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Show of hands, who here likes tea? Personally speaking, I never used to. In fact, I thought I hated the stuff, and since that heinous Lipton crap was the only tea I was ever exposed to, it’s no wonder. Seriously, I’m convinced that stuff’s made from pencil shavings and middle school shop class sawdust. I have no idea how it all started where I came to like tea, but I think it may have been a hair over 10 years ago, where I tried this apple-flavored stuff to try something new.
Guess what? I loved it! I wish I’d thought to write the name down, but alas, it’s lost to the ages, and I’ve been on a quest to find it ever since then.
Over the years, I’d try different varieties, and while some were duds, most were hits.
Enter Teabloom, a company I first heard about when I set up this blog nearly 4 years ago. (Damn, has it really been that long?) I found Teabloom one night, and poked around the site. This was before I had a paying job, and it was also during a rough time in my life, but I’d scroll through the site, adding stuff to my cart that I wished I could buy, but didn’t have the money to do so. Instead, my cart turned into a bit of a wish list, and I’d pretend to myself that I bought it all.
Fast forward to a month or so ago, when I finally had the chance to pick up the lil beaut known as the Buckingham Palace teapot set on sale through a tea blog I found. Sad to say the blog is no longer in existence, since it was a fun read. I placed the order before I had to get going for my day job, and it was still warm outside. Too warm to justify bringing along any tea, that’s for sure.
I spent that week looking forward to the day this teapot arrived at my doorstep. Sure enough, at the end of the week, I saw the box at my doorstep as I put the kickstand down on my bike in the front yard, and I took it inside w/ me. I set it down, and moved my bike to the backyard, since I had plans to leave as soon as I got this unboxed and my phone charged back up.
I noticed that the box this came in even had the instructions on how to use it, printed on the outside. I like that idea, tbh.
The first thing I see is this little flyer thanking me for my purchase, and telling me to register my product for the bonus year warranty. I’m gonna have to go do that, btw.
At first, I wasn’t too keen on the rose gold color, since it’s not a color I normally go for. However, when I took it out of the box, I was shook at how pretty it looked! It really works for the whole coquette aesthetic, and it’s so classy.
I’m also feeling Bridgerton vibes, based on what I’ve gleaned from reading about it, and also based off the Bridgerton tie-ins I saw Bath and Body Works hawking over the summer. I never actually saw the show, since I gave up Netflix 10 years ago.
When I got this teapot set, it was too warm outside in my neck of the woods to even remotely justify tea, even w/ the AC on.
Fast forward a month later, and the weather’s turning colder in the evening and early morning hours. I came home on Sunday from a browsing trip to Wally World and some other neighboring shops, and the weather had gotten cooler since the day before.
So, it was time to fire up the teapot set, and see it in action! While I meal-prepped for the week, and also ran a candle I’d somehow forgotten about, I cleaned out my old stovetop kettle just to be on the safe side, and waited for it to go off. The instructions say to heat up water in a separate kettle, then pour it into the teapot, so that was what I did.
I heard the kettle on the stove go off as I listened to an old Victoria’s Secret classics album, and I took it into my office. I opened one of the My Growing Love blooming tea balls, and put it in the bottom. It floated as I poured the hot water into the teapot.
What the? I thought it was supposed to be on the bottom, like the pics show! But don’t freak out just yet. The blooming tea ball took a few minutes to sink to the bottom, and boom! It looked just like what I saw on the box and on the website. I got a whiff of the tea itself when poured the hot water, and it smelled just like roses!
This is so up my alley, since I generally like rose scents. There are some exceptions, but that’s a story for another time, haha. Anyways, I didn’t wanna burn the roof of my mouth like I did w/ the dollar store Jamaican meat patties last summer, so it took all my willpower to keep from having a cup right then and there.
I held off on the tea until after I boxed everything up and put it in the fridge for the week ahead. I poured myself a cup, and it was seriously like nothing I’d ever had before. If this was my first foray into tea, it’d have been love from the get go, and it’d have been history ever since.
The teapot set only comes w/ 2 of the blooming tea balls, which I’m kinda sad about. However, they’re sold separately, and they can be had in a canister variety pack, along w/ packs of 2. As of this posting, both packs of 2 that have the My Growing Love blooming tea are sold out, and awaiting stock.
Even though I wish this came w/ more of those blooming tea balls, I feel like there only being 2 in the set makes it all the more special, and gives us something to look forward to when we reorder more of these. My plan is to work through enough of the tea I already have living in my pantry, and then when it comes time to restock, the canister is on my shopping list for sure.
On that note, I also noticed that it only came w/ one tealight candle. I wonder if they have plans to sell the tealight candles separately, but for now, I found some large tealight candles at Wally World that’ll do the trick once this one runs out.
If you decide to get any of the other teas, you’ll have to tell me all about it. I bet they’ll be just as good as what came in the box, but anyways, you can use code “kevin10” for a discount on your haul (or anti-haul) from Teabloom!
Over to you, readers. I wish y’all coulda been here w/ me to share this, like seriously. But anyways, what kind of tea do you like? Do you even like tea in the first place? No? No worries! We all like what we like, and it’s cool w/ me. For those of you who like tea, have you ever had blooming tea? Had this variety before? If not, definitely add this to your list. If so, have you tried other blooming teas? What were they? Were they any good? I’d love to hear all about it, so drop it like it’s hot, and let’s talk!
