Holy moley, Batman

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

A HUGE HUGE THANK YOU to poisondove for a FABULOUS tea swap, which just arrived! I was shocked to see the postman holding an enormous cardboard box. Surely it can't be my tea swap, I thought. But lo, it was!

Inside there was the most beautiful wicker basket filled with loads of different teas, as well as some sweeties, hot chocolate, a candle, a sample of Heaven and Earth Essentials body cream, and a Mythos Mixtures sample in Fire Imp! Plus an adorable Halloween kitty card.

The box contains Whittards cherry white tea, Whittards vanilla black,, Whittards spiced chai, Twinings pomme caramel, Twinings orange, mango and cinammon, and Twinings pink grapefruit and lime! This is great because I said in my application I'd prefer a few different kinds rather than bigger boxes of just a couple of flavours! And poisondove chose really well and packaged them up so nicely. Thanks again to you and to Emma for organising the swap!

OMG OMG OMG!!!

[la-dame-du-lac.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!!

I have just received the most beautiful and thoughtful parcel from bagfish. It's stunning! It's amazing! I'm still overwhelmed by her generosity! :D

So I wanted to take a nice photo and found out that I completely suck at doing elegant displays. Somehow it always looks messy. So I thought that a kitty might help. He was sleeping deeply, so I used him to help prop up the teas:


(click for a bigger pic!)

The wonderfulness includes:
- vanilla black tea which smells amazingly good
- blackcurrant flavoured black tea which smells awesome!
(I am so conflicted... which to try first, the vanilla or the blackcurrant??!)
- passionfruit and orange (herbal?) tea which smells zesty! I bet it's great as a wake-up tea!
- night-time herbal tea, to unwind before bed. It has spearmint in it and I never realised that spearmint smelled so gorgeous! I'm very very curious!
- mango green tea which I'm sure will reconcile me to green teas. It smells gorgeous!
- a sampling of various teabags from her collection, all of which sound lovely!
- a bag of chocolate fudge. I don't know how bagfish guessed, but I was having the most terrible fudge cravings the last few days. I can guarantee these won't last long!
- a tea-infusor-thingy - FANTASTIC! I have been fighting with my tea egg for years and don't do loose-leaf tea as much as I'd like because it's such a bore. This will change everything, thank you! :D

I'm ecstatic, and incredibly impatient to be able to sample everything! It looks and smells stunning! Thanks again, bagfish, for a wonderful package! :D

Disclaimer: No kitties were hurt during the photoshoot. Scott stirred once, vaguely glanced at the packs on his belly, and promptly flopped down again and started snoring.