Tea With Thee

What a fabulous day. It was hectic and definately some things to change for next year, but it was amazing to watch the little germ of an idea come to fruition after nine months of developing. 212 tickets were sold, all 23 of the tea cozies were sold, the quilt was raffled for 430.00 and the place was beautiful. A lot of work but all of it fun. Over 5,000.00 raised for the pregnancy center and 2,300.00 for The Children of Promise shelter in Tijuana. God brought every detail together and blessed every aspect of our efforts. It was wonderful to get to know the ladies from the other 4 churches better-how fun to do a group project. How good it feels to know lives could be changed through a small group's efforts. Time well spent.

Tea Cozies Anyone?

I am up to my eyebrows in tea cozies. When we started planning "Tea With Thee" nine months ago, I thought it would be just wonderful to have a Tee Cozy for silent auction on all 35 tables. One of my bright ideas that I get on a regular basis. I work a full time job and teach a college class and am involved in the prayer quilt ministry and have two other small ministries and have let go our housekeeper and . . .when did I think I would get these cute little blankets for pots done? So far I have 15 done and have downsized my original plan to 25 tables with cozies. Today I am going to blast out 5 I hope. These things are technical. Triple layers with French seams and gussets. I found the original in a tea shop in Seattle-had to buy it for 34.00 to get the pattern (killed frugal me) so now part of me says you need to start a tea cozy ETSY business to make the cost worthwhile and the other part of me silently commits the first part to the looney bin. Being inactive makes you 50% more likely to have a heart attack. I hope my heart holds out until these cozies are done. I sure hope people bid on them, if not-ETSY business here we come:)