{"id":196,"date":"2008-08-06T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T10:00:42","slug":"tea-and-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Tea and Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been enhanced by the combination of tea and cake. After interviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/needled.wordpress.com\/\">Kate<\/a> for the Perfect Cup of Tea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticalreality.com\/features.html\">feature<\/a> of The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, I&#8217;ve started drinking vast quantities of loose leaf tea on her recommendation. It is amazing stuff, especially in terms of how strong you can make it&#8230; And today I made a tea brack with loose leaf tea. It definitely improves the flavour to use a darker brew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3277\/2738997460_b97b4b0659.jpg?w=950\" style=\"width: 356px; height: 269px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other cakes I have been working on today were not as edible as the brack, but were equally pleasing in other ways. Observe this fine french fancy card with matching envelope:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/2738982512_9282823c1b.jpg?w=950\" style=\"width: 357px; height: 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and this rather pleasing chocolate and rose cake writing paper:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3228\/2738981850_bf95c3730b.jpg?w=950\" style=\"width: 359px; height: 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also like the original cake card design, especially with its matching envelope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3119\/2738145431_25cc4661a9.jpg?w=950\" style=\"width: 356px; height: 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the little stickers I made to go with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3078\/2738155257_9d03efdf05.jpg?w=950\" style=\"width: 351px; height: 264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put the whole lot together into one enormous stationery package of dreams and listed it in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5397374\">Etsy store<\/a>. Individual cards will be listed as soon as I can get everything photographed and have the postage worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been enhanced by the combination of tea and cake. After interviewing Kate for the Perfect Cup of Tea feature of The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, I&#8217;ve started drinking vast quantities of loose leaf tea on her recommendation. 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