Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!
Today was a great mail day. Okay, it’s been over the last couple of days, but I was away, so it was all stacked up waiting for me. (The cat sitter also got the mail, so it wasn’t in the box all weekend or anything.)
Small swaps with mj, TeaBrat and Arshness arrived, as did my first box in my Tea Sparrow subscription.
Here’s hoping Steepster doesn’t crash again when I try to post this.
I got an amazing package from Stacy at Butiki. I won an ounce of the new Red Queen Cupcake blend in a round of 20 questions. As if sending me free tea weren’t enough, she also threw in some samples! Some thoughtful, amazing samples, including the Lemon French Macaron that I’ve been wanting to try, the Doke Rolling Thunder off my Steepster wishlist, a new black tea, and my beloved Hello Sweetie, with which I have a torrid love affair. Bonus – the whole box smells light and lemony and perfectly fresh (but not in a cleaning product way).
Thank you Stacy!
Come home to find my Teavivre order. Woot!
Taiwan Oriental Beauty (Bai Hao) Oolong Tea
Three Variety Tea Tin (Variety : Black Pumpkin-Like Tea Tin)
Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea – Golden Tip
Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) Wuyi Rock Oolong Tea
Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black Tea
Taiwan Osmanthus Oolong Tea
Looking forward to it. They were the ones got me into the Yunnan and Fujian black teas.
My decorating project didn’t turn out how I wanted, so I was a little frustrated this morning. Coming home to find my Teavivre order improved my mood.
I got an awesome package from Courtney with Nina’s Paris tea and a fancy sample of WP tea that I was really interested in, AND my tentacle mug from DAVIDs came with the cotton candy rooibos sample – it’s cold steeping right now. :)
Yesterday I picked up my TTC order which had 5 samples (4 blacks and 1 oolong) and they threw in a couple extras because they’re absolute sweethearts.
And on Friday I got Thor, Loki and Kaylee teas from Adagio! It’s been a pretty great few days and I still have tea from my Whispering Pines order coming this week! (Also RiverTea/Lupicia tea to rescue from Sil’s place!)
Is the cotton candy tea from DAVIDsTEA really sweet? Was thinking about buying some when it comes out.
I haven’t tried it yet because it’s still steeping, but I think it’ll be really sweet based on the ingredients:
Green rooibos, sprinkles (sugar, salt, artificial flavouring, red3, blue1) mango (mango, sugar, citric acid, sulfur dioxide) brittle (sugar,hazelnut, invert sugar) natural & artificial flavouring. Contains hazelnut and sulfites.
I got my samples from Yogi! I have a feeling I won’t be drinking them too soon because I have so many other teas that are so good.
I got my tea swaps from Mandy and Cameron B. Yay! I’m sitting here with Jasmine pearls and Della Terra Pineapple Upside Down Tea. :)
Everything smells amazing. I can’t wait to try them all. YEE ^^
I got my samples of 15 different assams from Teabox in the Darjeeling District in West Bengal today!!! They were very generous and sent 3 fancy samples with them: Castleton Muscatel Darjeeling, Jungpana Black 2014 Darjeeling and Doomni Silver Needle 2014 Assam. Those seem like mighty intimidating teas for the beginner taster!! 18 samples…what’s a girl to do? :)
My David’s tins came last night
I do! I can’t get around to putting tea in them until this weekend though. Can someone explain to me please why Every. Single. Time. someone goes to the trouble of writing “FRAGILE” on a box it was always comes to me all beat up and with holes? My tins were ok but the box was a mess. Same thing with the box my Yixing pot came in. Most of the (MANY) other boxes I get have no fragile warning on them and they get here in good shape. Does the post service take “fragile” as a dare or something?? WTH?
Actually I remember reading somewhere where someone did a test with boxes marked fragile/priority/freight/etc with sensors inside to measure how roughly they were handled and found the ones marked fragile/priority actually did take more of a beating than the regular first class/etc boxes. I think they said it’s because those usually get hand sorted and the people doing the sorting tend to actually physically throw them around alot more. Which is not encouraging in the least. x.x
So…got my teaware order from DAVIDsTEA…
This is the box you get when you order 50 tins and teaware:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laafeevertee/14310051049/in/photostream/lightbox/
They obviously didn’t have a davidstea box large enough to put that in, so they used one of their Sencha supplier’s box, lol.
Yes, t’was the size of my kitchen table…even my cat Wizz was like, «what the hell, woman???»
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laafeevertee/14310201907/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laafeevertee/14473552826/in/photostream/
I got funny looks at the post office…again.
But I don’t care, let them think I’m crazy!
And I love my new teaware, what a bargain that was!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laafeevertee/14516772723/in/photostream/lightbox/
Lol… The tins are $2,50 each. I REALLY need to organize stuff, that’s why it was time to invest in storage instead of tea!!!
The teaware was such a bargain, I got all four mugs for $29!!!
Will you wash the tins out and store the tea directly in them, or will you store them in plastic bags inside the tins?
I’m curious because I wonder how long they need to air dry out after you wash them to avoid the risk of mold.
Thanks MzPriss, he’s mommy’s baby :-)
Christina, I don’t really “wash” them, I just take a damp cloth and wipe the inside. Then I put them in the oven for 30 min at 200F to make sure they are perfectly dry.
Those are all for straight teas so I won’t be using bags, just put them directly in.
Lol, mandy, what exactly do you mean? Those are 50 empty tins, it’s only for a portion of my stash, each tin will contain at least 2oz of tea so that’s more like100oz of tea :-)
So envy. Wow.
Those are great. :D I wish I could have dropped some money on that sale but Steam Summer Sale has wiped me out haha. >_<
Katiek, the cat is my approval radar, he inspects thoroughly every tea parcel that comes in :-)
Arshness, maybe you’ll be able to take advantage of the next big DAVIDsTEA sale, they don’t do that very often, but they make it count!!
Wow! This is crazy awesome!! No wonder they didn’t have black tins available! :P haha.. and your cat is so adorable^.^
Oooh that makes so much more since. I thought it was 50 of the stackable tins with 1 oz of tea in them!
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