My tea tree

  • I got a lit­tle fake Christ­mas tree at Wal­mart with­out a clue what I was going to do with it. But set­ting it up in the kitchen, I got an idea and made myself happy.

    Behold my tea tree!

    teatree.jpg

    The teapot/teacup orna­ments I already had. (Do other peo­ple fall vic­tim to silly things like those? I hope so.) But I went through my cup­board and started donat­ing teabags, labels and such to the cause. I put in one of the bags of Cey­lon tea brought back from Sri Lanka by a church friend. I added in the chamomile that I go to when I really, really don’t need a caf­feinated tea. With a sigh, I even donated a teabag of my pre­cious Christ­mas blend — my annual guilty plea­sure pur­chase from the Hall’s depart­ment store in Kansas City. Twin­ings, Tazo, Lip­ton and Hart­man & Sons are all help­ing me make a merry lit­tle Advent sea­son. None of that is very reli­gious of me, but I cracked myself up with this, so I thought I’d share.

    teatree_detail.jpg

    Oh, and by the way, just so you know that Greg does get to assert his man­li­ness in the sea­sonal dec­o­rat­ing, there’s also … Tommy Bahama tree. A lit­tle harder to make out in a photo, but it sports lit­tle TB orna­ments of shirts, wood­ies, surf­boards, por­poises and fruity drinks. Oh, and the win­ning poker hand. Again, not the Orthodox-as-anything por­tion of our dec­o­rat­ing efforts. Just a wee bit of fun.
    tommybahama-tree.jpg


    Related posts:

    1. Decaf­feinat­ing your tea naturally
    2. Fri­day tea report
    3. But first, a word about my tea
    4. Bush tea and the snif­fles with Mma Ramotswe
    5. Cold as a bat’s underpants

    November 23rd, 2008 | Grace | 2 Comments |

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  • Eliz­a­beth 11.23.2008

    These are so gro­geous !
    They brought a smile to my face on a cold and gloomy morn­ing here :-)
    Thanks for sharing !

  • Mimi

    What a great idea!

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