Homemade Gift Idea – Tea Wreath
This homemade tea wreath is a great homemade Christmas gift idea. It’s so easy but fun for tea lovers like me! Check it out at kojodesigns. If you don’t want to decoupage the clothespins you could spray paint them or just leave them plain.
Tawra
Hmmm, after looking at this I was left wondering if there was a cool way to do something like that with “K-cups”. My mom has a Kcup machine. After coming back to this several hours later it hit me, a tiered dessert tray! And I saw one on the 50 ways to recycle cans! I LOVE THIS SITE! Christmas is coming along very nicely & inexpensively!
Kim cut a large circle of wood. you could even leave the hole in the centre or cut it out.
drill holes the size of the big end of the kcups.
stick the kcup in so the label faces out and it can hang from a nail without the cup itself showing. it would have to be a long nail so the frame sits against the wall. or if you have counter space place it on the counter like a table top picture frame.
You could fancy it up by cutting the wood into the shape of a teapot or cup and saucer.
for the wood you could use a piece of panelling or the thinest plywood you can find.
Love it. I can imagine putting Christmas cards, birthday cards, and flowers in the clothes pins too.
now if someone could come up with something like this for loose leaf tea.
10 apothecary sealed jars are full of tea and I still have some sitting awaiting their turn.
everyone should drink coffee less storage space is needed.
What about looking for some of those magnetic small silver containers with the clear glass holes in the front that are typically used for spices? You could turn them into Christmas ornaments by decorating them and then fill them with tea. Just a thought. You could probably use them to make flowers for Valentine’s Day or Easter too.
Last year I found a pack of pre-painted brown, green, yellow, and red clothespins on clearance in the fall section. You could just use those instead of painting.
To Grandma on the loose tea,
You could put the loose tea into plastic zip lock baggies and then put the baggies into nice fabric and tie them up with a beautiful bow on them with a homemade card with instructions on how to heat the tea. With the tea in their beautifully wrapped fabric you can order those special tea spoons and tie them up with the bag. Great inexpensive gift!
TO GRANDMA ON LOOSE TEA
I’ve taken coffee filter and made pouches out of them. Just cut to sise and sew with white cotten thread,
My husband is the tea drinker and he loves his tea ball. It is just he has about 10 different types and he mixes them.
My son the one in China bought him a pottery cup with a lid and it holds 3 cups of tea and he uses about 2 tsps of gunpowder tea and one of a different type.
licorise mint chocolate mint green tea cinnamon, vanilla and many others.
He also makes his own most of the time. I do the one cup when he gets up in the morning and has to leave for work in an hour but after that he is on his own.
Some of those are in bags but he actually prefers measuring out his own amounts of the loose leaf.
Can’t find gunpowder any more so I asked my son to send some of the green tea they brought with them last time. Hope it gets here for Christmas or that we find gunpowder again in the store soon.
thanks for all the different ideas but I think my sealed apothacary jars are the best for him. Not my storage but what the heck he is happy.