Tea on Tuesday

While I sit here drinking my aromatic jasmine tea from Harney & Sons , I am skimming thru my new issue of Tea Time Magazine, the Christmas Special issue!!

There are pages and pages of necessi-teas  for gift giving - or giving yourself!!!

There is an article about Chinese teas and the camellia sinensis (tea bush) by Bruce Richardson.

There are articles about beautiful, to die for, teacups, and pages and pages of holiday recipes.

How about sausage and kale scones, mini chestnut cheesecakes, pear puff pastries, lemon cake, plum pudding, raspberry roulade, and the perfect stuffed goose?!?!

If you live in NYC, you can find out the 3 best places to buy tea in Chinatown!!

I just love this magazine!!!

I am also admiring my first real attempt at origami. 

After reading faerwillow's blog post about making 1,000 origami cranes, and seeing photos( from my friend's trip to Japan) of origami crane wish bundles in a Japanese shrine, I felt I just had to try one.

Folding one led to 5 - not made out of traditional origami paper- but decorative craft paper in different weights, including a larger one from a page out of a magazine.

I now have it figured out - but don't think I have the patience to make 1,000!!! Even at 3 per day - totally doable- it would take almost a year to have 1,000 and a wish bundle!!!!

So, I will make a few more, now and then - and however many I create, will probably decorate my Christmas tree! I might even make a mobile (thanks, T!)
Check out this link - and click on the little video there - totally soothing - and I wish I knew the names for the backround music!!

Thanks for dropping in for tea, and feel free to join us every Tuesday! Visit Kimmie and Patty for a list of other tea participants!!