Tea of the Week-Birthday Cake

Hello again everyone! Happy New Years Eve! Since the earth is one year older, or at least this is when we celebrate the new year. This week's tea is Birthday Cake by David's Tea (Do you sense a theme yet? I really like David's tea). I first got this tea in David's Tea's Happy Collection. Birthday cake tea is one of my absolute favourite teas. It smells amazing, and tastes fantastic. It contains red and green rooibos, honeybush, freeze-dried ice cream bits, and SPRINKLES. Yes... Sprinkles. I love it so much. I highly HIGHLY recommend it.

Tea of the Week-Santa's Secret

Hey Everyone! Happy Tuesday! Also, Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you are all enjoying this Christmas season and having lots of fun with your families and friends. This weeks tea is the third and final tea from the David's Tea Holiday Collection and it is by far my favourite tea in the collection. It's called Santa's Secret and you can find it here. It's a Chinese black tea with peppermint leaves and these cute little candy sprinkles! It tastes really good and I would definitely buy it again. I'm hoping they have it again next Christmas!

Tea of the Week-Gingerbread

Hey Everyone! It's Tuesday, and that means it's time for another Tea of the Week. This week's tea is again part of David's Tea's Holiday collection which I got from my mom. It's called Gingerbread tea and you can find it here. It has rooibos, green rooibos, honeybush, cinnamon, currants, crystalized ginger, pineapple, and safflower petals. It's perfect for winter.

I do like this tea, but I don't think I would buy it again on it's own. I'm not a huge fan of the ginger and cinnamon flavour, but it was really nice to try it out.

Things I would rather do than study

I only have one exam left. And I'm not wanting to study (Don't worry, I'm actually studying, I just am not super excited about it). So I've decided to make a list of things I would rather be doing. Here it goes!

• Make Paper Flowers
• Blog
• Make toast
• Solve rubik's cubes
• Play Minecraft
• Play Xbox
• Go for a walk
• Go Christmas Shopping
• Watch Youtube videos
• Plan wedding things
• Clean my room
• Do laundry
• Sew something
• Clean my car
• Read the fourth Harry Potter book
• Watch a movie
• Decorate my room for Christmas
• Write Christmas cards
• Bake Cookies

What would you rather be doing right now?

Will you be my Bridesmaids?

I recently asked four very special ladies in my life to be my bridesmaids and I thought I would share with you how I did it. I made these cards and gave them to them. Not the most exciting thing in the world but I'm really happy with how they turned out.

Tea of the Week-Sleigh Ride

I've decided to start a new weekly blog post segment. Tea of the week! Every week I will feature one of my favourite teas and tell you a little bit about it. I love tea. Something about it is so comforting. I have actually been wanting to do this for a while, so I hope you guys like it!

This weeks tea is part of David's Tea's Holiday Collection. It's a herbal tea called Sleigh Ride and has apple, hibiscus blossoms, candied pineapple, candied papaya, beetroot pieces, cinnamon stick pieces, raisins, coconut, roasted almonds, and popped rice. You can find it here.

This tea kind of tastes like apple cider, which I love! Unfortunately I'm almost out of this tea, so I may have to go buy more, but I definitely would buy it again!

Stress

This week is finals week for me. And I am quite stressed. I have four exams, and they all happen at night (7-9pm) and occur today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I'm so looking forward for this week to be over. As I was looking over my geography notes for tonights exam I found myself getting more and more stressed. I knew it was time to take a break. I made some tea, had some lunch, went for a walk, watched this Monday's Blimeycow video (which was amazing, I might add) and now I'm blogging. I think it's good to take breaks. It keeps you sane and helps you focus. For me this is a constant struggle. Lately I'm finding that I get extremely stressed over the littlest things. I'm trying to figure out a solution and what is causing the problem in the first place, but for now I've decided to make a conscious decision to take breaks, eat well, and get enough sleep. I think it's a good choice.

What do you do to de-stress? 

A Year Of Dates-November

November's date is the first of our year of dates that I gave Andrew for our three year anniversary. This date was simple, a coffee date at a new coffee shop...

Let's try out the Robin's Nest in Elmira! 

Inside the envelope you will find a gift card. 

Let's be adventurous! 

And super hipster.

I'm excited to try something new with you!

Love, Sarah

The Robins Nest is Elmira's one very hipster coffee shop that I think is pretty cute. We drove over there after dinner one Friday and ordered our drinks. Andrew got apple cider, I got a London Fog, which is like a tea latte. They were both very good. Andrew tried a sip of mine, it wasn't his "cup of tea" :P 

It was a lot of fun, and we have been really busy lately with school and weekend activities so it was nice to have a more low key date this month.

Want to read more?

A Year Of Dates:
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October

A Year Of Dates!

Yes, you read the title correctly. This year for Andrew and my three year anniversary I made him a year of dates! The package contained 12 envelopes, one for every month of the year, starting with November! Each envelope has a pre-planned and pre-paid-for date inside. At the begining of each month Andrew will open the envelope and we will decided when to have our date!

I will be sharing stories about the dates we go on with you guys as this next year passes. I am super excited about all of this.

Here are the Dates:

November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September