Tea & Chocolate swap brags

[Nekoi]

Hooray it arrived, I've been so nervous! It's the first time for me shipping something so far from home (how do the rest of you lovelies do it with regular swaps and sells?).

I'm super glad it arrived safely and hopefully not all scrambled around. It was big fun putting together, though I was really nervous at first before I found "my angle" on the box

I'm so glad you liked it  Merry Christmas!!

Edit: I just got a notice I have a package to pick up, so I'm really excited because I think it might be my box 

[Summer-blade]

love everyone stuff! and Thanks again MikeysGrrrl. I love all the tea, I'm a little ashamed to admit that all the chocolate is gone already. Yes even my precious egg. 

[MikeysGrrrl]

love everyone stuff! and Thanks again MikeysGrrrl. I love all the tea, I'm a little ashamed to admit that all the chocolate is gone already. Yes even my precious egg.

I'm really happy to hear that you loved everything

[aintnobuffalo]

I'm so excited my box arrived to you, ponyqueen! I love your Christmas spirit for waiting until Christmas day. If you decide to open one on Christmas eve, I recommend trying the box from "The Locals," unless you want to save the most Christmasy and best for last, that is. The Locals and Disney World have sent you a few smaller packages in there.

[AnnaPommes]

My package has arrived, but I've been forbidden to open it until Christmas!

Thank you Emuel! I LOVED the packaging! I shall try to sneak it open tonight!

OH my god, i am sooo relieved it arrived!! I was very afraid it got kidnapped on the way.
ahh, please feel free to open it right awayyy!

[ponyqueen]

I'm so excited my box arrived to you, ponyqueen! I love your Christmas spirit for waiting until Christmas day. If you decide to open one on Christmas eve, I recommend trying the box from "The Locals," unless you want to save the most Christmasy and best for last, that is. The Locals and Disney World have sent you a few smaller packages in there.

Thanks for the pro-tip!! Hmm... I must carefully weigh the options!

[Loa]

My package has arrived, but I've been forbidden to open it until Christmas!

Thank you Emuel! I LOVED the packaging! I shall try to sneak it open tonight!

OH my god, i am sooo relieved it arrived!! I was very afraid it got kidnapped on the way.
ahh, please feel free to open it right awayyy!

Oh my goodness I did open it and I will post pictures very shortly!

Here it is!

Firstly, I loved the wrapping paper!
Opening the box was a card -
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Everything was very clearly labelled with instructions. I was to leave the big one till last!
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Moving the big package, was a colourful delight underneath!
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Lot's of wonderful notes telling me details! Squee!
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And here are all the goodies!!
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I can't WAIT to try these teas!!!

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And I have had to hide the chocolate from prying eyes!

Penguin socks & the cutest pen ever!
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But the best bit was this AMAZING book Emuel had found for me!
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I LOVE this book, it is simply amazing, and she even provided paper to practise with!

This was such a wonderful, thoughtful box!
Thank you so much Emuel!!!         

[AnnaPommes]

YEHA! ~  *dance*  i am glad you like it! ^^ I read somewhere, that you like dinosaurs and crafting, that is why you got the book. The Paper is Hanji, traditional korean paper, in germany they sell it under the name of "silk paper".
(I am sorry for my bad handwriting! It looks like chaos.)
Tea and chocolate taste quite different here, but the paepaero (green box with sticks-) are the best in my opinion. ^^ And please be carefull to mix enougth water with the tea from the green bags, otherwise it will be superstrong.
*dance*


i heard nothing about my box so far, but i´ll be home on thuesday to check! ^^

[MikeysGrrrl]

Love all those penguin goodies Loa

[nndemeter1980]

So glad it arrived safely! I too love that Zhena  tea but I have only tried one of the flavors in the sampling!  I hope you get to enjoy it all :-) I had had a blast shopping for tea and chocolates!

My box is here!!! Thank you, nndemeter1980!!!

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Again, I am impressed with the creativity of wrapping this year! I love the idea of a stocking! The salted Milo chocolate toffee is already gone lol. It was so good!!! And I already love Zhena tea (plus I imagine that it's probably pronounced like Zenna, which always make me chuckle). But I haven't tried those flavors yet! Everything looks so delicious and you did a great job finding things right off my favorite list. Thanks!!!

Post Merge: December 21, 2014, 10:37:00 AM

My gift box of goodies arrived from SunPony this week.  I discovered I can't upload pics from my phone to the arena though so if anyone has an email I can send them to where they can share them that would be awesome.

On that note I have already indulged in the tea.  I have been down with the flu and the white sweet pear I think i am addicted to now! I got 3 different loose leaf teas that are amazing....and a tea stoop to make loose leaf teas with.  She also sent amazing dark chocolate and coconut milk chocolate (but I haven't tried them yet because I want to actually taste it). Then she added some baking goodies which have already been put to use and a custom pony drawing.  My kids made the chain links as soon as I read the card on what they were for!

Thanks for the amazing package!

[Nekoi]

So I was right, my box arrived Wednesday, but due to Chrismtas crazy and me buying a car I picked it up today.

Look at the lovely wrapping paper And the Ponies!

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I've really been spoiled! Take a look:

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Cadbury! Hershey's!! Toasted coconut And so many samples!
(Don't know if it was ever mentioned, but I love coconut!)

Thank you so much Summer-blade - it's an amazing box! And thank you for the card

I'm opening the chocolate and the tea right now, looking forward to the Peppermint tea I'm starting with and I think... Hershey's to go with it 

[Moss]

I actually opened my box a little while back, but I'm only now able to post about it! Gotta love holiday craziness.

Anyway...

ZennaBug was my wonderful swap partner, and she did a great job with picking things out! The first peek in the box was already exciting...
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And then even more exciting once all of the goodies were out!
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But, as always, my favorite part is getting to unwrap everything and see what's inside. And Zenna's choices did not disappoint! Two types of tea plus a variety of individual tea bags, some really yummy chocolate, and that adorable mug! I love all of it!
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[Summer-blade]

yay glad you like the box Nekoi

[MikeysGrrrl]

That mug is really festive

[SunPony]

My gift box of goodies arrived from SunPony this week.  I discovered I can't upload pics from my phone to the arena though so if anyone has an email I can send them to where they can share them that would be awesome.
On that note I have already indulged in the tea.  I have been down with the flu and the white sweet pear I think i am addicted to now! I got 3 different loose leaf teas that are amazing....and a tea stoop to make loose leaf teas with.  She also sent amazing dark chocolate and coconut milk chocolate (but I haven't tried them yet because I want to actually taste it). Then she added some baking goodies which have already been put to use and a custom pony drawing.  My kids made the chain links as soon as I read the card on what they were for!
Thanks for the amazing package!

Ah, I'm glad you got it okay and you like the contents    I had a feeling that you would really like the pear tea after reading your tea preferences!  That and it just smelled awesome.  I was kind of iffy about sending the baking stuff so I'm glad to hear you did get to use them    I'm not sure about the picture uploading...maybe e-mail them to yourself, or use photobucket or something?  *not a techie, remotely*