Today started like the last two days – up way too early for a Vogue Knitting Live class – this one was on Distitch, taught by the technique inventor Assia Brill. I don’t want to give too much away, but essentially you are knitting through two layers of stitches, which results in a somewhat thicker… Continue reading Busy Saturday!
My story today starts, as my stories often do, with yarn. I recently bought a Dinosaur Eggs: A Study miniskein set from Yarnaceous Fibers, whose dinosaur and geology themed asthetic I enjoy. Along with my cool yarn, she sent me a lovely little stitch marker and a little packet of Tazo herbal tea. The tea… Continue reading Tea for Two: Tazo Forager Edition
Now that I’m working from home, I can A couple weeks have passed since I got my second batch of samples from August Uncommon, long enough to try all of them at least a couple of times – some of them were so good I finished them off! So here’s my take on this batch:–Far… Continue reading Tea for Two: August Uncommon Again
About a month or so ago, I got a shipment of samples from a new-to-me tea company, August Uncommon. Well, I have had at least two cups of each of them and can tell you first off – there were no bad teas in this whole batch. There were a few that I wouldn’t reorder,… Continue reading Tea for Two: August Uncommon
I’ve got two new tea things to report on – I tried out teas from a new-to-me company, and there is some new tea technology (tea-chnology?) coming soon. Starting with the new Tea-chnology There is a tea-brewing machine coming out in the near future – the Bru. It is kind of like a Keurig, but… Continue reading Dispatches from Tealandia
This afternoon DH and I went to a Chinese New Year tea at one of our local tea shops – Indigo Tea Lounge. We went to this same event last year, and it was mostly the same – a huge bunch of delicious food, tasty tea, and some fun treats to take home 🙂 Here… Continue reading Happy Lunar New Year!
Well, our temperatures are in the negatives, and that means its time to hit the hot beverages hard. Toward that end, I got some new teas from Harney and Sons recently to give them a try. A new seasonal tea they recently put out is their 2020 Lunar New Year tea. It is a black… Continue reading Tea for Two: Random Tea for the New Year
I tried out a new-to-me tea company this week – David’s Tea. They seem to be based in Canada, though they have a few shops here and there in the US. However, you can shop from them online, and they have quite an interesting array of teas. What drew me in though, was that they… Continue reading Tea for Two: David’s Tea
My tea of the month from Harney and Sons got here over the weekend, on top of all the other tea that has recently arrived. Fortunately since our weather has started cooling down pretty significantly, we have been hammering the hot beverages pretty hard, so it is actually welcome at this point. This month’s selections… Continue reading Tuesday Tea Day: OMG More Tea
