Another purse

Here's my gift to the ladies at the tea party.

It's filled with tea, Big Island Candy, a desk calendar and a pocket calendar

Thank you for stopping by!

It's all in the bag - From Dori

Dori is another extremely talented lady,
she always comes up with projects I have never tried so ...

Here is the bag from Dori filled with lots of goodies:

A plethora of yummy eye candies for an for the tummy!!

Dori, please send me instructions and measurements for this bag!!
You are da bomb!!

A Gift From Brenda

OMG! This is the gift from Brenda, my Hawn Librarian!

She is just the sweetest lady you ever did meet!!

Here is a picture of the top of the box and, are you ready for this???

Ta da!! Its a different take off from the Exploding Box!! She is just the most talented!
She made each floading flap (total 8) a pocket and filled them with tea bags. The inside is a tea and saucer ornament, but I think I'll use it as a tea bag holder.

What an amazing gift in a box!! Thanks, Brenda! You are the bestest!!

Please send me instructions and measurements. You know we all want to make one!

Card holder from Gail

This adorable card/holder is made by Gail Woo, who doesn't have a blog but really should because all of her cards are beautiful!!

Inside she put a penguin die and matching stamps from PaperTrey Inc. (I love that company!) and some Stash tea.

January Tea Swap Open Call and Tea with Friends

Happy New Year!!

The first 2012 January Tea Swap is now open!

The optional theme is: "Celebrations"; Optional Colors are: Blue and silver (or white)

"Celebrations" could be New Years or birthday or baby, etc. Anything that gives cause to celebrate. Cards can be blank or with sentiments, your choice.

Requirements: Send a handmade CARD with two tea bags to your partner by the deadline.

Please let me know if you would like to join the January Tea Swap by January 6
Your partner's information will be emailed to you by January 9
You will have until January 16 to mail your cards out.

If you are interested in joining us, send me an email with the subject: TEA SWAP and the following information:

1) your name
2) mailing address
3) email address
4) likes/dislikes/allergies (re tea type)
5) Loose tea okay? Y/N
6) blog (if any)
7) If you are willing to swap international or US ONLY

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This past week I had Christmas tea with 3 ladies from our tea swap.

A picture of our delicious High Tea delicacies

LOL! And, of course taking pictures of everything and everybody!

I had a wonderful time celebrating friendship and afternoon tea.
Thank you, Dori, Gail and Brenda.
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Tomorrow I'll post the outstanding handmade gift these talented ladies made.

Much to be thankful for:

This post is a modgepodge of items I wasn't able to post the past couple of months.

Sweet Hello Kitty double pocket card from Colleen

Beautiful holiday card from Anne in Denmark. Note the intricate cutting on the heart. She said that the weaved heart is a true Danish tradition. Please check out her blog for other beautiful work she does.

Precious Thank you dry embossed card from Merle.

Thank you, ladies, for being so thoughtful and for the wonderful surprise of your card and the delicious teas!!

Lastly, this is the photo of the 18 or so hand sanitizer holders I made for scrapbook club holiday gift.

Owl Dry Erase/Magnetic boards

And this is one more made for the gal who sits right next to me at work. She loves owls:



I created a couple other different designs but with the stressful creating, I neglected to take pictures. Anyway, have a good one!