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Last weekend, everyone in the family got to choose an activity that everyone else had to do too. I chose returning to Shepherdstown to get tea since we never actually got my Assam black the last trip. Was it worth an hour-long drive for scones and clotted cream? I think so.
This is the teahouse below. It's this wonderful, Middle Eastern themed teahouse complete with red gauze curtains and a fabric ceiling. You feel as if you are inside a tent rather than a West Virginian town.
You may notice that I have stickers on my ears. These are my "earrings." I allowed the ChickieNob to make me fancy before we left.
And because I had to pee in Urbana again, here is the sign that sparked our new favourite term. Apologies, it was taken out of our dirty windshield.
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34 comments:
I so want to hit a teahouse with you sometime!
I will be sure to wear my sticker earrings too . . .
:0)
Oh, I love tea. There was this fantastic teahouse in the small Connecticut town where I used to nanny in the summers. At the end of summer I would buy a bag of the best chai blend ever and carefully ration it out all winter.
I'm glad you finally got your tea.
And those earrings are fantastic - they make me think of the sticker earring I used to wear because unlike *everyone else in the entire world* I wasn't allowed to pierce my ears.
I'm so glad you *finally* got your tea. I'm even gladder that it was worth the drive!
Looks like you had a nice time. Love the earrings. I also enjoyed listening to your interview with Dawn Davenport - heard it last week.
Looks like a great time! And what a cool eclectic look the tea house has.
My aunt was so excited when they started making gem-like stickers and ear clips. She didn't want her ears pierced and she liked to wear earrings but didn't always want to wear clip ons (I have some really cool ones of hers). Of course, she would also use the gem stickers as eyes when she made ceramic animals.
I don't have anything to show this week, but man that teahouse looks freakin' AWESOME! I love tea...we used to have a little teahouse near me, but it closed down. It was so fun to go eat our little cookies and sandwiches.
Glad you finally got to go!
Fingerboarding good tea I'm sure!
Love how the Chickienob made you fancy... a girl after my own heart.
A common tradition of Latin American folk is to have girls' ears' pierced within hours of being born. If you didn't people would gasp and ask how will everyone know it's a girl? Um, the pink frilly didn't give it away?
Anyway, my father put his foot down and having someone stab his daughters ears - so alas I was the lone girl in middle/high school who couldn't wear earrings. But, I always found a way to accesorize! I had gem sticker earrings, and I even had Magnet CZ's! I thought I was so cool!
What a fun afternoon, right down to the Fancy Nancy earrings.
I hope one day to take you to the Dushanbe Tea House in Boulder. It's nowhere near Fingerboard Rd, but it's still cool.
It blows my mind that you are a real person sometimes because you are an IF goddess giving us all these resources! What a lovely idea for tea!
We are going to have to play that game next weekend, I think.
Also, send more pictures of the tea house. In case the whole Taipei tea house thing doesn't work out, this friend of ours wants to run a middle eastern themed one somewhere, and it's never too early (or unlikely to happen) to start gathering ideas for decor.
Bea
One thing I lament about living in a small town is that there are no teahouses. There was a great one in Seattle that I used to frequent when I was in college. If you can ever get your hands on "Market Spice" tea from Seattle you should try it. It's incredible! :)
I'm glad you got your tea. And, you are a truly cool mom. Only the coolest mom's wear jewelry made by their kids.
What an awesome little tea house! It looks like you had a lot of fun, I especially love the earrings!
I am so glad aI came across your blog, I have learned so much from it throughout our IF journey. Thank you.
*ICLW*
Love that tiny kettle on the table. Nice touch!
I too love tea...but lately seem to have it only in the office (At home, I am partial to coffee).
My father makes great tea.
My Grade 8 students occasionally made me wear sticker earrings. Also stickers-as-makeup and sticker necklaces. Awesome.
How stylish of the chickie :)
The teahouse looks neato... and I totally was laughing at the street name. How odd.
Oh I love that tea house, I so want to go there.
What a great look the tea house has, I'm sure I would enjoy relaxing there for an afteroon..
glad that you finally got your cuppa and I love the earrings :-)
I don't condone illegal behavior, but you so need to take that roadsign.
What a beautiful place to have tea and such beautiful pictures.
Ooooo..that sounds fun! I love the sticker earrings, btw!!!
Mmmm...I love tea! And such a beautiful tea house! What kind of tea did you have?
Looks like a great teahouse!!
I like the mini-teapot. So cute!
Oh that looks lovely! And I smiled very big about you being made fancy with stickers.
you are always doing such interesting things. I need to get out more. Can you give me fingerboard in a sentence?
I love tea & tearooms... although the ones hereabouts tend to be more British flavoured than Middle Eastern.
HA! Thanks for sharing the fingerboard sign!!
That little teapot is so stinkin' cute! I've never been to a teahouse like that, it looks amazing. So glad you got to go at last!
So glad that you got your tea and scones. The best. Also, thank you so much for the street sign pic. We saw Hair up in NYC yesterday and it was a fingerboard incident. Voices were great, but unintelligible and the nudity was gratuitous, not artistic. Oh well. Still glad I saw it.
I'm glad you finally got to go! Your earrings are beautiful!
Mel....#29. I have issues with that.
It sounds like the teahouse was worth every minute of the drive. What a beautiful place! (And thanks for sharing the sign!!)
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