Tea Stands for Tuesday 7/18/23 10th Anniversary

Time to celebrate 10 years of Tea Stands for Tuesday.

Such a big THANK YOU to our hostess, Elizabeth for keeping this going.

You can visit Elizabeth and previous Tuesday posts here.

As part of the celebration, Elizabeth hosted a Swap.  My swap partner was Iris Flavia who is in Germany.  We decided on exchanging a postcard along with out two tea bags.

I was excited to see mail from Germany.

Here is a closer look at the stamp.  It looks like there is a bar code attached to one sside.  I havent seem that before.

Iris created a postcard for the exchange.  I love how colorful it is.  If you are familiar with ther blog you will recognize the lion as her signature animal.

The two tea bags she included are  Tuddel, a blueberry tea and the second one is Sunshine in Cup, an herbal tea with lemon grass.  I have not tried them.  I wanted to be sure to get pictures  before opening them.   I will of course be saving the tea wrappers for mixed media art.

Last of all here is the well decorated back of the envelope.  Notice the lion once again.  Thank you Iris for everything.  I will think of you as I enjoy the tea.

My computer has not been cooperative this morning but after numbers of tries I think I have a post,  I'm going to make that cup of tea now and have it with a nice big cookie.  I'll be heading to the Tea Party to see what people swapped and visit all the gang there.

 

Tea Stands for Tuesday 7/10/23

 July is becomming a very busy month.  

I discovered this tea at Sprout's grocery.  I'm afraid it doesn't taste as good as I expected it to.  I actually had to steep a slice of ginger in it to get much flavor at all.  I think I fell for the colorful packaging.

A few days ago I had cataract surgery on one eye.  I will have the cataract in the other eye fixed later this month.  Every thing is so bright.  I can't believe how dingy the cataract was making things look.  

Since I can't see well enough to drive and I don't have a car I've been back to walking the neighborhood,  I don't go as far as I used to but I'm trying to build up my stamina. The insurance from my car has been settled and soon I will be car shopping.

Three family members have birthdays this month and a wedding is coming up next Saturday.  It is Party Central here.

Speaking of parties, lets hop on over to Elizabeths blog and check the Tea Party there.

Happy 4th of JUly