The Magical Flowering Tea

This is the magical flowering tea! It is Jasmine flowering tea and it starts off as a little bud of the brown coloured leaves all bunched up, then in hot water it slowly opens up and shows you this lovely looking orange and peachy coloured flower! It's quite amazing! It also tastes quite nice. This was recommended to me by the nice waiter at Wagamama's Cardiff and Emma and I amused him greatly by then taking the flower out of the tea using chopsticks because we wanted to see what it looked like when it wasn't in water... turns out... not so nice. It sort of looks like it's dead when it's not in the water, not so good. But... you can actually buy the buds so you can have this magic event happen whenever you want it to! Amazing!




I also made this little guy today from some left over wire that I don't really like the guage of, it's a bit too thick for what I want it to do but waste not want not, so I decided I'd try something a bit different! I'm pleased with the effect and I've been wearing him for hours and haven't broken it or snagged any of my clothing so far... and he's pretty comfy. Maybe not an everyday ring... and I was thinking I could add some little green beads to be his eyes?!



I'm watching the proms now, 'Hooray for Hollywood', music from the movies, and the conductor who was just on was waaaaay to enthusiastic, he was bopping around! Nice to see people having fun at work though, isn't it?

So... stuff making me happy right now:

1. The fact that I have been appointed girlfriend/date by Emma and she has invited me to go see the Christmas lights switch on in Cardiff! 
2. My new Cath Kidston pattern sock monkey. 
3. Being myself and being pretty happy with that. 
4. The compliments and praise I got from other traders and customers (including three very giggly teenage girls) at the craft fair I went to today. 
5. Knowing that even though I have had a headache ALL day and really not wanting to get out of bed this morning, I did, and I had a GOOD DAY!!!

More exploits will surely follow, but maybe I need a day off... especially since I'm supposed to have written up a report for W.I. aaaages ago which I haven't done!!! Less blogging... more report writing!

xx