Kaylee said

Share Your Tea Gifts!

I realize it’s early for some of you, but Hannukah has already begun and that means (among other things) presents! So far I’ve gotten the Deep Tea Diver infuser (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f01f/) from my brother. My SO also just ordered a bunch of teaware for me from Butiki (waited for the Black Friday sale for the free twist canister).

Has anyone else gotten any tea gifts yet? Post here when you do!

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My brother got me a Takeya Insulated Tumbler and the Davidstea 8 days of tea holiday set. =)

Kaylee said

Nice. Have you tried the tumbler yet? Does it work well?

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Nothing fancy, but I’m planning to send some of my overflow to a few of my tea-loving friends.

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I got myself some 52 Teas blends for a new job. Does that count?

Katiek said

Congrats on the new job!

Thanks, it seasonal though.

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Katiek said

I haven’t gotten any tea gifts yet, but I’ve wrapped some to give. A number of people are getting the decorative Christmas tins from Lupicia and I sent someone a David’s advent calendar. I also gave another friend some assorted tea samples in a decorative bag, her own tea sampler.

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Lala said

At work, it was decided to do a secret coffee mug exchange for the holiday season. I was not really looking forward to this. I would love another mug, maybe a tea cup, but knowing many of the people I work with, I was expecting to get a chipped old mug someone had in the back of their cupboard, instead of them purchasing a cheap but interesting mug to contribute. So anyway, we did a kind of musical chairs exchange where we each had a wrapped/bagged mug and passed them around the table until the music stopped, you got to open what you were holding. I got a quite nice “redneck type” mug (AKA the mason jar) with a handle. But it has a little chalkboard on the front and came with a piece of chalk so you can write on it what you are drinking. I have to admit it was pretty cool. Now I can get rid of my old work cup (that I keep at work for when I forget a travel mug at home) and replace it with this. Not sure how it will hold out to hot liquid but that is ok because I can write on it with chalk.

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I’m making my both of parents a 25 days of tea calendar. Each day they will have a different tea starting on December 25th. Unfortunately for me, that means traveling with 50 different teas in my carry-on! :( Well, I should say, 50 different teas plus the teas that I am bringing for myself!

Aside from that, I am giving one of my friends a blend that I made specially for her. Another one of my friends will be getting some pu-erh. And finally, my best friend will be getting a surprise that I cannot talk about on Steepster because she is a member!

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Kaylee said

Best. Office mate. Ever.

So I’ve been slammed at work and had a (probably related) massive migraine for three days. My office mate likes to send me to http://calmingmanatee.com/ when I get too stressed. She also knows that I like tea (though not the extent of my collection, thankfully). So I came in to find this on my desk today:
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/55491847/manatea-time_mugs?productId=543841699
It is super thoughtful and cute and I’ve been drinking from it all evening! I’m lucky to have such an awesome office mate.

Now I’m going to have to go and buy this to match: http://fredandfriends.com/products/view/manatea-infuser

Yvonne said

That is ridiculously adorable.

Sil select said

omg i just died laughing. first one was
http://calmingmanatee.com/26

Kaylee said

This is one of my favorites:
http://calmingmanatee.com/25

ambeth select said

So cute!

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moraiwe said

My sister got me a little mountain climber infuser for Christmas (this one: http://www.amazon.com/Kikkerland-Cliff-Climber-Infuser-Drip/dp/B00BYBNTK2). and I had a friend get a cute teapot for me for Halloween (http://imgur.com/90E3Q3a). I know awesome people :)

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