Donkey Products has an amazing selection of character tea bags. The top image is from their Zoo ParTea series, and the design-your-own group below is from CreativiTea. Don’t they just make you smile?

Serve your guests tea in glass mugs to show off these gorgeous origami tea bags. Found via Design Swan.

Of course, a tea bag on a hanger! Brilliant! Found via Yanko Design, via Pinterest.

Ew, but funny…tea packaged in cigarette form. This will keep paws off your precious tea! Found via Toxel.com

These tea sticks are so cool!

When a map and carpet come together, this is the result. The designer, Laurens Van Weiringen, and 29 of her closest friends worked together to accurately depict a landscape in the form of a rug. They used varying sized and colored foam squares in a very exacting grid to create this cool result. I wonder if she’ll do custom orders?

I’m always blown away by those able to turn the most 2-dimensional material (paper) into 3 dimensions. Take a peak at this gorgeous cut-paper work by Helen Musselwhite from the U.K. Found on Thoughtful Day.

 

Take a look at this and this for other cut paper phenomena…

 

These take tabletop gardening to a whole new level! Introducing Postcarden…

Combining gift and greeting card, PostCarden is a fun and simple pop-out card that transforms into a mini living garden. Choose from a cityscape park, a botanical garden, a little backyard garden, or a football field.

Found via Ohdeedoh.

I worked on this adorable story for Parents Mag with my friend, Judy Goldberg (it was her genius idea!) and the uber-talented stylist Paul Lowe of Sweet Paul. It’s super-fun, and really, what doesn’t taste better when eaten off a stick? You can find more recipes for food on a stick at Parents.com.

Pie Pops: sugar cookie dough filled with jam. Yum!

Everyone loves a sticky popcorn ball!

Cake balls!

Tomato twigs: Get the kids to eat their veggies with mini-tomatoes perched atop bread sticks.

Salad sticks: use the cupcake liner to catch the dripping dressing.