Does your DC own a lovely tea set? Where did you buy it from?

[Tobermory]

DD will be 19 months at Xmas, loves 'drinking' ou of grown up mugs so we figure a tea set might be a good pressie.

ELC have a lovely one but its made of wood and reviews arent great.

Where else can i look?

tin one

dd has one, very delicate, very pretty china, 65 years old.
She can play with it when she is 30.

DD's have that tin one. Well, some of it is left.
They put water in it and some bits rusted!

i love that tin one. bentalls centre in kingston have a bargain discount store and they've got a multi-part plastic pink and purple one, if that helps? looks like v good value, if not the most tasteful.

I have a lovely china one that I had when I was little - played with it ALL the time, it's sat in my "carboot" box waiting to be flogged (still in original box) as I can't see my DS's every sitting down and having a tea party with little white cups and saucers etc with pretty flowers on the side lol

we hae the emma bridgewater hearts one (and you can get 10% off now via mumsnet I think)

it's lovely. although DS has broken a cup by hurling it with great force from his highchair onto a wooden floor

that tin one is lovely too

my mum has bought this for dd for christmas

oops! x-post

ooh loving the emma bridgewater one but £25?!!!

I got it on ebay (new) for about £15 or £16 I think? Was a christening present for my friends little girl and she plays with it every day!

ELC also do spotted one in a box, mine was 7 pounds and they also do one in like a cardboard type carry case (dd also has one so we store it in there!) am useless at links but only got hers about 6 weeks ago?? It says ages 3-6 years dd is 21 months and loves it, it's made of plastic?

woohoo!

Great idea Katylou, have just bought it on ebay for £15 plus post.

Now just need a pyapl/ebay discount code to make it a real bargain!

Whittards do nice ones....
50% off at the moment as well!!

[http://www.whittard.co.uk/store/catalogue/Gifts-P1000/China-Gifts-SC1001/]

hambo - can't get your link to work... have searched whittards site and can't find a child's tea set - was it def a child's one you linked to?

emma bridgewater does an amazing polka dot one if anyone's looking for a china one.

possibly completely impractial, but I love it!

polka dot one is something else - sigh - but can you imagine with my tiled floor. favouring the EB melamine hearts one just now... don't like the idea of rusting tin...

We have this, but due to her obsession with it and taking bits of it out with her it's mainly all been dropped and broken.

So we bought a tin one. It's this one but we have a different colourway. It comes in a little suitcase and is lovely and a year later still played with, unbroken.

the tin ones are very very cute.... i could be persuaded... easily.

My DD has the ELC pink wooden one. I think it is fab and the fack it's wood is good as very good for their senses and development to have something different to plastic. I have also brought some of the other wooden ELC kitchen things. Why was the review not good?

My dd was given an alice in wonderland china set from whittards but was couple of years ago and can't see it on their website.

Emma Bridgewater one looks lovely too

Just seen this. Look under gifts for girls..Lucy Locket Princess tea set.
www.creativetoyden.co.uk

That is pretty waswondering. You're right, I'd forgotten the OP's daughter is 19 months and china not a good idea.

actually this one is rather sweet too