Hello sweet friends. It is the third Tuesday of the month which means Tea On Tuesdays! It is an exciting one because Mary and I both have a fabulous giveaway!
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.”
Psalm 145:18
I am delighted you are joining me in the cottage garden for a “spot of tea” and light refreshments.
You will find the link for Mary’s beautiful Tea On Tuesdays at the bottom of this post.
What a pleasure being introduced to Spot of Tea and their flavorful teas. This sweet company sent six different teas for me to try along with the cute dolphin infuser! Having tried them all, I must say each is distinctively different and delicious. I highly recommend all six…I’m hard pressed to choose a favorite!
Spot of Tea is generously offering three hand-crafted teas, flower pot infuser, heart sugar cubes, and a vintage teacup to one of my readers. All the details on how to enter this fun giveaway is at the bottom of this post.
Meet the lovely owners of Spot of Tea, Linda Austin and daughter Laura. They hand blend premium teas and fruits to make unique, fun and delicious flavors. Their tea education began when three of the family members worked in a local tearoom for years. When it closed, they took their newly found passion for excellent teas and began Spot of Tea LLC where they are constantly working to develop new and inspiring flavors. They sell their tea online and also in shops and craft fairs local to Sweet Valley, PA where they live.
Today I am sharing three of these flavorful teas and I declare all three are delicious!!
I chose the cottage garden to share teatime. It is beginning to have the overgrown English garden look that I admire.
Royal Albert, “Lady Carlyle” teacup is proudly offering “Cinnamon Vanilla”. I fell in love with this black tea with its warm cinnamon and vanilla spices!
“Cinnamon Vanilla” is perfect for an August morning while sitting in the garden and perusing favorite magazines. Victoria magazine’s latest issue features tea in a lovely British garden…one can dream!
A simple bowl of strawberries is the perfect accompaniment for tea, anytime. An older April Cornell tablecloth and vintage lace-bordered napkin complements the sweet teapot with cuttings of limelight hydrangeas and zinnias from the garden!
As a Southerner, I love iced tea! A vintage hobnail goblet serves up “That’s A Lot Of Berries” with a sprig of lemon balm! If you like berries, this one has them all. Blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, and raspberry. Wow, that’s a lot of berries!
I kept a glass of this delightful tea handy while I continued to photograph. It was a typical August day in the South…hot and humid!
Ingredients: black tea, blackberry leaves, strawberry bits, blueberry pieces, raspberry flavor, natural and artificial flavors.
Homemade pound cake with strawberries is ideal when served with this berry flavored tea!
In an effort to be totally transparent, I drank the tea and ate the cake as soon as I finished taking photos.
Since I am a fan of Earl Grey tea, I decided on “London Fog” as my third tea to spotlight. Spot of Tea’s take on the beloved Earl Grey definitely meets my approval!
Ingredients: black tea, vanilla pieces, white chocolate chips, lavender, cornflowers, bergamot flavor, natural and artificial flavors.
It seems I have had the beautiful Victoria (Austria) cup and saucer for many years. I am quite sure it was a gift from one my friends. Checking on Replacements website, I found the pattern described as scattered floral sprays with gold border and trim and it was produced in the 1950’s.
A delightful accompaniment to “London Fog” is a lemon custard topped with strawberries. In case you are wondering, I polished off the tea and custard immediately!
Now to the all important guidelines for the giveaway…
To enter this giveaway for a chance to win 3 hand-crafted teas, flower pot infuser, heart sugar cubes and vintage cup and saucer:
1. Visit Spot of Tea’s website and leave me a comment with a tea blend you’d like to try.
2. For a second chance to win, like them on Facebook or follow on Instagram
and leave a comment letting me know.
3. For a third chance to win, pin a photo from this post and let me know by
comment.
This giveaway is open to residents of the continental U.S. through midnight, Monday, August 22nd. The winner will be announced on Thursday, August 25th.
For another chance to win, be sure to visit Mary at Home Is Where The Boat Is to enter:
Mary ~ Home Is Where The Boat Is
Thank you for your visit and gracious comments. Wishing you a joy-filled week!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Good Morning Pam! Your cottage garden is the perfect spot to enjoy tea among all the beautiful blooms! I’ve always admired your gorgeous April Cornell linens and your pretty-in-pink floral on your table in no exception. I love your pretty Royal Albert Lady Carlyle teacup too, along with your teapot serving as vase for blooms from your garden. I hope the head gardener enjoyed a slice of your delicious homemade pound cake and custard with strawberries too. 😊 Thanks so much for the beauty and tea this morning, it’s always a treat to visit you in your beautiful garden. ♥
You really have me wanting to try some of those. You really make teatime look fun and enoyable. I don’t drink tea as much as I used to. I should start back.
Really am enjoying this new series about tea…so many great ideas. All the teas sound delicious. I would like to try Lemon Meringue Rooibos.
Pam, I enjoy my cuppa tea and my morning is not complete until I have had my first cup of usually …a green tea! But I am also up to trying new teas and London Fog certainly sounds interesting. Your tea set tables are charming, as always…. I would love to sit virtually in your cottage garden and nibble on custard pudding with fresh strawberries. You and I are so much alike as I always imagine my gardens as overgrown English gardens even though they are more like neatly manicured shrubs and bushes, sigh!…:(
Have a great and Blessed day, sweet friend.
Pam, Thank you so much for featuring and taste-testing our teas today!!! I’m very glad you liked them. I really appreciate your support and all the encouragement you’ve given us!
Thank you and my pleasure!
A cup of London Fog in your garden sounds wonderful! Visiting their website certainly had me hoping to try other teas as well.
What a lovely table! I love the gentleness of the scene. On the tea, the Cinnamon Vanilla looks yummy, as does the Blueberry Rooibos. Love your teacups, I have a collection of just a few special ones.
Good Morning Pam. Such a beautiful place in the garden for tea. All of these sound so delishious. I have never been a coffee drinker so tea is my go too. Love to see your beautiful table setting. Happy New Week. xoxo Kris
Thanks so much, Kris. I love coffee and tea, but don’t care for soft drinks at all.
Love Love Loved visiting your blog. I will continue to visit your blog. As I was reading and I know one person I’m my family that would love to enjoy those tea’s. My mother in law she loves a great cup of tea with a short bread cookies. She would share a new tea with me and others when visiting. I truly enjoy this time with her. This is a way I share with her new teas to try. See if there is a one she enjoyed more than the other. That would give me ideas for gifts for her. Have a Blessed Day and look forward to visiting with you again.
Thanks Ce Ce
Thanks so much for visiting and for sharing about your mother-in-law. Sweet sentiments 💗
Your tea settings are all beautiful and their tea sounds wonderful. I think the chocolate raspberry truffle sounds wonderful. Thanks for having the giveaway!
I pinned the second to last photo to a brand new board I created called Tea!
Joining you for tea in your Sunshine Cottage garden would be a one of my greatest pleasures…the tea table is beautiful as always. I love the name “London Fog” I bet it is amazing!….I would have drank and ate the cake right away too!! Fabulous giveaway and must say that I so love this new series…looking forward to seeing more “teas” in your garden! Have a wonderful week Pam!
Morning! Like you, I like Earl Grey tea, so I would probably like the London Fog the best. But, I’ve been trying a variety of teas lately so any new flavor would be a welcome addition to my morning routine. I visited their website and am now following them on Instagram. Thanks for the info! Have a blessed day!
I live teatime, especially on late fall afternoons. I love the names given such as “London Fog”, etc.
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What a delightful table setting and I love how you displayed everything. What a perfect setting in your garden. That’s a beautiful tablecloth by April Cornell and those are beautiful napkins. I have to admit though that I’m a coffee drinker in the morning and then it’s ice tea. Either way I would so enjoy being there to share time in your garden!
It would be a pleasure to share coffee or tea with you!
Good Morning, Following on Facebook.
I am a tea lover, I don’t drink coffee. I drink tea whether hot or cold all year around. I would like to try anything with cinnamon and vanilla but all the others sound delicious.and that table setting and pound cake make it tempting. Gotta go ,make my tea.
I don’t drink tea…. But your table settings with your garden background is gorgeous! I hope these photos will be featured in magazines.
Nancy, thank you for your sweet comments!
Went to the website, and already have some new ideas for Christmas gifts!!!
I really think the relaxation tea is for me!
Thank you for a great post.
How temping this post is. I want to have tea with my neighbors’ little girl . I will try to emulate your table and serve a couple of the teas from Spot of Tea. I am a Earl Grey lover. Baking a pound cake to serve and strawberries to top it off is so southern and so delicious. This post makes my heart sing and puts a smile on my face. Now I must go bake a pound cake.
That’s a hard decision, all those teas sound good. But I think I’d like to try the cinnamon vanilla black tea. Chocolate raspberry truffle is runner up!
I pinned a photo of your lovely Lady Carlyle teacup on your pretty table in the garden. I do love that pattern.
I also liked Spot of Tea on Facebook. Thanks!
I would love to try the Cinnamon Vanilla Tea. I pinned several of your beautiful garden photos to my Tea Party board. I just want to jump in the photos and eat up that luscious lemon custard Pam.
I enjoyed having tea in your garden! I took a second look at A Spot of Tea’s website and decided I would like Summertime, and the Sippin’ is Easy. Peach tea, yes please!
I’m following Spot of Tea on Instagram.
Love the pretty table settings and tea cups. Thanks for introducing Spot of Tea. I did check them out and since I like elderberry I would say I would love to try the elderberry sunset. Sounds refreshing. I am following them on IG and did make a pin. What a generous giveaway. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Good morning, Pam. What a lovely post and I can just imagine how special it would be to enjoy tea with you in your beautiful garden. I very much enjoy tea and it does settle ones nerves and call for us to simply “be.”
Sandra, it would be lovely to have you over for tea💗
I would love to try the London Fog, as I am an Earl Grey fan, too! Your garden is lovely, and the goodies looked very delicious. Thank you for the chance to win such a beautiful gift set! 🙂
Delightful tea table in your cottage garden. Flowers, linens,and china are so pretty and the lovely food and tea are calling my name.
Thanks so much, Bonnie!
I must admit, I am not a tea drinker, even though I have tried and tried, but these flavored teas from Spot of Tea sound so delightful, I might just try again! Your tea table is beautiful Pam, I love the pink April Cornell cloth and the white pot of hydrangeas and zinnias, so pretty! Your tea time treats look delicious, I don’t blame you for nibbling on them right away 😋 The flower filled bicycle in the background is wonderful. Such a lovely giveaway from this special tea company!
Jenna
Thank you, Jenna!
What a beautiful selection of teas and how lovely that you could share it with those who know it best in your darling cottage! Thank you for the giveaway and for such a lovely tea party!
Thank you, Jeanie!
Oh, wow! I would absolutely love to win this!! Their teas sound amazing!! If I had the opportunity to choose, I would pick the Madagascar vanilla chai, the cinnamon vanilla, the relaxation tea, & the mountain mint. It is almost impossible to choose. They all sound wonderful! Whoever wins will be blessed! Thank you for the opportunity to win! I’m not on Facebook or Instagram, but I will be pinning at least one photo from this post. God bless you.🙏❤
Wonderful Tea time!!! Enjoy! Hugs and blessings.
Thank you dear one!
Such an elegant table setting … Earl Grey or any fruity tea (elderberry?) would be
a perfect complement to the madeleines, after I have polished off your strawberry
treat.. who could resist? I can feel the Sun’s warmth and hear the buzzings of Summer surrounding that lovely scene. You certainly set the ideal mood, Pam dear. It will be fun perusing Spot of Tea’s website for further inspiration. Your inspiration
is timeless, yet inspiring us toward new discoveries.
Pam, your table is lovely in your garden. Your beautiful Victoria Austria cup is so pretty. Your lemon custard looks delicious and I bet wonderful with your cup of tea.The teas sound so yummy with names like Lemon Meringue, and Elderberry Sunset and so much more. I have already followed Spot of Tea on Facebook and Instagram. I love their packaging. Perfect as gifts too.
Pam, your tea setting is so pretty overlooking your gorgeous English Garden. I adore the English Garden style. Both of the desserts you shared look scrumptious! I am a tea drinker and had not heard of Spot of Tea. I was happy to visit the website. I am partial to Earl Grey so the London Fog sounds like one I would like to try. However, the chocolate ones sound interesting as well. I’m going to go over and follow them on Instagram. I hope you a having a wonderful week, dear friend!
Pam your post is breath taking. I liked on Spot Of tea facebook. I would like to try Lots of Berries.
Marion
Pam your post is breath taking. I liked on their facebook. I would like to try Lots of berries.
Marion
I liked their instagram London Fog is my choice to try.
Marilyn
I am so very happy I found your Blog;,,,, I just finished reading your story,,,, your amazingly Blessed story… I too have a deep Love for our Lord,,, and reading how He was there leading, guiding Dr’s, Nurses,, and family, friends…. Lifting you both and holding you both with His strength and peace….and how He gave each of you what was needed when needed,,, Our Lord has Perfect timing… ok I will stop now,,lol I just had to let you both know how I loved reading it,, I am pretty sure the Lord lead me to your wonderful blog….
Many Blessings to you all.
Alaura P.
Thank you so much. God is gracious and merciful! I am so thankful you found our blog.
Blessings,
Pam
Pam, it’s always a delight to be in your garden. Tea time is an added bonus. Everything is lovely, and your Royal Albert tea cup is beautiful. I would like to try the London Fog. Beautiful post as always.
Haha, girl after my own heart. Eat all the desserts. The teas sound wonderful. I’m an iced tea vs hot tea (except in winter) kind of girl. Beautiful photos, Pam. You certainly are a contender against that British garden.
Aw, you are so sweet. I love my iced tea, especially in summer!
Pam, always enjoy spending time with you, and your family, in your garden. But tea parties are a special delight! I was drawn to the flavor of White Chocolate Raspberry listed on the Spot of Tea webpage. Liked their Facebook postings. Your photo with your Lady Carlyle teacup is pinned in my “Tea and China” folder. Thanks for a lovely afternoon visit with tea.
The cinnamon vanilla sounds very delicious.
Well wasn’t this fun! I of course was away on vacation and missed this post. So fortunately I am now thrilled to see it now.
Your gardens are such a delightful choice to have a “Spot of Tea!” Your tea cups are quite lovely. I would love to try the London Fog.
I now am following them on Instagram and I-have pinned several pictures to my Tea Time Board on Pinterest as well as my Favorite Blogs Board.
Thank you dear Pam for Tea in your Gardens!
Pam, you tea table is sooo pretty! I got such a chuckle from you eating all the props when you were done with the pictures and likely would have done the same thing lol! I’m not much of a tea drinker anymore but those tea blends sound absolutely delicious and makes me think I should start drinking tea again! Thanks for a beautiful Tea on Tuesdays and have a lovely rest of the week!
Kim, as fellow tablescapers, we must eat our props! You are so sweet to visit and comment!
Pam…love your pictures and food ideas. I thought I had decided on strawberry sunrise for my tea choice but now the lot of berries as an ice tea sounds so delicious! Love both hot and iced tea…so many choices. I went to their website and looked at all the choices with my fav noted above. I then went to Facebook and liked them. The picture I pinned was the berries and ice tea…looked absolutely yummy! Peace.
Not only is this beautiful, but it’s inspiring. I’ve been slouching these past few weeks. Just not putting in any effort to do anything whatsoever. This has perked me up! I guess that’s part of tea’s job…to perk you up! Beautiful!!! And homemade pound cake? Yes, please!
Thank you, Alycia. I have also been slouching for the past couple of weeks 😉