A Lavender Tea Time

Over the last few years, I've acquired a taste for lavender teas.

 

 

A lavender Earl Grey cookie with a cup of Lavender Orange Spring Tartlet green tea.

 

 

The lovely lavender in my neighbourhood.

Summer Teas: Strawberries

It's strawberry tea season at my place!

 

Strawberry Watermelon Yogurt Pop oolong by Dessert by Deb

 

 

Enchanted Raspberry Strawberry Lavender green tea by Dessert by Deb

 

 

Strawberry Banana oolong by DavidsTea
 

 

Summer Berry black tea by Charbrew

 

 

Strawberry Spritzer fruit infusion by Three 6 Tea
 

 

Strawberry Oat Milk herbal tea by Dessert by Deb

Breakfast Cups

Last fall, I found a pair of Roy Kirkham fine bone china breakfast cups at HomeSense (aka HomeGoods). Of course, these beauties came home with me!

The Vintage Rose design

The Butterfly design

 

A standard teacup size is approximately 200 ml, while these breakfast cups were 450 ml!

Celebrating Canada Day with a maple tea

 Happy Canada Day to my Canadian friends!

It's always nice when Canada Day falls on a Monday so that we get a long weekend!

During the Canada Day long weekend, I enjoyed Manoomin Maple, a black tea that DavidsTea developed in partnership with Tea Horse, an Indigenous tea company. Ten percent of the proceeds will support Indigenous communities.

"Manoomin" means wild rice in Ojibwe. The tea ingredients are: roasted wild rice, black tea, maple sugar, cranberry, blueberry, coconut, natural vanilla flavouring.

Manoomin maple is a smooth and sweet tea. It would also make a tasty latte!

June empties
 
What I have already restocked:
1) DavidsTea's Honeydew Boba oolong
2) DavidsTea's Tropicalia fruit infusion

What I may repurchase in the future:
1) Three 6 Tea's Juicy Watermelon fruit infusion

Flashback Travel: Machu Picchu, Peru

 This week, I'm sharing a teapot that I got on my 2011 Peru trip.

How cute are these llamas? I think the teapot is made of red clay.

 

Macchu Picchu at sunrise

 

 

 

A close encounter with a real llama (or this an alpalca?)!

 

Coca tea is a herbal tea that people drink in Peru to help with the altitude sickness. I tried it, but honestly can't remember what it tasted like, or if it actually helped prevent altitude sickness!

Celebrating my 500th post!

 I can't believe that this is the 500th post on my blog!

 

I started my tea blog as a hobby and it ended up enriching my life in ways that I couldn't have imagined! I couldn't be more grateful for all the wonderful connections that I've made in the tea blogging community. 

Thank you for your incredible support over the last 9 years! I always appreciate your visits and comments!

Father's Day Tea

Celebrating Father's Day with Belgian chocolate cake and macarons and Almond Meyer Lemon Shaker Pie rooibos from Dessert by Deb.

Tea-themed gifts from BBW

Last month I received some tea-lightful gifts from the Bath and Body Works x Bridgerton collection.

 

 

I had been eyeing this beautiful teacup fragrance plug, so I was thrilled when my godson gifted it to me!

 

 

My mom gave me this super cute teapot PocketBac holder. I think it would also look great on my tea-themed Christmas tree!

 

 

The Sweet Tea & Lemonade foaming hand soap is part of BBW's summer collection. It smells exactly liked iced tea!