{"id":18574,"date":"2013-06-13T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18574"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:33:37","slug":"handmade-flower-tea-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18574","title":{"rendered":"Handmade &#8220;Flower&#8221; Tea Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/teabags-146x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tea Bag\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The willowday blog has a really interesting idea for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowday.com\/2013\/05\/diy-flower-tea-bags-post-2.html\">teabags that resemble flowers<\/a>.  The method involves trimming the tops of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adagio-Teas-5-Paper-Filters\/dp\/B001G8XORG\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1369398352&#038;sr=8-2\">empty paper tea filters<\/a> into petals and then dyeing them with a red herbal tea.  Once dry, they&#8217;re filled with tea and then decorated with &#8220;leaves&#8221; cut from more tea filters and dyed with green tea.  A bunch of them massed together is particularly striking.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that this idea could be expanded considerably by cutting the filters into different shapes and using food dyes for more color options: A couple that spring immediately to mind are blood-red roses and black bat wings.  Fill the bags with loose tea of your choice, tie with cotton twine, and pack in a pretty jar or basket.<\/p>\n<p>For extra points, you can fill the bags with your own custom tea blends.  Googling &#8220;herbal tea recipes&#8221; will turn up plenty of information, but here are a couple to get you started: <a href=\"http:\/\/straightfromthefarm.net\/2008\/11\/22\/herbal-tea-recipes\/\">Herbal Tea Recipes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/how-tuesday-custom-tea-blends\/\">Custom Tea Blends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;bouquet&#8221; of these tea flowers would make a thoughtful (and also easy and inexpensive) gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The willowday blog has a really interesting idea for teabags that resemble flowers. The method involves trimming the tops of empty paper tea filters into petals and then dyeing them with a red herbal tea. Once dry, they&#8217;re filled with tea and then decorated with &#8220;leaves&#8221; cut from more tea filters and dyed with green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18764,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}