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Oh, Honey! Glass, No Drip Honey Dispenser (Where Has This Been All My Life!?!)

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Ever come across something you had no idea even existed but it’s love at first sight? The kind where you have a, “Where have you been my whole life?!?!” moment? That’s what happened a few minutes (literally MINUTES) ago when I saw this no-drip  Glass Honey Dispenser on Amazon.  I wasn’t even looking for it (heck, how could I – I didn’t know it existed!), but it appeared as a “recommended for you” product and I am ecstatic that it did.

I use honey A LOT. A LOT A LOT. As a heavy tea drinker, I put it in just about every mug of hot tea I make (except for Darjeeling and fruit-infused teas). I also use it on toast and in every single bowl of oatmeal I make (which is in the thousands a year).

Friends, I love oatmeal.

I estimate that I wipe down plastic bottles of honey 10 times a day. Even when they’ve been given a bath, they still seem kind of sticky, don’t they?

The Glass Honey Dispenser  is just what I needed – without even knowing I needed it!

Click through the link for a closer look at this beauty. I love its looks!


Gorgeous Bamboo Tea Box: Thoughtful and Handsome Gift Idea

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I have flipped my proverbial Crazy Tea Chick wig for tea boxes. Not only are they handsome (much more handsome, say,  than umpteen dozen boxes or bags cluttering the shelf), they’re  they’re an organization-lovers dream come true.

The Bamboo Tea Box, pictured here, is my favorite of the moment. I love the color of the bamboo for one thing, and I am WILD about the TEAS and design on the lid.

Gorgeous!

  • Great gift ideas for tea drinkers. 
  • 7.5 x 12.5 x 3.5
  • 100% Bamboo – I absolutely love the look of bamboo.
  • Latching lid ensures safe keeping and travel
  • It’s customizable, so you can configure this box 500+ different ways with a unique multikeep slat system.
  • Guaranteed 100% money back no questions asked guarantee. Now that’s confidence.

See the Bamboo Tea Box for a closer look. Great gift idea!


Coffee and Tea Signs on Amazon – Great Gift Ideas for MANY of Us!

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While I am a bona fide Crazy Tea Chick, I love my coffee as much. They serve different purposes in my mug-chugging life, but they’re both in my DNA. Thing is, that seems to be the way it is with a lot of us – we are passionate about both of these beauties.

I guess that’s why I love, love, love all of the Coffee and Tea Signs on Amazon. They pay tribute to both of our passions.

The black and white Coffee + Tea Sign to the right has a vintage look to it I love. This would be perfect for a kitchen or even an office, wouldn’t it?

You know – let them know where you stand!

I also love the Whitewashed Wood Tea & Coffee Arrow Signs, pictured on the left. In fact, they’re one of my favorite things of the moment – I love them!

These have a rustic feel that is my aesthetic. They kind of sum up my relationship with coffee and tea as well.

Coffee gets me going, while tea helps me head in the other direction. One launches me and the other helps me come in for a landing!

This would make a great gift idea for anyone who travels the same caffeinated path.

 

Description:

  • Wall mounted Tea & Coffee whitewashed wood arrow signs perfect for use in your coffee shop, cafe, or break room
  • Can be used for decorative or directional purposes
  • Whitewashed wood finish complements rustic decors
  • Easy to mount to wall surfaces with proper hardware (Mounting hardware included)
  • SPECS: 15.75 W x 0.75 D x 6.0 H (in inches)

There are many, many, many Coffee and Tea Signs on Amazon – some that sit on shelves (or counters or desks) and others that are made for hanging around. Some even light up! These would make wonderful, thoughtful gifts for anyone who loves coffee and tea.


Gorgeous Porcelain Tea Set: Perfect Gift for Tea Lovers

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This Porcelain Tea Set is absolutely breathtaking! It’s available in blue (pictured) or pink and each is equally spectacular.

  • 22 piece tea set: 6 teacups, 6 saucers, 6 spoons, 1 milk pot, 1 sugar pot, 1 teapot, 1 stainless steel infuser.(Display Stand Not Included, but is only $12.99 on Amazon)
  • Bring elegance and beauty to your home – our porcelain tea set is designed by Sweejar. Modelling design is unique, surface with light color and golden edge. This showcase of Chinese craftsmanship will add style and color to your tabletop.
  • Not only beautiful, but fully functional. 6 sets of cups, plates and spoons. Suitable for afternoon tea, tea party and dessert party. Or as an exquisite gift to someone special.
  • High Quality Ceramics – the Teapot set are FDA-approved durable ceramics. Lead-free, non-toxic, safe for dishwashers. Enjoy your Tea/Coffee, hot or cold!

See Porcelain Tea Set to take a closer look – and to see just how beautiful both the blue and the pink sets are!

Also on Amazon – the matching 3 Tier Cake Stand (pictured on the left). How beautiful would this look covered in cookies or mini muffins? Maybe even biscotti – all go perfectly with tea.

This exquisite stand would be perfect to gift along with the tea set above.

It is available in the tea pot sets’ matching blue and pink patterns and is also available in gorgeous solid pink, purple, or white.

I honestly want one of each. You have to see how beautiful these are!

Product Details:

  • Gorgeous 3 Tier Stand: This layered cake rack has an irregular and elegant shape.
  • High quality porcelain
  • On this 3-layer cake stand you can place sandwiches, scones, croissants, fruit, cupcakes or anything you want to show on the table.
  • Wide use- Elegant three-tier cake stan is the perfect for dinner feast, wedding, holiday party, baby shower, to provide delicious desserts for your friends or family.Create a sense of balance and romance.
  • Easy to clean and store – Sturdy ceramic plates,The metal bracket can be removed and placed in any cabinet.Smooth surface, easy to clean.
  • PRODUCT WARRANTY—— ZERO risk! 30-day warranty to get a free replacement or refund if anything goes wrong with the product.

See: 3 Tier Cake Stand

The PERFECT Gift to Light Up a Tea and Coffee Lover’s World

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Love this, need this, love this, need this… you get the idea. I mean.. LOOK AT IT!!! The Tea and Coffee Wood Wall Decor with LED Lights may not have been designed specifically for me, but it might as well have been.

  1.  I love and live for tea.
  2. I love and live for coffee.
  3. I love the rustic look and feel of anything and everything.
  4. I love the look of lights in a cozy room in the early hours of the morning or late hours of the evening.

Hmmmm, maybe it was made for me.

Product Details from Amazon:

  • The rustic wood with led wall decorative sign is perfect with the rustic feel of your home!
  • The LED wooden wall decoration with on/off switch is so easily reached so you can turn it on/off as anytime.
  • The wood led light decor with a spot pres-crewed which is easy to hung.
  • The rustic led wood wall decor add a nice touch to the kitchen area and the lights are great in the evening.
  • The wooden wall decoration with led is not only decorating your home wall but also can make for a neat little nightlight.

Click through for a better look – this tiny image doesn’t do it justice!

Beautiful Elephant Tea Mug: Perfect Gift Idea for Tea Lovers

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So, just how gorgeous can one tea mug be?!?!?!  This deliciously unique and uncommonly beautiful Elephant Tea Mug is available on Amazon and would make a PERFECT gift for any tea lover in your life – even if the tea lover is you.

Especially if the tea lover is you! I mean, if you can’t buy a gift for yourself, who can you buy a gift for?

  • ELEPHANT SHAPED TEA MUG – The appealing shape of this pachyderm makes it a pleasure to hold. Wrap your cold hands around the round body to warm them up on a chilly day.
  • INTEGRATED TEA BAG HOLDER – The sculpted head complete with ears and trunk holds a clever opening that neatly stashes your teabag when you’re done steeping and want to enjoy your soul-sustaining brew.
  • COMPLETE ELEPHANT SHAPE – The elephant’s body holds your tea or coffee, the head stores the tea bag, the tail forms the mug handle, and it even stands on four detailed elephant feet.
  • OVERSIZED MUG – This adorable mug holds a full 15 ounces. Made of heat-resistant ceramic. Machine washable.
  • MAKES A GREAT GIFT – A wonderful and practical gift for any tea drinker or collector or elephant housewares.

Click the following link or the adorable picture above for more information: Elephant Tea Mug!


Exquisite Loose Green Tea from Masters Tea by Adagio (Review)

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Masters by Adagio Teas

Masters Teas by Adagio

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – tea isn’t just a drink, tea is an experience. Whatever the reason(s), tea isn’t just something we enjoy while making memories, it becomes part OF the memory:

  • A hot chai tea latte while watching the first snowfall
  • A tall class of iced raspberry tea as you admire your bed of zinnias
  • Hot green tea with honey and a slice of orange while wrapping Christmas presents
  • An especially good glass of iced tea on date night with the love of your life

Tea is that special – and every true tea lover knows it.

Meng Ding Huang Ya

Meng Ding Huang Ya

That’s why we never hesitate to buy specialty teas, gorgeous tea mugs, infusers, tea-related products, etc. And that’s why we get downright excited when we come across a new source for excellent tea. As you can tell from my tea reviews, I love ordering loose tea online. While I buy my everyday tea bags at Kroger, I’ve found that the best loose tea is only online.

Over the years, one of my favorite sources has been Adagio tea. They’re just excellent – every single step of the buying, brewing, and drinking process is flawless. How many things can you say that about?!

That’s why I was so excited to learn that they’d launched a new division, Master Teas, and why I jumped at the chance to review a few teas on my tea blog.

Master Teas Mission Statement:

The intention of Masters Teas is to share the finest, freshest specialty teas direct from the farms where they grow. We invite you to get to know the artisans who tender them and learn their stories. It is not necessary to be a tea connoisseur to enjoy these exceptional productions, as we intend to offer as much information as possible to help you on a journey of tea discovery. Masters Teas is proud to offer you our 2019 fresh-from-the-field teas the moment they arrive. Each offering is a limited edition, small-lot production.

Meng Ding Mao Feng

Meng Ding Mao Feng

I love green tea with a passion, so each of the loose teas I chose to review were green teas:

I’ve tried each of these three BEAUTIFUL teas hot and cold and they are simply breathtaking. If you’ve ever enjoyed top of the line loose tea, you’ll know what I mean when I say there’s simply nothing quite like it. I cannot possibly say which of these exquisite teas is my favorite. While there is a similarity between the first two, there is also noticeable difference. Meng Ding Mao Feng has a sweeter taste – especially (for me, anyway) when iced. It tastes like an amazing cup of lightly sweetened green tea and it is a beautiful, beautiful thing!

It is just as wonderful when served hot.

The Meng Ding Huang Ya tea is also perfection in a cup… literally. While less sweet, it is easily as delicious as the Meng Ding Mao Feng. It, too, is just as excellent iced as it is hot.

The third tea, Yu Qian Anji Bai Cha might just be the most unique loose green tea (or any loose tea!) I’ve ever tasted. You take a sip and try to identify the wonderful underlying flavor… but you can’t quite come up with it, so you take another sip. Then another. Before you know it, the wonderful (perfectly, perfectly wonderful) cup is completely gone and you’re still left wondering, “What was that delicious flavor in the background?!” After drinking this particular tea for the first time – as well as each subsequent time – the first word to come to mind was, “Intriguing.”

Not, that’s a very special tea!

Truth be told, however, they are all three exceptional teas. When I was thinking through this review, I kept asking myself, “If you were to recommend only ONE for your reader friends to try first, which would it be?” My answer each time I quizzed myself was the same, “I can’t pick just one!”

Masters Tea

Gorgeous, HIGH Quality Teaware

I also ordered a gorgeous tea cup that caught my eye (you can see the beauty in the pictures above and below). It’s the Nami Cup (color: Ash) and no photo does it justice. The size and texture are unlike any tea cup I’ve seen and I’m absolutely in love with it. It was larger than I was expecting, which is always a wonderful surprise. I hope you’ll click through and see all of the gorgeous Teaware (cups, mugs, teapots, infuser sets…). There are beautiful, serene, colors available and these would make EXCELLENT Christmas gifts for the tea lovers on your list. Unique, gorgeous gifts they’ll absolutely love. Be warned, though, when you see these, you’ll want to keep them for yourself.

I’ll never tell!

I hope you’ll visit Masters Teas by Adagio today. You will become obsessed, I guarantee it! ~ Joi


Tea (or Coffee) Mugs for MiMis, Grandmas, Grandpas, Nannas, and Other Superheroes!

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MiMi Mug

 

What is it about grandparents?? We LOVE letting the world know about our grandbabies and grandchildren! Seriously, we all but announce it to everyone we meet.

“Hi… How are you doing? I have a grandbaby and he’s 18 months old. He is so adorable and rotten and…” 

Surely it’s not just me. Just kidding – I know it’s not!

The beautiful burton + BURTON mug above is one of my favorite Mother’s Day gifts. Somehow, my Chai Tea Lattes just taste better out of it than other mugs. Don’t ask why. My daughter bought if for me in a local store, but there are a lot of burton + BURTON mugs on Amazon. They also have other “names” than MiMi (that just happens to be the name the adorable and rotten 18 month old knows me by).

There are also mugs for parents, grandfathers, and other walks of life. They’re all super gorgeous. Click any of the links to see the beauties.

And… say… have I told you about my grandbaby? He’s 18 months old….


A Favorite Quote About Tea Make a VERY Memorable Tea Pot

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I’m not sure if the hobby even has a name, but I’ve been a collector of quotes since I first learned to write. Well, almost that long. I do know that I was already a firm member in the Quotes Collectors Club by the time I was in 7th grade.

One of my favorite quotes about tea is, “Come, let us have tea and talk about happy things.” Actually, it’s one of my favorite quotes about anything because it involves two of my all-time favorite things… tea and happy things!

Come on, how are you going to beat that duo?

This absolutely beautiful Tea Pot with a Bamboo Handle features this wonderful quote and it’s just perfect in every single way.

  • Ceramic & bamboo construction
  • Handle is wrapped in Bamboo
  • Hand wash only
  • 7. 5″L x 5. 75″W x 4. 5″H
  • Holds 32 ounces

This beauty would make a perfect gift for the tea lover in your life or, let’s be honest, the perfect tea pot for your own life! Click here for a closer look and more information.

Mr. Coffee 3-Quart Fresh Tea Iced Tea Maker

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The handsome Mr.Coffee Iced Tea Maker is my next Amazon purchase. As in, it’s in the cart awaiting the final deed even as we speak! As soon as I decide whether I want a new Rita Hayworth DVD or a new Maureen O’Hara biography to accompany its trip to our home.

As you’d expect from a Crazy Tea Chick, I go through A LOT of tea year-round. Hot tea, iced tea, tea lattes.. but the iced tea is at a fever pitch this time of year.

Truth be told, I make so much iced tea during the warm months, I should have a spring training for it like baseball players do. Get my arm muscles built up!

Features:

  • Easy one-touch brewing in about 10 minutes
  • Brew strength selector adjusts brew to match your preferred taste
  • Chose tea bags or loose tea leaves for brewing flexibility
  • Removable brew basket for simple cleanup
  • Auto-shutoff after cycle is completed

See Mr.Coffee Iced Tea Maker for more information. I may just see you there…. deciding between a couple of beautiful redheads.

EDIT: Why pick one or the other, Maureen and Rita are both on their way!