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Right or wrong: letting tea leaves boil gives you boils.
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[Comment: I got another one. I am sorry if this one vexes you near as much as the last but perhaps that old Piltovian addage about ‘misery loving company’ isn’t as wrong as we think.]
TeaChat: Birthdays & 365 Days
TeaChat: Birthdays & 365 Days
For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
Let’s chat!
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Check out this informative conversation about tea business, culture, & respect with @sdotglass on his new podcast @teawithsg. Listen on Spotify- bit.ly/teawithSG_Elyse #podcast #teachat #teabusiness #transparency #truetalk #progress #colorconversations https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwi-HugoAZ/?igshid=ui92a9o2zs9o
For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
Let’s chat!
It has been an exciting past couple of weeks!
For my birthday/Mother’s Day I got a Cricut and my dreams of opening a sticker shop came true!
I’ve always loved designing Fandom items and the ability to turn them into stickers that I get to make myself (while listening to audiobooks) has been SO MUCH FUN!
You can check out my Etsy Shop here!
Here are some of the bookish/fandom stickers I have in my shop!
ACOMAF Sticker Set
ACOMAF Mountain Sticker Sheet
Bookish Summer Sticker Sheet
Books, Tea, & Coffee Doodle Sticker Sheet
Romance Lover Sticker Sheet
Book Therapy Sticker Sheet
Bookish Summer Doodle Sticker Sheet
Book Lover Sticker Sheet
Book Lover Sticker Sheet v2
Team John Ambrose McClaren Sticker Sheet
Team Peter Kavinsky Sticker Sheet
Gold Star Hamilton Sticker Sheet
Gold Star Hamilton, Schyler Sisters, & King Sticker Sheet
Hamilton Sticker Set v2
Hamilton Sticker Set
Dear Evan Hansen Sticker Set
Dear Evan Hansen Connor Murphy Sticker Set
Anyway… onward to the usual TeaChat updates:
At Present I Am…
Reading
Black Sheep by Tabatha Vargo
I’m spending the week reading all the KU books that I have downloaded on my Kindle to clear it out for new ones and I’ve read SO MANY GREAT KU BOOKS! I can’t wait to share them all with you.
This is just one of them. It’s a SUPER dark (lots of trigger warnings) forbidden romance filled with so much longing and angst and slow-burn goodness!
Watching
I WILL be watching Hamilton tomorrow!!!!
Consuming
I randomly put together this recipe for AIP Salsbury Meatballs that is SO delicious! I don’t measure anything, but I’ll try to give approximate measurements.
I love to make this with mashed sweet potatoes with avocado oil, salt, garlic powder, and onion powder and roasted veggies.
Ingredients
1lb local, organic ground beef
1/4 cup of Nutritional Yeast
3 tablespoons of Coconut Aminos
Salt
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Chives
Tiny pinch of dried basil
2-3 cups of homemade organic bone broth
2 packages organic sliced baby portabello mushrooms
1 whole sweet onion
4 cloves of minced garlic
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Arrowroot powder (enough to thicken)
Mix in nutritional yeast, coconut aminos, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, chives, and basil into the ground beef and form meatballs. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a pot. Add meatballs to pot and brown. Add in the onion and garlic to the pan until tender. Add mushrooms and heat through until tender. Add bone broth. Thicken with arrowroot powder. Serve over garlic mashed sweet potatoes and add roasted veggies as a side!
Listening to
The Hamilton Soundtrack on repeat anytime I’m not listening to an audiobook!
Obsessing over
I know, I’m a broken record.
Hamilton.
What’s Next
Would you kill me if I said Hamilton? LOL!
I’ll be adding new products to my Etsy shop and perfecting things there. I’m working from home for the foreseeable future – until COVID-19 isn’t as scary.
I am so eternally grateful that I work somewhere where this is possible, especially since both myself and my husband are considered high risk.
Other than that? No plans. I don’t ever really leave my house. I go to the Post Office during off-hours (I’m literally the only person there aside from the two people working) so I can check my PO box and buy stamps. I wear a mask and the workers are behind plastic.
I also occasionally run into the library and pick up books I have on hold and do self-checkout while wearing a mask and gloves.
I sometimes go to Target or Walmart, but I don’t leave my car. I have been a big fan of Drive Up!
I’m hosting a #RomanceBooktubers Readalong Live on my channel on Tuesday (July 7) at 7:30pm EST. Me and my fellow Romance Booktubers are rotating channels to host these weekly! Come and read with us for 40 mins, then chat about what we read! You can read however you feel comfortable – if you’re listening to audio, maybe join us in knitting/crocheting/stitching/crafting and tell us about your book and your project! Any and all types of reading welcome!
I’m also hosting a Romance Booktuber Ask Us Anything liveshow with a bunch of awesome Romance Booktubers where we will all be answering and asking questions both bookish and non-bookish on July 23 at 7:30pm EST.
Tell me… what have you been up to lately? What’s up next?
TeaChat: I Opened a Bookish Sticker Etsy Shop! For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
TeaChat: Happy Mother's Day!
TeaChat: Happy Mother’s Day!
For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
Let’s chat!
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With social distance, we can drink tea video chat with friends. #teachat #gongfucha #kongfutea #teaculture #teatime #videomeeting #teameeting #chineseteashop #teavancouver #teashopchinatown #teashopvancouver https://www.instagram.com/p/B_tfqIWAI1I/?igshid=z4u7lflyqry9
TeaChat: Pandemics & Forced Family Time
For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
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Dude… dude.
Things have change significantly since I last did a TeaChat life update.
I’ve been working from home for about 3 weeks now and the girls have been…
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For those of you who are new around here, TeaChats are a monthly post that I do in which I pretend that you and I are going out and grabbing a cup of tea (or coffee or wine) and we’re chatting about what we’ve been up to lately.
Let’s chat!
Hello booklovers!
After a month full of doctor appointments, I’m SO ready for March!
I had a ton of food testing done last month to get my gut health in order since that plays a huge part in autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis. I feel like this really helped me narrow down what I should and shouldn’t eat, and while my diet is still very restrictive, I think I’m doing a little better mentally about it.
It helps that my best friend started the Autoimmune Paleo diet recently. She has a lot of anxiety issue and sleep issues and after I told her about all the positive things AIP has affected me, including helping with my anxiety, she did some research and talked to her doctor. Her doctor is a BIG fan of the diet and gave her the OK.
It’s been fantastic having someone to talk to about it and exchange recipes and food with. She’s much more of a foodie than I am, so it’s been really nice getting together and cooking (and reading!)
Anyway… onward to the usual TeaChat updates:
At Present I Am…
Reading
Australia coordinated by Skye Warren, but it includes a ton of amazing authors. All proceeds for this romance anthology go to relief efforts in Australia, so I didn’t hesitate to pick it up – and I’m absolutely LOVING it. This is a big old book with a ton of stories in it, so I’ll probably be reading this for a while. I like to read one story in between other ebooks I read, just as a nice break. I’m so impressed with it.
That’s Not a Thing by Jacqueline Friedland This book caught my eye on Netgalley and I was approved for the ARC. I’m VERY picky about the ARCs I request, but this one seemed like something I’d really like. I’m only a chapter or so in, but I really like it so far. I don’t even remember what it’s about, but I refuse to read the synopsis. It seems like it may be a second chance romance? And it involves a restaurant. I’m already invested. This releases on 4/14.
Watching
PS I Still Love You Over and over and over again. Ok, so I only watched it twice, because I rarely watch TV, but still… for how infrequently I watch TV, the fact that I already watched this twice is kind of telling.
Also…
#teamjohnambrose
Consuming
I made this amazing non-legume hummus from Rally Pure and it spoke to my hummus-loving soul! I adore hummus, but I can’t eat it because I have to avoid legumes. So, this recipe was absolutely perfect – and it’s SO easy to make!
Listening to
Beautiful People by Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid I’m not necessarily playing this on repeat, but I get giddy whenever it comes up on my playlist.
Obsessing over
Ummm… still Jordan Fisher, TBH.
What’s Next
My 7yo is in her school’s production of Les Misérables (which is AWESOME) in a couple of weeks. There are so many talented students at this school and their musical productions are super high quality. (FYI the school is a PreK3-12th Grade).
I have a reading/cooking date with my BFF next Friday, and I always look forward to those. We cook (AIP-friendly) food together, chat, and then sit and read.
We are finally having another book club meeting next Saturday for my romance novel book club. We read Marriage for One by Ella Maise. I can’t wait to hear what my sisters and mom thought of it! We also have been passing around A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard and annotating it. I can’t wait to read everyone’s annotations.
Tell me… what have you been up to lately? What’s up next?
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