'Storm in a Teacup' incorporates beautiful sparkling lampwork glass beads in a simple herringbone rope using 'oil slick' purple japanese triangles. It is finished with a pewter parrot clasp and measures about 20cm long.

The earliest authenticated record of commercial cultivation of tea in found in 4th century Chinese documents. However, it's generally accepted that people in East Asia were brewing and drinking tea hundreds of years before. In those early days, tea was drunk mostly for medicinal purposes. Green tea leaves were formed into small cakes, roasted, then pounded into small chunks. Brewed tea must not have tasted very good because the drink was typically flavoured with ginger, onion, mint, and orange. Infusing tea leaves in a teapot became a widespread practice in China early during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Thus "modern tea drinking" is probably less than seven hundred years old.