Wow! It's been a really long time since I blogged. It is completely my fault and I promise to not do it again (for awhile). K and I are still transitioning to our new lives of commuters and spend about 4 hours in the car each day. Sometimes that goes up to 5+. SO, we are searching for apartments, which is harder then it sounds in Chicago. We have our eyes on two in particular, so fingers crossed we will have one of these as our new home soon.
Anyway, because I have been so busy I thought I would come back with a good Mother's Day Gift tutorial. My dear friend April, made me a jar of Bourbon Vanilla Tea Bags and a bag of Birthday Cake Tea Bags for my birthday. It was a such a sweet and tasty gift, so I did some digging and found out how to make my own teabags for all my loose leaf tea. Of course, April made hers way better then mine, but here's my tutorial below.
What you need:
- Coffee filters
- Loose leaf tea- do NOT use cut tea bags, usually those leaves are too small
- Cardstock
- Scissors
- twine
- stapler
So here's how!
Cut the filter paper so it makes a rectangle.
Put two small scoops of tea in the rectangle, with space in the middle. Then fold up both sides of the rectangle to the middle, so the tea is closed in.
Once you fold both sides to the middle of the rectangle. Place your finger in the middle of the two tea piles and fold the ends up to the top. (Can you see the tea forming now??)
The tea should be pretty secure with all of your folds, so fold the open top into a triangle. Then fold the triangle down so that it lays on top of the teabag.
Cut a fun shape with the card stock. Attached twine by tying then stable to top of the teabag.
I made my teabags out of apple cinnamon chai and gave them to Keith to take to work. I'm sure he loved all the hot pink hearts I made for the tags.
Happy crafting! :)
