The good news first... I'm working on two teas right now - one on April 26th for the ladies of my church and the other on May 9th for The Whitney.
I don't normally shop at Michael's [I'm a Hobby Lobby loyalist], but since I had tea favors on my mind and was in the vicinity of a Michael's last Friday, I decided to pop in to see what they had. It turned out to be a very good stop. They had lovely floral teacup favors on sale for 50% off. I immediately sent a photo to The Whitney's General Manager for approval and he responded, "Get them!" They're pretty in the photo, but even prettier in person so I ordered 60 of them.
I also purchased four teatime tabletop signs for prizes for my church tea [also on sale for 50% off].
After the above great finds I browsed the rest of the store. In the book section I saw an Official Bridgerton Cookbook. I picked it up and leafed through it trying to decide whether to purchase it. I had a 30% off coupon on regularly priced merchandise which brought the price down to $24.50, and since I'm a sucker for books [cookbooks particularly] I decided it was worth the price. I never finished watching Bridgerton's Season 3 [which premiered last May with eight episodes], but I decided the book was worth it for the beautiful color photos of Britain's Regency Era [1811-1820], and it had some good recipes too.
Below are a few of the recipes I'm anxious to try... Sausage Rolls
Battenberg Cake - Have you ever made one?
Yorkshire Pudding
I had a Bridgerton Strawberry Scone mix in my pantry that I purchased at Williams Sonoma awhile back, so today seemed like the perfect day to make them. They were very good for a prepared mix and rose nicely.
The Whitney's tea blender dropped of some tea samples yesterday for me to try and decide which one to feature in April and May. I decided on Peach Apricot black tea and it was the perfect accompaniment to the scones.
Now for the bad news... sometime late this afternoon UPS delivered my Michael's order and below is what I found! Can you believe it? My heart sank!
Michael's did a very poor job packing the teacups. The box was too big for the number of teacups it contained and they didn't use any styrofoam popcorn for protection against breakage when careless UPS employees dropped the box. What an irresponsible world we live in for this to be considered an acceptable delivery. My hubby gingerly carried it in the house so I could assess the damage. Miraculously, only three broke out of the jumbled mess, but seven weren't so lucky in another box. I will call Michael's in the morning to get it all sorted out.
In spite of the debacle, I'm very pleased with the floral teacups and think the guests who attend the tea will like them too.
I think you were very fortunate that only three had broken!
ReplyDeleteI had the same issue with poor packing on a Michael's order. I needed a large quantity of plastic boxes with lids. They were a larger size and very awkward, there is no Michael's in my town and my order was large enough for free shipping. My packing boxes looked like your packing boxes and every plastic box except one had a crack in it. I ended up taking them back to Michaels and thankfully they had enough unbroken ones to replace them.
The way that box looked, it's a wonder they were not all broken! But I’m glad the damage was minimal. Those will be darling favors for a future tea.
ReplyDeleteglad you were able to redeem as many as you did since they were so poorly packed. Your upcoming teas sound wonderful. I am having 6 ladies over tomorrow but doing more of a tea luncheon which was less work - but infact - has been a lot of work today! Haha!
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