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After I read Ellen’s Tea Tin Planter idea, I looked all over the house for a pretty tea tin, but alas, all of my teas came in cardboard packaging.  Then I remembered a very pretty tea tin that I had saved from a summer in Japan.  It’s color was not quite as soft and gentle as Ellen’s … in fact,

Here’s an easy DIY/recycling project for summer: tiny tea-tin planters. If you are better with plants than I am, which you probably are, you will undoubtedly have a million choices of sweet baby flowers that would be beautiful in a matching tea container; but alas, I can only manage to grow one thing – cacti – so here’s a little

We reported on this summer phenomenon when everyone was visiting the California studio last summer, but here is a slice of the sweet reward from this year’s first big harvest.  Many thanks to my sweet husband who comes out of the bushes as if he has been in a blackberry war, while I delicately cull from the outskirts with my