Stamping Is Fun!: tea

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

After Christmas Tea

Hello friends!

I had a fabulous tea with my tea buddies (we call ourselves the Tea Bees) a few days after Christmas. Of course being out to tea with my wonderful TB friends is always a treat! Being in historic Annapolis at the beautiful Reynold's Tavern made it all the more special!

The TBs who joined us for an after Christmas tea....(we missed Peg, Shirley, and Donna!)

Barb

Chris, Tanya, and Olga joined us after a little shopping in Annapolis

Kim

Susan

Chris and Tanya bought lovely hats

Their hats looked so good but I look goofy!

Chris gave us little Tea Bee Christmas gifts with our cards...

And she gave me a belated birthday gift...sugar cube tongs and very cool tissues! Love them!

We had adult beverages first. I tried a raspberry something or other--it was good!

Then we moved on to tea

Finally we started eating our tea goodies! Scones with clotted cream and jam first...

followed by tea sandwiches and savories

Then we ate the wonderful tea sweets

Tea with your tea buddies is always a fun treat!

tea favors from a previous tea adventure featuring Stampin Up's scallop envelope die embossed with the stripes folder

Terri

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Epiphany Tea

Hi friends!

I am fortunate to be included in a group of women who get together for tea whenever one or two or three of them decide to throw a tea party. The most recent one was a Epiphany tea held at my friend (& upline) Susan's house. Besides Epiphany, it happened to be Chris's birthday a few days before the tea, so we added a birthday celebration to the festivities.

I like to make small gifts for my tea friends. This tea gave me a chance to make a project I had seen on my friend Tangee's website (KricutKrazy). The project involves wrapping Hershey's chocolate nuggets with designer series paper (DSP); the nuggets fit perfectly in pretzel rod bags. Wondering how they turned out? Well wonder no more....

I used the Snow Festival DSP from the 2012 Stampin Up Holiday catalog. These are very easy to make. Cut the DSP to 1"x3", for the tray cut a piece of coordinating cardstock 2"x4" and make a 1/4" score along both long sides. Place the covered nuggets on the tray and then into a pretzel rod bag. It's that easy!

Some of our tea pals couldn't make it---some were out of town, ill, or at the Ravens football game (watching them win--Go Ravens!). I captured the day with a few pictures and wished I taken more--- like of the birthday pennant banner Susan made for Chris and a holiday door swag Susan also made. Sometimes I am so lame!!!!