What a good feeling to be BACK! I haven’t posted a blog since before Christmas, so this is long overdue! Wow, it sure is hard to get back into a routine after taking a break (at least for me anyway!) I had decided that I would take some time off from updating my website over the holidays, but that doesn’t mean that the tea parties ever stopped! In fact, I got to participate in a lot of festive events and projects! Today I will share some of the highlights! First of all, I wanted to mail surprise Christmas packages to a few families. Of course they had to have something to do with tea, right? So each family got two adorable tin cans, one filled with homemade loose leaf tea bags and the other with homemade Russian Tea Cakes! I posted a blog once before explaining how I made my own autumn tea blend recipe which you can check out here . The blend I came up with for Christmas was a bit different; I used black tea leaves, thin dried orange slices, orange & lemon zest, dried gi...