Chris and I bought an old tea tin at a thrift store a few years ago. It was a vintage "Darjeeling Tea" and I died over the packaging (like the teal one shown above) and also that I loved the movie (and any movie by Wes Anderson) The Darjeeling Limited.
But, since then, it's been sitting around as just an object. I am an interior designer also, and one of my pet peeves are things that don't serve a purpose. Even though we do have a few items around our house like that, I just like the majority of things to be sentimental or purposeful. Anyways, lately I have been seeing vintage tea tins as containers for flowers, and i'm LOVING it.
It's gorgeous and original for a wedding and perfect for your house or a dinner party.
I know what I'm doing with that tea tin now!
photos (clockwise): Style Me Pretty, Style Me Pretty, Domino Magazine (R.I.P), Martha Stewart, Darjeeling Tea canister, Zucchero on Flickr, ffffound.com
Oh I heart vintage tea tins too! There are so many uses for them. But I do love them filled with a bunch of flowers!
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kristi
Love vintage tea tins, actually any cute tea tin vintage or not! And have many of them that I just can't part with. I've started using them for cut flowers but seeing the above photo I think I need to try and use them as planters as well. My herbs would look much cuter growing in a tea tin than in the plastic containers they are currently in.
ReplyDeleteKristi: I love it too! What other uses have you seen or done? I'm always looking for ways to use vintage containers!
ReplyDeletehip hip gin gin: Me too! I think they look so cool with a bunch I'm going to be on the hunt for more, I love groupings! You need to post photos of yours!
I thought the herbs looked cool like that too! And I have mine in a big planter out front, but I'm thinking this is MUCH cuter too!
-elizabeth
I adore this, the design is so fun/quirky and I love reusing objects too. Go team tea tins!
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