The best herabal tea workshop and the best mood cookies ever!
Jenni shared her 3 favorite herbal tea blends then we scrubbed washed our hands in organics : sugar. Calendula, lavender, special mexican salt and olive oil. Water was poured over our hands as a group and so nice the olive oil stayed to hydrate and it just felt really nice. We dried off with a beautiful batik cloth. The specialness of all the supplies and ingredients transformed herbal tea making with a consciousness shift.

After such a beautiful ritual of tea making we moved to sit around a carefully prepared environment with a few mirrors in the trees to sit at a table together for cookies n tea. We ate very interesting cookies– we ate words that expressed other people’s moods and Marie’s moods.

She also asked us to write down our moods for her next batch and tea party.

We added a special liqueur from her home town full of herbs. I learned her childhood favorite thing to do– put strawberry preserves in tea. It was really good and I will do that again.

We lingered for a while in the warm setting sun after tea time together.

It is interesting eating cookies with moods written on them. Each cookie becomes a new experience of eating it’s meaning.

These are just the ones I like. “Exquisite shoes” I did not try. As we ate cookies their white doilies flew away. Gil picked them up and piled them under his cookie. He was then accused of eating more than anyone.

Nadette had so much fun! She is coming back for yoga.

I invited Marie to The Mud Ball Ball but she will be continuing her cookie moods in Maine as an artist in residence for a month. She may ask a friend to present the mood cookies at the Mud Ball Ball.

Jenni hopefully will bring her herbal teas and decadent hand scrub.