Tea Will Travel

The Second Great International Mystery Tea Swap of 2018. Twitter: @TeaWillTravel // Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Advent calendar tea swap!

DEADLINE 31st OCTOBER!

[ Link to tweet with details / Link to Google Doc with details ]

Another member of the tea swap posse is handling the advent tea swap, hence the lack of blog posts, but it’s ON!

It’s the same as usual, but you send in at least 25 of as many different teas as you can, and you get 25 numbered mystery teas to open one by one as a tea advent calendar! Also you’re posting to France instead of the UK.

If you want in, please do check out the Google Doc, or message me and I’ll put you in touch with the organiser!

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THE TEA IS SWAPPED!

The last tea parcel arrived this morning from Austria, which means we had tea from Austria, the UK, the USA, and France!

There were some zine pages too, and I’ve not made mine or the cover yet, so today and tomorrow I’ll work on the zine. Then on Monday I can start posting out the parcels. :)

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Tea Will Travel - Round 2

Deadline: 30th April 2018

Number of participants: 15

Do you like tea? Are you neutral to positive about zines? Do you want to swap some of your nice tea for some nice tea from around the world?

Well, yeah, obviously.

Click here to find out how to take part.

The TL;DR: Everyone sends tea bags to Cassian in the UK, plus some postage money. Everyone gets back the same number of tea bags - but they’re all different. How does it happen? Can we ever really know?

Last time we had participants from the UK, Germany and Austria, so most people got ~international tea~

If you’re looking for zine inspiration, here’s the pages people sent in last year:

If you change your mind and decide not to take part, please let me know so that I can open up your slot for someone else. :)

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So far we’ve got tea from the UK, the USA and France - and there’s some from Austria en route too! :)

There’s three days to post your tea, and plenty of slots left. If you post it last-minute, let me know you’ve sent it so I can wait and do the swap after yours arrives!

[teawilltravel]

Tea Will Travel - Round 2

Deadline: 30th April 2018

Number of participants: 15

Do you like tea? Are you neutral to positive about zines? Do you want to swap some of your nice tea for some nice tea from around the world?

Well, yeah, obviously.

Click here to find out how to take part.

The TL;DR: Everyone sends tea bags to Cassian in the UK, plus some postage money. Everyone gets back the same number of tea bags - but they’re all different. How does it happen? Can we ever really know?

Last time we had participants from the UK, Germany and Austria, so most people got ~international tea~

If you’re looking for zine inspiration, here’s the pages people sent in last year:

If you change your mind and decide not to take part, please let me know so that I can open up your slot for someone else. :)

[teawilltravel]

Tea Will Travel - Round 2

Deadline: 30th April 2018

Number of participants: 15

Do you like tea? Are you neutral to positive about zines? Do you want to swap some of your nice tea for some nice tea from around the world?

Well, yeah, obviously.

Click here to find out how to take part.

The TL;DR: Everyone sends tea bags to Cassian in the UK, plus some postage money. Everyone gets back the same number of tea bags - but they’re all different. How does it happen? Can we ever really know?

Last time we had participants from the UK, Germany and Austria, so most people got ~international tea~

If you’re looking for zine inspiration, here’s the pages people sent in last year:

If you change your mind and decide not to take part, please let me know so that I can open up your slot for someone else. :)

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The last of the tea parcels was posted today! And some of you should have received your tea by now, too. :)

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Parcels ready!

Hi everyone,

The parcels are now ready to post! Two had postage-paid envelopes so they’ve already been posted. Take a look at the spreadsheet to see the status of your tea. :)

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The zines are printed, cut, folded, stitched, and ready to go.

Participants will get two each - one to keep, and one for a friend who might be interested in the next swap.

So, my next task is to do the actual tea-bag-swap magic, package things up, and take parcels to the post office.

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We’re on Mastodon! Plus, swap progress report

Here we are on Mastodon: @[email protected]

It’s just another place to keep up with current tea-swapping events really - a little like Twitter, but with more characters!

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Today I spent a little time putting the zine together. Five people sent in pages with their tea bags. Everything’s stuck down, I just need to write the introduction page. I hope to do that tomorrow, and then copy, cut and stitch it.

My intention is to send two copies to participants who asked for zines - one to keep and one to give to an interested friend. I’m taking progress photos, which I will post once I’ve sent the parcels out so I don’t spoil the surprise!

Going through the parcels to get the zine pages was the best thing. Everything smells SO GOOD.

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Deadline: today!

The deadline is today and I have a tidy pile of parcels ready to have the swapping magic happen to them.

Sometime over the next few days I will assemble and print the zine, and then rearrange all the tea, package it up, and get it ready to post.

If anything does arrive after the deadline but before I start on the zine and the swapping, I will include it. But it’s Easter weekend, so there will be postal delays. You’d be playing chicken with my chronic fatigue. ;)

Thank you everyone!

[cassolotl]

Ok, Cassian, so I'm almost done getting all of my things together for the tea zine. Would it be ok if I did two pages for the zine, intended to be viewed side by side? Like you open the book to pages 5+6 and they're next to each other? I am so bad at explaining, sorry. I would write a note about this in my parcel to avoid confusion and whatnot. Also I can also just do a single page like a normal person 😅.

A two-page spread is totally fine by me! I mean, people can do as many pages as they like really - but yes, if you need them to be put side-by-side just put a note in the parcel explaining it so I don’t get it wrong On The Night.

Thanks! :) I am excited to see what you make!

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A tea parcel arrived from Austria this morning, containing 7 beautifully & uniquely wrapped tea bags & a zine page! It’s the seventh parcel. 10 days to go...

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Here’s the five tea parcels that have arrived so far! Most of them contain pages for the zine too. If you include me and my neighbour that’s 7 guaranteed participants!

So far there are parcels from Germany, Austria and the UK. Folks in the US have also promised to send tea. If this sounds like your kinda thing, click here! The deadline is 15th April 2017, and I am in the UK.

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Two more tea parcels arrived today!

5 of 13 tea packages have been posted, and I’ve received 3 of them. :) It’s looking great! Such a great variety already!

[Participant spreadsheet]

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The first tea parcel has arrived!

That means your tea-posting deadline is 3 weeks from today, 15th April 2017.

If you post yours before the deadline I will wait until it arrives before doing the swap thing - just make sure you keep your entry in the participants spreadsheet up to date and we’re good.

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Participants update

Things are looking good over on the participants spreadsheet - some folks have added themselves, some have asked me to add them, and some people got in touch to say they want to take part but haven’t added themselves yet.

So far we’ve got...

4 UK people

2 Germany people

1 US person

If more than 20 people join in, I will feel comfortable upping the tea-bags-per-person limit to 30 tea bags, if that helps at all. I don’t know how likely that is, but there we are. :)

I’d also like to confirm that I will be setting the deadline to three weeks after the first parcel arrives, and I will let you know when that happens!

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Back again with another tricky question. Okay so I see a cool flavour of tea... but the teabags are not individually wrapped. Do I wrap them myself or just not share the joy of the superawsome tea?

Well, that is up to you! If you are happy to make each tea bag a little paper envelope and write clearly on them all the brand, the name, and what is in the tea, that is GREAT and the recipient(s) will definitely appreciate it. :)