Tea cup gift sets!

Tea gift sets are now available! (I'll have some at lululemon and Tailgate market tomorrow.)

Gift sets include one haiku tea cup, custom designed by Summer, two sample tins of hand-blended tea and a tea-inspired soap. 

They'll be up on Etsy by Wednesday evening. 

Check out the contest entries!

Over the past couple days wonderful contest entries have been coming in. So far we have prose and a couple poems.

Check all the entries out here!

If you haven't entered yet you still have time. All entries are due by Midnight EST this Thursday.

SteapTV Review of Floral Jasmine

Joe and Brandice will be sharing their review of Floral Jasmine on SteapTV in a couple weeks.

As a special treat, Felicitea is offering samples for a taste-a-long. The first five people to email me with "Free Floral Jasmine" as the subject will win a free sample!

Bigger Better Coffee to Tea Convert Contest

June was a busy month. Weddings, graduations, baby showers, babies, more weddings, trips to the beach or up to the mountains. No one was home. No one had free time (consumed by the travel between said showers, weddings and graduation parties). So, sadly, no one was able to enter the video section of the contest. (Apparently one can not edit video and attend a baby shower at the same time. At least, not and get invited again.)

This is a boon for you, my tea and coffee drinking compatriots. This means that we here at Felicitea have extra prizes to give away!

So here's the new deal:

Write: We're looking for poetry, prose, whatever you like. Feel free to haiku or make up a limerick, or write out a concise little paragraph. Just write about tea and it's relationship to you, your friend, or your last cup of coffee.

We want to connect new drinkers to tea, convert a coffee drinker (or other non-tea drinking people) or two over (at least get them to try good tea!) and reconnect tea lovers with what it is they love about tea.

• Tea drinkers it is your responsibility to help the coffee drinkers of the world. You are charged with helping them understand the joy of tea. If you are a convert tell your story. If you love tea, but still enjoy an occasional cup of coffee it's okay, but what about the tea keeps you coming back to the pot all day? Share with the Internets why they should kick that coffee habit. If you have a friend you're nominating, be specific.
• Coffee/Non-tea drinkers this is your chance to tell us why you drink coffee (or something else) instead of tea. This is your chance to tell all us tea drinkers what it is that makes you go for the espresso instead of the Earl Grey. Did you have a bad tea bag experience? Convinced all green tea is bitter? Are you willing to give it a shot but don't know where to start?

The details:

1. It's got to be words. (However, if you want to go wild and make a video of yourself reading your prose, we encourage such blatant acts of attention getting.)
2. It's got to be clear which side of the line your on - do you love tea, or do you need converted.
   
3. You may enter someone else, by proxy, by writing about why THEY should be converted to tea. They then will win the coffee drinker's prize. You are welcome to enter as many friends as you like, and enter your own self in the tea loving side. (If you write something especially brilliant for a friend, we might just find a little something to pass along your way too.)
4. You may only enter once for yourself.
   
5. It must be no longer then one screen load. We shouldn't have to scroll to read any of it.
   
6. Post it online. Either to your blog (comment with your linkage) or if you don't have a blog, post it here in the Felicitea Forums.
7. Your words are due by July 31st. That gives you over two weeks to come up with something to say!

In return for your generous elucidation about why tea is awesome, or why you don't get all the hype, you'll get something in return. (Because really, what's a contest without a prize?)

Just for entering you'll receive a sample tin from Felicitea. We'll contact everyone who submits an entry, and you'll be able to pick out a sample that you'd like to try - for free.

And whoever write the most interesting, intriguing, whimsical, heartbreaking or overall just awesome entries on both side will win:

2 Grand Prizes containing:

• A sampler set from Felicitea's current tea selection
• A haiku tea cup
• A custom blend, for a 1/2 pound of tea.

2nd place in each category will receive:

• A eight(8) tea sampler set from Felicitea's current tea selection
• Two(2) 1oz tins of their choice

Write about tea - there's happiness to be had!



The fine print:

1. To be eligible for prizes, the winners must be US Citizens.
   
2. All entries must be post 12pm EST on July 31.
   
3. Eligibility to enter may be prohibited by law or loved ones (Disobey at your own risk. Felicitea will not be held liable for any actions you or your crazy friends take.). Immediate family of Felicitea employees are ineligible to win (though they are encouraged to enter!).
   
4. Keep the language PG-13. Children read the Internets. R-rated language in postings will result in linkage being removed from Felicitea's site.
5. Winner's will be contacted directly by August 7th. If for some reason, a winner does not respond by August 10, 2008, the prize will be transferred to the next entry. After all winners have been notified, the winner's will be announced on Felicitea's blog.
6. Have fun!
   

This Little Tea Went To Market

Saturday morning was oppressively hot - even at 9am when the Tailgate opened. With high that reached nearly 100F everyone was sweating early.

Thankfully, there was iced tea. Delicious iced Rooibus Sweet Tea and Sloth Tea were on hand for sampling at Felicitea's table along with selection of loose leaf.

It was a great morning and I got to talk to people about our teas, the benefits of tea and herbs, as well share a taste of happiness with many from the Charlotte area. In fact, we nearly sold out of the 1 oz tins.

Last night was also sweltering and sunny. (I ended up with sunburn on the back of my knees - ouch!) I shared samples of Oolong Summer, Hibiscus Mint and Jasmine Hibiscus which people loved.

We're sharing teas with The Secret Chocolatier to make nummy tea truffles. We'll let you know as soon as they're available!

We're really happy to be apart of the Tailgate Market. If you're in the Charlotte area stop by Tuesday's between 4 & 7 and Saturday mornings from 9-1 and say hi!

Try Sloth Tea with SteapTV

The lovely folks over at SteapTV are reviewing Sloth Tea on May 26th.

If you'd like to taste it with them, you can order a sample here or a full ounce here.

To receive your sample in time to try it with Brandice & Joe you'll need to order by May 19th.

And, if you haven't yet, stop over and check out SteapTV's ning forums. Interesting conversations going on over there daily.

Free Sloth Samples

To share in the happiness (because we're very happy here) of SteapTv reviewing Sloth Tea, we're giving away five free samples (shipping included).

The first five emails sent to summer@felicitea.com with "free sloth" in the subject line will be the winners!