Tea Time

Yesterday I finally got round to making the tea that I've been planning on making for a good few months now, not tea as in dinner, but tea as in the kind we drink and that makes us warm and smiley inside. I've had a packet of three differnt kinds of herbs sat on my bedroom table begging to be made and mingled with other herbs for far too long now, and yesterday seemed like the perfect morning to get started with making them into a lovely blend of a brew.

I gathered all my herbs on the table which included:

Motherwort

Black Cohosh

Cornsilk

Camomile, and

Lavender

and I threw them together with some rooibos and rosemary.

I wanted to make a tea for my mum and also for myself and my housemates to share, so I thought I'd make a calming brew that also soothes and cares for our inner femme (our women's bits; as my mum funnily calls it).

Motherwort, Black Cohosh and Cornsilk are great herbs for protecting and also healing the female reproductive system, which is great for women going through the menopause or if you've just come off the pill - balancing our hormones nicely and especially when it's that time of the month, (see, we do have other remedies other than chocolate!)

So, I got started on the first batch for my lovely mum.

In a small jar I gently mixed together:

1 tsp Black Cohosh

1tsp Motherwort

2 pinches of Cornsilk

3 tsp Camomile

1 tsp Lavendar

1 tsp Rosemary

and 2 teabags of Rooibos (I pinched the tea from the teabags)

I did the same for the second jar too. Then I got set at decorating the jars, I used randomly picked scraps of material from one of my crafty boxes..

Looking forward to giving the jar to my mum and sharing the fairy jar with my housemates..and also looking forward to making more teas! 

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