Is it a kettle, is it a tea pot???

I will set the scene . . . . it's a snowy winter's eve. Lee and I are in bed, the kitchen is empty except for the tea pot and an electric kettle. They light the flame on the gas stove, casting a beautiful glow across the room. The tea pot thought the kettle was hot ;), and the kettle liked the way the tea pot warmed up to him ;). Steam filled the room. One thing led to another and 4 months later (a tea pot's gestation period is 4 months apparently) they were the proud parents of our new Electric Kettle! 

Unfortunately it was a rough delivery for the tea pot :( 

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I am hoping you surmised that our new kettle is half tea pot and half kettle. Except that it doesn't make tea . . . it only inherited the ceramic-ness from it's tea pot mother, other than that it got all of it's traits from his dad (the kettle).

I'll stop talking in code now. (I think I hear a collective sigh ;)

We picked up an electric kettle from Target (here is the Link). For the last 3 years we've been heating water for our tea in a pot on the stove. We decided it was time to come out of the dark ages and pick up an electric kettle. I wanted one that was attractive. Lee wanted to make sure it could be removed from the base. Wandering through Target I found exactly what we were looking for. I loved the blue pattern which matches our tea cup measuring scoops inside our flour and sugar jars. But mostly I loved that it was ceramic and felt just like a tea pot!

We LOVE tea. I am a peppermint tea girl and Lee is a green tea guy so beside our electric kettle we set up a little tea station. I found the 3 glass jars at Homesense and filled them with three different kinds of Tea, loose leaf green tea, organic peppermint tea bag, and green tea bags for tea on the go.

Lastly I have always loved hanging coffee mugs. If you use a mug everyday it kind of makes sense to have them out and within close reach. Especially when they have cute little numbers on them like this set of four from Urban Barn, or our initial mugs from Chapters. ;)
6 cup hooks from Lowes and we had our very own tea station. I made sure that the hooks were white so that they would blend into the white mug handles, and I didn't want to see the hooks while I was standing in the kitchen.

It's the age old story, tea pot . . .  meets . . .  electric kettle and Target sells their babies (that sentence was much creepier than I thought it would be).