Tea Towel Tuesday: Veggie Breakfast

Mr.PS was the very first website we featured in Tea Towel Tuesday. As it's our birthday this week (tomorrow actually, feel free to buy us presents), I decided to visit them again. This veggie breakfast tea towel is really cute. I'm not vegetarian, but I still want it (and that little list of things wouldn't go amiss on a plate in front of me right now). Mmmmm poached eggs.

A little piece of kitchen prettiness for just £9.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Emily Bond

I might be more of a cat person (there's an argument for another time), but even I can't help but be taken with Emily Bond's dog-inspired tea towel designs:


I really really like dachshunds. They have very little legs. There's one in red too.


I like this one very much. The print is inspired by Emily's own dachshunds Oscar and George. How cute!


Stripes and labradors make for an excellent design, who knew? All of these are £12. I might be cat person, but dogs on tea towels works for me.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Paul Farrell Tree Towels

I've got a bit of a thing for trees. Good ones, with excellent branches for climbing, or little spindly ones perfect for hanging things on. Droopy ones for hiding in. Owls. Squirrels. Tree house hotels. Trees are really very excellent things. And so are Paul Farrell's tea towels.


They're in a limited edition of 100, and even though this design is sparse the pop of bright orange is gorgeous.


But then, I am fond of purple too. This tree would be excellent for climbing.


They're £8.99 each and they'll look fantastic in Sluttery HQ's kitchen this springtime.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Teresa Green

Theresa Green's Tea Towel range features all sorts of things I like. Like little birds with gangly long legs. Look how leggedity they are!


And gin! Not just any gin, but sloe gin. That's the best kind. I love all the little berries on the design.


This one teaches you how to make an elderflower cocktail.


Love the entire range. They're £11 form the ever-wonderful Culture Label.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Kitchen Sink Dramas

It's common fact that reading books and blogs is better than doing any kind of housework. I've done extensive research into this. Kitchen Sink Dramas have very cleverly mixed the two so you get literature on tea towels. Fancy some poetry?


Or a children's story?


Or a bit of Oscar Wilde?


Each tea towel is around £12, and of course, once you've finished the tea towel, you could always buy the books. What are you reading instead of tidying up?

Tea Towel Tuesday: Lush Designs

I've only just come across Lush Designs, but I'm already rather besotted. After all, what could be better on a cloudy grey Tuesday than a tea towel featuring two cats in cowboy boots having an outdoor tipple? It's printed on pure cotton and only costs a tenner.

Now feeling the feline vibe? How about two impressively-coiffured topless ladies taking a soak in a teacup? It's £10 too and available in pink or blue.

More into typography than surreal illustrations of nude women and wine-glugging kitties? These Dirty and Dishy tea towels are printed in decorative Victorian type, and come in an assortment of colours. Nab 'em for £7 each.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Afternoon Tea

Victoria sponge is one of the most underrated cakes. It's perfect. There's enough sweetness to make it actually feel like a cake without making you want to be sick after a slice (we can't stop this from happening if you have three pieces). We might even give you a recipe soon.

But until then, you'll have to settle for this rather fetching afternoon tea tea towel from You Say That You Love Me on Folksy. It's just £9 and it'll even give you the recipe for the perfect Victoria Sponge so you can make your own.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Hanna Melin at All Things Original

We've featured Hanna Melin's lovely mixtape art on Domestic Sluttery before. But we're still not bored of the motif (or mixtapes, we love us a good playlist at Sluttery HQ). The gorgeously retro design is perfect on a tea towel, and if you dance about your house while you're doing the dishes like I do, then you should definitely snap it up.

Not only is it lovely and on my wanty-list, it's in the All Things Original sale and that means that it'll cost you five your your hard-earned pounds instead of ten. Pretty bargains are the best types of bargains.

Tea Towel Tueday: Emmeline Simpson's Bristol

Most city-inspired homewares focus on Paris, or London. New York sometimes. But they don't tend to concentrate on Bristol. But then most designers aren't Emmeline Simpson, the artist behind this tea towel.

The image depicts the famous Bristol Balloon Fiesta, which is Europe's largest hot air balloon festival. Bet that looks super pretty in real life. If you like this tea towel it's £8.50. but there's all sorts of other Bristol-inspired interiors goodies over in Emmeline's shop.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Dishes I'd Rather Be Doing

Whether you're a fan of Hugh "erm, sorry, ahem, look, err..." Grant, Colin "oh dear I seem to have fallen into a lake" Firth or Sean "eee, get thee knickers off, Lady Chatterley" Bean, this tea-towel has someone to distract you while you dry your dishes. I love the portraits, the silly pun, and at £9.95 it will brighten up your chores without breaking the bank. Less than a tenner to get your favourite fella damp and dishevelled twice a day? Bargain.

Get yours from dearcolleen's Etsy shop, where you can choose between pink, blue or yellow.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Use My Beard

Use your beard to dry my dishes? Don't mind if do, scarily hirsute man! It looks like someone's taken Movember to an extreme. This helpful chap reminds me of Mr Twit from Roald Dahl's The Twits, only with far less food caught in his beard. For now, at least - he hasn't seen the state of my kitchen yet.

This tea towel is £11 from Donna Wilson. She also makes a pleasingly rhyming Night Owl Tea Towel - not that Slut HQ is obsessed with owls, or anything. Ahem.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Fortnum & Mason

Something about Fornum & Mason makes me feel festive. Seriously, have you seen their Christmas displays? If there's one thing that London department stores can do it's Christmas, even if they are a little ostentatious about it (seriously, an advent calendar for over £100?) But this tea towel is simple and traditional. It's everything I like about Fortnum & Mason, it'll look fab in your kitchen and it's only £6.

I also want this matching chef's hat, but that's just so I can look really really stupid whilst I'm making toast.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Stuart Gardiner Seasonal Foods

Waaaaaaay back in 2009 I showed you this seasonal vegetable tea towel, and now the range has expanded, and there's even more things to get excited about at Rockett St George. These variations are all £10 each.

Flowers...


Seafood...


Wild foods...


And of course, if you want to buy the vegetable version, well that's in stock too. Heh. Vegetable stock.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Pretty Dishy

The problem with beautiful tea towels is that I never want to use them on the menial drying tasks as they were designed for. I want to hang them up like artwork and admire them instead. And this one from rock'n'roller boutique DollyDagger is a definite contender for the wall.

I love the kooky eclectic print: the anchor background, the polkadot rose, the floral birds - it's crazy but it works, being edgy and pretty all at once. Actually, on second thought perhaps I WILL use it to dry my dishes. It will make me happier when I do my chores, and that's surely the whole point. Especially when it's only £6.99.

Guest post by Claire Nelson.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Becky Broome

It was Becky Broome's pocket watch designs that led me to her website. But then I saw the traditional digital prints on her cotton tea towels, and they've really caught my eye.


Like this Co-Op book design. I love traditional design made modern.


D'you remember the Post Office savings books? Looks kinda cool on a tea towel, doesn't it?


This design is my favourite, mixing an old fashioned rent book, with a pocket watch print. Each tea towel is 100% cotton, and they're £14.99 each. Gorgeous website too.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Lizzie Prestt

I've shown you Lizzie Prestt's work before, but now she's on tea towels over on To Dry For (all the coolest designers are). Her city break tea towel is my favourite (look at the little helicopter!), but I'm rather a fan of the beach design as well. Talented girl, that Lizzie.


She's even sneaked in a ferris wheel and a caravan into the design. Brilliant. Each design is £9.

Tea Towel Tuesday: 'Give Peas a Chance' by Poppy Treffrey

I don't like doing the dishes but there is a bright side - having an excuse to collect fabulous teatowels. And much to my delight, a good friend recently introduced me to Poppy Treffry's gorgeous teatowel range. I love small creative companies, which Poppy Treffry is, and better yet is based Cornwall (which as we all know is the land of quaint and pretty)! They make all sorts of beautiful arty homeware and fashion items, although I especially adore their teatowels, which are made from 100% unbleached cotton and feature all sorts of pretty screen-printed designs.

This "Give Peas a Chance" one (£7.99) is a favourite of mine which already features in my kitchen - oh I do love my food puns! - but it may not be long before I give in and collect more as they have so many lovely designs.

The whole range can be found at the Poppy Treffrey website.

This was a guest post by the lovely Claire Nelson.

Tea Towel Tuesday: I am Cheapskate

I am Cheapskate makes music. I am Cheapskate draws pictures too. And I am Cheapskate likes tea. He makes tea towels too. And they're brilliant. My favourite is the odd one out towel, because obviously the last cup has sugar in. Of course.


I've also only just noticed that this tea kit tea towel is to scale, which makes it rather fabulous. Each one is in a limited edition of 100. The top one is £11, the bottom £8. If you don't snap them up soon, they'll be gone and hanging up in Sluttery HQ's kitchen.

You go shopping, I'll get the kettle on.

Tea Towel Tuesday: Lisa Stickley

Everything about Lisa Stickley's designs is simple. That's why I like her stuff. Pretty, without being twee. Simple, without being boring. Fun, without being all about pink and flowers and cupcakes and girls. Lisa Stickley sits very well in the middle of all this. Her work is easily recognisable, but it's different. It's really very lovely.

I like her House & Home range at Debenhams (although I prefer the range through her website), and I like this kitchen equipment tea towel. I also like the prices too. This is only £4 in the sale. Comes in pink too. I'll have both please.

Tea Towel Tuesday: H&M Home Bargains

Despite the initial excitement, I haven't been that blown away by H&M home. I like some of the items, but the range isn't huge. And I feel a bit cheated that they're only doing textiles. But, as always, despite my misgivings I've found something that I really like.

The tea towels in the range are lovely. This one is most definitely my favourite.


I like the traditional print on this one. It's on lots of their homestuffs.


The best thing? Each tea towel is just £2.99 which makes these the cheapest tea towels I've featured. That's the thing about H&M. You might not like everything they have, but when you do find something, it'll be a bargain.