In this special article, we bring you an independent TeaPartyGirl.com review of 10 different teas from Adagio Teas.  The sample of teas chosen represents different continents, styles and strengths.  Your only difficulty in reading the tea reviews will be deciding which Adagio Tea to try first! Who are Adagio Teas?

Tea is a Ceremony and Tea is for Drinking Tea is many things to many people.  The purest tea drinkers and brewers believe in the benefit of brewing nothing but the finest long leaf tea.  They adore the pure flavours, aromas and health benefits of the finest teas from around

If you were to read a connoisseur’s review full of descriptions such as “strong body”, “delicious bouquet” and “lingering aroma”, what would you first thoughts be?  And if the review included “superbly aged” or “delicately matured aftertaste”, what would your conclusion likely be? Possibly the words of an expert wine

. Download Here : LexisNexis_and_Stop_the_Traffik_Tea_Report . “Everywhere around the world people drink tea. But how does this popular drink end up in your tea cup? Your supermarket or local tea shop will have bought their tea at the end of a long chain where pickers are trapped in the lowest

Tea Health Benefits My current reading material is a book called “The Sugar Solution” by Sari Harrar and the editors of Prevention magazine. This is not a new book (my edition is 2004) and it’s not the latest available on this topic, but I read it all the same and

Constant Comment – the top selling flavored black tea in the US Like most tea companies, Bigelow Tea has a unique history. Ruth Campbell Bigelow, one of the original founders of the tea company, is credited with creating the first specialty tea in the United States. The brew of “Constant

Why I love Drinking Tea So Much Do you know I think the world would end if there was no tea? Maybe I should name that Why I Love Tea So Much. Hello, Sonya Michelle is my name. I’m from Tea Party Girl and I’m bringing you some realiTEAtv today!

The Le Creuset tea kettle phenomenon, though a recent trend, are made by a company who has been around almost an entire century. In 1925, Armand Desaegher and Octave Aubecq realized they could improve upon cast iron by coating it with a glaze of porcelain enamel. Their first product was

The Breville One Touch Tea Maker   The Breville tea maker has tea drinkers everywhere talking. Tea drinkers have long awaited the day when we, too, like coffee drinkers, could wake up to a fresh cup of our favorite beverage, blended to perfection. Sure, Keurig has tried to make this

When you add tea dresses to your wardrobe, you give yourself a gift that enhances your whole life and lets The Elegant You shine. Days are long, and they’re filled with chores, work and a million other tasks that take up your energy. Recharge, and look great doing it. Read

Do you  not even give  your teapot(s) a second thought – you just make a pot of tea?  Or do you have a favorite pot for a particular tea?  Do you use what you’ve always known when you were growing up?  Or do you change your teapots regularly?  Do you

  Calling all students!  What’s your cause?  What do you care about?  Would you like to raise money for an organization without the stress and strain of trying to do it yourself? PTA Church Groups Missions Community Needs Chamber of Commerce Rotary Boys and Girls Club or anything else you

This morning, as I turned over the calendar page to my birthday month, I delighted in viewing the above picture. Thank you, Mary Englebreit. I remember a time in life when I scoffed at the simple life relishing quiet moments and uncomplicated beauty. I lived on adrenalin, sought the thrills,

    Hey Tea Party lovers! We have been working like mad behind the scenes at Tea Party Girl.  Late next week we plan to launch a super cool product and collectable themed tea and recipe series.  I am so excited about it. Plan now to watch your email and

Alice continues to share great information at Tea in My Cup, including this month’s Don’t Panic Tea (a personal favorite) and a helpful post on Tea for Large Groups. See her archives for the Don’t Panic Tea Plan. Will you be taking part in the Global Tea Party on June

Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare Poetry has been around much longer than afternoon tea in Western Civilization. But in the honor of the Bard’s birthday and April being National Poetry Month, I wanted to share with you one of my recent favorite finds that helps me celebrate

I thought my girlfriend and I were visiting a local tea room to mark the last year I’ll spend in my 30s (!), but these ladies had a better plan! Nine dear friends surprised me with a birthday tea yesterday! Carleen is my number one tea student and friend–she was

Every niche has its experts and tea is no exception. In the tea world, certain names that are mentioned bring immediate recognition. I’ve covered four of these tea personalities in past entries: Jane Pettigrew, Elizabeth Knight, Dorothea Johnson, and James Norwood Pratt. Recently, James Norwood Pratt stated in the Fresh

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” –D.H. Lawrence Do you believe it? Will you make time for it? Does it surround you or slip into your peripheral vision while you plow through the to-do list? Can you take just a minute and appreciate it? Google searches on

This isn’t quite the view we’re enjoying today, but close. School was canceled, the children went sledding, and I made a few discoveries and wanted to pass them along. First, in light of yesterday’s post about a valentine-themed tea party, there’s a picture at Susan’s T-Cozy of what her Connecticut

Does your to-do list keep you up at night? Do you fall into the comparison trap on a regular basis? Do you fight habits only known to you and feel discouraged at your lack of progress? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you and I hold something

I’m asked this question often. The simple answer? Yes and no. Someday I may sell my own line of tea from this website. But I need to choose to jump through the health department’s hurdles first, and I’ve chosen not do that. Some teas I purchase in bulk at wholesale

What if you haven’t? If you were to ask me this question today, I’d have to sheepishly admit, not really. In fact, between storms, New Year’s, lack of Internet, and other demands, I blinked and the double-digit days of January arrived. Tomorrow I welcome one of my college roommates and

I don’t know about you, but when I reach the end of the holiday season, I feel like the marathon runner who collapses after crossing the finish line. Every year I think I’ll do a better job of staying balanced, saying yes to the right things, and keeping the season

Oh, that you could knock on my door and enter. The fire would be lit with a set tea table in front of it. The house would smell like gingerbread and we could talk heart-to-heart with our feet curled under us on the couch, holding our steaming cups of tea.

Breathe, Jenny, Breathe. Breathe, Readers, Breathe. Seriously. Take a minute and breathe deeply from your gut. Six times if you can. I’ve been going strong for the last nine hours and that’s what I’m doing as I sit down to write to you. ‘Tis the Season. And the pressure’s mounting.

I write this post today with two eager children on either side of me and two strange men pounding the floor above my head (it’s carpet installing day). It’s Daddy’s birthday and our family Christmas shopping day. I’m still in my pjs and haven’t cleaned the kitchen since making the

What do you do where you find yourself completely lost and transported from responsibility and distracting thoughts? My children memorize poems in their grammar program. This is one of them. Work Anonymous Work while you work. Play while you play. This is the way to be happy each day. All

Just in case you need some interpretation, TMI these days means Too Much Information. Now, mainly because my New England-bred mother reads this blog, I’m not REALLY going to tell you about my PMS struggles or the last time my toilet was cleaned. But I WILL tell you I’m fully

So every year it seems Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, Reformation Day, or Harvest (depending on your particular theological bend) seems to sneak up on me. This year I’m patting myself on the back for at least working with the sewing grandmother so that two of the three children can wear

So last weekend, as many of you know, I played hooky with Plays with Fire for our anniversary. Now I’m sure many of you can relate to the coordination effort it takes to cover all the details of five different family members living four different places for a couple of

One of my favorite bloggers is Brocante Home Chronicles and this week I discovered her list of puttery treats, what she calls “a scrumptious little collection of ideas”. Though some of her language needs a Brit to interpret, you will definitely find some homemaking inspiration. And like me, you may

And you are my man. October 23, 1993

Sometimes I step back, look at my work here at Tea Party Girl and cock my head. Why is a woman with my intense personality writing about the tea party? Honestly? Part of it’s because I’m afraid, I’m very afraid. This post is my entry in Scribbit’s October Write-Away Contest.

Do you really believe it? Do you live like this is true? My Personal Battle for Simplicity: One of my biggest struggles as a parent is to balance my children’s youthful energy with my older needs. (Almost) everyday my children hit the ground running, full of anticipation with what the

With digital camera photos. Will you be able to bear it? Do you know what you love? Once you find it, you’ll be ready. I’ve been making a home for fourteen years and have never owned a sofa table or buffet. Now I do and I love it. It was

I’m not a good writer. But writing everyday greatly increases the possibility I might be someday. Gaining traffic is a ton of work. I have to write consistently AND reach out to other bloggers/traffic sources. Only writing doesn’t work. Blogs are prolific, but ones worth visiting consistently are rare. I’m

ArtsyMama Scribbit Brocante Home Chronicles In lieu of more info from me today, consider a visit to one of these three blogs. ArtsyMama and Scribbit do a great job of building a community around their blogs. They provide fun, creative ways for the bloggers to connnect. I love Brocante Home

Dear Readers of Tea Party Girl, I admit I am trying to hang on to the transporting I experienced 48 hours ago watching Becoming Jane, the biopic about one of our favorite women and writers of all time, Jane Austen. We need another post about tea and the movies, don’t

whom would it be? Think about it for a moment. Whom would you most like to sit down with for an uninterrupted hour or two? Imagine the setting. Is it a sun-room with upholstered wicker chairs and daisies in a vase? A front-porch swing with a painted railing to put

How much time do you spend online or sitting at your computer? Do you sit in a room with windows? What do you see outside your window? Are the shades drawn to prevent glare? What do you do when you start to nod off during your work? Do you sip

Do you like to shop? The female stereotype says women LOVE to shop. We’re the gatherers, not the hunters, and we shop for the sheer pleasure of it. I’m not so sure. More and more, I meet women who tell me they HATE to shop. And I theorize it’s because

Well, I guess it was meant to happen sometime. I just spent 90 minutes writing you a glorious article about How to Serve Tea Food to a Crowd only to lose it during editing. My stomach is in a knot! It was a good article, too! I just don’t have

Note: Saturday evening, PST, I added the link to Laura Williams’ story. Thanks, Laura! Yes, Steph, I clink my teacup with yours and offer cheers to all of you who took the time to write some of your story! As of 3pm PST, four of you entered a link for

Yesterday I announced our first virtual Tea Party for this Friday, August 17th. I’m sharing my life story this week and would really like to hear at least some of yours as well! Since we can’t meet over a cup of real tea (yet!), I decided to sponsor a virtual

Announcing Our First Virtual Tea Party! This week features a five-part series on Tea Party Girl’s Tea Time-line. If we could sit down over tea in real life and share our stories, this is what I would share with you. Everyone’s living a story, you know. Living in the tea

Kari at ArtsyMama is serving up some cake and a tutorial while linking artful bloggers together from all over the world for the Artful Blogger Party. You must pay her a visit! If you consider yourself an artful blogger, absolutely join the party, and share your work and talent with

Taking time for tea means taking time for: Balance Beauty Elegance Your health Hospitality (even if only for yourself) Slowing down Stress reduction Tranquility Your well-being Quiet Here’s some previous posts you can enjoy that will help~ Taking Time for Tea Starting a Daily Tea Tradition The Advantages of a

Did you know there was a book entirely devoted to the etiquette of taking tea? It’s true. It was written by our third tea party expert, Dorothea Johnson. Founder of The Protocol School of Washington, she wrote a book in 2000 called, Tea and Etiquette: Taking Tea for Business and

While some of you may differ on my choices, (and I would love to hear your input!) every industry has it’s pioneers and experts and Afternoon Tea is no different. This list can’t include the many, hardworking tea room owners out there nor those who are not as widely published,

When planning a tea-themed event, think through your guest list. Will your event be a sit-down event? If so, remember that intimate is never more than eight and four can be a little too small, unless your guests really know one another. Use place cards. Sometimes hostesses feel uncomfortable making