Week old tea

I must confess, I started this sun tea last Wednesday. So that's why I'm calling it week old tea, not to be confused with weak, old tea.


I started with some filtered water in my Rubbermaid container. I then opened seven Bigelow Red Raspberry herbal tea packages and added the tea bags to the container.

Before I even had the tea in the sun, the color had turned a lovely deep pink.


Those tea bags were really doing their job. It wouldn't be long (specifically only a couple of hours) until the tea was a lovely deep pink color and the bags would be beautifully stained. In fact, you may have seen this very photo last Friday when I made started a tea related piece of art.


I stretched the uses purposes of this tea by carefully removing the tea leaves from the tea bags and throwing the spent leaves in my compost pile. I pressed the empty tea bags flat and used several of them in my art, specifically my wooden blocks, one of which I entered in the challenge.


I poured some of the tea into a bowl and placed a few book pages in to wick up the lovely color. And finally, I poured a glass of ice cold tea for myself. I had plenty left over and drank it over the course of two and a half days while making all this tea related art.

There's only one final purpose for this week old tea. It's to join Kimmie and friends for tea today. So have a great tea day and consider telling your tea story, too.