Global Tea Time

A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a friend during my lunch hour at work. They were at String Town, and wanted to know if I wanted them to pick up any tea for me. While I don't really go for bagged tea, I also know that you never know what you will find at String Town - even though I've never been there. I think the store actually goes by a different name, and I know that it is in "Amish Country" (I don't think that they use that exact term around here, but that's the term we used where I grew up). Anyway, it's a store that has a lot of food in various size packages for sale cheap. I also know that you have to watch expiration dates when you get food there because a lot of it is near or past its expiration date. My friends listed off some of the teas they saw, then said that they would send me pictures. There were the standard boxes of bagged tea, but then there was this. A big box of Indian tea. It contains chocolate vanilla herbal tea, cardamom spi...

Guess who showed up nestled away in one of my lace supply totes? Yes, my 3 footed toad! Why was I digging through my lace supply bins? Well, it's October which means I have tatted bats to make. It took me a while to figure out the pattern as it is mostly chains, and then I had to find the beads. They didn't give specific sizes for the beads so I had to guess which sizes would look right. In the end, I think I guessed pretty well. It's also fun to go to a craft store with a list that includes bat eye, fang, and nose beads. You have your hobbies, I have mine. This is my first bat. She still needs the ends worked in and to be blocked. It's surprising how many women I know who love bats, at least in the context of Halloween. Now to get back to cleaning and organizing the house... or spending my day making more bats.

I've hit the point in moving where I have found most of my stuff. There are a few things I'm still looking for. One of them is my 3 footed toad tea pet. I remember wrapping it up and tucking it into a safe place. Now to figure out where that safe place is. Most of my tea pets made the move tucked into a plastic tote with my lace making supplies. Here are most of the pets! In honor of October, I'm drinking with my bat today. I figured that I could say that I was oficially moved in when I made my first piece of lace - a lucky horseshoe - but I still have a missing pet. I hope that my tea pet didn't get disoriented by the move. I would hate for a toad to be wandering around lost with fall coming. Of course it survived the previous move. Tea pets also don't walk around much by themselves, but I can imagine... MISSING! Have you seen this tea pet? If yes, please feed it warm tea and call me!