A menagerie has moved in to Campbell’s Craft Store at Morpeth, but the animals are of the teapot variety.
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The annual teapot exhibition kicked-off on Thursday and will be on display until August 30.
Zebras, tigers, giraffes, frogs and pink puffy poodles are just some of the designs in this year’s teapot exhibition.
More than 2000 teapots have been put on display plus hundreds of tea cosies, which have also been judged for the novelty cosy competition.
“We have had the most tea cosy entries on record this year with 307,” Kylie Richards from Campbell’s Store said.
“There were at least 10 that could have won, they were all of a really high standard.”
The grand champion of the tea cosy competition was Diane Burley from Woy Woy, who created a masterpiece called Hopeful.
There were seven categories, including WWI commemoration tea cosies which should be a crowd favourite as the nation reflects on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings.
The winner of the commemoration category was a piece by Jan Knight inspired by the story of Simpson and his donkey.
“My favourite is the snail, it is so well fitted and cute,” Ms Richards said. “But really all of them are amazing.”
Each year the event draws teapot collectors and lovers of all things cute and quirky.