They were videos I used to watch as a kid, late 80s, early 90s. It opened with a woman in a kitchen and then she would tell us a story and it would go to cartoon rabbits. It would also end with that woman in her kitchen too, GAH!

I saw those too with my daughter- I even recorded them- did she take some tea and pur it in a cup and then began to draw rabbits and then it would become animated stories about the rabbits- because if so it must be the peter rabbit collection

Amazon.com: The Peter Rabbit Collection: Penelope Wilton, Holly Aird, Richard Aylen, Timothy Bateson, James Bree, James Bryce, Victoria Burton, Tenniel Evans, Donald M. Gee, James Grout, Jonty Lovell, Nicholas Lovell, Bill Hays, Carol Robertson, John (http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Rabbit-Collection-Penelope-Wilton/dp/B00005B1ZH)

The show is Maple Town!! I had to ask my mother because I couldn't remember the name of it either :)