The first photo shows our trusty everyday teapot (we have more than one now, in case of breakages). It makes the best cup of tea out of any teapots I have had. Many of you may recognise the Marks and Spencer Harvest design. I was married in 1989 and I think Harvest was the set of choice for a very large number of people who were married between around 1985-1995. Either Harvest or Eternal Beau.
The second photo is part of my kitchen window display.
I like teapots and do have some on display but l wouldn’t consider myself to be a collector of them. I have my everyday teapots as l think tea tastes better when made in a pot. I have several sets of china inherited from my grandmother but my collection has been the Royal Worcester Months of the Year and Days of the Week figurines of children designed by an artist called Freda Doughty. They are nostalgic, fifties style children and, as a child of the Ladybird books era with their beautiful illustrations, they are of a similar type. They are not in fashion at the moment but l like them, as does my mother, which is all that matters
what a fantastic thread!!! I love copper cooking pots, I just cannot bear to leave beautiful examples on ebay!!! I do think they have been undervalued and prices are picking up now But I have got rather a lot. My husband says I have too many & packed some up to put in storage but he has forgotten where so I have to start all over again buying more!!! 
I’m relieved to say that I would never attempt to wear my Tupper 
Temari are Japanese thread balls. They used to be made from scraps of fabric made into a ball by winding thread around and around until you have a sphere. Then you mark divisions (lines of longitude mostly) and embroider patterns using those guidelines.
I like to think of it as embroidering Platonic solids onto spheres or two-dimensional figures on a curved surface.
First pic is some I have made over the years. Other pics show stages of marking out.
I have eight teapots, three of which are in use and one of which MrB won in a raffle. That will get donated to another raffle or fundraising sale.
My Daily Teapot (😂) is a glass on that fits under my thick teacosy and serves me my 3 early morning cups of tea.
A larger Evesham one comes out if I'm making tea for several people at once.
And the iron Japanese one that MrB brought back from Basel earlier this year is used at tea (dinner time when we are having green tea with our meal instead of wine.
Of the others, only one has a lid that fits/matches but I also collect pottery lids in the hope of finding lids that work on others.
Oh yes, one of them leaks so is only used as a thread holder (thread end comes through the spout) when I'm winding a temari. Photo shows a pause in winding with the temari ball 'lidding the leaky teapot.
I used to have a few teapots but sent several to a charity shop recently.
This is my favourite (that I have kept). Photo is from the Internet as cupboard door is blocked by sorting-out "stuff in progress"!
Mine is a replacement for a wedding present which was sadly dropped many years ago. It has a strainer - but frankly I don't use that except for very large leaf teas.
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