Time for tea

When it comes to home baking, it's all about the preparation – cream your sugar and butter in these gloriously chunky original 1950s-style mixing bowls.
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Typhoon has a whole range of vintage homeware, including these cream kitchen scales, which would look good on any counter ...
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… and this handy cake tin, perfect for storing any leftovers (if there are any, that is).
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Sipping tea from fine bone china has its own charm – this Jasper Conran Chinoiserie patterned teacup and saucer are exquisitely detailed and worthy of any timeless elegant tea trolley.
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If the whole vintage-pastel thing is making your head spin, try this tongue-in-cheek, saucy (if not slightly eerie) little tea set by Undergrowth Design instead.
Of Cabbages and Kings, Blaue Blume tea cup £35, milk jug £36, cake stand £126, teapot £65. Photograph: PR

You can't possibly have a tea party without a proper tea pot for brewing. You'll be pouring endless cups from this huge gallon one ...
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… while this captioned one will be worth a cheeky giggle when you're ready to pour.
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The best place for vintage china is a flea market or fair – but if you can't find what you want, Katy Potts can – she scours the country for classic Staffordshire ceramics.
Liberty, £60 Photograph: PR

Keep pots warm with these cheerful and cute tea cosies, handprinted on organic cotton and padded with wadding recycled from plastic drinks bottles.
Maxine Sutton, £38 Photograph: PR

Re sources original pieces from flea markets and spruces them up something splendid. We love these vintage nineteenth century glass cakes stands.
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... and these American milk glass cake stands.
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If you're going for twee, drape bunting on your walls or attach to the edge of your table for that fete-y look – this one comes with little bells and tassels attached.
Patchwork Harmony, £16.50 Photograph: PR

And for a really very kitsch version of a tea-party, get yourself a pack of vinyl doilies – these come in lurid shades of lime, lavender and shocking pink.
Lovely Lovely, from £4.50 Photograph: PR