so yummy! Love the pillow.
The year of tea inspiration has been beautiful and informative. I have tried several recipes and incorporated numerous ideas. In summer I really enjoy A Midsummer Night’s Tea from Harney and Sons or the Huntington Blend from The Huntington Library in California, along with scones, chocolate bites or lemon tarts and some cashew chicken tea sandwiches or egg salad sandwiches, without the crusts. Love the Tuesday posts!
I pinned the fall pumpkin and pillow on the porch, the glazed maple loaf, and lemon bars, etc. So many wonderful pins!
Love all the photos! My favorite tea treat is the Pumpkin Quick Bread Loaf. Yum! I am a subscriber and I pinned the Halloween Tea Party photo with the 2 skeletons. So fun! Thanks for all you share with us.
My favorite tea is English Breakfast and I love scones, especially with dried cherries. I pinned the picture with the cute basket shaped deviled eggs. I definitely will try those.
My favorite tea is Earl Grey with anything lemon. I’m a long time subscriber and have pinned the lemon tea table. Thanks for you beautiful blog.
Thank You Mary for the chance to win this lovely giveaway. I am a cubscriber.
Marion
I pinned Patriotic Tea Party
Marion
All of your Tea parties are lovely. Hard to choose a favorite. Thank You for the giveaway.
Joan
Look forward to the Tea Parties every third week. Would love to win the giveaway since I am exclusively a TEA drinker.
Marilyn
Mary, congratulations to you and Pam on your one-year anniversary of Tea on Tuesdays! I love this blog segment and especially loved seeing all of the posts gathered together in this one. I love a good, rich black tea or a fruit flavored tea. Love all of your tea displays and recipes. Would love the book and cup and saucer!! I’m a long time follower.
Such a beautiful post. My favorite teatime treat is cheese straws. My second choice is cucumber sandwiches.
I just delight in the whimsy of your imaginative creations… that skeleton celebration was a
hoot….Favorite tea is the ever traditional Earl Grey and I have done a number of your treats to accompany it. You and Pam are so generous in this dual giveaway.. Here’s hoping for all of us…. P.S. You would be a splendid tour guide into your soirees at Home Goods, Michael’s, etc….. what fun……
Happy Anniversary. I grew up with Irish Grandparents, and had my first cup of tea at the age of three. It
was mostly milk!!!! But I was hooked. I have drank tea every day of my life. And usually several cups a day.
My favorite tea pot is your Christmas one.
Happy Anniversary! Your blog is always a feast for the eyes! Always amazing! Thank you for sharing the beauty with us. And I love the many recipes you share too! My favorite tea is Earl Grey Orange Spice and I have always loved Cranberry Orange Scones. I enjoy lots of teas (and scones) for that matter. But they would be even more special at a table scape as lovely as yours always are.
What a wonderful collection of teas for a year – great inspiration! I am an email subscriber, and I am a big fan of pinning your gorgeous pics – I have pinned that lemon freezer bars recipe because I want one so badly right now I am have tempted to run to the store and get condensed milk to do so! (it is so hot and that is just a perfect thing to have in summertime!) I am hosting a tea luncheon this wednesday for my 90 year old friend and neighbor who is moving into a assisted living facility many states away to live near her son. She leaves on the 12th and her 90th bday is on the 24th. This will be a birthday farewell luncheon. I am so sad and will miss her so much! She founded our civic women’s group in my little town. Due to her love of social clubs I have made some lifelong friends because of her. ♥
I do not have this tea book and would be so happy to be a winner. Thank you for the opportunity.
PS I too have Irish blood and always appreciate your pretty Belleek ware. ♣
Hi Michele, I’m trying to get in touch with you by email but am afraid they are landing in your spam folder, in which case this probably will too. If you get this message can you check your spam folder? Thank you! ☕
My favorite tea is Earl Grey and Rooibos. I love to have family and friends over for tea parties and I so appreciate all your recipes, pictures, ideas, and love for pretty tablescapes. Thank you for sharing your creativity. It is truly lovely and noticed.
I pinned fall and lemon tea tablescapes to my “Is it Teatime?” I also enjoy tea and tea parties on a boat in Newport Beach. I love being a subscriber and especially want to say thank you for sharing your lovely recipes and dishes.
My favorite tea is Raspberry Zinger..I like it hot or cold!! I’ve been an email subscriber for many many years!!! I printed the recipe for snowball cookies!! Good luck to everyone!!!
I pinned the picture of FEAST YOUR EYES & YOUR TASTEBUDS!!
Mary, congratulations on celebrating a year of Tea on Tuesdays! You know I, too, share your love of tea and all the special traditions that go along with having tea. You and Pam have created a very special monthly focus with Tea on Tuesdays. We all benefit from your wealth of teatime ideas, and I am certainly inspired by each of your wonderful posts. This post is indeed photo heavy, and how fortunate your readers are to have this compilation of all these fabulous teatime posts full of ideas for year round tea parties. I could never single out a favorite! Thank you! Thank you! Creating a special Board and pinning each one to have quick reference. Thanks for the links. I know this was time consuming to compile. You have it all beautifully organized.
I love Earl Grey with Bergamot with a some pecan sandies. I pinned the Easy Freezer Lemon Bars, we are a fan of lemon desserts in our home :) and can’t wait to try them.
Hi Mary, your photos are beautiful!!! Tea time is always special for me. My favorite is a green tea called Yerba Mate from South America. It is caffeine heavy, loaded with calcium (naturally) and it’s delicious. In the evenings, I like a blended tea for inducing sweet dreams such as Sleepy Time. In the hot summer months, I brew a dark tea flavored with Raspberry or Apricot. thank you for this beautiful post and the giveaway.
I love scones! Any flavor, it truly doesn’t matter. This is a beautiful blog post.
Hi, I am an email subscriber!
I pinned your Scone and Teacup!
Congrats to two of my favorite people!!!
Between the two of you, you two can create your own book!!! Always enjoy seeing your most beautiful table designs and utmost creativity!!
My favorite tea times is having green tea that my mom served with her favorite rice crackers. I so miss that! ❤️
Your Tea with the Bees table is incredible and inspired me to get out my Nordic bee hive pan to bake up a batch of mini cakes. I also had to order a few bee accessories for my dining room including the gorgeous table runner.
I’ll be keeping busy as a bee indoors ( there’s a terrible heatwave here on Long Island) thanks to your unBEElievable inspiration!
Love reading the other comments! I have pinned this whole blog under teatime in my Pinterest! Love almost all teas, but fall back on Constant Comment.
Mary, this is a wonderful round-up of tea on Tuesday tables. Each one is beautiful and I could never choose a favorite (although the Bees knees is definitely up there). You have such fabulous ideas and recipes for treats with tea and there is such creativity in your tables. Thank you for sharing all this lovely inspiration and congratulations on your one-year anniversary!
Earl grey is my favorite tea and scones the best tea treat.
Enjoy all your posts. Look forward to seeing your creativity and love all the recipes.
Mary, I’m at the beach on vacation but had a few minutes this morning to enjoy your Anniversary Tea post. You and Pam have outdone yourselves this year! It has been so much fun. Congratulations on a year well done!
I enjoyed viewing your posts again. They are so full of beauty and many ideas to tuck away. I love that we can pin for reference.
Stay cool. It has been very hot and humid!
Lemon tea, any lemon treat, and blueberry scones. Tiny cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches too!
Love lemon anything but I make lemon bars to drink with lemon or fruity tea. Also love cinnamon tea. Pinned!
Mary, I always enjoy your beautiful tea settings. It was such a joy to revisit each one today. Seeing all of the tasty treats is making me hungry. The tea book looks wonderful. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead, sweet friend!
So happy to find your Tea on Tuesdays post….I just found 6 Wedgewood tea cups and saucers at a tag sale and am planning a tea for my college friends. Can’t wait to try some of these great recipes. Have a great day and a wonderful August !