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Informal Blog — This Week In Tea

Ruby's Tiny Tea Bag Art

Ruby's Tiny Tea Bag Art

Posted by Tim Donaldson on

We usually dismiss tea bags as wasteful and unnecessary but artist/graphic designer Ruby Silvious found a good use for them! In 2015 Ruby set out on an adventure called '363 Days of Tea'. Using empty tea bags as her canvas, Ruby drew, painted, printed and collaged a quirky piece of miniature art onto...

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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Tea

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When Tea Goes Bad — 27 horror tea fails. $1,100 Tea Tasting in Vancouver and 20,000 Tea Workers on Hunger Strike in Kenya. So much good and bad going on in This Week in Tea #3   An attempt at a cup of tea by @jen_prior It's not supposed to...

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This Week In Tea #2

This Week In Tea #2

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Tea Dueling is a real thing. Silent zen tea-bars run by the deaf. And 79% of Brits think the that adding milk before tea in your cuppa is 'Disgusting'   Tea Dueling — Its a Thing In the small English village of Sutton-on-Trent, Tea Duelling is a real thing. Competitors  dunk...

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This Week In Tea - #1

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This week in tea is a new weekly roundup of all the most interesting tea stories from the week.   Spearmint tea a cure for acne? A new study from the American Academy of Dermatology is suggesting that drinking two cups of tea each day for three months could reduce inflammation of...

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