Tea Blending Party at Fort Drum Hi Rae, We had our tea blending party this morning with the Fort Drum ministry spouses and it was a great success.  Lots of sampling, talking and fun!  We had 14 ladies and 3 pre-schoolers.  The kiddo's loved the Lady Hannah by the way. I showed them how to fold a coffee filter into a tea bag, made some tags so they could label their brew, talked about   some of the medicinal uses of some of the choices Quite a few of our ladies are sending their husband's off to Afghanistan in the next few weeks, so chamomile was a huge hit.  Everyone took home samples of each other's blends. I don't think there were any "misses".  As a matter of fact, we all agreed that if a tea was too floral, a little lemon grass cleared that right up! A few ladies were not fans of the roses.  They said they felt like they were drinking their grandma's hand lotion ;-) Oh I wish you could have seen the children.  There is one little 3 year old girl who looks like an angel.  We had a tiny little tea cup for her and while it was steeping, she was going around telling everyone "mines tea is cooling off".  Another child thought the steeping dragon pearls looked like baby hermit crabs!  I get such a kick out of the kiddos. We had plenty of tea left.  The ladies that weren't able to come asked if they could come by the house one afternoon and play.  It won't be nearly as formal, but still lots of fun. Some of our husbands are tea drinkers as well and were very interested in trying their hands at blending.  Of course, since they are big bad Soldiers, they will have to come over in the dark of night so no one sees them.  giggle All in all, it was a hit all around.  Thank you again for all you did for us. Blessings, Connie Here's a pix of the Tea Blending Table

 

Lori was very concerned about  her first Tea Party. Would it look right? Here are her photos. What do you think?

Pretty Pink Tea Party complete with Tea Hat Cake. The ladies don't have their hats on in the photo below. Everyone had a wonderful time.

A Quilt Project from Gayle Gayle from Virginia sent in a picture of a lovely quilt she made for her Mother-in-Law. She fussy cut the diamonds around the Tea Cups in Tea #3 and them made a crisscross pattern to mimic the diagonal lines of the diamonds. WONDERFUL! Here is a close-up of one portion of her quilt. So many corners to match! Oh my goodness. Beautiful work. Thank you Gayle for sharing your talents with us.

A Quilting  Beauty from Chris Chris from North Carolina also sent a pix of a quilt project. Christ said,  "Top is complete but am thinking of appliquéing grey spoons to the navy blue border.  The quilt is actually being created to hold my silver spoon collection that I have from our   years of living in Germany. Will use light, silk ribbon - tiny. It is really turning out well! Here is a close-up of one some of the teapots. BEAUTIFUL! Thank you Chris for sharing your talents with us.

A Tea Angel is a cute way to share Loose Leaf Tea with a friend or to introduce a novice to the deep, subtle wonderful taste of 'real tea.' Her body is a Perfect Measure Spoon (for a consistently good pot of tea). Her wings are Tea Sacs (to insure tidy clean up) and in her pocket is a lovely sample of loose leaf tea.

YES, you may select your fabric and tea and YES for those of you who would like to make your own, I will combine a kit for you that will include everything your see along with instructions.

One more thing to show you... I tweaked my Tea Cup Carrier a bit so that it will hold a Onesie. And I LOVE, LOVE the Pansy Fabric. Of course you may choose whatever you'd like. :-)