The Tea Princess

This is one of the nicest smelling teas I have. I got it for my 18th and have been using it as a pick me up ever since. It is great to have when you need a fresh taste to make you feel better after a long day and the packaging is adorable

This tea is not decieving, it taste and smells just like almond. It is delicious but is quite rich so I dont drink it often.

This has a flavour which reminds me of perfume. It isn’t me favourite tea but it has a very calming effect when I drink it. I like to have it before bed.

This was sent to me from my cousin in Japan. It is made from cherry blossoms. It has a weird flavour which I cant drink to often but I do like it.

These teas are also from Japan. I rarely drink them because I have so little of them left. I save them for special occasions. They dont realy taste like chocolate or strawberry but it doesn’t matter because they taste amazing and the tea bag is made of silk which just makes my heart sing.

A friend of mine gave me these for christmas. They are quite bitter but honey goes very well with them. They taste fruity and happy and I always have friends stealing them from me.

This is another wonderful smelling tea and an interesting flavour. I also love the packaging on this one.

I don’t drink a lot of green tea because I find the flavour odd but the jasmine in this one complements the green tea perfectly and this is probably my favourite tea at the moment.

This flower tea is claming and I drink it when I cant sleep as it makes me peacefully sleepy.

This is a traditional Indian tea which my sister brought back for me. It reminds me of normal tea except it has a natural sweetness to it which makes it enjoyable.

This was also brought to me from India. It is similar in taste to the Nilgiri tea but the chocolate gives it another dimention. It really doestaste like chocolate.

My first tea that I likesd. It has acompanied me on many a morning to school and my friends say it smells like cake.

This tastes like the Lipton ice tea except it is more bitter but this may be because I don’t drink tea with milk or sugar but I am not sure.

This is a traditional South African tea and although it is from home I generally dont like it. But when I am sick if I have this with honey and lemon it works better than any other medicine.

When it comes down to being a tea or a coffee person I really couldn’t choose. I live on coffee. It starts my day and I really do love it. It is a necessity to my every day life. But coffee is coffee. Sure, you get different qualities and intensities and fine let’s say flavours but that is nothing compared to the multiple flavours of tea. For me tea is exciting, it is a treat in which you can play around with tastes. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I am a tea queen. I don’t know what the best temperature is for tea leaves, or how long you should leave a black tea bag in the water, gosh, I only just got a tea strainer. So I don’t think I am qualified to be queen of the this delicate beverage quite yet but I think I could do the whole princess vibe.

I never used to like tea as all I was exposed to was normal tea and rooibos but then by events I have long since forgotten I tried vanilla tea and this changed my world forever. I had discovered, for the first time, flavoured tea and I never turned back. Now my friends and family buy me tea for special events and I have teas from countries on the other side of the world in a collection of weird and wonderful flavours.

Most teens get champagne on their 18ths… I got tea

My T-Shirt

T-shirts, plain old slightly boyish t-shirts with small tight collars, don’t suit girls with big boobs. It is a fact. I don’t have the biggest boobs on the planet but I find it hard to find t-shirts that I can wear on a casual day that don’t make me look like a lopsided blob. But I discovered that all was not lost when my dad bought me this t-shirt from Japan. It is a plain white shirt that has no shape to it but surprisingly shows off my shape. It merges Roy Lichtenstein with the Simpsons and it makes me happy. I have very few casual clothes that I feel comfortable wearing out but I look forward to every time I wear this out. The message makes me laugh as it is so appropriate for me and I feel great in it. This is one of my favourite items in my cupboard (along with that new pair of jeans that I just can’t seem to get out of).

I had fun today

“Sigh, being a sensitive artist in this family is hopeless”

First Fashion Blog – The International Collection

So this will be my first ‘fashion blog’ on WordPress. I am very excited but nervous so hopefully it goes down well but please remember I am still learning here.

Indian (hipster) ring and hand-made watch

Okay so today we went out for lunch so my sister and her friends could tell us about their trip to India. It was great. I wanted to dress nicely but not over the top as it was quite casual. So I went with jeans as a place to start. It is cold in South Africa at the moment so I needed layers and of course boots. The best thing about living in a house with other women is that you can beg, borrow and steal clothes from each other so the white jersey is my sisters and the shirt is my mothers.

I’ve called the outfit International collection because it just so happened that some of the clothes were from overseas. The ring was something my sister bought cheaply in India, The watch was hand-made and sent to me from a cousin in Japan. The pink button-up top is from Gap which my dad bought for my mom also from Japan. The jacket is from Cotton On which is Australian. The boots I ordered online so they could theoretically be from anywhere and well jeans are jeans I guess.

I really loved the pop of colour that the shirt gave as I am a sucker for just a little bit of colour plus I am really digging the whole collared shirt peeking out from under a jersey vibe at the moment.

What do you think?